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STAROSTA
Wladislaw Starosta (18?? - ?? )
Paulina Tietz (184? - 1922)
Born about 1848. Died 1922, aged 74.
Lived in Oborniki, near Poznan, in Poland.
Edmund Starosta Born 1882. See below.
Roman Starosta Lived at Swarzedz, near Poznan.
Edmund Starosta (1882 - 1941)
Born 17th October 1882 in Oborniki, near Poznan in Poland. Roofer. Sergeant Major in the Polish Police Force.
Jadwiga Dreger (1888 - 1956).
Lived in Oborniki.
In November 1939, when this part of Poland was incorporated in Germany, they and their daughter, Helena, were resettled in the "Government General" region, at Warsaw and then at Szydlowiec, Radom. Edmund was taken from there to Auschwitz concentration camp on 8th November 1940 where he was given the number 6098, and where he died on 23rd February 1941. Jadwiga returned to Oborniki after the war and died there 20th June 1956.
Helena Starosta Married Stanislaw (Staszek) Skrzypek whom she met in a German prison camp, though he came from a neighbouring village in Poland. They lived in Oborniki. Visited Marian's family in Scotland in 1968. Three children:- Maria (Lilka), Marian (Rysiu) and Barbara (Basia).
Eleonora Starosta Married Zdzislaw Palinkiewicz and lived in Oborniki. Two sons:- Wojciech (Wojtek) and Adam (Adas).
Wincenty Starosta Wife's name Zofia. Four children:- Edmund, Andrzej, Grzegorz and Maria.
Marian Edmund Starosta Born 15th August 1914. See next.
Marian Edmund Starosta (1914 - 1970)
Born 15th August 1914 in Oborniki, near Poznan in Poland. On leaving school he trained to become a policeman and served in the Polish Police Force until the outbreak of World War II, reaching the rank of sergeant. Following the invasion of Poland by German troops in 1939 he was interned in Hungary, but escaped by tunneling and made his way with other Polish men across Europe to France, where he joined the Polish army (the 9th Polish Rifle Brigade). He was stationed at Coatbridge and Dundee, fought at Dunkerque, interpreted for the British army and reached the rank of corporal.
Margaret McFarlane Stewart (1915 - 1995)
Born 11th July 1915 at 18 Craigie Street, Dundee. Educated at Glebelands Primary School and Stobswell Girls Junior Secondary School. Known as Peg, she also lived at 10 Craigie Street. She worked as a shop-assistant for a short time, then trained as a weaver in a jute mill. She also taught ballroom dancing. On 21st February 1940 she married Fred Pattison Dorward, gunner in the Royal Navy, who died six weeks later on HMS Hunter in the second battle of Norvik. Fred was the son of David Dorward, dock labourer, and Mary Pattison. Peg then worked as a cinema usherette in the King's cinema in Dundee where she met her second husband.
They were married 26th December 1942 and after short stays at Galashiels and Auchtermuchty they settled in Dundee. Marian elected to stay in the UK at the end of the war instead of returning to Poland. He was discharged from the army in 1947 and became a process worker for SAI in Monifieth and for ICI in Carnoustie. He acquired British nationality by neutralisation in 1949. He also worked as a driver for the Gas Board and later did maintenance work, cleaning and occasional driving of buses for Dundee Corporation. Peg worked as a shop-assistant.
Marian visited his family in Poland three times after the war, once with a Polish friend and twice with his own family. They lived at 10 Craigie Street, 12 Raglan Street and 4 Ballantrae Road. Marian's work with the buses involved permanent night-shift, and it was at work that he died of a heart-attack 17th May 1970, aged 55, just a few months before the birth of his first grandchild.
Peg moved to a small flat at 36 Fettercairn Drive (1976) and later to 91 Forthill Drive (1984). She once more visited Marian's relations in Poland, and made several trips to Germany to visit her daughter and husband. She died of lung cancer 14th February 1995 at her daughter's, house.
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