Place Name

[3sillydogs]

Hi
I found this document while making use of the free access offered this weekend and I was wondering if anyone can tell me the name of the town on this application. I can see that it is county Vilna but the town escapes me and I cannot find anything similar on maps of the area.  Any ideas

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/9156/42475_625537_11610-01430/9735?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch

it is the first clue to the Russian brickwall that I have. Thanks.

If this is in the wrong place please put it where it belongs

[Trishanne]

I'm afraid your link only takes me to the Ancestry website to open an account.
It may just be me though!!
Pat

[stanmapstone]

This is the place
Stan

[annclare]

Wonder if it is Stoklishki (Stakliskis) from this site
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Lithuania/LithuaniaRegions.htm
annclare

[Bookbox]

Stoklishok is a Yiddish name for Stakliškės, now in Lithuania.

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/stoklishok/stoklishok1.html

[3sillydogs]

Thanks for the replies, will start there and hope to make some progress.

  it is a nightmare with the Anglicizing of place names and names

 

This is the place
Stan

Thanks for that Stan, my ancient computer doesn't have a photo editing programme on it(and it's running Linux) and the original was too large to post as an image

Sue

[Billyblue]

This is the place
Stan

That clearly says "Stoclesock in the County of Velna" - only problem is that Google comes up with zilch for either name

Dawn M

[3sillydogs]

This is the place
Stan

That clearly says "Stoclesock in the County of Velna" - only problem is that Google comes up with zilch for either name

Dawn M

I had the same result, it's a problem when foreign place names are written phoenetically, but it seems that the consensus has it as Stoklishok/Stasliskis and I have found it on the Jewishgen site.  Now the next question is do they have records and what was the Russian/Yiddish name of my ancestor who were Jewish immigrants to England