Marcin Martin BUDNIK

ABT 1836 - BEF 1884

• BIRTH: ABT 1836, Oborniki, Poland
• BURIAL: Oborniki, Poland
• DEATH: BEF 1884, Oborniki, Poland

• MARRIAGE: ABT 1855, Oborniki, Poland

1.  Marya BUDNIK
2.  Peter BUDNIK
3. +Nicholas BUDNIK
4.  John BUDNIK
5.  Marcin BUDNIK
6. +Agnes BUDNIK

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[N595] The Town of Oborniki
Translated from the Slownik Geograficzny

Oborniki, in German Obornik, is a county seat in the Grand Duchy of Poznan. It is located about 30 km. north of Poznan, at latitude 52 degrees 39 minutes north, longitude 34 degrees 28 minutes east [measured from Ferro], on the elevated right bank of the Warta river, near the mouth of the Welna river. It has a station of the Poznan-Pila railway, a telegraph station, and a post office with posts arriving daily. The town is the administrative center of a deanery, and has an Evangelical superintendent, a landed proprietors counselor , and a district commissioner. Also in Oborniki are a royal county treasury, a savings bank, a master-builders office, a customs office, a Polish loan society, and Polish and German agronomical societies. The inhabitants are employed in farming, milling, distilling alcohol, the lumber trade, and manufacturing starch, bricks, and drainage pipes. About 60,000 quintals of flour, 9,000 hectoliters of aqua vitae [a kind of liquor], and 50,000 quintals of starch are produced here each year. The lumber trade produces annual sales of about a million marks. The town maintains a wooden bridge on the Warta; a second bridge was built by the directors of the railway.

There are two Catholic churches here, one Evangelical church, and one Old Lutheran church, as well as a synagogue. At one time there were six Catholic churches. The parish church, rebuilt after a fire in 1815, has lost its original shape completely; it is said to have contained the tombstones of the Zebrzydowskis and a baptismal font from the 13th or 14th century. In the 17th century there was also a Rosary Guild. The church of the Holy Spirit, founded and endowed in 1356 by Maciej, the soltys of Oborniki, was moved to nearby Bogdanowo in 1747. The church of St. Barbara, founded in 1599 and renovated in 1778 through the efforts of Lucja Lojczykowska, a townswoman of Oborniki, was in the nearby village of Roznowo. The church of the Holy Cross, on the right bank of the Welna, existed before 1604; in 1788 a new church was built, on the site of the old one, also by L. Lojczykowska, and in 1749 the Brotherhood of the Heart of Jesus was established there. The church of the Holy Trinity was founded by the city before 1600 and was renovated in 1781 through the efforts of the abovementioned Lojczykowska. A church and monastery of the Franciscan Fathers, built in 1768 of fired brick, was handed over in recent times to the Lutheran congregation. 141 hectares of land belongs to the pastor of the Oborniki parish, with a net income of 657 marks from the land. The town itself possesses 96 hectares with a net income of 381 marks