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.

Zasanie

Farmers Tymofei Kiebus and Efrosina Standyk of Storonevychi, near Drozdovychi (Mostyska district), had three daughters:

Halyna (b. 27 May 1862) marries laborer Andrei Hawrys (b. 31 Aug. 1856), son of Theodor and Anna Cicimirska, on 24 February in 1889 in Przemysl. Their marriage was officiated by Rev. Mykhailo Mryts. The couple's address was listed as 127 Zasanie.

 

Anastasia (b. 30 Dec. 1864) marries Mykola Kostyra (b. 20 May 1864), son of Vasyl and Xenia Pohoralska, on 14 October 1894 in Przemysl.

 

Kateryna (b. Feb. 1873) marries Lavrentii Liasniak (b. 13 Aug. 1863, Rzeszow), a widower, on 5 March 1905 in Przemysl.

 

A couple with the last name Kiebuz is buried in the Zasanie neighborhood of Przemysl: Stanislaw (d. 20 June 1996) and Joanna (nee Mazurkiewicz) (d. 12 Oct. 1977). Their plot is located in quarter 27, row 9, no. 4.

Wilcze (near Przemysl)

From the Ukrainian Catholic sacramental registers for the Przemysl Cathedral and the parish of Wilcze we learn that there were a number of Kiebuz / Kiebuzinskis (names appear interchangeably) living in this suburban community.

It is possible that the oldest of this line, Ivan Kiebuz vel Kiebuzinski, was my great-great-great grandfather's, Oleksandr's, brother, and that their father was Semen who died in Przemysl in 1817.

Farmer Ivan Kiebuz vel Kiebuzinski (b. ca. 1780s to Semen Kiebuz) resided first at 32, and then at 6 Wilcze. He studied at the Przemysl Gymnasium from 1801 to 1806. He married 1) Maria Lohyn (b. ca. 1789 to Ivan-16 July 1831) on 26 November 1804. He and his wife Maria (Anna) had the following children: 

 

Anna (ca. July 1806-26 Aug. 1806)  

 

Anna (14 Aug. 1807-26 Aug. 1807) 

 

Maria (b. 29 July 1808) married farmer Ivan Kiebuz (b. ca. 1804) of Sielec, son of Andrei Kiebuz, on 27 October 1822. The address associated with their marriage is 6 Wilcze. See Sielec.

 

Anna (22 Sept. 1811-2 Nov. 1835) married Ivan Jarosiewicz (b. 1815), son of farmers from Kulasze named Stefan and Marianna Baliczkowa, on 12 August 1832. Their address at marriage was entered as 6 Wilcze. When their son, Ihnatii, was born (2 Dec. 1833-15 Jan. 1835), they resided at house no. 55. Ihnatii's godparents were: Ihnatii Jarosiewicz, a farmer in Przekopana; and Maria, wife of Oleksander Kiebuzinski of Nehrybka (possibly my great, great, great grandmother).

 

Vasyl (3 April 1814-14 Oct. 1857 (of consumption at 25 Wilcze)) married Marianna Walewska (b. 26 Dec. 1817, Panko and Maria Tsokh) circa February-March 1837.

 

Kateryna (b. 24 April 1818) married Andrei Kuzmicz (b. 19 Oct. 1817) of Sielec, the son of Vasyl and Paraskeva Jaromiszowska, on 22 November 1835. Their address is listed as 4 Wilcze. 

 

Halia 

 

Eva (b. 15 Feb. 1822) married Ivan Powazniak (b. ca. 1819, Ilia and Eva). They had a daughter named Kateryna (b. 6 Oct. 1843), and, at the time of her birth, the family was living at 29, Wilcze. When their son Petro was born (29 Jan. 1848), they had moved to 6 Wilcze.  

 

Stefan (6 April 1825-20 Oct. 1825) 

 

Hryc (Hryhorii) (1 Feb. 1827-16 June 1835)

Maria died on 16 July 1831 of cholera at age 41. At the time of her death the family was living at 6 Wilcze. Ivan, now 56, took a second wife, 2) Maria (b. ca. 1796/1803-26 February 1856). She was the daughter of Ivan and Maria Fedun, and a widow to the late Andrei Chomicki. They married on 2 September 1832, and resided at 5-6 Wilcze. Their children were:

Pelahia (17 Oct. 1833-29 March 1900) married 1) Ivan Lohyn (b. 1827). They had one son: 

Mykola (b. 26 Feb. 1853) married 1) Maria Bilyk (b. 8 Nov. 1856, Dmytro and Anastasia Mykyta of Przekopana) in 1875. 

