Karolina and Feliks’s only son was Władysław, born in Dynów on 16 January 1847.

He was a career officer in the Imperial and Royal Army.

As a lieutenant, he took part in the famous Battle of Sadowa during the war between Prussia and Austria in July 1866.

In 1878, he was posted to Bosnia, then occupied by Austria-Hungary, and subsequently to Stryj, where he remained until his retirement.

By then, he was a major.

In old age, he moved to Brzozów to live with his nephew, Wiktor Niewolkiewicz, the son of Stefania Baraniecka and Jan Niewolkiewicz.

He died there on 6 February 1921.

He never married and had no children.

Wanda Salomea and Felicja were twins.

They were born on 17 November 1849.

Wanda Salomea died on 3 January 1939, aged eighty-nine. Felicja died three years later, on 29 November 1941, aged ninety-two.

Wanda Salomea married August Frischman, but her sister Felicja remained unmarried.

Here is a short recollection of Felicja Baraniecka written by my Father:

“Felicja was the best-looking of the siblings and the only one who resembled her father. An exceptional woman for her time, her mind reached far ahead of those around her. She stood well above her surroundings intellectually and was already an advocate of women’s emancipation. She took an interest in philosophical questions and, despite her deep piety, was something of a free thinker, seeking truth beyond revealed religion. She knew literature, although in old age, because she lacked a more advanced education and was an unmarried woman, she became something of a scapegoat, mocked and treated lightly — unjustly!

She gave up her own happiness and did not wish to marry. Instead, she worked independently to support herself, which was a true curiosity in those days. She was a postmistress on the eastern fringes of Galicia, in Podolia and Pokucie, including Kozowa.

In old age, she settled in Przemyśl. Later, she became a companion to her blind friend, Mrs Elżbieta Trzcińska, in Gdyczyna. After her friend’s death, my father took her into his home as a ‘resident’. She died there in 1941, aged ninety-two. She continued to receive her pension and always gave each of us a hundred złoty on our name days, the equivalent of twenty dollars.”

From the documents, I know that she also worked for a time as postmistress in Majdan Sieniawski.

Helena, born in 1851, married Bolesław Chodziński, the headmaster of the elementary school in Sokołów. He was the brother of the well-known sculptor Kazimierz Chodziński, whose magnificent works still adorn Chicago and Washington.

I mean his designs for the monuments to Tadeusz Kościuszko in Humboldt Park, Chicago, and Kazimierz Pułaski in Washington. Many of his works can also be found in Poland, particularly in churches, though not exclusively. But it is Bolesław, rather than Kazimierz, who concerns us here. His father was the painter Karol Chodziński (1815–1904), and his mother was Zofia, née Dubielowska.

Helena and Bolesław Chodziński had two daughters, Stanisława Zofia and Kamilla. Helena died in 1877 while giving birth to the younger daughter, Kamilla. She was only twenty-six.

Their first daughter, Stanisława Zofia (1872–1906), married Stanisław Konstanty Andrzej Dańczak, a pharmacist in Sokołów, in 1895. They had ten children! She died aged thirty-four.

During the 1990s, I corresponded for quite some time with members of the Dańczak family, particularly Zofia Ginalska, born in 1926, a granddaughter of Stanisława Zofia Dańczak, née Chodzińska. She was a distinguished professor of oncology and died without children in 2001.

I have no information about the second daughter, Kamilla.

Two years after Stanisława Zofia’s death, her husband, Stanisław Konstanty, married again — once more within our family. His second wife was Zofia Niewolkiewicz, the daughter of Stefania Baraniecka and Jan Niewolkiewicz. They had five children. Thus, he had fifteen children by his two wives!

Stefania, another daughter of Feliks and Karolina Baraniecki, married Jan Niewolkiewicz, an elementary-school teacher in Kamień. They had six children, including Wiktor, with whom his uncle, Władysław Baraniecki, a major in the Austrian Army, lived after retiring.

Wiktor married Filomena Fiedler. Among their children was a son, Julek, who was a hunter and visited us in Dynów.

He was exactly the same age as my Father: both were born in 1909.

I mention this because I want to quote what my Father said about Julek:

“Julek Niewolkiewicz held general power of attorney for the Czartoryski princes’ entailed estate at Sieniawa. The Prince appointed him when everyone was fleeing from the Germans. As it happened, the Prince himself fled foolishly, unaware that the Spanish aristocrats to whom he was related were making representations on his behalf through the Spanish Embassy in Berlin.

As a result of their efforts, the Germans kept asking about the Prince and looking for him. But they were not trying to imprison him. Quite the opposite: they wanted to protect and help him. The Prince, unaware of their intentions and interpreting them wrongly, fled as fast as his legs would carry him. He gave Julek Niewolkiewicz such extensive powers that Julek could even have sold the entire estate.

I saw his power of attorney and read it most carefully. It had been drawn up by a notary.

Julek later moved — I do not know why — to the Zamoyski entailed estate. There were strong groups of the Peasant Battalions there. They treated Julek as an employee of a bloodsucker exploiting the working people and robbed him mercilessly of everything. As a result, after the Bolsheviks arrived, Julek fled to East Prussia with little more than the trousers he stood up in.”

The youngest child of Feliks and Karolina Baraniecki was Maria Joanna, born in 1855.

On 30 June 1896, in Racławice, she married Józef Jan Długosz from Korczyna, who administered the estates of Bishop Józef Sebastian Pelczar under power of attorney.

They had a son, Stanisław, born in 1897 in Nisko, in the parish of Racławice. He died on 9 October 1976.