Kiebuzinskis from Sielec (near Krowniki) were of mixed Polish and Ukrainian nationality.
They are descended from two Kiebuz lines, that of Ivan Kiebuz (b. ca. 1804, son of Andrei Kiebuz of Sielec), and Maria (Hanka) Kiebuz (b. 29 July 1808, daughter of Ivan Kiebuz vel Kiebuzinski and Maria Lohyn of Wilcze). Ivan and Maria were married in the bride's parish in the Greek Catholic rite on 27 October 1822. Their children include:
Maria (Maryna) Kiebuz. Maria married Andrei Solhan (1844-1902, son of Fedir and Varvara Voitovych (Wojtowicz)). They resided at house no. 50. They had several children: Oles (b. 25 March 1866), Anna (b. 7 March 1869), Fedir (b. 21 Dec. 1871), and Julia (b. 2 Jan. 1878).
Anton Kiebuz (b. ca. 1841). Anton married Anna (Hanka) Zaluzhna (Załużna) (b. ca. 1847; daughter of Mykola and Evdokia Jarosiewicz of Krowniki) on 17 November 1867. Witnesses were Stefan Sydor and Iosyf Kiebuzinski (possibly my great, great grandfather), farmers in Nehrybka. Anton and Hanka were associated with address 14 at the time of their marriage. They were Greek (Ukrainian) Catholics. They had several known children: Ivan (b. 21 Oct. 1869), Volodymyr (b. 27 July 1877, who went by the name Władysław as an adult), Aleksander (15 Feb. 1886-Nov. 1966), Jozef (b. 7 March 1890), and Maria:
Volodmyr (Władysław) married Marianna Siudut (b. 7 April 1885, Verkhnii Luzhok; daughter of Paweł and Marianna Marmula) on 28 October 1905 in Strilky. They had five children who were raised in the Polish Roman Catholic rite: Helena Maria (b. 9 Oct. 1905, Strilky, Staryi Sambir district); Kazimierz (17 July 1907, Strilky (Strzylki), Staryi Sambir district-6 Apr. 1983, Ear Falls, Ontario); Anna (26 July 1913-24 Feb. 1994, Wrocław), Janina (20 Jan. 1915-26 July 1996, Wrocław), and Mieczyslaw (b. 1919, Olszanica, Lesko district-11 June 1941, Norillag).
Kazimierz (Johan or John) Kiebuzinski identified himself as Polish. He and his father, Władysław, lived in Lviv, Ukraine, prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Kazimierz remembered working as a chauffeur for some "lord of the manor" in Przemyśl when he was young (when he revisited Poland in the 1970s he traveled to Przemyśl believing that he would find family there). He was conscripted into the Polish Air Force upon finishing school. When the German army invaded Poland, he flew his plane out of the country into Romania. He made his way from Romania to Greece and from there to Marseille, France. In Marseille, he found a boat that took him to England where he and his escaped countrymen helped formed Polish squadrons within the British Air Force.
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| Kazimierz Kiebuzinski atop his Spitfire |
Kazimierz (John) was a fighter pilot at the RAF station at Northolt during the war. He was a member of the 303 squadron. On one of his sorties, he was shot down over the English Channel, but was picked up by the British Coast Guard. He recovered and joined the Polish 131 Wing with the invasion of Normandy, but was sent back to a British hospital to recover from his previous wounds.
While stationed in England, he met his wife, Gwyneth Rae Russell (b. 23 Oct. 1920, Streatham, London-d. 26 Dec. 2012, Ear Falls, Ontario) who was working at RAF Northolt as an aircraft mechanic. They married in Carshalton, Surrey, in 1945, and, sponsored by Rae's uncle R.A. Shelton, then immigrated to Canada in August 1948 via Montreal. They settled near Kenora, Ontario, where Rae had family (her grandmother, uncle, and aunt) who operated a tourist camp catering to American sportsmen at Snake Falls. Together, Rae and John, opened the Ear Falls Garage and Service gas station, and became very involved in the town of Ear Falls. They are buried at the township's cemetery.
