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-?) married twice: 1) Rev. Severyn Lewicki (d. 12. Dec. 1915); and 2) Myroslav Zderkovskyi (b. 22 Feb. 1872, Rozhirche-?)) on 29 July 1916 in Graz.
• 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 (Hamczykewycz) (2 Sep. 1869, Leżajsk-?). They had two daughters: Iryna (16 July 1902, Przemysl-10 July 1941, Przemysl), married name Sozanska; Ivanna (30 Jan. 1907), married Volodymyr Filc (Vladimir Filz; 7 Sep. 1897-; son of Jan and Pelahia Wolyniec) on 9 January 1927 in Przemyśl (connected to my family by Andrei and Anna Kiebuzinski, my great-great grandfather's brother and sister)
• Julia Eustachia (30 May 1881, Brodky-23 Dec. 1959, Przemysl), married Adolf Jan Peters in Przemyśl (16 April 1881 of Bohemia) on 14 November 1910. They 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.

Ukrainian Przemysl

60th Anniversary of the Przemysl Prosvita Society (1928)

1^st row, 3^rd from left: Volodymyr Kebuz

3^rd row, 5^th from left: Hryhorii Kebuz

4th row, 4th from left: Vasyl Kebuz; 5th from left: Iosyf Kebuz

Przemysl Ukrainian Gymnasium (class of 1925)

3^rd row, 4^th from right: Ivan Kebuz

4th row, 3rd from left: Levko Bobynskyi

Przemysl Ukrainian Gymnasium (class of 1927)

Przemysl Ukrainian Gymnasium (class of 1927)

1st row, 1st from right: Iosyp Kebuz

Przemysl Ukrainian Gymnasium (class of 1927)

4^th row, 3^rd from right: Iosyp Kebuz

If you can identify any of the others in the above photographs, or provide dates, please drop me a line.

Gravesite of Dr. Bazyli Kiebuzinski (1847-1899) in Przemyśl main cemetery 

(Photo credit: Apokryf Ruski.org)

Gravesite marker for Cecilia (Kiebuzinska) Cipanowska (1850-1927) in Przemyśl main cemetery

(Photo credit: Artur Mielnik)

Gravesite of Kiebuzinski Family (unidentified) in Przemyśl main cemetery 

(Photo credit: Apokryf Ruski.org)

Przemysl

Much of the information below is compiled from sacramental registers of the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Przemysl. Other sources are provided in the text.

Iliia Kiebuzinski (b. ca. 1730-d. 9 Oct. 1790) died of dropsy. At the time of his death he lived at address 60 [Przemsyl]. His death was registered in the sacramental record of the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral.

Kateryna Kiebuzinska (b. ca. 1734-d. 4 Oct. 1799) died of typhus.

Maria Kiebuzinska (b. ca. 1747-d. 21 Aug. 1787). Her death was registered in the sacramental record of the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral.

Ivan Kiebuzinski (b. ca. 1770-d. 12 Mar. 1806) died of typhus. At the time of his death he resided at 128 [Przemysl].

A Kateryna Kiebuzinska married Stefan Hajdukiewicz. Their son Ivan (b. 15 June 1785) was baptized at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral.

Maria Kiebuz (b. 28 Nov. 1866) was born to a Kiebuz, son of Antonii and Pelahia, and his wife Anna. She was baptized at the Ukrainian Cathedral. At that time the family resided at 180 Zasanie.

Katarzyna Kiebuz lived at 77 ul. Krzemieniec, Przemysl, in 1899.

A private in the Austro-Hungarian Army, named Mykola (Mikolaj/Nikolaus) Kiebuz, who served in the 3rd medical detachment of the medical corps stationed at the garrison hospital in Przemysl, died from typhus on 1 June 1915, just a few days before the German forces recaptured the fortress from the Russians. He was buried in the vicinity. Garrison hospitals not only cared for the sick but served as training schools for one-year volunteer medical students and men of the sanitats truppe. In addition, they maintained a reserve store of medical and surgical supplies, and acted as mobilization centers for the field medical units (Nachrichten uber Verwundete und Kranke ausgegeben am 29./9. 1915, p.18).

