My great, great uncle Andrei Kiebuzinski (1819-1893)

Andrei Kiebuzinski, below, is my great grandfather's uncle. He was the son of Oleksandr and Maria (née Dombrovska) Kiebuzinski. My great grandfather Iosyp likely lived with him after the disappearance and presumed death of his father.

Andreas (Andrei) Kiebuzinski (1820, Nehrybka - 31 Aug. 1893, Vereshchytsia (Wereszyca)) attended the Przemysl Gymnasium in 1833 and 1834, and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Seminary in Lviv (est. 1783) from 1842-1843. At the Seminary, he was disciplined once for playing checkers, and another time for being late for early morning prayers (Source: Studynskyi, Mykhailo. Lvivska dukhovna seminariia v chasakh Markiiana Shashkevycha, 1829-1843 (Lviv: NTSh, 1916), cxcvii, 338, 361). He was ordained a Ukrainian Catholic priest in 1844. In 1845, he was first assigned as an assistant priest to the parish of Mołodycz, Jarosław county. Beginning in spring 1846, he served as chaplain to the parish of St. John Chrysostom in Poliana, Shchyretskyi Deanery, and from spring 1849 as pastor to the Greek Catholic Church of the Nativity of the B.V.M. in Vereshchytsia, Horodok Deanery (located north of Horodok and west of Lviv), where he ministered for over forty years until his death in 1893. The parish numbered some 1200 members. (Source: Blazejowskyj, Dmytro. Historical Sematism of the Archeparchy of Lviv, 1832-1944 (Kyiv: KM Akademia, 2004)).

He married Victoria Radzykevych (Radzikiewicz)  (1823, Chotyniec-14 June 1853, Vereshchytsia) on 12 November 1844 in Zavadiv, Yavoriv district. She was the daughter of a Greek Catholic priest, Rev. Stefan Radzikiewicz, and Julia Lewicka. Her father was pastor for the parish of Zavadiv (Zawadow). Witnesses to the marriage included: Revs. Basil Kiczura (Chernyliava), Ivan Hankiewicz (Verbliany), and Ananias Maxymowicz (Nehrybka), as well as the landowner of Poruby, Felix Małachowski.

Andrei and Victoria had five children: Natalia (20 July 1845, Zavadiv - 7 June 1847, Poliana); Basil (Vasyl) (6 Feb. 1847, Poliana - 29 Sep. 1899, Przemysl); Malvina (27 Feb. 1849, Poliana - after 1915); Cecilia (20 Nov. 1850, Vereshchytsia - 12 Sep. 1927, Przemysl; married to Rev. Ivan Tsipanovskyi (Cipanowski) buried in the main cemetery 27B, 13, 1); and Victor (4 Sep. 1852 - 27 June 1853, Vereshchytsia). In Poliana the family resided at address no. 78, and in Vereshchytsia at address no. 1. Judging by the godparents to their children, Andrei and Victoria were close to Rev. Ivan Stefanowicz (Dobriany), Elizabeth Kisielewska (Krakow), Rev. Orest and Paulina Kiczura (Vyshenka mala, a.k.a. Malatyn), Rev. Teodor and Rosalia Krynicki (Vyshenka velyka), Rev. Petro and Barbara Blius (Blus) (Janiv, today Ivano-Frankove), among others. 

Malvina married a man named Josef Blus (probably the son of Petro and Barbara) sometime before September 1870, when she served as godmother to her younger sister's (Cecilia's) daughter's baptism. In November 1925, her sister Cecilia sought to determine Malvina's whereabouts, declaring her missing and presumed dead. The last Malvina was seen was in 1915, in the city of Włodawa, in eastern Poland on the Bug River, close to the present-day borders with Belarus and Ukraine, during the forced evacuation of the population to Russia (Obwieszczenia publiczne, Nr. 94 (25 Nov. 1925).

