The Gulinski last name first appears in Poland between XIV and XV century. According to J. Dlugosz, at the time of the reign of King Wl. Jagiello, Polish nobility
started to create last names by adding the ending -ski or -cki to the name of their estates. This way from the Gulin village the name Gulinski
was created. In previous centuries, people used the first names and added the name of their native villages, for example Jan from Bidziny and Kaszow, and
Derslaw from Gulin. Also the last names were created as taken from the coat of arm names, with addition of the fathers name, or with a nickname created
for the clothing, body features, or the man's character. The son-heir who stayed on the property, kept the same name. Other sons who settled down in other
villages started to call themselves using their new village's name. The name Kaszowski originates from the Kaszow village name, and the Bidzinski name from
the village of Bidziny. It is known that Gulinskis, Kaszowskis and Bidzinskis have the same genealogical roots reaching Jan
from Bidziny and Kaszow, the owner of Gulin and Wysokie, who lived in late XIV century.
Jan divided his properties between his sons, so the oldest Marcisz received Bidziny, and Derslaw received Kaszow, Wola Kaszowska, Gulin and Wysokie in Lublin Province.
Because of such arrangement and a big distance between Bidziny and Gulin/Kaszow properties, the name Bidzinski appeared early. The children and the grand
children of Derslaw resided in adjacent properties of Gulin and Kaszow. Jan, the son of Derslaw, owned Gulin and Dlugojewo, and chronicler Dlugosz presents him as "Gulynsky", but later Gulin become a property of Mikolaj,
Jan's brother from Kaszow. At the end of XVI century, properties of Gulin and Kaszow were separated, and then Stanislaw, the owner of Gulin and Wola Gulinska
started a separate Gulinski branch of Janina clan.
In those days, the villages also took on the names of their founders. The Wola Gulinska village was named this way. In XIII century and earlier, noble estates were populated only with a noble-knight family and his personal serfs. In order to develop their lands, nobles needed to increase the number of serfs. So, by trying to encourage the so called "working people" to erect new villages, someone from the Gulin clan, probably Derslaw, allowed these people to settle down on his land, and in turn released them from tributes and rents for a few years. It was Derslaw will to have new people on his property, therefore a new village named Wola Gulinska ("wola" in Polish means "a will").
Sources
1. Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Chrobacja
2. Zygmunt Gloger, Encyklopedia Staropolska, Polish Encyclopedia
3. Adam Boniecki, Herbarz polski, Polish Armorial