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Hi Olga,
Just found your so interesting site
and read everything. I really enjoyed this trip to my parents' world, in
Ukraine. The name Pitula always stirs something in me. My mother, Xenia
Pitula, was born in Bonariwka (Leopol-Krosnos), Ukraine in 1905 and went
to France in 1930. Her father was Simeon Pitula, son
of (Ivan or) Michel Pitula and Orin Jottysik and her mother was Christina
Holodynski, daughter of Joann Holodynski and Evae Levko. Evae Levko's brother,
Petro Ivan Levko was a university professor in Warsaw. My mother had 3 brothers,
Yurko, Vassel and Joseph (passed away in France a few years ago), and 4 sisters,
Paraska, Irene, Marta, and Melania (passed away in Hamilton, Canada 7 years
ago).
My father, Stephan Hawrysz was born in Herbaczew Premysl in 1906 and went to France in 1931. His father was Gabriel and his mother was Maria Hladky. He had one brother and 4 sisters who worked in a hotel in Lviv. He joined them when the parents died and was a horse-drawn carriage taxi driver getting people from the train station to the hotel.
Does this info and names mean anything to you or to anyone reading this mail? Do I have relatives somewhere? Would you have some more infos? Thank you. Marika Flemke / Canada; email: mariefle@videotron.ca
12/15/04 Olga:
I found your website and wanted to mention that I have Pitula family too. My great-grandmother, Theodora Pitula, came to the U.S. in 1906 via a
Cunard steam ship. She came with her father, Michal Pitula; her mother, Pracida (Banaszak) Pitula; her sister, Anna Pitula; and her brother, Jozef Pitula. Several of her uncles and their families had come to the U.S. before them and settled in South Bend, Indiana. That is where they moved also. I would love to find out where my busia came from in Poland. My grandmother tells me that she and her family worked for a barron in Poland until they saved the money for the trip. I have not been able to find the ships records yet but I hope to soon. All that I have on my direct line is below.
You can view my other information on http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com Or email me:Jennifer Race-Sanders / USA; jenifersan@hotmail.com
10/22/04 Olga,
Hi, my name is Steve Smith and I am a baseball researcher and historian. I am doing a biography of Stan Pitula who
pitched for the Cleveland Indians in 1957. I came across your above posting
which contained the reference line: "I am researching my grandfather Alexander Warchalowski ... Stanley PITULA. " I
am pretty sure that the Stan Pitula who pitched in the major leagues is the
son of the Stanley Pitula who married Aunt Mary referred to above. Stan
Pitula passed away in 1965. I am looking for relatives of Stan Pitula who
may be able to assist me in my research. I know that Stan was married in
1955 to Norma Sauerman of Paramus NJ and later the two were divorced sometime
in the early 1960s. They had (at least) two daughers, the second Lisa Jean
borm in Paramus NJ in 1958. I do not know the whereabouts of Norma or the
children nor do I know if they subsequently were married and took a different
name. I know of no other living relatives of Stan Pitula. Any assistance
you might give me would be appreciated. Thanks, Steve Smith Englewood FL
/ USA; SSmith2084@aol.com
6/30/05 Hi Olga,
I'm also known as Jack Pitula,
son of George William Pitula who is the son of Alois Pitula AKA in the
US, Loius Pitula who was from Moravia. He was the son of Joseph Pitula
and brother to Anna and Romuel. Their father's father was also named Joseph
Pitula and he was reportedly picked up on the side of a road and adopted
by the Pitula family as a child or a teen while he was dressed all in white!
And there our story ends. Jack
john pitula johnpitula@earthlink.net
Dear Olga,
Hello, my name
is Jim Dech. My paternal grandmother's name was Paulina Pitulay or maybe
spelled Pitulaj. Her father was Roman Pitulay(j). Her mother was Josephine
Fischer. The Pitulay(j) family was Roman Catholic. We do not know how
or where daughter Paulina met her future husband, Heinrich Dech. There
were many Dech families living in Galicia west and south of Stanislav
(Ivano-Frankovsk) around Kalusz, Landestreu, Ugartsthal, Horocholina
and other places.