After Władysław died in 1935, his brother Jozef helped his sister-in-law and nephew and nieces, Kazimierz, Helena, Anna, and Janina, relocate to Toruń. Kazimierz worked there as a mechanic and lived with his uncle at ul. Slowackiego, 51 (1936). He later moved to Bydgoszcz, where he lived at 7, Weyssenhoff Square. His mother, Marja Kiebuzinska, a widow, lived in Toruń at Stroma 7. Later, most of the remaining family moved to Bystrzyca Klodzka, near Wrocław. Helena Karasek (neé Kiebuzinski) had four children, one of whom immigrated to New York. John’s (Kazimierz's) sister Janina, who never married, immigrated to Canada with her two children. They moved to North Dakota. Mieczysław was detained by the NKVS in April 1940 trying to cross the Soviet Ukraine-Hungary border to return to his family in German-occupied Toruń. He was held in a prison in Stryi for three months and then sentenced on 24 June 1940 to five years hard labor in the gulag camp in Norillag. He died there. During the war, Janina resided in Yahilnytsya, near Ternopil, and Helena resided in Spas.
Mieczysław Kiebuzinski as a high-school student, 1939
Aleksy (Aleksander, Alexander, Oleksa or Oles) Kiebuzinski (15 Feb. 1886, Krowniki-Nov. 1966, Bronx, NY) was the son of Anton Kiebuzinski and Anna Zaluzna (likely she went by the name Anna Maria or Maria Anna). Aleksy arrived in Halifax, Philadelphia from Hamburg, Germany aboard the Graf Waldersee on 2 April 1913. He was living in Sielec, Austria at the time of his emigration. He registered for the World War I draft in Middlesex, Connecticut.
His wife, Katarzyna (Kateryna) Kiebuz (10 Feb. 1890-Jan. 1980, Bronx, NY), arrived in New York City from Trieste aboard the Kaiser Franz Josef I on 30 Aug. 1913 under the name Kataryna Kiebudzinska (née Jarosiewicz), along with their daughter Yulya (b. ca. Mar. 1912). She identified herself and her daughter as Ruthenian. Her occupation was housewife. She listed her closest relative from home as being her mother Magdalena Jarosiewicz living in Pikulice. Her final destination was to meet her husband in Massachusetts. Her last residence was Sielec, Austria.
Alexander and Katharine went by the name Kibuzinski in the United States. They had five children, the first born in Poland and the others in the United States: Julia (ca. 1912, Sielec-6 Dec. 1931, New York City), Wladyslaw (Walter) (6 Dec. 1913, Ludlow, MA-23 Jan. 2012, Sherman, CT), Stephen (21 Dec. 1915, Bondsville, MA-10 Feb. 2005, Marlborough, CT), Mary (20/21 Oct. 1917, Hartford, CT-24 May 2003, Bronx, NY), and Wanda (14 Oct. 1919, Cromwell, CT-?). Alexander first worked for the a textile mill (the Boston Duck Co.) in Bondsville, Massachusetts. When Alexander registered for the World War I draft in 1918, the family was living in Cromwell, Connecticut (not far from Glastonbury where other Kiebus relatives lived). Alexander worked there as a florist for Pierson's Greenhouses. The nursery was founded by Andrew N. Pierson of Sweden in the 1870s and was the largest rose growing enterprise in the country. By the 1930 U.S. Census, the family was living in New York City (East 11th Street, East Village). The census record indicates that the parents and oldest child were born in Poland and that Ukrainian was the language spoken at home prior to immigration. When Alexander applied for a U.S. Social Security number in 1936, the family was living at 248 Trinity Avenue, Bronx, NY. Alexander was employed as a tailor by Barney Pressman of the company Barney’s Inc., 111-115 7th Avenue, New York, New York, which was then a retailer of cut-rate men’s suits. Alexander’s sons changed their last name to Kirby. At the time of the 1940 U.S. Census Walter and Steve were working as mechanics for an aviation company, and Mary (who went by the surname Kay) was employed as a packer for a cosmetics manufacturing company. None of them had children of their own. This family is related to Kazimierz Johan Kiebuzinski. Alexander and Wladislaw (Kazimierz’s father) were brothers. Aleksy patented a grate for meat-smokers in 1919.
Alexander and Katharine are buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York.
