Mostyska district (Ukraine)

In 1906, the farmer Maksym Kebuz of Mostyska, Ukraine, along with several other farmers was forced by police to stop work in his field and to work the fields of the local manor (Stenographische protokolle uber die Sitzungen. Austria. Reichstat, 17.42, p. 38813).

In Kulmatychi (Kulmatycze), Sudova Vyshnia district, there lived at house no. 22 in the 1820s a Vasyl Kiebus (ca. 1771-30 Jan. 1845) and his wife Halyna (ca. 1775-12 Dec. 1840). Vasyl had an adopted daughter named Magdalena who married Ivan Malczyszyn.

Vasyl may have had a brother named Iakiv Kiebus (ca. 1775-25 Aug. 1846). Iakiv was married to Kateryna Biłas, daughter of Ivan. They were farmers and resided at house no. 32. Their children include:

Carol Kiebus (1814-) served in the 10th Infantry Regiment in Przemysl.

Gaspar Kiebus (1816-) married Chrystyna Sobków or Stefanów (1818-5 Oct. 1881), daughter of Iakiv and Paraska Hrynyszyn of nearby Dmytrovychi, on 18 November 1838 in Kulmatychi. They resided at house no. 36. They had the following children: Franz (?); Iosyf (1843-) and Anna (6 Aug. 1849-):

Franz Kiebus married Rosalia Bardyn, daughter of Ilia and Anna Chudy. He, too, was associated with house no. 36. They had a son named Mykola (22 May 1882-).

Iosyf Kiebus married Kateryna Bardyn, daughter of Andre and Maria Koszelik, on 31 October 1869 in Kulmatychi. Mykhailo Kuczynski and Anton Kiebus served as their witnesses. Iosyf served as a foot soldier in the 10th infantry regiment based in Przemyśl. Iosyf’s and Kateryna’s children include, associated with house no. 36: Anna (30 Nov. 1870-1 Apr. 1888); Maria (30 Dec. 1872-15 Oct. 1874); Rosalia (1 Sep. 1877-); Maria (11 Aug. 1879-); Kateryna (5 Apr. 1882); and Chrystyna (4 Aug. 1886).

Ivan Kiebus (1825-) married Maria Bardyn (1827-), daughter of Pylyp and Anna Fedeczko, on 12 November 1848 in Kulmatychi. They resided at house no. 32. They had the following daughters: Kateryna (31 Jan. 1849-) and Ahapia (1858-). Kateryna married Franz Chudy on 4 September 1870. Ahapia married Valentyn Chudy (1852-), son of Ivan and Kateryna Biłas, on 29 October 1876. They resided at house no. 12. Ahapia’s and Valentyn’s children were Maria (27 Aug. 1877-2 Sep. 1877); Kateryna (21 Sep. 1879-); Anna (3 May 1881-); Efrosina (10 Jan. 1889-8 Sep. 1890); and Pelahia (20 Oct. 1891-)

Gaspar and Chrystyna probably had another son named Anton Kiebus. Anton was married to Kateryna Chudy, Anton was associated with house no. 19. Anton’s and Kateryna’s had a son named Ivan (1842-):

Ivan Kiebus married Tatianna Bardyn, daughter of Ivan and Anna Kuszelik, on 29 October 1871 in Kulmatychi. Ivan served in the military. Ivan’s and Tatianna’s children, associated with house no. 19, include: Mykola (1873-); Maria (14 Oct. 1875-1 July 1877); Maria (17 Apr. 1878-); Anna (1 Jan. 1881-); stillbirth (24 Aug. 1886); Kateryna (12 Jan. 1889-9 Mar. 1892); and Eva (22 July 1891-22 Apr. 1893). Mykola married Rosalia Kotko (1879-), daughter of Oleksandr and Rosalia Turków, on 7 November 1898 in Kulmatychi. Mykola’s and Rosalia’s children include: Anna (15 Oct. 1899-27 Oct. 1899) and Kateryna (15 Apr. 1901-). Maria married Mykola Marków (1877-), son of Oleksandr and Anna Biłas, on 16 May 1898 in Kulmatychi. Maria’s and Mykola’s son is Hryhorii (24 Mar. 1900-).

Villagers also from Kulmatychi (Kulmatycze) in Sudova Vyshnia district (near Mostyska), among them Mykhailo (Michal) and Katarzyna (Kateryna) Kiebus (nee Puchnaty), raised money in 1911 towards the establishment of a local Prosvita Reading Room. The building was erected in 1912. There was also one Franz Kiebus (b. 1883) of Kulmatychi who served in the 89th Infantry Regiment, 10th Corps, and was wounded in 1917.

Nearby, in the village of Volostkiv (Wolowstkow) there is buried a Rozalia I. Kiebus (1880-1945) (Inscriptiones funebres in confinio Poloniae et Ucrainae repertae, v.2 (Rzeszow: Wyd-wo U-tu Rzeszowskiego, 2004), 218)).

Further east, in the village of Hankovychi (Hankowice), there lived at house no. 36 the family of Cyprian and Maria Kiebuz. Their son Iakiv Kiebuz (1819) married 1) Maria Antoczko (1825-12 Dec. 1870), daughter of Stefan and Anna) on 7 February 1847; 2) the widow Tatianna Koczmarz (1836, daughter of Stefan and Maria Gremian) on 19 November 1876. Iakiv and Maria's children were: Maria (27 Aug. 1855); Mathei (13 Nov. 1857); Oles (24 March 1861-10 April 1862); Oles (4 April 1863); Kateryna (17 July 1866-9 January 1874); Fevronia (3 July 1870). Mathei Kiebuz married Maria Stecko (1863, daughter of Vasyl and Anna) on 20 November 1887.

Also from Hankovychi were two servicemen. Mykhailo (Michael) Kiebus was an infantryman with the Polish-Ruthenian Galician Infantry Regiment ("Gustav V. Konig der Schweden der Goten u. Wenden") Nr. 10 detached to Przemysl. He was wounded--shot in the right arm--in fall 1914--and convalesced at the Brothers of Mercy Hospital on Herrrenstrasse in Linz, Austria (Nachrichten uber Verwundete und Kranke ausgegeben am 26.10.1914). Ivan (Johann) Kebus (b. 1892) was an infantryman in the Infantry Regiment ("Freiherr von Albori") Nr. 89 (12th battalion) detached to Jaroslaw. He died sometime between 1-3 August 1915.