This is the Catholic Church in Mielżyn (German: Mieltschin) where our grandfather Stephen Pilarski (later changed to Polaski)
was baptized August 4, 1878. In addition to Stephen’s baptismal, the following events took place in Mielżyn:
-- our great great-grandmother Catharina Marcinkowska was born here in 1827 and died here in October1897;
-- Vincent and Catharina (Marcinkowska) Pilarski were married here February 22, 1843;
-- our great great great-grandfather Jacob Pilarski died here August 25, 1855 at the age of 61;
-- our great great great-grandmother Agnes Pilarski died here September 15, 1876 at the age of 65;
-- our great great-grandfather Vincent Pilarski died here January 21, 1896 at the age of 75;
Numerous additional family related events took place in Mielżyn.