Andreas' only surviving son Bazyli / Basile Franciszek Kiebuzinski / Kiebusinsky completed his gymnasium studies in Lviv on 17 July 1865. He entered medical school in the year 1865/66, and received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Vienna on 21 Feb. 1871, and a specialization in surgery from the same institution on 12 July 1871. During his studies in Vienna, Basil lived at 16, Wahringerstrasse, in Vienna's 9th district (Source: Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für practische Heilkunde, v.18 (1872), p. 10; and Archiv der Universitat Wien). From 1875 to 1899 he practiced medicine in Przemysl. He worked for the Sluzba zdrowia (health service) there, and resided at no. 4, Plac na Bramie. In 1891, he was appointed acting head of the city hospital, though by 1892 and 1893 the position was listed as vacant. At some point he had a complaint with the governing council of Przemysl, which was rejected (Source: Erkenntnisse des K.k. Verwaltungsgerichtschofes, v.9, p. 211). Basil is mentioned in the Przemysl Memorial Book in the chapter about the old Jewish hospital in Przemysl of which he served as a consultant while director of the general hospital in Przemysl (Source:http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/przemysl/prz231.html).

Basil attended the 12th meeting of the International Congress of Doctors in Moscow in August 1897 (Source: Comptes-rendus du XII Congrès international de médecine, v.1. Moscow, 1900). For many years, 1879-1884, he served as a member of the Przemysl Dramatic Society (Source: Felczynski, Zygmunt. “Fredreum” i inne teatra przemyskie w latach 1696-1960. Krakow: Wyd-wo literackie., p. 334).

He died at age 52. (Source: Slownik lekarzy polskich XIX wieku, vol. 4 (Warszawa: Naukowe Semper, 1997), p. 209).

Dr. Basil Kiebuzinski, of 41, Przemysl, married Jadwiga (née Kieniewicz) Kiebuzinska (15 Oct. 1863, Pinsk - 2 May 1964, Otwock) on 19 June 1888 in Przemysl. Their marriage was childless. When her husband died eleven years later, she, a young widow, mourning his death, adopted her cousin's baby, who also soon died. Jadwiga spent the rest of her life to working with girls, working-class schoolchildren, poor orphans, and the sick. She also devoted her life to the service of the Roman Catholic Church and Poland. She lived in Krakow at ul. Wygoda 9 from at least 1913 to 1917 (see: Kalendarz Krakowski for the years 1913, 1914 and 1917), and in Warsaw from at least 1922 where she was associated with the St. Joseph's vocational school. She is buried at the Warsaw cemetery Powazkowski (Cmentarz Powazkowski w Warszawie: materialy inwentaryzacyjne, t.1 (Warsaw, 1980), 325).

Cecilia was married to o. Ivan Ciepanowski, a Greek-Cathlic priest (1843-9 Sep. 1889, Brodky; son of o. Ilia Ciepanowski and Rozalia Tekla Ostrowicz). He served the parishes Stradch (1870-1871), Poliana (1872-1879), and Brodky (1879-1889). Their children were:

• Maria (20 Sep. 1870, Stradch-?) was married twice: 1) Severyn Lewicki (d. 12. Dec. 1915) and 2) Myroslav Zderkovskyi (b. 22 Feb. 1872, Rozhirche-?)) 
• Ivan (1874, Rizdviany-25 June 1931, Kolomyia) was a highly distinguished physician. He completed secondary studies at the Academic Gymnasium in Lviv, and medical studies in Graz (1899). Afterwards, he furthered his training in Berlin and Dresden. He practiced medicine in Horodenka and Kolomyia. His wife Stefania and he had two daughters: Ivanna and Marta. Ivanna studied medicine in Vienna.
• Zenovia (4 Sep. 1876, Poliana-?) married Roman Hamchykevych (2 Sep. 1869, Leżajsk-?). They had two daughters: Iryna (16 July 1902, Przemysl-10 July 1941, Przemysl), married name Sozanska; and Ivanna, married named Filc.
• Julia Eustachia (30 May 1881, Brodky-23 Dec. 1959, Przemysl), married name Peters. She had a daughter named Ivanna (2 May 1917-8 Feb. 1979, Przemysl).
• Helena (21 July 1879-23 Nov. 1879, Brodky) 
• Basil (3 June 1889-5 Dec. 1889, Brodky) 

Rev. Andrei Kiebuzinski baptised most of his grandchildren. Zenovia and Eustachia attended the 1st State Teachers' Seminary in Przemyśl in the 1890s, following the death of their father. They were under the care of their uncle, Basil Kiebuzinski, and, together with their mother, resided with him at u. Franciszanska, 2.

