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• Gender	Male
  Person ID	I533	Wanicki/Rozhon and Kapusta/Jemiola
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2007 09:35:47
  Family	(Female) PIOTROWSKI
  Children	> 1. Aniela (Anna) KENSICKI, (Kesicki), b. 20 Jul 1854, ,, Poland > 2. Pauline KENSICKI, (Kesicki), b. 20 Jun 1864, ,, Poland
  Family ID	F181	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Woz~nicki is pronounced roughly "vozh-NEET-skee." It comes from the same basic root as Wozniak -- woz-, "convey, transport (especially by cart)." But generally would refer to the name of a place where the family lived at some point centuries ago. Thus we'd expect it to mean "one from Woz~niki or Woz~nica or Woz~nice." On modern maps I find one Woz~nice and a lot of Woz~niki's, so the surname would generally mean the family came from one of those villages; but without detailed genealogical research into a specific family's background, there's no way to know which one. The places, in turn, would take their names from some connection with carts, cart-drivers (woz~nica is a term meaning "cart-driver," and this name is an adjective that could come from that noun), cart-horses (woz~nik, and the name can also come from that), etc. As I say, there is a linguistic connection with Wozniak in that both come from that basic root meaning, but in practice there wouldn't necessarily be any blood connection between the two names. Woz~nicki is a name in its own right.  --Source: http://www.polishroots.org/surnames/surnames_38.htm In total, there were 12 children but we only know the names of two.