In the Fall of 2002, we established a first
contact with the family of Roman Wajszczuk (0945), originally from Sulow (see
map). He visited us then in Warsaw and we visited their family in
Skierniewice in Summer of the next year. Prior to this trip, they provided
us with the addresses and telephone numbers of other members of their family
in Sulow and informed them about our impending visit. We arrived there on
Wednesday August 7 and visited initially in Kolonia Sulow Roman's father -
Marian (0944) and brother Ryszard (0948) and their families
and then his
uncle Tadeusz (0939) and his family. Afterward, we met the family of Roman's
grandfather's brother - Walenty (1250)
, who live in nearby Sulow.
While there, during conversation with Walenty's widow, we were able to solve
the puzzle of a name variant Walszczuk, which was mentioned to us previously
and was said to exist (linger) in this branch of the family - it was
explained that a transcription error occured in the Communal Office during
some kind of court proceedings and it was never corrected afterwards. We
were able to see (and copy - see photograph below) Walenty's identification
document, in which the last name Wajszczuk is spelled correctly! But to add
to the confusion, the official address tablet on the house (issued by the
Community) spells the name incorrectly, as Waszczuk. Independently, all
members of the family encountered during this trip, stated uniformly that
they are all directly related and belong to the same Wajszczuk family branch,
whose members are scattered in the vicinity of Sulow. They all belong (or
belonged) to the old original Parish in Szczebrzeszyn and are buried there.
Insufficient time did not allow us to visit the Parish offices there or
visit the cemetery, which is apparently quite large. The family members, who
we spoke with, did not know much about their ancestors and where did they
come from and did not have any contacts with members of the Family branches
in a not-too-distant Wysokie, Sitaniec and Zamosc.
Searching for more information we travelled, accompanied by Ryszard and his
son, from Sulow to the Parish office in nearby Tworyczow - there was no one
there. We continued to the cemetery in Nielisz - apparently somebody has
seen there recently some tombstones with the name Wajszczuk - we found none!
A search of old records in the Szczebrzeszyn Parish will have to be carried
out to establish the origin of this Family branch and to complete the
missing information.
From Sulow, in the early evening and passing through Wielacza (Parish site
for Wysokie), we continued to Zamosc for the next meeting there.
(click on pictures to enlarge)
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Text and
photographs:
Waldemar J. Wajszczuk and
Paweł Stefaniuk
(c) 2004
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