Wawrzyniec (Lawrence) Purmann

  General Notes:

Timeline for Margonin
15 V 1364 The first record of Margonin comes from 15th of May 1364 when during the Congress of Gniezno archbishop Jaroslaw Skotnicki and Poznan bishop Jan Doliwa from Lutogniewo settled a dispute over borderland and decided that a parish church in Margonin along with all settlements in Prochnow i Sulaszew be once and forever a part of Poznan diocese.
1402 Margonin receives city's rights
1414 St Wojciech's parish church is built by Poznan bishop Andrzej.
1655 Swedes invade Margonin and cause the collapse of the town
20 VII 1696 Margonin regains city's rights
1725 Barbara Gembicka Poninska founds school for orphans.
1737 The church is destroyed by a storm
1753 - 1755 The church is rebuilt in the late baroque style thanks to efforts and funds of Anna Ciecierska Malechowska. The church has lasted till the present. The founder's corpse rest in the church's vault.
1772 Margonin is incorporated into Prussia.
1807 - 1815 Margonin belongs to Warsaw Duchy
1837 Skorzewscy sell Margonin to Germans
1905 Gas lamps appear on the streets
1908 Railway line between Golancz - Margonin - Chodziez is opened
6 I 1919 Polish rebels overrun the town during Wielkopolska Uprising
3 II 1919 Margonin is back in Germans' hands
18 I 1920 Polish soldiers of 61 infantry regiment march in Margonin. Germans are no longer in control of the town
5 IX 1939 The beginning of German occupation
22 I 1945 Margonin is liberated

Jerzy Szuman has provided this translation of the Polish side of the first page of text in the Margonin Catholic church book for April 1807: "For knowledge of our descendants I am writing these words, that during the war against the King of Prussia by the French Emperor Napoleon the First in 1806, after the defeat of the Prussians by the French, the Frenchmen crossed the Wisl~a (Vistula) river against Russians who have formed an alliance with the Prussians. Then, during this war, wounded and ill French soldiers were transferred by the water through Torun (Thorn), Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) up to Nakl~o (Nakel) from that side of Wisla river in East Prussia, where in this time the French Emperor Napoleon I, called The Great, had his headquarters in Osterode and the last battle was at Prusisch Eylau on 8 of February 1807. The great numbers of wounded and ill soldiers were guided along the Notec river to a small military hospital in Szamocin (Samotschin). From here the dead were handed over to me, the local clergyman, to bury them in the proper Catholic way. I, myself had to go to visit the sick, because I know a little of French. Written for memory (Notari pro rei memoriam) Martinus Plucinski, 'curatus loci'

  Death Notes:

Wife was listed as a widow at the time of her death in 1866.

Wawrzyniec married Marianna (Anna) Kachow, daughter of Jan (John) Kachow and Unknown, before 1842. (Marianna (Anna) Kachow was born in 1811 in Poland, died on 28 August 1866 in Margonin, (Chodziez), Wielkopolskie, Poznan, Poland and was buried on 29 August 1866 in Margonin, (Chodziez), Wielkopolskie, Poznan, Poland.) The cause of her death was Cholera.