On his naturalization documents Peter Gemza (my great-great-grandmother's brother) noted that he was born in "Walki, Austria". Of course back then the historic Poland had been divided into Austrian, Russian, and Prussian partitions.
I was able to identify a city in SW Poland (modern day) called "Walce", which, according to Wikipedia, was called "Walchi" in some books in the early 1800's. This is my only lead for the identification of this city.
I need to dig into this more, because "Walce" appears to have fallen outside of the Austrian partition, but not by a lot.
English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walce
Translated Polish Wikipedia (much more information): https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walce
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