Jozef Kiebus
(7 Mar. 1890 in Krowniki- ?). In the 1920s and 1930s he lived in
Torun, Poland. He appears in the Torun address directories of 1923 and
1932 as living at ul. Piastowska, 9. In 1923 he held the rank of
sergeant, and in 1932 that of a non-comissioned officer. By 1936 he had
moved to ul. Slowackiego, 51. Just before the Second World
War he was living with his mother in the village Spas south of
of Staryi Sambir, in Lviv oblast. He was elevated to the rank of
Field Lieutenant. During the war he was captured at Kampinow (near
Warsaw) and held as a POW in Stalag II A, which was located near
Neubrandenburg, Germany. He was interned there beginning 14 September
1939. From there he was transferred to Stalag XX-A in Torun (then
Thorn) on 28 July 1940, and then on 26 November 1940 to Stalag XI-A near
Altengrabow (close to Magdeburg) (Source: http://lwww.straty.pl).
He died in Germany after the war ended.
His wife was most likely Marta Wisniewska (30 Oct. 1898, Łosiny, Poland-
28 Apr. 1975, Eagle Pass, Maverick, Texas). She was the daughter of Jan Wisniewski and Maria Gromsky. During World War II, while Jozef was interned, she first lived at the Zdroj boarding house on Solankowa Street in Inowroclaw (1939 Bydgoszcz telephone directory), and was then deported to the Third Reich, probably as a forced laborer. When the war ended, she remained in Germany, before immigrating to the United States via Bremerhaven, Germany, aboard the General Stewart, to New York City, on 9 Nov. 1949. Her destination was Champaign, Illinois. She traveled to Portugal and returned to New York via Idlewild Airport on 18 Nov. 1955. She petitioned for naturalization on 20 May 1955 in New York, NY. At the time she was residing at 44 West 77t St., NY, NY.
Jozef and Marta had at least three children: a girl born between 27-30 December 1922, and twins, a boy and girl, born 27 August 1926 (see Slowo Pomorskie (6 Jan. 1923) and Tygodnik Torunski (11 Sep. 1926). One daughter, Regina (d. 19 Dec. 2009), married Eugeniusz de Georgel of Luck (Lutsk, Ukraine). They had one son. The son born to Jozef and Marta in 1926 was named Czeslaw. In 1955, the Czechoslovak Security Services entered him into their database of 'suspicious persons.' He was a citizen of Poland at that time (see: http://www.slobodnyvysielac.net/media/stb/k48.htm). Czeslaw died in Poland on 15 April 1986, and is buried in the cemetery in Bystrzyca Klodzka.
Maria, sister of Władysław, Aleksander, and Jozef, stayed on the family farm near Przemysl.
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Other Kiebuzy or Kiebuzinskis from Sielec include one Hrynko Kiebuz. He and his wife Maria had a son named Stefan. Stefan married Maria Paslavska (daughter of Ivan), also of Sielec. They had a son named Iosyf (b. 7 April 1904). At the time of his birth, the lived at 49 Sielec.
There is also a record for another Hrynko Kiebuz (b.1895, Sielec) who served in the Austrian Army during World War I as a member of the 8th field battalion of the 18th Line Infantry Regiment "Przemysl," which was part of the 89th Infantry Brigade, 45th Division, 10th Army Corps, under the command of Eduard Bezdiczka. He died, probably in battle, on 23 October 1915 (Verlustliste ausgegeben am 10./3. 1916).
The above family may have also had the following relative from Sielec: Iwan Kiebus (b. ca. 1877 in Austria). He arrived in New York City from Antwerp, Belgium aboard the Zeeland on 7 Feb. 1905. He was single and literate at the time. His nationality was identified as Russian. He listed his final destination as Philadelphia. His last residence on the ship manifest was declared Sielec, Austria. This may be the Jan Kiebuzinski (b. 15 Aug. 1879) who married Julia Smolan (b. 15 May 1886) on 21 November 1908 in Philadelphia at the St. Ladislaus Polish Roman Catholic parish, Nicetown. At the time of their marriage, Jan worked as a labourer and Julia as a housekeeper. They resided at 2049 Cayyga Street. They had at least two children: Victoria (b. 20 Dec. 1908, Philadelphia) and Laura Kiebus (16 June 1910, Philadelphia-d. Oct. 1982, Camden, New Jersey). Iwan (Jan or John) died tragically on 12 January 1912 when he was struck by a train at Wayne Junction Station where he worked. He is buried at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, his daughters were living in Philadelphia Ward 38 with their mother Julia, and their Austrian-born stepfather, Mike Hyk.
