Genealogy / SLONSKI - Looking for my Polish grandfather [17]

Hello!

Oh my goodness!! Hello, my name is Cally, I think I may be related to one or perhaps both of you. My father is Jerzy Slonski, he has changed his name to George, and his mother and father were Jan and Janina Slonicz-Slonski (once they moved to Australia they dropped the Slonicz) My Aunts are Aunty Margaret and Teresa. It would be exciting to realise my grandmother Janina had a brother who survived and maybe had children, as to my knowledge the family just thought they didn't survive the war.

I have been trying to find some records for Janina's address in Vilnia/Vilno but so far no luck, just her date of birth she registered here in Australia. I would love to get in touch and hopefully share the information we have. I have been looking for a while.

Cheers,
Cally

Genealogy / SLONSKI - Looking for my Polish grandfather [17]

@barbara2017
Hello,
An extra note regarding my earlier comments, I recently spoke to my father (Jerzy) who was quite excited to realise he may have a cousin from his mum's side.

He says the details you describe sound like his mother and father, his birth certificate says his parents were from Vilnus Lithuania and my Aunty Margaret said they were from Vilnus.

I don't have too much information as both Janina and Jan unfortunately died when I was a baby, but they did live until I think their 70's.

Dad mentioned that Janina was part of her local Polish club and would perform piano, teach Polska dancing and and that she was a soprano Opera singer as well.

It was hard for them in many ways as for other refugees I'm sure, emotional and physical pain and also Jan and his brother and sister were not allowed to practice Law, economics or Medicine as they did in Europe, and were given basic jobs, I think clerical and hospital assistant jobs. But their children are doing well, both Aunty Margaret and my Dad became teachers and had families, as did Teresa

They didn't say much about what had happened in their lives before the war so we only have bits and pieces, will be very interesting to put them together

Take care,
Cally

Genealogy / SLONSKI - Looking for my Polish grandfather [17]

Hi, as you can see my grandfather's name was Johann or Jan Slonski. His middle name was Jozef. I know his brothers were called Franciszek and Stanislav. His father was called Antoni (but maybe something else as well, there seems to be many different versions of first and last names, eg Torek is apparently another version of Antoni?) who married Stefa Rudiger. Both Antoni and Johann served in wars but don't have exact details. Not sure if any of those names match up with your family names, but worth a try!

Genealogy / SLONSKI - Looking for my Polish grandfather [17]

Hey Alex, its great to hear from you, I sent you an email under kalifli@hotmail. Hope you and family are well!
Cally

Genealogy / Descendants of Slonski, Von Rüdiger, Wesolowski [4]

well I'm 7 months late but thank you Chemikiem, that helps clear a few things up for me.

Genealogy / SLONSKI - Looking for my Polish grandfather [17]

hi there, thanks for getting in touch, it very well might be our relatives, (to my knowledge Slonski is not a common surname) but unfortunately we don't have much information going back through the family tree, other than that our great grandfather was Antoni Slonski, (born in Lithuania, considered Polish, fought for Russia in russo-Japanese war in 1905) who married Stefania von Rudiger. So Maksymilian and Maria may have been his (great?) grandparents? Antoni was an army general as far as I know. cheers