J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ancestry in Gdańsk, Poland. From 1724 in Gdańsk to the Coming to London in 1770
J. R. R. Tolkien’s (1892–1973) ancestry has been an obscure matter. From the official biographies of the famous Oxford professor and author we have known only about Tolkien’s great-grandparents and about the general direction of the Tolkien family’s migration in the eighteenth century described as „Saxony”. Ryszard Derdziński has found out J. R. R. Tolkien’s great-great-grandfather’s roots. Discovering crucial genealogical documents from London, Gdańsk (Poland) and Kreuzburg (East Prussia) ie. church records, a Parliament bill, newspaper news, entries in the books from that age etc. Derdziński has proved that John Benjamin Tolkien (1752–1719), J. R. R. Tolkien’s ancestor who lived and died in London and was a watch- and clock-maker, was born in Gdańsk in June 1752. His brother was Daniel Gottlieb Tolkien from London who also was born in Polish Gdańsk in July 1746. They emigrated from Gdańsk to London in the years 1766–1772. Their father was Christian Tolkien (1706–1791), a craftsman from Gdańsk, brother of a Gdańsk furrier, Michael Tolkien (1708–1795). Both Christian and Michael were born in a little town Kreuzburg in East Prussia (now Slavskoye in Kaliningrad Oblast). Derdziński has found there at least four generations of this line of the Tolkien family and the first known Tolkien from Kreuzburg was Friedrich Tolkien from 1614. The article shows also the genesis of the Tolkien family name and locates its beginning in the fourteenth century and a small village Tolkynen (today Tołkiny in Poland).
Author:" There are quotes from Tolkien that show his dream to know the prehistoric roots of his male lineage. Today we make this dream come true by
researching the Tolkien Y-DNA."
"Anyway I like to go back - and not with race only, or culture only, or language; but with all three. I wish I could go back with the three that are mixed in us."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
FamilyTreeDNA (Big Y) and YFull confirm that Eric Tolkien's haplogroup is R-Y42738. It was supposed to arise between 1800 and 3300 years ago (averaged 2500 years ago, i.e around 480 BC, in the Iron Age).
R-Y42738 is a subbranch of the great Indo-European haplogroup R1a, which has its origins 24,000 years ago in the Paleolithic mammoth hunting community of present-day Siberia (see the so-called "Mal'ta Boy"). From R1a in the Neolithic, an ancestral line with the R-Z92 mutation was separated, which we find mainly among the descendants of the Balts and Eastern Slavs. From R-Z92 in the Bronze Age, the pre-Baltic group R-YP350, which today mainly includes descendants of the (Baltic) Old Prussians and Yotvingians, was separated. A sub-branch of R-YP350 is R-Y42738 (which today includes the Tolkien family, the Derdzinski family and the Kacsóh family from Hungary, and from which in the Iron Age there were also separated sub-branches, which today include families from Norway, Finland and Belarus, which are probably related to with the history of the Baltic Sea Vikings).
Today we know the approximate history of Tolkien's male line over the last several tens of thousands of years. It's worth taking a look at this map by typing "Y42738" in the box
http://scaledinnovation.com/gg/snpTracker.html
•Sources:
pdf version
http://www.elendilion.pl/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TolkienAncestry.pdf
published article(preview)
https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=720195
author's blog:(article-Tolkien | the confirmed haplogroup is R-Y42738)
https://tolkniety.blogspot.com/2021/08/tolkien-confirmed-haplogroup-is-y42738.html
author's blog:(Why are we doing Tolkien's DNA testing?)