After her husband's death, Pelahia wed 2) Ivan Tsok (b. ca. 1827), the son of farmers Hryhorii Tsok and Anna  Jarosiewicz, on 1 October 1854. They had at least six daughters and three sons, all baptized at the Ukrainian Cathedral. Their address was 27/32 Wilcze. When Pelahia passed away at age 68, she lived at 2 Wilcze. Pelahia's son Ivan's and daughters'  address was listed as 6 Wilcze at the time of their marriages:

Ivan (13 June 1856-22 Aug. 1920) marries Kateryna Volynets (Wolyniec)) of 133, Blonie, on 13 February 1881.

 

Rosalia (15 Sep. 1860-24 Sep. 1860) 

 

Pelahia (b. 18 Apr. 1863) 

 

Kateryna (b. 14 July 1865) marries Andrei Makar (b. 4 Dec. 1855, Ivan and Paraska Kihaczynska of Buszkowice) on 3 October 1880 

 

Anna (b. 4 Nov. 1867) married 1) Danylo Glus on 15 Nov. 1885 (d. 1888), and 2) Teodor Pouch on 5 Feb. 1893 

 

Vasyl (b. 7 July 1870-d. 1870) 

 

Maria (19 June 1871-9 April 1872) 

 

Hryhorii (b./d. 23 Feb. 1873) 

 

Anastasia (23 May 1875-24 May 1875)

Mykola (21 May 1836-21 Jan. 1913 in Przemysl (see: Peremyskyi visnyk, v.7, no. 3 (31 Jan. 1913)), married 1) Maria Kozakiewicz (ca. 1835/1837-18 Nov. 1869), daughter of Roman and Anna Sikora, on 17 October 1852. One of their witnesses was Ivan Lohyn. The couple resided at 2 Wilcze.  Their children included: Pelahia (3 Nov. 1856-7 Dec. 1856), Anna (13 Jan. 1858-20 July 1858), and Anna (11 Feb. 1860-26 Feb. 1860). The second Anna's baptism took place at the Ukrainian Cathedral. Mykola Kiebuzinski was a military veteran, home owner, and ran for the socialist party in the municipal elections for Przemysl, representing the Lviv District, in 1897 (Kuryer Przemyski 25 Feb. 1897). When his son Mykhailo was attending the Juliusz Slowacki Gymnasium in Przemysl, Mykola was listed as a retired railway official with the Prince Albrecht Railway, which in 1873 connected Stryi-Dolyna-Stanyslaviv. He may have also been involved in the railway development through the Lupkow Pass in 1872.

After the death of his first wife, Mykola remarried. His second wife was 2) Rosalia (née Binicka; 1 Feb. 1846, Stryi-25 May 1902 (of pneumonia), daughter of Vasyl Binicki and Marianna Serednicka Tomaszewska of Blonie). They were married on 21 January 1870 by Bishop Joseph Sembratovych, and resided at 31-33 ul. Sienna (today ul. Gen. Zygmunta Zielinskiego). The family maintained close ties with the city of Stryi, and lived there in the mid-1880s.

Mykola's and Rosalia's children were:

Ivan Kiebuzinski (26 Feb. 1871, Przemysl-16 Apr. 1906) is presently buried in Przemysl city cemetery. At the time of his death, of heart trouble, he was a seminarian in the Ukrainian Catholic Church. His last address was 33 ul. Sienna, Lwowskie district. 

The 1877/1878 directory of the Institute for the Deaf in Lviv, lists among its first year students one Jan Kiebuzinski. This student may be the  same person buried in the Przemysl city cemetery. (See: Sprawozdanie o stanie gal. zakladu gluchoniemych za rok 1877/78 (Lwow, 1878), p. 7).

