Old Polish Town from pre-1930 ("antowi zcizus")

Does anyone know if there was a town in Old Poland that sounds similar to "Antowi Zcizus"? I'm researching an ancestor, Xenia Ryszkowska Vel Gryszkowska, born in 1872. On her passenger record in Ellis Island, they put down that her birth town was "Antowi Zcizus", Poland and that her last place of residence was Nancy, Poland. She left Poland in 1930.

If anyone has a clue as to what this birth town was actually called (spelling) and the actual place or spelling that sounds like Nancy... the only Nancy I could find was Nancy, France. I know that many transcribers for the Ellis Island records mispelled names of people and places.

Any assistance would be extremely helpful. Thank you!

If anyone has a map as well that shows these towns, that would be extra beneficial. Thanks.

I'm thinking that this might be the birth place... but please give me your ideas. thanks.

Antonie, Czestochowa, Poland

This is what I've found for "Nancy, Poland" - french-at-a-touch.com/French_Regions/Lorraine/lorraine_town_informatio n.htm

but it seems as though at the time of Xenia's birth it would've been in possession of France. Still searching for a Nancy, Poland.

There is no Nancy in Poland

do you know if there may be a variation of that name Nancy? something that may sound similar to Nancy? I'm sure that she didn't type it for the shipping company who were recording passenger information. They most likely spelled it how they heard it. Do you think it was actually Nancy, France that she was from?

Maybe 'Danzig' German for "Gdańsk"

Interesting.... thanks. how is Gdańsk pronounced in English?

Does anyone have an old map of Poland from around 1913?

Sure:

There is/was a Nancy in the Czech Republic.

Your post isn't clear.

Did you find Ryszkowska or Gryszkowska.

Because I can only find Ryszkowska.

If you heard the name Nancy... then the 'c' might be 'ts'

There is something wrong with the place names. Please scan and post the relevant part of the document. We might see something that you don't.

It's pronounced the same as it reads in English. Gdansk.

the passenger record was typed with a type writer so i'm not mispelling anything:

birth place: Antowi Zcizus, Poland

last residence: Nancy, Poland

They mispelled her name on the passenger record as "Kesenja Ryszkowska vel Gryszkowska" her actual name is Xenia...so i'm sure they mispelled the place names. That is why i'm asking if anyone has any idea as to what or where these places might have been actually called/spelled.

Here is the file to look at.

I've just written a load of info for you, but of course it's just disappeared and I'm not going to do it again.

Try: Ksenja or Ksenia, not Kesenja.

Xenia also goes with Oksana.

It's possible that Ksenja/ia is the original spelling.

I also think you should be looking for place of origin as far north and east as Lithuania.