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.

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 Iwanowska (b. 23 Sep. 1862, Stryi-d. 29 March 1923, Stryi; the illegitimate daughter of Maryna (Rosalia) Iwanowska (variant name Barbara Iwanowicz of Bilche, Drohobycz district)) in the Greek Catholic Church in Stryi on 3 August 1886. 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).

Panteleimon (1839-1894) descendants

Petro Kiebus / Kiebuz (6 July 1881, Pikulice-11 June 1943, Glastonbury) was the son of Panteleimon Kiebuz and Maria Dziuban (misspelled in some documents as Jubra). He worked for three years (1903-1905) as a tailor in Boston, Massachusetts, and resided there at 178 Bolton Street (in a building owned by Mary V. Flanagan of Milford). He re-immigrated to the United States on 9 May 1905, and arrived in New York City from Hamburg, Germany aboard the ship Blucher. His occupation was listed as laborer. His final destination was his friend Peter Vasal, Box 126, Hartford, CT. Petro (or Peter) married Julia Velyka (Welyka or Wielka in Polish) on 27 May 1911 in Glastonbury. They had three children: Mary (28 June 1911, Glastonbury, CT-12 Apr. 1990, Manchester, CT); Michael (28 Sep. 1915, Glastonbury, CT-24 Apr. 1983, Rocky Hill, CT); Raymond (1 Aug. 1919-22 June 1998).

For Julia (ca. 1879/80, Pikulice-21 Dec. 1933, Hartford, CT), this was her second marriage. She came to the United States with her first husband George Smolka (in Ukrainian Smulka) on 6 September 1906. They left behind their son Volodymyr (b. 21 March 1904, Pikulice) with Maria Welyka. Their daughter Anna Smolka (the future Mrs. Michael Brenza) was born on 7 February 1907 in Pennsylvania. George Smolka soon died of unknown circumstances (he was working in the steel mills in Coatesville, Pennsylvania). After his death on 8 April 1908, Julia went back to Ukraine with her daughter Anna. Several years later, on 1 February 1910, Julia returned to the States, this time destined for Glastonbury, Conn., to marry Petro Kiebuz who had been living there since 1905. They may have known each other from Pikulice. Their marriage took place in Glastonbury on 23 May 1911 at the rectory of St. Augustine (the presiding priest was Rev. Francis M. Murray). Julia's return trip to the United States was sponsored by her cousin Piotr Stec (son of Fedko Stec).

Anna was left behind in Pikulice and did not join her mother, new step-father and step-siblings until 3 August 1921. Petro Kiebuz paid for her and his brother-in-law's, Jozef Welyki's, passage. Judging by the year of Anna's birth, 1907, as a young girl she probably grew up with my grandfather and great uncles in Pikulice. This may explain why my great uncle Volodymyr, while still a refugee in Germany, placed an advertisement in Svoboda looking for Jozef Welyki and Anna Smolka. Jozef Welyki's and Anna Smolka's parents and grandparents were Ivan and Kataryna Welyki.

As for Peter, at the time of registration to the World War I draft, in 1918, he was working as a papermaker for Riverside Paper Co., Glastonbury, CT. According to the U.S. 1920 Census, Peter and Julia were both from Poland and used the Polish language at home. By the time of the U.S. 1940 Census, Peter worked as a buffer for a local silverware manufacturing company. Peter became a naturalized citizen of the United States at age 59 on 28 February 1941 in Hartford. The family's address at the time was 102 Grove Street in Glastonbury.

Peter Kiebus naturalization photograph, 1936

Peter's and Julia's youngest son Raymond married Barbara Jones of Glastonbury. Raymond worked for H.P. Hood Co., was a WWII veteran, and Pearl Harbor survivor. He served in the Asiatic Pacific and Central Pacific theaters, and was stationed at Fort Shafter, Oahu Island, Honolulu, with the 64th Coast Artillery (A.A.).

Raymond’s brother Michael was also a WWII veteran, and, in 1940, was first stationed at Fort Slocum, New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York. Michael worked as a bull dozer operator for the City of Hartford. He had two sons: Michael P. Kiebus (of East Hartford) and Steven G. Kiebus (of Rocky Hill).

The Hartford Courant published a story on 9 Feb. 1943 about Michael’s and Raymond’s service in the Coast Guard Artillery in Hawaii.

Raymond's and Michael's older sister Mary married Albert Drumm. The Drumms, together with Mary's father after he became a widower, lived in a two family home next door to the Brenzas on 102 Grove Street. Mary Drumm worked as an inspector for a tobacco warehouse. She had, according to my second cousin Bohdan, one older daughter named Audrey, and a son named Sonny (he became a plumber)-- Bohdan remembers him being very active and mischievous. The 1940 U.S. Census, however, reports that the Drumms had two daughters named Sylvia and Dolores.