Mykhailo (Michal) Kiebuzinski (10 Nov. 1872-5 Jan. 1939) attended the Higher Real gymnasium in Stryi (1884/85), and the Polish gymnasium in Przemysl (from 1887), from which he graduated in 1893. He lived with his father at ul. Lwowska, nr. 420.  Afterwards he studied law. He then worked for postal-telegraph offices in Lviv (1897), Przemysl (1898-1899), Jaroslaw (1900-1902), and again in Przemysl (1903-1914). He married the widow Konstantyna Demczak Misinkiewicz (b. 22 March 1870; the late Ignacy Misinkiewicz, a carpenter (d. 30 Jan. 1913)) in Przemsyl on 9 September 1914. Mykhailo served as executive member of the Society for Merchants and Commerce in Przemysl (Source: Peremyskyi vistnyk v.4, no. 11 (25 Feb. 1910). He donated funds towards the establishment of a private Ukrainian school to be named after Markiian Shashkevych (Peremyskyi vistnyk v.5, no. 6 (11 Aug. 1911). During World War I, Mykhailo’s political orientation was conservative, and he aligned himself with the pro-monarchist Hetmanite movement.  He was arrested by Polish authorities in Przemysl in 1918 (Source: Reprint of article “Visti z kraiu-Peremyshl” in Holos z-nad Buhu, no. 1 (1 Mr. 2010)), following the seizure of the city by Ukrainian forces in early November, during which Kiebuzinski was charged with overseeing the city's postal and telegraph bureau. He was interned as a prisoner of war at Dombie from 1918 to 1919, along with some 6,000 to 12,000 other Ukrainians.  At the time he was a city controller (or accountant), and identified as a well-known Ukrainian patriot (Source: The Bloody Book: Returns Concerning the Invasion of the Poles into the Ukrainian Territory of East-Galicia, in 1918/19, vol.1, p. 50). After the war and revolutionary period, he returned to work for the postal and telegraph service, and was stationed in Bochnia (located between Krakow and Tarnow) in 1923, before being transferred back to Przemysl (Source: Dziennik Urzedowy Ministerstwa Poczt i Telegrafow, 1923, p. 551). Mykhailo became a member of the Ukrainian National Democratic Society (UNDO), and took part in the city’s district council meeting of 1932. He ran unsuccessfully for municipal elections (District III) held in Przemysl in May 1934 (Ukrainskyi beskyd, 34 May 1934). Mykhailo was a member of the Society of the Ukrainian Peoples' Home, and served as assistant director of its executive from 1935 until circa 1938 (Peremyshl i peremyska zemlia protiahom vikiv z instytutsii. Peremyshl-Lviv, 2003). His obituary noted that he had been a member of many other local and regional Ukrainian societies, among them a number of local savings and loan associations. and had served on the board of the Society of the Ukrainian Girls' Institute. He was credited with founding the Prosvita society branch in Błonie, a neighborhood of greater Przemysl, to which he donated property. (Nadsianska zemlia 2 (4) (1939). 

Iosyp (Osyp or Jozef) Kiebuzinski (27 Dec. 1873, Przemysl-12 Sep. 1929, Stryi; godparents: Ivan Tsok and Kateryna Kiebuzinska) attended the Ukrainian section of the Polish gymnasium in Przemysl from 1891 to 1893, from which developed a separate Ukrainian gymnasium soon after. He completed Przemysl Ukrainian State Gymnasium only in 1897. He began teaching at the Stryi gymnasium in 1905, followed by assignments at the Arcyksiezniczki Elzbiety Gymnasium in Sambir (1906-1909), the gymnasium in Sokil (1909) and at the Polish Gymnasium in Ternopil (1910-1913). In Sambir he taught history, and the Latin, German, and Ukrainian languages; while in Ternopil he was responsible for history and geography, and the German and Ukrainian languages. Iosyp returned to Stryi in the 1913/1914 school year, teaching history and geography, and also served as the director of the Shevchenko Ukrainian Bursa, a dormitory home for out-of-town students. 

Iosyp Kiebuzinski was a refugee in Vienna during the first World War (he lived at Theresianumgasse 1.10.), and taught privately there from 1914 to 1918. After the war, he returned to teaching at the Stryi State Gymnasium.

Iosyp Kebuzinskyi (2nd row: center),

director of the Ukrainian branch of the Stryi State Gymnasium (June 1921)

In a memoir of a Stryi Gymansium student, the author mentions how Prof. Kebuzynskyi’s name characterized the man himself: “he would come to class with various colored shoes, and mis-buttoned jackets” (Source:Stryishchyna: istorychno-memuarnyi zbirnyk, vol.2 (Niu Iork: Komitet Stryishchyny, 1990), p. 471). Despite this unfavorable description, when Iosyp died, at age 56, his funeral, held on 14 September 1929, was attended by all the teachers and students of the school, as well as by representatives from other academic institutions. He was memorialized the following day at two masses held at the Roman and Greek Catholic churches (Source: Sprawozdanie dyrekcji Panstwowego gimnazjumi im. Marszalka Jozefa Pilsudskiego w Stryju za rok szkolny 1928/29).

Volodymyr (Vladimir or Wlodizmierz) Kiebuzinski (b. 29 July 1875; godparents: Iosyf Musial and Kateryna (wife of Semen) Kiebuzinska) from Przemysl settled in Ternopil with his new bride, Rosalia (née Sawirska, daughter of Thomas and Catherine (née Kot), b. 19 Oct. 1885 in Przemysl). They had wed in their home city, Przemysl, on 20 February 1906. They moved in to no. 5, Copernicus place. By trade, Volodymyr was a tile manufacturer. According  to Galician, Polish and Danzig business directories from about 1913 to 1937, Volodymyr worked as a tile manufacturer in Ternopil, at first at ul. Ostrogskiego, 24 (1913), and then at ul. Walowa, 3 and 4 (1926-1937, the street was renamed ul. Brucknera). In 1920 he contributed money (350 Polish marks) to support local Ukrainian widows and orphans of veterans of World War I (Source: Svoboda (5 Feb. 1921)). He moved to Kutno (north of Łódź) just before the Second World War and was listed in a 1941 directory as working there as a potter. He and his wife had at least three children: 

Stefania Kiebuzinska (b. 8 Jan. 1907 in Ternopil) was a student at the Ukrainian Gymnasium in Ternopil from 1922 to 1927. She attended grades 3 through 7 there (Source: Iuvileina knyha Ukrainskoi himnazii v Ternopoli, 1898-1998, za red. Stepana Iaremy. Ternopil, 1998, p. 525). Her godparents were Ernest Büttner and Maria Kiebuzinska.  

