Zdrojewski

Stanley Zdrojewski

• came to America in 1893
• uncle of Ludwig; paid for his and Victoria's passage

Ludwig Zdrojewski (b.08/06/74)  and Victoria Wojciechowska Zdrojewska (b.02/15/1873)

• came from Lęg (Leng,Ling) near Poznan, to America in 1903

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Their sons:

• John Peter Zdrojewski, (06/22/1899 - 06/23/1981); (came to America in 1903 with parents)
• Frank Zdrojewski (came to America in 1903 with parents)
• Anthony Zdrojewski
• Joseph Zdrojewski (b.1908)
• Casimir Joseph Zdrojewski
• Stanley Zdrojewski
• Elizabeth Zdrojewska (d. 1930s, tuberculosis)

Children of John Peter Zdrojewski and Julia Mostkowska Zdrojewski (       -       )

• Eugene John (Daniel) Zdrojewski (1923-2004);
• Casimir John Zdrojewski  (c1930-2009);
• Melania Zdrojewska  (12/14/1933 -       ) died approximately age 12, of whooping cough;

Child of John Peter Zdrojewski and Eleanor Kotwas* Zdrojewski  (      - 12/14/1982)

• John Francis Zdrojewski (b.1947)

Children of Anthony and Anna Zdrojewski

• Mariane
• Josephine
• Eleanor
• Helen
• Angeline, "Angie,""Lulu"
• Raymond 
• Daniel

Child of Casimir and Cecelia Zdrojewski

• Paul Anthony Zadner (1940- )  m. Pat
• Celine Zdrojewska  (1943-
• Michael Zdrojewski (1951-

Child of Joseph Zdrojewski and Julia Jarosz Zdrojewska

• Joseph Zdrojewski (b.1947-  )

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Children of Eugene John Zdrojewski and Clara Matynka Zdrojewski

• Martin Peter Zdrojewski (b. 05/02/1951)
• Juliane Zdrojewski (b.03/04/1954)

Children of Casimir Zdrojewski and Jeanette Dommer Zdrojewski

• Mark Zdrojewski
• Donald Zdrojewski
• Janine Zdrojewski Lucie
• Elaine Zdrojewski O'Brien
• Rozanne Zdrojewski Johel
• Thomas Zdrojewski

Children of John Francis Zdrojewski and Donna Zdrojewski

• Annie Zdrojewski
• Kate Zdrojewski

Children of Joseph Zdrojewski  ("Joe")

• Matthew Joseph b.1973
• Joseph Jacob b.1979

Children of Michael and Janice Zdrojewski

• Scott Zdrojewski
• Katie Zdrojewski

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*Eleanor Kotwas parents: Joseph Kotwas (d. 06/03/1953) (came from the Russian partition of Poland, in 1902) and Ludwicka ("Louise") Chmielewska.

The family of Ludwicka ("Louise") Chmielewska came to America, from the German partition of Poland in 1891. These Chmielewskis were among the first parishioners of St. Stanislaus Church in Buffalo.

 

John Zdrojewski, grandson of Ludwicka, reports:

 

    It’s an interesting story about the name. I have some records for about 1850 from the German partition. Pan Weinerowicz (son of Weiner) had two sons that got married about the same time. It was not unusual in Europe at that time that surnames would change for the groom, not just the bride, upon marriage. One son took the name Chmielewski (one from the place of the hops) while the other took the name Bednarowicz (son of a barrel maker). I have been kidding  with my cousin Bill Kotwas, son of my mother’s brother Bill, that some of our ancestors were beer brewers!

 Eleanor Kotwas siblings: William A., Henry, Walter

William A. Kotwas and Emily Kotwas children:
          Gwendolyn Kotwas
          William E. Kotwas
          Kenneth Kotwas
          J. Richard Kotwas