http://tolkniety.blogspot.com/2021/05/why-are-we-doing-tolkien-dna-testing.html?m=1
about the author of the article
http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/biography.htm
•reading material:
Old Prussians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Prussians
Warmians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmians
Yotvingians
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotvingians
Tołkiny village
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To%C5%82kiny
#tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien’s (1892–1973) ancestry has been an obscure matter. From the official biographies of the famous Oxford professor and author we have known only about Tolkien’s great-grandparents and about the general direction of the Tolkien family’s migration in the eighteenth century described as „Saxony”. Ryszard Derdziński has found out J. R. R. Tolkien’s great-great-grandfather’s roots. Discovering crucial genealogical documents from London, Gdańsk (Poland) and Kreuzburg (East Prussia) ie. church records, a Parliament bill, newspaper news, entries in the books from that age etc. Derdziński has proved that John Benjamin Tolkien (1752–1719), J. R. R. Tolkien’s ancestor who lived and died in London and was a watch- and clock-maker, was born in Gdańsk in June 1752. His brother was Daniel Gottlieb Tolkien from London who also was born in Polish Gdańsk in July 1746. They emigrated from Gdańsk to London in the years 1766–1772. Their father was Christian Tolkien (1706–1791), a craftsman from Gdańsk, brother of a Gdańsk furrier, Michael Tolkien (1708–1795). Both Christian and Michael were born in a little town Kreuzburg in East Prussia (now Slavskoye in Kaliningrad Oblast). Derdziński has found there at least four generations of this line of the Tolkien family and the first known Tolkien from Kreuzburg was Friedrich Tolkien from 1614. The article shows also the genesis of the Tolkien family name and locates its beginning in the fourteenth century and a small village Tolkynen (today Tołkiny in Poland).
Author:" There are quotes from Tolkien that show his dream to know the prehistoric roots of his male lineage. Today we make this dream come true by
researching the Tolkien Y-DNA."
"Anyway I like to go back - and not with race only, or culture only, or language; but with all three. I wish I could go back with the three that are mixed in us."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
FamilyTreeDNA (Big Y) and YFull confirm that Eric Tolkien's haplogroup is R-Y42738. It was supposed to arise between 1800 and 3300 years ago (averaged 2500 years ago, i.e around 480 BC, in the Iron Age).
R-Y42738 is a subbranch of the great Indo-European haplogroup R1a, which has its origins 24,000 years ago in the Paleolithic mammoth hunting community of present-day Siberia (see the so-called "Mal'ta Boy"). From R1a in the Neolithic, an ancestral line with the R-Z92 mutation was separated, which we find mainly among the descendants of the Balts and Eastern Slavs. From R-Z92 in the Bronze Age, the pre-Baltic group R-YP350, which today mainly includes descendants of the (Baltic) Old Prussians and Yotvingians, was separated. A sub-branch of R-YP350 is R-Y42738 (which today includes the Tolkien family, the Derdzinski family and the Kacsóh family from Hungary, and from which in the Iron Age there were also separated sub-branches, which today include families from Norway, Finland and Belarus, which are probably related to with the history of the Baltic Sea Vikings).
Today we know the approximate history of Tolkien's male line over the last several tens of thousands of years. It's worth taking a look at this map by typing "Y42738" in the box
http://scaledinnovation.com/gg/snpTracker.html
•Sources:
pdf version
http://www.elendilion.pl/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TolkienAncestry.pdf
published article(preview)
https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=720195
author's blog:(article-Tolkien | the confirmed haplogroup is R-Y42738)
https://tolkniety.blogspot.com/2021/08/tolkien-confirmed-haplogroup-is-y42738.html
author's blog:(Why are we doing Tolkien's DNA testing?)
http://tolkniety.blogspot.com/2021/05/why-are-we-doing-tolkien-dna-testing.html?m=1
about the author of the article
http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/biography.htm
•reading material:
Old Prussians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Prussians
Warmians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmians
Yotvingians
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotvingians
Tołkiny village
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To%C5%82kiny
#tolkien
Ecce Verbum
What was the attitude of the Republic to the law? Since the Sarmatian took a keen interest in Rome, as a republican ideal, surely Roman law also had an extraordinary status for him? Nothing could be further from the truth. The legal culture of the RON[17]…
In addition, the partitioners won the peasantry against the Polish cause with this act.
As much as the Sarmatian is not an enthusiast of the May 3rd Constitution, it must be admitted that the first Polish real political upsurge to do something in the peasantry's direction occurred on its strength and in its spirit. This was particularly true of the "Act on the sale of royal lands" of 1792, which granted peasants settled in royal lands ownership, personal freedom (on termination of the contract with the heir), the right to bring up the land and to be freed from serfdom.