Mykhailo Kiebuzinski (b. 18 Oct. 1908 in Ternopil) was a student at the Ukrainian Gymnasium in Ternopil from 1920 to 1926. He attended grades 3 thorugh 8 there, and was a graduate of the school (Source: Iuvileina knyha Ukrainskoi himnazii v Ternopoli, 1898-1998, za red. Stepana Iaremy. Ternopil, 1998, p. 512). He married Irena Mariia  Abrysovska (Abrisowska) (b. 27 Aug. 1918 in Lviv; her mother Maria b. 26 April 1889 in Stavchany). Irena studied at the "Ridna shkola" Ukrainian Gymnasium for Girls in Lviv from 1932 to 1937. For her political activities, she faced repressions during the Second World War (Source: Pryvatna divocha gimnaziia "Ridnoi shkoly" Ukrainskoho pedahohichnoho tovarystva imeni Illi ta Ivanny Kokorudziv u Lvovi (Drohobych: Vidrodzhennia, 1997), p. 272). Mykhailo, Irena, and their three children, immigrated to Argentina. Prior, they were living as displaced persons in Austria, probably near the town of Hehenemes, and then in Fribourg. They arrived aboard the ship "Groix" in Buenos Aires by way of Le Havre on 7 December 1948. Mykhailo by profession was an engineer.They settled in the neighborhood of Longchamps in Buenos Aires.

Ivan Kiebuzinski, a Ukrainian and likely the son of Volodymyr, was a manufacturer and merchant of tile stoves in Ternopil during the 1930s (Source: Konrad, Stepan, ed. Shliakhamy zolotoho Podillia (Philadelphia, 1960), v.1, p. 96, v.3, p. 282).

Maria was born on 8 January 1878 in Muszyna (house no. 113), in the parish of Powroźnik near Nowy Sacz. Her godparents at the time of baptism were Petrus Lombard, a landowner in Majdan near Nowy Sacz, and Zynovia Karpiak (wife of T. Karpiak) of Roztoka Wielka. She taught primary school in Torki (1900-1901), Butsiv (Buców) (1902), Chyrzyna (1905-1906), and in Hureczko (1907-1912). She received her certificate to teach in Polish and Ukrainian in 1902 in Przemysl. Maria married Joseph Ilnicki (born 19 March 1880 to Joseph and Francisca Smolska) on 29 September 1910 at the Greek-Catholic Church of the Transfiguration in Lviv. At the time, Ilnicki was a gymnasium teacher in Sieniawa, Jaroslaw district. Maria died 4 May 1942, and is buried in Poznań, cm. par. Bożego Ciała (Bluszczowa).

Mykola (Mikolaj) was born on 25 October 1882, and baptised at the Roman Catholic parish of St. Malgorzata in Nowy Sącz on 23 November. He died on 22 May 1883.

Stefan was born on 1 April 1885 in Stryi (house no. 83), and died on 28 July 1893 at age 8 of tuberculosis in Przemysl. At the time of his death, the family was living at 420 Blonie (same as 31-33 ul. Sienna). 

Semen (b. 10 April 1839) married Kateryna Kulpak (b. ca. 1848), the daughter of Ihnatii Kulpak and Maria Hurska, on 9 December 1867. They resided at 6 Wilcze. Semen Kiebuz died on 23 November 1902 at age 65 of pulmonary tuberculosis. At the time of his death he resided at 68 ul. Polna, Wilcza. He and his descendants owned lots at 64, 66, 68, 70, 74, 76, and 78 along ul. Polna (today ul. Wladyslawa Reymonta). Semen served as an officer in the Gustav V. König von Schweden, der Goten und Wenden Nr. 10 Infantry Regiment. The regiment was part of the 24th Infantry Division of the 10th Army Corps garrisoned in Przemysl.

Semen and Kateryna had a daughter named Maria (b. 23 March 1868). She married Semen / Szymon Vorobel (Worobel) (7 May 1865, Wilcze-23 November 1926, Krakow) on 4 November 1890 in Przemysl. Worobel was the son of Theodor and Maria (née Martyniak) of Blonie. He worked for the postal-telegraph service from 1891 until his death, first at Zywiec and then in Krakow. Their daughter Helena Worobel was born in 1891, in Zywiec, and baptized at St. Norbert Greek-Catholic Church in Krakow.

