Wieruszewski family

he name WIERUSZEWSKI derives from the village Wieruszew near Goslawice in the Konin region. According to polish scholars, the bearers of Wieruszewski name have the Leszczyc Coat of Arms. The first written information about Wieruszewski can be found in Teki Dworzaczka when in 1499 Andrzej Wieruszewski, a burgrave of Kalisz, married Malgorzata Kozminska, the daughter of Bartlomiej from Iwanowice, the Poraj arms, castellan of Kalisz. More information is written about Kazimierz Wieruszewski. Kazimierz was born in 1681. From 1724 for 8 years he was a theologian of Teodor Potocki, a Polish Primate. In 1994 in Poland there were 740 bearers of the Wieruszewski name. The highest population being 144 lived in Kalisz region, followed by 121 Poznan region and 98 in Lodz region.

In the 15th century many nobles moved to Wholynia where they lived until the end of the 18th century. In Wholynia my branch of the Wieruszewski's worked as chamberlain for count Dzialynski's family. At the end of the 18th century, count Dzialynski came back to Kórnik in Great Poland and the Wieruszewski family followed.

Information about Wieruszewski family was researched and collected by my Uncle Grzegorz Wieruszewski from Gniezno who allowed me to publish it. I thank him very much.

n 1818 Jakub Wieruszewski came to Debnica, near Gniezno, and deeded a farm from count Dzialynski. Then the whole village came over to count Wollowicz as a dowry from the Dzialynski family. Jakub Wieruszewski bought the farm and became an owner. After Jakub died Jan became the only heir.
Two daughters of Jan Wieruszewski left Poland and immigrated to the USA. Wiktoria Wieruszewska-Kasprzak lived in New York where she owned a hotel and Katarzyna Wieruszewska-Nijakowska lived in Chicago. After Jan's death Józef Wieruszewski inherited the farm and began the Debnice's line of the Wieruszewski family. Franciszek began the Pobiedziska's line and Stanislaw began the Klecko's line of the Wieruszewski family.

tanislaw Wieruszewski , a tailor by trade, married Marianna Moch a granddaughter of a Napoleon's Army soldier. During WWII his family lived in Central Poland. Seweryn became the heir of the farm in Klecko.
Leonard lived in Gdynia. His children Wojciech, Maciej and Ewa now live in the USA. Mieczyslaw was my grandfather. After WWII, he worked as a general manager of a state farm in Strzykuly, near Warsaw. During WWII Helena and her husband lived in Belgia. After the War, they came back to Gniezno. Edmund in May 1940 was arrested by Gestapo and sent to Dachau then to Mauthausen-Gusen, Nazis death camp, where the US Army liberated him. His son Grzegorz is the author of this extensive work about the Wieruszewski family. Bronislaw lived in Bytom where he worked as a principal in different Technical Schools. I remember Wladyslawa very well as she was a frequent guest in our house.

ózef Wieruszewski left everything to his daughter Marianna Wieruszewska-Nitke. She sold it to the Chodynski family. The last man in this line was Walenty Wieruszewski who lived in Gniezno and none of his 8 children returned to Debnica. His son Walerian Wieruszewski, a teacher, died in the Oswiecim death camp in 1943. Kazimierz was a judge in the Supreme Court of Poland. His son Roman, whom I had the privilege of knowing, is a professor of international law. He represents Poland on a Human Right Committee to the United Nations

ranciszek Wieruszewski lived in Pobiedziska and worked in his locksmith business. During WWII his family lived in Central Poland. After WWII they came back and lived in his house. His son Ludwik, during WWII, was a soldier of the National Army and under the alias of Malinowski he escaped from the Gestapo and German police. The other son Józef, during WWII, was in death camp Dachau, where Nazis performed a medical study on him. Wlodzimierz was the only heir and continues the Pobiedziska line.

	y grandfather Mieczyslaw Wieruszewski was born on Dec. 17, 1903 in Klecko. He finished elementary school in the German language before WWI. After WWI finished, he completed his education and in 1926 he finished high school. In 1928 he finished the State Seminary in Wagrowiec. My grandfather started to work as a teacher in Barcin near Inowroclaw. This is where he met my grandmother Maria Ceglarek born on Apr. 15, 1905 in Czerniowiec. They were married in Dec. 1927 in Znin and moved to Palmierowo where my mother Wieslawa was born on Apr.30, 1929. The parents of Maria Ceglarek were born in Germany in Essen. They met there and married in 1901 in Inowroclaw. They lived in Znin where my great-grandfather was a manager of a sugar refinery. After WWII started the whole family was sent by Nazis to a Central Poland. My grandmother and my mother came back to Znin. They learned that the Gestapo were searching for my grandfather who was on their execution list. My grandfather, who had been under the alias of Jan Leszczyc, went to a region of Tarnów where his brother Leonard was living.
There my grandfather worked as an administrator of Lubcza estate the owner of which was Sir Adam Wielowieyski. In 1943 my grandfather joined the Home Army (AK) and participated in many sabotage actions against the Germans. In 1947 he was delegated to work in State Farms to wind up the waste land. It was a very hard and dangerous job because of the number of land mines. For this work he was honoured with the Gold Order of Merit. Until 1954 he worked as a director of the new State Farm - PGR in Silesia. From 1954 to 1969 he started work in the State Farm Strzykuly near Warsaw. On Sep. 02, 1963 my grandfather was honoured with the order of Polonia Restituta. He has never been a member of the communist party. In 1969 he retired. From 1969 he lived in Zólwin near Podkowa Lesna. He died on Dec.24, 1988. He is buried in Klecko. My grandmother Maria after WWII worked in elementary school in Klecko until her death on Nov 20, 1963. She is buried in Gniezno.