On the choir balcony was this 700-year anniversary banner of Past priests of church starting in 1629. One in particular, the Twardawa Parish. George (Jerzy) Dameck, had beautiful handwriting.

Main altar in the Twardawa Church

Twardawa baptismal font

Note from LDW: According to Zenon, nothing was ever thrown away, so as new churches were being built, they reused wood, windows, pews, statutes, crosses, etc, so it is entirely possible that this font was used to baptize the many Philipseks and allied families.

Zwiastowice

Zwiastowice (formerly Schwesterwitz, sometimes spelled Schweisterwitz)

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Mechnitz , Poland on an old 1700’s German map. Note also Hartenau (Twardawa), Schwesterwitz, Comorno (Altenwall) , Dubersdorff, (Dobersdorf), Malkowitz (Kleinau) , and Nesselwitz

Proposed Ancestors of Charles (Karl) August PHILIPSEK

Note from LDW: The dates listed next to b. (birth) may be actual birth dates or baptism dates. I was not always able to decipher the German script correctly, so sometimes I used christening dates and listed them as birth dates. I was inconsistent!

FIRST GENERATION 1. Charles Philipsek was born on 10 May 1876 in Mechnica, Poland and died on 7 Oct 1959. He married Frances Lucy Pyka.

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