Ivan may have had a cousin named Anton. Anton and his wife Paraskeva had two sons: Maksym Kiebuz (b. ca. 1829 in Bratkowice, near Rzeszow-5 July 1896, Przemysl) and Pavlo Kiebuz (b. 19 Jan. 1841):

Maksym married Anna Spotowicz in 1862. He worked as a laborer in Grabownicza Starzenska. Maksym committed suicide on 5 July 1896 at age 67. At the time, he was residing at 30 ul. Sienna. Maksym may have sometimes been called, interchangeably, Vasyl, and taken a second wife by the name of Anna Malecka (daughter of Semen Malecki and Tekla). Maksym's children include:

 

Maria (b. 28 Nov. 1866) marries Stanislaus Radecki (b. 13 May 1860, Borek), a Roman Catholic, on 5 June 1887 in Przemysl. One of their witnesses was Pavlo Kiebuz. Their address was 186. 

 

twins Anna (21 Dec. 1869-d. 12 Nov. 1872) and Rosalia (21 Dec. 1869-9 Jan. 1870)  

 

Ahafiia (b. 16 Feb. 1873) marries Johann Oetzl / Petrzl (b. 6 Jan. 1868) in October 1892, a Roman Catholic bricklayer from Moravia and son of Johann Petrzl and Catharine Dolezal. They had a son: Rudolph Stanislaus (6 April 1900-15 April 1931), who married on 7 July 1925.

 

Ivan (10 June 1876-23 June 1879)  

 

Ihnatii (Ignacy / Ignatius) (b. 22 Jan. 1880-d. 22 Oct. 1921, Przemysl, son of Maksym and Anna Malecka,) marries Sofia Oleszko (12 Dec. 1879 or 1881-4 April 1930, daughter of Theodor and Anna Holubowska), of the Roman Catholic rite, on 24 February 1903 in Przemysl. Ihnatii worked in the concrete industry. His children were baptised as Roman Catholics in the parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist:  Mieczyslaw Kiebuz (30 Dec. 1899-26 Feb. 1920); Stanislaw Ludwik ( 5 Aug. 1904-?); Emilia (26 April 1907-?); Josepha (10 Mar. 1909-11 Mar. 1909); Casimir (5 Mar. 1910-17 Aug. 1910); Boleslaus (11 Feb. 1913-3 June 1913); and Maria (10 Apr. 1915-6 July 1915). They resided respectively at ul. Gleboka, 3, ul. Krownicka, 3, and ul. Mickieiwicza, 84. Ignacy, Sofia, and Mieczyslaw are buried in the same plot in the main cemetery in Przemysl (quarter 27B, Row 11, no. 13).

 

Another daughter was born to Maksym and Anna by the name of Ivanna. She had some connection to Sudova Vyshnia. Her husband's name was Ivan [Petselskyi]

Pavlo married Kateryna Czerpa (Martin and Lucia Stojakowska). They were both affiliated with the Roman-Catholic church in Zasanie. Their children:

Maria (ca. 1889-24 Jan. 1891, Zasanie)

 

Sophia (b. 1 Feb. 1890-). She got married on 26 November 1918 in Przemysl.

 

Anton (b. 22 Jan. 1892) 

 

Boratychi

House No. 26:

Pavlo Gebus (b. ca. 1710-d. 18 Feb. 1786).

House No. 27:

Mykola Kiebus (b. ca. 1733-d. 2 April 1789) married Maria (daughter of Vasyl Kobziar). Among their children were: Dmytro (b. ca. 1784-d. 1 Nov. 1788) and Maria (b. 7 Nov. 1788). Also associated with house no. 27 was Semen Kiebus (b. ca. 1765-d. 10 June 1789). Mykola may have had one other daughter named Rozalia (b. ca. 1781). Rozalia married Hryhorii Szypa (b. ca. 1760) on 24 October 1802. He was associated with house no. 18. Their witnesses were Mathei Grzybak and Ivan Olejnik.

House No. 29:

Maria Kiebus (unknown parents) had a daughter named Maria (b. 15 July 1825). The godparents were Ivan Głowa and Maria Muzyka. Another daughter named Tatianna died on 15 April 1828 at age 14 (b. ca. 1814). The mother, a widow, died on 30 May 1829 at age 37 (b. ca. 1792). Her maiden name may have been Olejnik as several individuals with this last name were associated with house no. 29.

House No. 23:

Ilko Kiebus (b. ca. 1742-d. 24 Oct. 1814) married Anna (b. ca. 1755-d. 12 May 1816; daughter of Pavlo Pronko). Their children were: Ilko (b. 20 July 1791-d. 6 Nov. 1839); Maria (b. 14 April 1795); and Anna (b. 30 Nov. 1801-d. 17 Dec. 1801). The following individuals served as their children’s godparents: Stefan Czornopys, Petro and Xenia Kołodziej, Stefan and Maria Olejnik, and Ahapia Kołodziej.

Ilko and Anna may have had one other son named Cyprian (b. ca. 1781), and another daughter named Natalia (b. ca. 1786).

