Skwierczyński

Skwierczyński (different spellings: Skwirczyński, Śkwirczyński) of Ślepowron[1] is the surname of a Polish szlachta (nobility) family from Podlaskie.

Other representatives of the family from Skwierczyn appear in the land registry documents of Drohiczyn midway through 15th century – they are: Piotr (1452), Stanisław (1454),[3] Wawrzyniec (1456), Mikołaj and Paweł (1458).

The misunderstandings arose most likely from the earlier accession of the village of Skwierczyn to the parish of Wyrozęby by way of decree granted by the bishop Marcin of Łuka.

Also in 1458 the widow of Jakub of Kobylany sued Mikołaj of Skwierczyn for killing her husband but failed to bring witnesses and subsequently lost the court case.

In 1528 the Skwierczyński family of Skwierczyn provided two knights with horses for the pospolite ruszenie (common movement) in Drohiczyn.

[14] Roll of arms 'Herbarz Polski' by Adam Boniecki only includes surnames beginning with A-M, but the Skwierczyński family is mentioned alongside the families: Cielemęcki of Rogala, Czapski of Leliwa, Czarnocki of Lis, Kalicki of Jastrzębiec, Zawisza-Kamieński of Przerowa, Kulczycki of Sas, Ługowski of Lubicz, Berens of Berens, Łęczycka of Niesobia.

[15] In 1782 Antoni, Wincenty and Wojciech Skwirczyński provided evidence of their nobility to the sejm in Terebovlia as part of the legitimization of szlachta in the Austrian partition also known as Galicja.

[16] Most family members connected with the Austrian partition, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, descend from Andrzej de Skuba Skwirczyński and his son Franciszek (born 1773) married to Józefa Tarszyńska (daughter of Józef and Tekla Fredro).

Both family branches had a few officials in the 19th century Galicja, specifically – Kraków branch: Konstanty was an official at the Criminal Court of Rzeszów in 1838,[17] and so was his brother Kazimierz, who later was promoted to the position of director in Kraków and acted on numerous occasions as witness in cases relating to the Galician slaughter (massacre of Polish nobles by peasants of Galicja) led by Jakub Szela in 1846.