Kapustynskyj family, Bortniki, Ukraine

[P Kapustynskyj]

I wonder if anyone can help me. My father Oleksa (or Oleska) Kapustynskyj came from the Ukraine.

Although he died in 1998 my wife and I have decided to visit the Ukraine and try and see for ourselves where he was brought up.

His history is a little vague and was something that was not discussed in depth at home.
From what he told us he was born in Bortniki, near Lvov on 30 March 1913. His father owned a farm and I remember him telling me that his father was killed when he fell off a stallion on the farm.

I understand that during the war he was part of the Galician division in the German army. He was captured near Gratz in Austria and taken to PoW Camp in Rimini, Italy. In 1947 he was taken to Liverpool, UK. He mentioned a jam factory in Sheffield, after this he was definitely at a Displaced Persons Camp in Bottesdale, Suffolk. From here he went to Farndon Fields Camp in Market Harborough working on local farms where he met my mother.

We have looked up Bortniki and we think there are 2. We would be most grateful if anyone could give us any information regarding his family history in the Ukraine.

[Tempo]

Hi PK

I just finished reading the following book that may interest you:


DPs Europe' Displaced Persons, 1945-1951 by Mark Wyman.


Also reading the following book about the Ukrainian 14th Waffen -SS Division. About half way thru it .

Title: Pure Soldiers or Sinister Legion by Sol Littman. Ch 10 talks about Rimini.


Tempo

[IreneLviv]

There is only one village Bortnyky in the Lviv region - in the Zhydachiv district
Another one - in Ivano-Frankivsk region

[Hannia]

Welcome P.Kapustynskyj

Kapustynskyj = Капустинський in Ukrainian

When Father was born in 1913, this was Galicia Province, administered by ethnic Poles for the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
During Interwar Period wies/village Bortniki > Bobrka powiat > Chodorow gmina>Lwowskie wojiwodstwo > Reconstituted Poland

GC Church in Bortniki.

TODAY Бортники> Жидачівський район> Льві́вська о́бласть
selo/village Bortnyky >Zhydachivskij raion/district > Lvivska oblast/region > Ukraine, latest zip code 81721 - population 1,100+

[IreneLviv]

Yes - Khodoriv is within the Zhdachiv district
There is one Kapustynsky in Zhydachiv.

[Hannia]

LDS has copied Greek Catholic Records for your ancestral village, but the cut off is 1912. Consider asking Irene to fill in the gap for you. Your surname is concentration in the Ternopilska region. Very few in Lvivska region. Do you have any idea what was your paternal Grandmother's name might have been??? Father's baptismal certificate would be valuable to your search???

Greek Catholic Church. Bortniki (Chodorów) (Main Author)

Notes
Microreproduction of original manuscripts at the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in L′viv.
Greek Catholic Church records (births, marriages, deaths) for Bortniki (Chodorów), Galizien, Austria; later Bortniki (Bóbrka), Lwów, Poland; now Bortnyky, Z︠H︡ydachiv, L′viv, Ukraine. Text in Latin, Russian, and Ukrainian.
Record group 201, series 4A, files 450-451, 6278.

Subjects
Austria, Galizien, Bortniki (Chodorów) - Church records
Poland, Lwów, Bortniki (Bóbrka) - Church records
Україна, Львів, Жидачів, Бортники - Метричні книги
Ukraine, L′viv, Z︠H︡ydachiv, Bortnyky - Church records

Format
Manuscript (On Film)

Language
Latin
Russian
Ukrainian

Publication
Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1994-2003

Physical
on 2 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

Film Notes
Note - Location [Film]
Volume 201-4A/450 Births, marriages, deaths 1868-1870 - FHL INTL Film [ 1922822 Item 6 ]
Volume 201-4A/451 Births, marriages, deaths 1835-1838 -- Births, marriages, deaths 1840-1847 -- Births, marriages, deaths 1849-1850 -- Births, marriages, deaths 1852 -- Births, marriages, deaths 1854-1857 -- Births, marriages, deaths 1859 -- Deaths 1861 -- Births, marriages, deaths 1862-1864 -- Marriages 1865 -- Deaths 1865-1866 - FHL INTL Film [ 1922822 Item 7 ]
Volume 201-4A/6278 Births, marriages, deaths 1871-1878 -- Births, marriages, deaths 1889-1912 (out of order) - FHL INTL Film [ 2376409 Item 2 ]

[Hannia]

There are photos here that you should examine. These were taken in Rimini POW Camp.
Rimini DP Camps in Italy