In 1918, there was a  Miss Josefa Kiebusowna (Kiebus) from Przemysl staying in Wiener Neustadt, Nr. 135 (Wiener Zeitung nr. 263 (13 Nov. 1918).

According to a list of Soviet Red Army officers and soldiers buried in Racibórz (Poland, Silesian voivodeship), from 17 Aug.1947, among them was one Vladimir Ivanovich Kebus (Władimir Kiebuz or Volodymyr Kiebuz). He was born in 1900, and died 5 May 1945 from a diseased stomach ulcer. He served as a rifleman with the 285th regiment of the Soviet Red Army. The 285th Rifle Division was established at Kostroma in July 1941. Its men fought at Volkhov and Kattowitz. They were with the 21st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front in May 1945. Kebus’ remains were exhumed from Racibórz, and transferred for burial to Kędzierzyn-Koźle, gravesite № 214. He left behind his wife Anna. Their address was 30, Aleksandr Dworski Street, Przemysl.

Mieczyslaw Kiebus worked for the Przemysl railroad circa 1939-1944 (Source: Mazur, Wladyslaw. Wyspy ostatniej nadziei. Rzeszow: Krajowa agencja wydawnicza, 1987, p. 60).

Stanislaw Kiebuz (b. 14 May 1900) attended the Polish Gymnasium in Przemysl beginning in 1916/1917. In May 1941 he was recognized as a Stakhanovite for his contributions at the 17th September Factory. He may be the same Stanislaw who became the 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish Workers’ Party in Przemysl in 1945. In 1944, he was active in helping organize postal telegraph and telephone workers (see: Tysiac lat Przemysla: zarys historyczny, vol. 2. Krakow: Panstwowe wyd-wo naukowe, 1974, pp. 479, 506), and in 1946 appeared on a list of persons appointed to exercise the duties of jurors for the District Court (Dziennik Rzeszowski v.2, no. 37 (9 Feb. 1946) . His residence was at 12 Sierakowski Street. He was also involved in the city’s dramatic societies. From 1947 he was the treasurer for the Teatr Zwiazkow Zawodowych im. J. Slowackiego. Stanislaw was also a member of the “Fredreum” Theater, a drama society named after Alexander Fredro that is the oldest amateur theater group in Europe. Aside from serving as its treasurer, he also performed with the troupe. In 1950 he acted in Damy i huzary,and in 1951 in Krakowiakow i Gorali. (Source: Felczynski, Zygmunt. “Fredreum” i inne teatra przemyskie w latach 1696-1960. Krakow: Wyd-wo literackie., p. 267, 279, 294-5, 301, and 337). He may have emigrated to Argentina.

In the main Przemysl cemetery are buried together (quarter 43, row 13, plot no. 2): Ludwik (b. 23 Sep. 1927), Zofia (b. 20 Mar. 1883 -d. 10 Nov. 1954), and Teodor Kiebuz (b. 11 Nov. 1881-d. 23 Dec. 1959). Zofia's maiden name may be Czekajlo. There is a couple with the names Theodor Kiebuz and Zofia Czekajlo who had a son named Jan (22 May 1915-11 July 1915). Their other son may be Marian Kiebuz (b. 15 Mar. 1919, Przemysl-d. 20 Aug. 1944, Loreto, Italy; buried in Monte Cassino, Italy).  He was arrested by the Soviet NKVD on 11 April 1940 for illegally crossing the border. He was incarcerated in a prison in Przemysl, and then transferred to Kirovgrad, where on 29 December 1940 he was sentenced and deported to a gulag camp in Ukhta-Chibyu. He was released in late summer 1941, and joined the Polish Army in Totskoye. He was a member of the 17th Riflemen’s Batallion.

Anna Kiebus (d. 21 Dec. 1979) is buried there too (quarter 11, row 9, plot no. 12).

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)