Leszek Dziedzic (Museum of the History of Kielce) Genelaogy of the Teliga Family of Millers The family of Teliga from Bieliny, situated in the vicinity of Kielce, is one of the families from the Świętokrzyskie region that deserves to be recalled and commemorated. The father of the family of millers was Tomasz Teliga from Cisów, who in 1795 was given a mill in Bieliny by Grzegorz and Agnieszka Zawada and soon he also married their daughter. The Teliga family was a wealthy peasant family. The heir to Tomasz was his younger son, Józef, who led the large family of eight children to prosperity and social empowerment. Two sons joined the clergy and one of them, Tomasz, became bishop and rector of the Jagiellonian University. Two branches in the genealogy of the Teliga family were formed then – the older one, aspiring to noble titles and giving rise to the Galician and Australian-American branches of the family, and the younger one, the so called ‘Bieliny’ branch, strongly connected with the family’s place of origin. The former branch was started in 1835 by Andrzej Teliga marrying Ludmiła Domicella Kwiatkowska, a daughter of tenants from Kakonin. Their only son married first Lidia Heller and then Alena MacDonald, a Scotswoman from the family of ‘black’ MacDonalds from Glencoe. His son, Władysław, married to Dulcie Lymbery Beard, an Englishwoman, emigrated to Australia in 1927 and started the family branch of ‘de Teliga’. The ‘Bieliny’ branch of the family and its milling tradition were continued by Józef Jan, the youngest male descendant of Józef and Marianna Teliga. What is more, the ‘Warsaw’ branch of the Terligas stems from the ‘Bieliny’ one. The last miller of the family mill in Bieliny was colonel Józef Teliga, Home Army’s intelligence officer, Solidarity movement activist and the ‘oldest prisoner of the People’s Republic of Poland. He died in 2007.