Cyrpian married Maria Olejnik (b. ca. 1785, daughter of Stefan) on 4 November 1803. He was associated with house no. 23. They may have had daughters named Halyna (b. ca. 1814) and Maria (b. ca. 1820). Halyna married widower Hryhorii Hamar of Khidnovychi (b. ca. 1806, house no. 28) on 13 October 1839. Maria had a child out of wedlock named Lucas (b. 1 Nov. 1849, house no. 26). Mother and child died on 17 April 1850 (house no. 26).

Natalia married Josef Szypa (b. ca. 1784, house no. 18) on 7 November 1802. Their witnesses were Stefan Olejnik and Ivan Olejnik.

Maria married Fedir Kopytko (b. ca. 1788, house no. 4) on 22 November 1812. Their witnesses were Oles Megys and Hrynko Puzak. They had a son, Onufrij, and a daughter, Xenia (b. ca. 1826). Onufrij married Maria (daughter of Petro Semiec and Pelagia Kolodzij). Onufrij and Maria had a daughter: Anastasia (b. 3 January 1839). The godparents were Mykola Kiebus and Pelagia Kret. Xenia married Mykola Olejnik (b. ca. 1826, son of Oles and Tetiana Halikowa) on 11 February 1849. They were associated with house no. 29. The witnesses were Tymko Megys and Mykhailo Wojtowicz.

Ilko the younger married Evdokia (b. ca. 1792-d. 25 Dec. 1854, née Myhal) on 10 November 1811. Their children were: Ivan (b. 1 Oct. 1813-d. 10 May 1838); Andrei (Jędrzej) (b. 6 Aug. 1816-d. 22 Nov. 1818); Maria (b. 9 June 1819); Omelian (b. 10 Oct. 1823); Magdalena (b. 16 Sep. 1826); Kostiantyn (b. 28 Aug. 1829-d. 27 July 1831); Hryhorii (b. 10 Feb. 1833); and Havryil (b. 3 Dec. 1835). The godparents of the younger Ilko’s children included: Cyprian Kiebus, Maria Muzycz, Jurko Wojtowicz, Paraska Megys, Josef Wojtowicz, Tymko Myhal (of Khodovychi).
     Ivan Kiebus married Anna Czornopys (b. ca. 1813 to Semen and Natalia Zakaturna? of Khreptychi (Chraplice)) on 16 November 1834. Their witnesses were Fedir Kiebus and Anton Gunet. They resided at house no. 23. They had the following two children: Mykhailo (b. 26 Sep. 1835-d. 10 Jan. 1837) and Maria (b. 16 Aug. 1838-d. 23 Aug. 1839). The godparents to their children were: Andrei Salamacha, Marianna Karpysowa?, Ivan Kiebus, and Maria Salamacha. Upon Ivan’s death, Anna married Vasyl Kozak (b. ca. 1808, son of Ivan and Anastasia) of Khidnovychi (Chodnowicze) on 10 November 1839. They resided at house no. 25.
     Maria married Anton Levko (b. ca. 1817, son of Maksym of Stronovychi (Stroniowice)) on 30 May 1841. Their daughter, Kateryna (b. 11 Dec. 1843), was born at house no. 23. The godparents were: Onufrij Palij and Tatianna Muzyka.
     Omelian married Justyna Olejnik (b. ca. 1829, daughter of Oleksa and Olena Hatulak of Radokhyntsi (Radochonce)) on 18 November 1849. They resided at house no. 23. The witnesses were Tymofei Megys and Mykola Megys. Their children were: Anna (b. 24 April 1856, delivered by Eva Kiebus); Demian (d. 21 Jan. 1857); Anna (b. 10 Oct. 1860-d. 27 Oct. 1861); Kateryna (b. 1 Oct. 1863); Petro (b. 1 July 1865-d. 1 May 1867); Eufrosina (b. 24 Sep. 1866); and Anna (b. 3 Aug. 1869). The godparents included: Onufrij Palij, Eufrosina Olejnik, Maria Kowalczyk, Mykola Hejcyk, Kateryna Wojtowicz, and Mykhailo Olejnik.

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Fedir and Andrei below are probably two other sons of Ilko Kiebus and Anna Pronko:

House No. 22:

Fedir Kiebus (ca. 1780-23 Jan. 1847) married Anastasia (ca. 1781-28 Dec. 1843, daughter of Ivan Wesołowski) on 18 November 1798. The witnesses were Hryhorii Wojtowicz and Stefan Woleynak. This couple’s children included: Ivan (4 Jan. 1800-13 Jan. 1855); Hryhorii (2 Jan. 1802-5 Jan. 1809); Eva (24 Feb. 1804-7 Jan. 1868); Omelian (b. 30 July 1807); Rozalia (18 Jan. 1810-29 March 1812); Eufrosina (ca. 1811-14 May 1816); Semen (13 July 1814-7 June 1815); Anna (b. 10 April 1816); Rozalia (Eufrosina) (b. 10 Feb. 1819); and Anton (17 March 1821-12 April 1838). The godparents to their children were: Ivan Salamacha, Stefan Olejnik, Andrei Slyczak, Eva Olejnik, Tymko Myhal, Paraska Megys, and Hrynko Palij.

