Paragiai Manor
historical manor in Paragiai, Lithuania
Paragiai Manor (Lithuanian: Paragių dvaras) is a former wooden residential manor in Paragiai village, Papilė Eldership, Akmenė District Municipality, Šiauliai County, Lithuania.
History
The manor was first documented in court records of the Samogitian land court in 1684, when Jonas Ivanauskas of Meškiai Manor is mentioned as owning land in Paragiai.
The Ivanauskas family (of the Rogala coat of arms) owned both Meškiai and Paragiai manors from the 17th century onward. In the early 19th century, the manor passed to Ksaveras Ivanauskas (died c. 1850), who had inherited both manors from his father and served in police special assignments in 1837–1839.
After a fire in the early 19th century, the manor house was rebuilt in its current form. Nikodemas Erazmas Ivanauskas (c. 1844 – c. 1932): his father Ksaveras handed him the manor; Nikodemas studied and lived abroad and returned to Paragiai around 1877.
Nikodemas married and in 1867 his daughter Sofija Pšibiliauskienė (b. 28 Sept 1867) was born. He then moved to Munich to study at the art academy; later he lived in Warsaw, Kraków and Šiauliai where his second daughter Marija Lastauskienė (b. 1 June 1872) was born.
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