Ivan Kiebuzinski (b. ca. 1823)

Ivan (Johann) Kiebuzinski is my great grandfather’s uncle. He was the son of Oleksandr and Maria (née Dombrovska) Kiebuzinski of Nehrybka. He studied at the Przemysl Gymnasium in 1837, then worked as a Ukrainian parish school-teacher for the Lviv Ukrainian Catholic Consistory, a cantor for the Greek-Catholic church, and farmer, first in Holyn (from 1846), and then in Tuzhyliv (Tuzylow) (Zahl der Schulbesuchenden 27) (from at least 1859 to 1874). The villages Holyn and Tuzhyliv are located southeast of Stryi in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. The school in Tuzhyliv was visited on average by 30 students, almost exclusively males. For his services, Ivan was compensated yearly by 105 guldens and 4 fathoms of wood. (Sources: Szematismus des Lehrpersonals der dem Lemberger gr. kth. Metropolitan-Conistorium unterstehenden Volksschulen (Lemberg: 1859-1864); Handbuch der Statthalterei-Gebietes in Galizieni (Lemberg: 1860-1864, 1866); "Tuzhyliv: vid istorii do sohodennia").

Ivan married Halyna (b. ca. 1832, née Kolej / Kolejow, daughter of Kataryna, a free property owner in Holyn) on 22 October 1846 in Holyn. Their witnesses included his older brother Andrei, at that time a priest in Poliana, and Joseph Rzepecki, a nobleman in Holyn. Ivan and Halyna resided first at 189 in Holyn and then at 127 in Tuzhyliv. They had the following children: Vitaly, Julianna (Julia), Iosyf, Anna, Anna, Mykhailo, and Vasyl:

Vitaly Kiebuzinski (b. 15 July 1849, Holyn). He, together with his wife Halyna, were forced to hold an estate sale and sell off their properties located on lots 178 and 179 in Tuzhyliv in April 1894 to make up for debt owed to a bank in Lviv (Gazeta Lwowska (1 Mar. 1894)). By October 1894, the District Court in Kalush declared the whereabouts of Halyna (Helena) Kiebuzinska unknown, and she was stripped of her rights (Gazeta Lwowska (4 Apr. 1895)).

Julianna (Julia) (b. 18 Jan. 1852, Holyn). She married Mykola Senkowski (son of Stefan and Anastasia Baran of Perekosy, a village north of Kalush). Her husband was probably connected with the saline in nearby Bania. The couple had at least six children, all born in Stryi: Fedir (b. 20 March 1880), Alexiy (Oles) (b. 26 March 1883), Cyril (Kyrylo) (b. 1 April 1886), Joanna (Ivanna) (b. 6 July 1889-d. 16 June 1898), Maria (b. 29 April 1896), and Ivan Iosyf (b. 17 June 1900-d. 27 June 1903).

Johann Kiebuzinski (1892-?)

Iosyf (b. 22 July 1854, Holyn) married Rosalia (b. 23 Sep. 1862, Stryi-d. 29 March 1923, Stryi; the illegitimate daughter of Maryna (Rosalia) Iwanowska (variant name Barbara Iwanowicz of Bilche)). He worked as a laborer and porter for a wood manufacturing factory in Stryi (1892-1895), and also as a constable and civil servant there (1887-1888 and 1896-1904), likely associated with transport. He and Rosalia had the following children:

Halyna (b. 30 May 1887, Stryi); Volodymyr (b. 24 Dec. 1888, Stryi-d. 19 May 1929, Stryi); Vasyl Kiebuzinski (b. 23 Jan. 1891, Stryi, house no. 180); Ivan (b. 22 Dec. 1892, Stryi, house no. 177); Stefan (b. 8 Feb. 1895, Stryi-d. 11 Apr. 1910); Oleksandr (b. 23 May 1897, Stryi, house no. 140, Rynok Square); Maria (b. 29 Apr. 1899, house no. 237, Lwiwska St.-d. 27 Aug. 1899 in Stryi); the twins Mykola (b. 3 Oct. 1900, house no. 100a, Panska St.-1 Sep. 1901 in Stryi) and Mykhailo (b. 3 Oct. 1900-d. 23 May 1902 in Stryi); and Maria (b. 21 May 1904-d. 4 Sep. 1919 in Stryi).

Halyna married Illia (Elias) Zwarycz, a local bricklayer, (b. 18 July 1887, son of Anton and Anastasia Hutnikiewycz) on 19 February 1911 in Stryi. Witnesses to their marriage were Demetrius Zwarycz and Vasyl (Basil) Kiebuzinski (presumably brothers of the bride and groom). They had two known children: Stepan (Stephan) (b. ca. Dec. 1913-d. 20 March 1915, Stryi) and Ievstakhii (Ostap, Eustace) (b. 15 Oct. 1919, Stryi-?). The family resided at 180 p. Targowica.