It was the Brenzas, Michael and Anna (née Smolka, 7 Feb. 1907-30 Nov. 1973), who sponsored Josef, Volodymyr, Stefaniia, and Bohdan Kiebuz (my great uncles and cousin) when they immigrated to the United States after the Second World War. My second cousin Bohdan remembers staying on the Brenza side of the house, at 100 Grove Street, for about six months. Michael and Anna Brenza had four children: Michael (1928-1980), Irene (1929-2008), Frank (1942-1969), and William (1944-2010). Mike Brenza with his sons Billy and Frank attended Bohdan’s and his wife's, Zirka’s, wedding in Hunter, New York. Billy became a Catholic priest.

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)

Pikulice

Former Kiebuz vel Kiebuzinski family home in Pikulice, front and back (1978)

Former Kiebuz vel Kiebuzinski family home in Pikulice (2009)

View of Pikulice (early 20th century)

Nativity of the B.V.M. Ukrainian Catholic Church in Pikulice

(mason church built 1903; photograph from early 20th century)

Kiebuz / Kiebuzinski from other places

Anna Kiebus (b. ca. 1820-d. ca. 1870). She married Johann Langwald (b. ca. 1815) in 1840. They had a son Anton Langwald born 9 Oct. 1844 in Bleichenbarth, Heilsberg, Ostpreusser (today Bartniki, Lidzbark County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in northern Poland, about 25 miles NE of Olsztyn: there are still people with the surname Kiebus living in the Olsztyn area).

Peder Kiebus (b. ca. 1860 in Prussia). He arrived in New York City from Hamburg, Germany aboard the Frisia on 20 May 1884. He was a farmer.

Steven Kebus (b. abt. 1877 in Austria) arrived at Gateway, British Columbia from the United States on 30 June 1913.

 
Andrej Kiebyez (b. ca. 1892 in Kincze? could it be Kniazyce?). He immigrated to New York City on board the Laura from Trieste on 27 June 1911. He was identified as single, a laborer, and of Ruthenian nationality. His closest relative from home was his father Wasyl Kiebyez.

 
Joseph J. Kebus (b. 25 Dec. 1893 (in Ruthenia/Lithuania?)-d. 1 May 1954 in Watertown, CT). He was married to Julia (b. ca. 1898-d. 27 Oct. 1970 in Waterbury, CT). He registered for the World War II draft in 1942. At the time he was residing at 280 Middlebury Road in Watertown, Litchfield County, Connecticut, and worked as a castor for the Chase Brass & Copper Company.

John (Ivan) Kiebus (b. ca. 1895 in Poland). According to the 1920 U.S. Census, he was living as a boarder in Detroit Ward 16, Wayne, Michigan. He immigrated in 1913. At the time of the census, he was age 25, single, and could read and write. He identified himself and his parents as Polish. He worked as a machinist in an auto shop.

Zofia Kiebuz was born 14 February 1914 in the village Glinik (today within Ropczyce-Sędziszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship) to Jan Kiebuz and Maria Cetnarowska. She married Ignacy Kostecki (b. 11 Apr. 1908, Vybranivka, Bibrka district) on 26 December 1937 in the Roman Catholic church of Zurawica (just 9 km north of Przemysl). They divorced in Przemysl on 16 February 1948. (Visit: http://projekty.wimbp.rzeszow.pl/przeszlosc/dokumenty.php).

Jozef Kiebus (b. ca. 1919) married Wladyslawa Augustyn (b. ca. 1927) in winter 1947 in Braintree, Essex County, England. They had a daughter born in Chelmsford, Essex County, England. The family immigrated to New York City from Southampton, England aboard the Queen Elizabeth on 27 Nov. 1951. Their destination was 505 Lincoln, Riverhead, NY. This same Jozef is likely the recipient of the order Virtuti Militari for his service in World War II as a soldier in the Polish 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division.

Julia Kiebus (b. 12 Sep. 1920, Zech, Bilgoraj district (north of Przemysl). In April 1940, she was a forced laborer working in Rockenberg, a municipality in the Wetteraukreis, in Hesse, Germany.

Iwan Janek Kebus (b. 3 Nov. 1922-d. Oct. 1998 in Hammersmith, London).

 
Two may be Kiebuzinskis living presently in Argentina. There was a blog story entitled "The True Survivorman" (2 Dec. 2009, by José Francisco Ocampo Alegre), that mentioned a Stanislaw Kibuzinski who immigrated to the San Martin area of greater Buenos Aires with his son Vladimiro. Stanislaw had served as a member of the Polish resistance in northwestern Poland, near Szczecin, during the Second World War.

  

Paul Kiebus (d. 14 Apr. 1944) is buried in a military cemetery in Romania.

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).