Karolina Mienkwicka was born about 1821 in Poland, West Prussia (Poland). She married August Szudrowicz about 1847. Together they had at least six children; Marcia Anne, Jozef, Rosa, Marianna, Paulina and William. She departed Bremen, Germany on the "Smidt" on November 30, 1872 and arrived in New York on January 02, 1873. She died in 1900 in Sobieski, Oconto County, Wisconsin.