The oldest son, Volodymyr (Wladimir), was a locksmith. He married Antonina Erlich (Antonie Ehrlich) (b. 21 Nov. 1865, Miechocin, Tarnobrzeg county-24 March 1924, Stryi) in the Greek Catholic Church of St. Barbara in Vienna on 9 December 1917. The groom was 28 and the bride was 52. She was born in the Roman-Catholic parish of Miechocin in Tarnobrzeg to Johann Erlich (Ehrlich) and Viktoria Peters. Her occupation was circus owner. She had previously been married to Jan Pokrowski (son of Alexander and Maria Rymanowa), an acrobat. Antonina and Jan had at least one daughter: Helena Pokrowska (b. 21 May 1893, Stryi-?).

Their second son, Ivan (Johann), also worked as a locksmith in Stryi. Ivan was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic, spoke some German, and attended a Polish school. He spoke Polish and Ukrainian at home. His address was house number 180 in Stryi. Ivan married Stefanie Spiess on 4 February 1922 in Bolekhiv (a town just south of Stryi in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast) in the Roman Catholic Church. His wife (b. 24 Dec. 1897) was from Wełdzirz (present-day Shevchenkove). Her parents were Ludwig (b. in Bolekhiv) and Julie Kudelowicz (b. in Drohobych). They lived at house number 145 in Bolekhiv. Stefanie was German on her father’s side, and Polish on her mother’s side. She spoke some German, and was fluent in Ukrainian. She was unschooled. At the time of Ivan’s and Stefanie’s German naturalization application, January 1940, they were living in Stryi, and planning on moving to Pabianice (just southwest of Łódź). They were classed in Category III (persons of German descent who had become partly “Polonised,” e.g. through marrying a Polish partner or through working relationships). Ivan was working as a locksmith in Zgorzelec (Görlitz) by 1946. 

Iosyf's youngest surviving son, Oleksandr, may be the same Oleksandr Kebuz who taught at the Piotr Skarga Polish State Gymnasium in Rohatyn during the 1930s and 1940s. He attended the gymnasium in Stryi in 1910 and 1913. According to the series Rohatynska zemlia (New York, 1989-1996), he taught Latin there (v.1, p. 346), and in late June 1941 was arrested by NKVD agents in advance of the German occupation of the city. However, he was able to escape from the "clutches" of the NKVD (v.2, p. 544).

Anna (b. ca. Apr. 1857-d. 20 Jan. 1859, Tuzhyliv).

Anna (b. 20 May 1860, Tuzhyliv).

Mykhailo Kiebuzinski (b. 21 Dec. 1862, Tuzhyliv). A Mykhailo Kiebuzinski served as a godfather to Ivan Czomko (son of Vasyl Czomko and Kateryna Jandoszak) who was born on 11 June 1905. The 1905 baptismal register lists Mykhailo's occupation as a railroad worker.

Vasyl Kiebuzinski (b. 26 May 1865, Tuzhyliv-d. 13 July 1934, Ivano-Frankivsk) was a railway engineer; and, from circa 1921, former head of the Prosvita Society in Knihynyn (a suburb of Stanyslaviv or, now, Ivano-Frankivsk). He was involved in the workers' movement, and participated in many Ukrainian societies. Besides Prosvita, Vasyl was assistant director of the Ukrainian orphanage, and a member of the cooperative "Buduchnist" (1922-1926) and the local church's building committee. He married a woman named Maria. They were living in or near Knihynyn by 1902, as both served as godparents to children born there (Ivan Petrowicz (b. 1902) and a cousin, Vasyl Kolejiw (b. 1907)). Their home in his later years was located at 5, ul. Szaszkiewicza. Vasyl's funeral in 1934 was presided over by Rev. Medvetskyi, and he was eulogized by Dr. Iurii Olesnytskyi. Vasyl was buried in the city cemetery of Ivano-Frankivsk, but his grave no longer exists (see: Dilo (19 July 1934), and Karas, Hanna et al. Ivano-Frankivsk: entsyklopedychnyi slovnyk (Ivano-Frankivsk: Nova Zoria, 2010), p. 217).