Fedir’s oldest son Ivan married Eva Hrycyk (b. ca. 1803, daughter of Stefan and Maria Hrycyk) on 18 November 1821. Their witnesses were Andrei Slyzak and Oleksa Olejnik. They, too, resided at house no. 22 until 1834, when they moved to house no. 5. Their children were: Andrei (b. 11 Oct. 1821); Feodosia (b. 12 June 1825); Vasyl (22 March 1828-13 Nov. 1834); Maria (b. 29 March 1829); Xenia (2 Feb. 1834-7 Feb. 1834); Josef (b. 31 Dec. 1834); Kateryna (b. 27 Nov. 1840); and Dmytro (b. 18 March 1844). Serving as godparents were: Fedir Wojtowicz, Maria Salamacha, Ivan Palij, Marianna Salamacha, and Fedir Olejnik.
     Feodosia married Stefan Maskalik (b. ca. 1826, son of Tymofei and Maria) on 22 November 1848. They were associated with house no. 5. Their witnesses were Stanyslav Maskalik and Ivan Domarecki. 
     Andrei married Eufrosina Kuzio (ca. 1819-14 May 1860, daughter of Pavlo and Xenia Khodorov of Husakiv) on 24 November 1850. They, too, were associated with house no. 5. Their witnesses were Fedir Olejnik and Omelian Kiebus. Andrei’s and Eufrosina’s children included: Mykhailo (b. 15 Jan. 1852) and Anna (b. 15 July 1854). Among the godparents were: Andrei Fedorowicz, Maria Gunet, and Ivan Olejnik. Andrei took a second wife after Eufrosina’s death. He married Kateryna Salamacha (ca. 1835 to 1839-31 March 1869, daughter of Andrei and Tekla) on 16 November 1862. Their witnesses were Andrei Wojtowicz and Mykhailo Kuczynski. They had a son: Ivan (14 Nov. 1863-14 Sep. 1865). His godparents were Petro Megys and Maria Gunet. His third wife was Anna. They had two children: Hryhorii (b. 24 Nov. 1870) and Maria (b. 7 April 1872). The godparents were: Andre Megys, Anna Olejnik, and Anna Kiebus.
     Maria had children out of wedlock: Fedir (b. 1851-16 April 1860) and Eva (b. 10 July 1857 at house no. 5). The godparents were Mykola Rozko and Maria Puszkar.

Fedir’s oldest daughter Eva married Ivan Palij (b. ca. 1802, son of Hryhorii and Anastasia Kołodij) on 23 November 1823. Their witnesses were Hryhorii Puzak and Fedir Muzyka. They resided at house no. 13. Their children included: Magdalena (b. 5 Aug. 1826); Semen (b. 19 Aug. 1827); Danylo (b. 1 Oct. 1834); Fedir (1 April 1837); and Eufrosina (b. 1 May 1845). The godparents were: Tymko Megys, Eva Kiebus, Ivan Kiebus, Paraskeva Megys, Andrei Wojtowicz, and Ivan Megys.

Anna, the next oldest of Fedir’s surviving daughters, may have had two children out of wedlock: Timothei (b. 31 July 1851) and Adam (b. 3 July 1854). They were delivered by Eva Kiebus, probably her sister-in-law.

Fedir’s youngest daughter Rozalia (Eufrosina) married Fedir Dawidiak (b. ca. 1818, Storonevychi, son of Pavlo and Maria Duża) on 8 November 1840. The witnesses were Pavlo Woloszyn and Mykola Kowalik from Storonevychi.

House No. 17:

Andrei Kiebus (ca. 1779/80-27 Jan. 1837) married Maria (b. ca. 1781, daughter of Fedir Salamacha) on 8 November 1801. The witnesses were Stefan Kusznerz and Fedir Kiebus. They had a daughter named Julianna (b. 1 Jan. 1803). Maria died on 25 March 1805. Andrei married a second time to Anna (ca. 1784-6 Aug. 1847, daughter of Iakiv Wowczyk) on 19 May 1804. Their children were: Mykola (ca. 1807-22 April 1853); Feodosia (b. 4 Nov. 1813); and Cyprian (ca. 1823-5 Sep. 1825). They may have had a daughter named Anna. She, associated with house no. 17, married Ivan Jandrosz. They had two daughters named Kateryna (b. 7 March 1834) and Anna (b. 21 Sep. 1836, in Tyshkovychi). Among the godparents to Andrei and Anna’s children were: Josef Szypka and Evdokia Puzacz. A woman, perhaps Andrei’s mother, named Maria Kiebuzinska, associated with house no. 17, died on 22 October 1813 at age 59 (b. ca. 1754).