The law, however, did not come into force as a result of the lost war. It came into force as a result of the defeat of the war in defence of the 3rd May Constitution with Russia and the Second Partition of Poland. Who knows what the consequences and next steps of the Polish authorities would have been. But let us emphasise that the Constitution ended Sarmatia, it was not its natural outcome[21]... an unpleasant and shameful page of history.
The expression "ideal" was mentioned above, not without reason. We people of the 21st century would be foolish to think that a return to certain cultural, political or economic formulas unchanged is possible. Both distributism and political Sarmatism should be treated as ideals to which we should aspire and relate reality. But one cannot count on their revival in an unchanged form. Really, many elements of distributism in the economy and mixed monarchy in the polity can be introduced today at little cost. All it takes is for people to become newly enthralled with Tolkien.
Source:
https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/posadzy-polak-anglik-dwa-bratanki-trzech-mezczyzn-dwa-swiaty-jedna-sprawa/
translated
http://Deepl.com
#tolkien
As much as the Sarmatian is not an enthusiast of the May 3rd Constitution, it must be admitted that the first Polish real political upsurge to do something in the peasantry's direction occurred on its strength and in its spirit. This was particularly true of the "Act on the sale of royal lands" of 1792, which granted peasants settled in royal lands ownership, personal freedom (on termination of the contract with the heir), the right to bring up the land and to be freed from serfdom.
The law, however, did not come into force as a result of the lost war. It came into force as a result of the defeat of the war in defence of the 3rd May Constitution with Russia and the Second Partition of Poland. Who knows what the consequences and next steps of the Polish authorities would have been. But let us emphasise that the Constitution ended Sarmatia, it was not its natural outcome[21]... an unpleasant and shameful page of history.
The expression "ideal" was mentioned above, not without reason. We people of the 21st century would be foolish to think that a return to certain cultural, political or economic formulas unchanged is possible. Both distributism and political Sarmatism should be treated as ideals to which we should aspire and relate reality. But one cannot count on their revival in an unchanged form. Really, many elements of distributism in the economy and mixed monarchy in the polity can be introduced today at little cost. All it takes is for people to become newly enthralled with Tolkien.
Source:
https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/posadzy-polak-anglik-dwa-bratanki-trzech-mezczyzn-dwa-swiaty-jedna-sprawa/
translated
http://Deepl.com
#tolkien
Myśl Konserwatywna
Posadzy: Polak, Anglik, dwa bratanki? Trzech mężczyzn, dwa światy, jedna sprawa.
Omne trinum perfectum, jak powiada wyświechtane przysłowie. Numerologia nie jest i nigdy nie była obiektem moich zainteresowań, lecz w tym przypadku muszę przyznać liczbie „trzy” n…
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Essay
By J. R. R. Tolkien
On Fairy-stories
This essay was originally intended to be one of the Andrew Lang lectures at St. Andrews, and it was, in abbreviated form, delivered there in 1938. To be invited to lecture in St. Andrews is a high compliment to any man; to be allowed to speak about fairy-stories is (for an Englishman in Scotland) a perilous honor. I felt like a conjuror who finds himself, by mistake, called upon to give a display of magic before the court of an elf-king. After producing his rabbit, such a clumsy performer may consider himself lucky, if he is allowed to go home in proper shape, or indeed to go home at all. There are dungeons in fairyland for the overbold.
What are fairy-stories? What is their origin? What is the use of them? I will try to give answers to these questions, or such hints of answers to them as I have gleaned—primarily from the stories themselves, the few of all their multitude that I know
#tolkien
By J. R. R. Tolkien
On Fairy-stories
This essay was originally intended to be one of the Andrew Lang lectures at St. Andrews, and it was, in abbreviated form, delivered there in 1938. To be invited to lecture in St. Andrews is a high compliment to any man; to be allowed to speak about fairy-stories is (for an Englishman in Scotland) a perilous honor. I felt like a conjuror who finds himself, by mistake, called upon to give a display of magic before the court of an elf-king. After producing his rabbit, such a clumsy performer may consider himself lucky, if he is allowed to go home in proper shape, or indeed to go home at all. There are dungeons in fairyland for the overbold.
What are fairy-stories? What is their origin? What is the use of them? I will try to give answers to these questions, or such hints of answers to them as I have gleaned—primarily from the stories themselves, the few of all their multitude that I know
#tolkien