In my last post I stated that I was going to search out information about my grandmother and great grandmother because I was running out of options/data regarding my grandfather but, at that time, I didn’t know where or how to start because I didn’t have much information about either of them.
However, thanks to the Polish Ancestry Researcher, Lucjan Cichocki, and the municipal clerk in Lutowiska, Poland I may have received the church record of my grandparents marriage.
There are a few inconsistencies that I need to resolve and explain. But if this is the true record of my grandparents marriage then it helps in explaining other data I received. One of those was about my grandmother’s maiden name. Some time ago when I was first starting my family research and while my father was still alive, I starting asking him the basic questions; i.e. what was your mother’s maiden name, what was your father’s name, etc. It was this time that my father told me that he never knew his father because he passed away when he was a baby. I acquired a copy of my grandfather’s death record confirming that he died when my father was just a baby, less than a year old. The death record listed my great grandparents as Basilius and Anna Iwaniw. Well, that didn’t help me with my great grandmother’s maiden name. I already knew that my great grandfather was named Wasyl (Basilius) and my great grandmother’s name was Anna from my father, but I didn’t know my great grandmother’s maiden name. According to the marriage record my great grandmother’s maiden name was Stefanow
Now, where did the Shubish come from? If you look at the record at the information regarding Matrona’s mother you’ll notice one of the surnames referenced is Skubycz. Could this be where my father got the surname from? Lucjan was kind enough to send me his translation of the information on the marriage record.
Here’s the translation:no. 15date 7/22/1902 (this is a Greek Catholic church record, there was no civil registration in the Austrian-controlled part of Poland back then)house no. 26the groom: Michael Iwanow, single, a son of Basilius Iwanow and Anna nee Stefanow, farmers in Lutowiska, a Greek Catholic aged 25the bride: Matrona Iwanow, single Greek Catholic woman aged 19, a daughter of Maria Smolij [who was] a daughter of Gregorius [and this Maria Smolij was] 1st married [to a man named] Skubycz [and then] 2nd married [to a man named] Iwanow, [Matrona and/or her mother was] from Michniowiec [I am not 100% positive about the place name]witnesses: Michael Iwanow, Joannes Iwanow, farmers of Lutowiska
- First married to Gregory Smolij
- Then married a man named Skubycz
- Finally married to a man named Iwanow.
But what was Maria Iwanow’s maiden name? The record doesn’t say. I could leave things as is because Matrona’s family line is not a surname that I am trying to research. Its purpose is to help me connect to others that are researching their family history that may be connected to mine. I’ve written to Lucjan for further clarification and explanation of the information in the record.