Researching: Huckan from Repuzhintsy, Bukovina

[zarjacks]

My grandmother mainly went to the Orthodox church in Sclater, MB (though Mom said she would go to any service being held). Services in these small towns were only held whenever a priest could get there. The brother Iwan I think was also Orthodox as there was some family story that he and his wife could not marry in the village because she was Roman Catholic (her father was German or Austrian). I don't know about the other siblings.
Thanks for your help. I will ask my mother about the Hutsul or Rusyn connection. I know she said my grandmother had a slightly different way of speaking/dialect than my grandfather but she was illiterate and he was more educated.
Ruth

[zarjacks]

I asked my mother about the possiblity of a Hutsul or Rusyn background in her mother's family. She didn't think there was any connection, at least it was never mentioned. In fact her mother referred to Hutsuls in Sclater, Manitoba as "other", ie different from them. If there is a connection, it may be in earlier generations that migrated to Repuzhintsy from the Carpathian mountains.
I noticed on the Lemko website that Lemkos often had traditional names like John or Mary but had variations of these names. My grandmother was Marya/Maria but her husband called her "Marywuka" and my grandfather was called "Janko" and even shows that name on his immigration records. He was known as John in Canada though his wife always called him Janko. My mother thought that was a Polish influence. Any thoughts on the names?
thanks for your help,
Ruth

[bm-21Lemko]

janko is a nickname in rusyn so sounds like rusyn from transcarpathia. jan would be the normal name of john for polish and ukrainian. Janko is more popular name for a serbian named john.


well i have never heard o vuka on the end of maria. so i looked it up in ukrainian nothing, for russian it came up as bugbear. so my guess again is Lemko-rusyn because rusyn uses a lot of russian words like instead of mova for language the use yzbyka. These do not sound like traditional ukrainian names. I imagine it is rusyn because of the location of the village it would have been in slovakia during WWII.

But i dont know.

I found this on jewishgen
Repuchewitz - is corrupted German/Yiddish version of village Repuzynce, pronounced [reh poo zhee ntseh] (currently known in Ukrainian as Repuzhintsy at 4839 2548) located just 3 miles East from Zalishchyky.
Both localities are located within the historical Bukovina where Ukrainian, Romanian (Moldavian), Russian, German (Austrian) and Yiddish town names are happily mixed up.

[zarjacks]

Irene,
If you have access to the White Pages for Repuzhintsy, would you send me the information on Huckan families listed there? another name in that line one generation back is Masekewich/Maczkewicz (not sure of spelling).thank you for your help.
Ruth

[IreneLviv]

There are several Huckan families in Repuzhintsi, one of them Anna Dmytrivna born in 1932, the rest born in 1950s/70s.
There are nearly 2,000 Matskevich families scattered across Ukraine- mainly in Kyiv, Odesa and Lugansk.
Several families in Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk, one family in Chernivtsi ( none in Repuzyntsi, or Zastavna)
Phone Directory Database shows no Gutskan families in Repuzhintsi - therefore I don't know in which district live those mentioned in Address database ( as there are 2 Repuzhintsi villages - one in Bukovina, and one in Iv.Frankivsk region, Gorodenka district)