Roman Pitulay(j) apparently had some some basic education. He worked for the Austrian railroads in some capacity, and at some time around 1880 was assigned to a railroad inspector's task in the Russian controlled area just east of the Galician border where he settled his family in a village called Antopol northwest of a town called Miaskowka. Antopol is still on Mapquest as Antopol. But the modern name for Miaskowka is Gorodkivka or Horodkovka, which are apparently Ukrainian-style names. The Pitulay(j)'s had four daughters, one of whom was my grandmother Paulina, and one son. There was no R.Catholic church in Antopol so they attended the R.Catholic church in Miaskowka. One by one, the Pitulay(j) daughters married and then emigrated to Canada except one of the daughters stayed behind when her husband also emigrated. The son married in Canada. Paulina and Heinrich, my grandparents, emigrated to Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1889.
Roman Pitulay(j) died in Antopol supposedly in 1909, and supposedly was buried from the Catholic church in Miaskowka where he is also supposedly buried. His widow Josephine emigrated by herself to Canada at the age of 82. She is actually buried in North Dakota and her death record does have any specific place of birth - simply Austria. I would dearly love to know if the church in Miaskowka still exists, and whether there is any death record for Roman there or elsewhere. The death record could possibly show his place of birth. With that piece of information, we could start an effort to find his birth in the church records. I don't know if it would ever be possible to trace Josephine's history and how or where they met and married., or where they lived before they moved to Russia.
For a long
time, we had no idea what kind of name 'Pitulay" is, German
or Polish. An expert who has published a book on Polish surnames,
William Hoffman, says it is almost certainly Polish. Roman lived,
of course, when there was no Poland, and was said to be an Austrian
citizen, perhaps even retaining Austrian citizenship while living
in Antopol, "Russia".
Of course, anyone who lived anyplace in the Austro-Hungarian empire was
an Austrian citizen. That covers a lot of ground. Regards,
Jim Dech 611jjdech@usfamily.net Minnesota
On 7, Jun 2009, Andre Michaud wrote:
Hello ,
I saw you were looking forcousins
, specially PITULA .....I ''m André from France , teaching in
a college , but nearly retired .... for years I've been looking for
Anna Pitula, my unknown Polish grandmother ....she is supposed
to be born in Malkowice , near Przemysl (Ukrainian
border ) on January 21st 1906..... She probably came to France
in the years 1925-27 to work in a farm or as a servant
in a
family....and my mother was born in France in October 1927 but
abandonned one month later and my grandmother disappeared !!!! That
a great mystery ... intensive genealogical searching on internet and
on mails with Polish archivums ....I went to Poland for the 1st time (that
was a beautiful trip with a lot of discoveries and friendly
meetings) last April, for 10 days , but I didnt find any more precisions
or details ... my mother is still alive (82
y)and hopes to discover the truth but I wonder
where my grand mother went (I think she didn't stay in France
) and didn't return to Poland, but maybe in USA, Canada, Australia
, or .. England and Germany ????? In Poland
I discovered that the Pitulas from Malkowice were Greco-Catholics and
that was a great surprise for me ... Ihaven'theard about
that religion before and I probably have manycousins
in USA, Ukraine, Poland of course. Many Pitulas have emigrated
to USA, Canada in 1890-1927...... We may be cousins !!! I hope we 'll
exchange information and details ...Best regards André andrem42@hotmail.com
1/29/10
hi Olgaat the moment i'm still searching
for my unknown grand-mother Anna PITULA ... Ifound a
pitulafamily in normandy , france, the man jean-marie
pitulaborn in 1939 , his father bohdan pitulaborn
in bonarowka , poland ,came to francein 1933 and married
théresechateletin 1936.... bohdan pitula had
a brother leon " lew " born in 1923(,,??)who came
to usa...he probably died in 1995 in new hampshire..
( jean-marie and lew 's parents were timothy pitula and justine kaczmarskithey
probably stayed in poland .. did they have other children ?? )) )...other
pitulas ( from bonarowka ) came to usa, mainly iwan pitula
( 1911)...ewa pitula (1901 ) ...tomas pitula ( 1901) do yyou have
details about them ?ther
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