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English: Fałkowice, near Gdów, Death Registry (1784-1885) entry detail for Eleonora Fihauser née Lanckorońska (1777-1850).

In 1805 Eleonora married Andrzej Fihauser (1765-1828), heir to the Manor at Fałkowice, son of Idzi and Elżbieta Marynowska (m 1750) and grandson of Walenty Fihauser and Barbara Trzebuchowska. Andrzej’s brother Antoni (1763-1810) and Anastasia Celińską had five children including sons Karol and Henryk (1801-1858), and many grandchildren including (via Karol and Apolonię Szczudło) Zygmunt (1836-1869) and Leokadia (1841-1897) who are both buried beside the Gdów Cemetery Chapel, (via Henryk and Eleanor Wojnarowicz, 1817-1876) Wanda (b 1835) who married Wilhelm Habichta, Róża (b 1842), Stanisława (b 1843), Alfred (1845-1863) and Czesław (1848-1867) who both took part in the January Uprising in which Alfred was killed and Czesław severely wounded.

Eleonora, daughter of a rich count of coat of arms Zadora, was a generous patron of the Gdów Church and funded the major extension undertaken by ks Ludwik Kusionowicz, who chronicled the historic Battle of Gdów in 1846, as well as the building of the Cemetery Chapel under which both Eleonora and Ludwik are buried in a ‘hidden crypt’. The Fihauser family financial support of the church ensued from their purchase of the Fałkowice Estate from Maria Lubomirska in 1782, the Lubomirski family also being generous benefactors throughout generations of its distinguished history. Notably, while the Fihauser and Habicht families both had German ancestries, their descendants also fought valiantly for Poland’s independence.
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