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Where did the last name Slawinski originate from?


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billski [Guest]
  Sep 3, 06, 14:53  #1

My last name is Slawinski and there is a co-worker whose last name is Stawinski. I told him our ancestors were probably from the same area in Poland and that possibly there may be a relation - in Polish Slawinski has the line through the l to make the "W" sound. I told my co-worker possbily when his relatives cam here the line through the L was mistaken as a t.

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krysia
  Sep 3, 06, 15:06  #2

That could be true, they could both come from the same name. Although I've heard both versions as well.
Sławiński could originate from the word "Sławny" which means "famous",
while Stawiński could come from the word "Staw" which is a "pond".

Maybe someone else would know more.

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billski [Guest]
  Sep 3, 06, 14:43  #3

Sep 3 2006, 18:32 - Topic attached on merging:
Looking for Slawinski (Kielce area)

My fathers name was Boleslaw Slawinski - he was born in 1916 in Kielce. In 1939 he became a Polish POW and in 1953 he came to the United States after living in Germany and France.
My father kept in touch with his survivng mother (died in the late 1960's) and brothers up until the early 1970's. His mother (my grandmother) name was Antonina. My grandfather died when my father was a young boy. One of his brothers names was Josef.

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billski [Guest]
  Sep 12, 06, 21:03  #4

Thank you Krysia fo rthe information. During the war my father was a Polish POW. My mother and father met in a labor camp in ludwigshafen in germany and after the war they were in DP Camp Wildfleckin. They came to the US in 1953. When I see the last name Slawinski or Stawinski I ofetn wonder if we are related

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WarLord [Guest]
  Sep 13, 06, 01:34  #5

Wasn that the last name of the secretary that bill clinton cheated on his wife with? probably from her fam.

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billski [Guest]
  Sep 15, 06, 22:38  #6

That was Lewinsky - I highly doubt it

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