Mykola married Magdalena Procak (b. ca. 1815, daughter of Ivan and Halyna Khoma-Myhal) on 13 November 1836. They resided at house no. 17. The witnesses were Fedir Olejnik and Oleksa Kuszmarz. Their children included: Josef (7 Jan. 1838-24 March 1857); Semen (b. 11 June 1843); Ilko (b. 30 July 1846); and Magdalena (10 Aug. 1849-18 April 1851). The godparents were: Onufrij Kopytko, Ivan Khoma, Anna Jandrosz, and Kateryna Wojtowicz. After Mykola’s death, Magdalena remarried. Her second husband was Andrei Wojtowicz, a widower living at house no. 16 (b. ca. 1811). Their witnesses were Andrei Salamacha and Mykola Megys.

Feodosia married Stefan Kurylo (b. ca. 1812, son of Mathei and Maria Popowicz) on 14 November 1841. They resided at house no. 8. Their children were: Ivan (b. 12 Jan. 1843). Serving as godparents were: Fedir Olejnik and Anna Jandrosz.

Ilko married Maria Wojtowicz (b. ca. 1843, daughter of Mykola and Kateryna Czornopys) on 12 November 1867. Their witnesses were Iakiv Wojtowicz and Mykola Megys. They resided at house no. 17. Their children included: Kateryna (b. 14 Oct. 1868); Anna (b. 26 Nov. 1870); and Maria (b. 4 Jan. 1871). Among the godparents were: Ludwik Luczynski and Pelagia Blochuta. In April 1875, the district court in Nyzhankovychi (today Lviv oblast) announced the public auction of the peasant farm owned by Ilko Kiebus in the village of Boratychi, at house number 17/18. Ilko owed creditors 200 crowns, which he was unable to repay. The asking price for the farm was 400 crowns, of which a 10 percent down payment was required for the sale. (Gazeta Lwowska, no. 136 (17 June 1875).

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A Kateryna Kiebus of Boratychi (b. ca. 1803), maybe the daughter of Fedir (no. 22), married widower Lesko Parobek of Khidnovychi (Chodnowice) (b. ca. 1783, house no. 5) on 30 October 1831. Their first son, Iakiv, was born in Boratychi (2 Nov. 1833, house no. 16). His godparents were Kostiantyn Wysocki and Anna Madwijowa.

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Not sure how the individuals below are related to those above:

Grzegorz (Hryhorii) Kiebus (b. ca. 1871). He arrived in New York City from Rotterdam, Holland aboard the Rotterdam on 22 June 1914. He was married. He listed his final destination as 150 Lockwood St., Detroit, Michigan. His last residence was Boratycze, Austria.

Senke or Senko Kebus (b. ca. 1886, Boratycze). He arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by way of Marseille, France, on the ship "Florida" on 9 December 1928. He was 42 years old, married, Orthodox, and working as a laborer. He left South America via Valparaiso, Chile, heading for Lviv, Ukraine, on 11 July 1930. 

Iwan (Ivan or John) Kebuz (b. 21 May 1887 in Boratycze). He arrived in Philadelphia from Bremen, Germany aboard the Neckar on 11 Dec. 1913. His nationality was identified as Ruthenian. His occupation was farmer. He was illiterate. His closest relatives from Boratycze were his wife Rozalia and their son. His sponsor was Ilko Denico of West 44th Street, Chicago, Illinois. When he registered for the World War I draft, Iwan was living with his wife and child at 2116 Austin Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. He was working as a coal handler for Peterson Coal Co.

Perhaps related to the above: There was a lawsuit brought before the Przemysl District Court in October 1912 against one Iwan Kebuz, son of Hrynko (Hryhorii), by Michal Strojwas, a laborer from Zrebin, near Polaniec, who immigrated to New York State in either 1904 or 1907. The lawsuit was for a claim of payment of 100 kronen (Gazeta Lwowska, nr. 261 (12 Nov. 1912)). Strojwas' cousin, Rosalia, was from Nehrybka, which may be the connection.

There is also mention of one Hrynko Kebus (b. 1867 in Storonevychi (not far from Boratychi), formerly of the district Przemysl, and today in Lviv oblast), a road construction worker, who died of heart disease during World War I at the Sarajevo garrison, and was buried at the city's new military cemetery (Nachrichten uber Verwundete und Kranke ausgegeben am 23.10.1916, p.18).

There is a John Kiebus recorded in the 1920 and 1930 United States Censuses, though his birth year is estimated as 1895. In 1920, he is listed as single and living as a boarder with the White family in Wayne, Michigan, and in 1930, he is listed as divorced and living in Chicago. It is unclear if this individual is related or the same as the John above.