lost in ukraina

[PaulineFrances]

Iam interested in the history of the name and the people with my grandfather's last name His name was Roman Iwanyszyn , which we now spell Ewanyshyn. He came to Canada on two seperate trips . Once to join his older brother , Yurko and his family . There is a record of Yurko and family entering Canada but I cannot locate entry records of Roman and/or his other brother Wasyl and family , nor entry of the family of their other brother Ivan , who had died in Ukraine. Roman returned to Ukraine in December 1906 , to pick up his 3 children from his 1st wife [ Melania Zachlanna]. She passed away in about 1904 . He later married Paulina Yacyshyn in Canada in the Rossburn area in Feb. 1906. Family information states he returned once again to Canada on April 15, 1907 at St. John , New Brunswick on the S.S. Mount Royal. Can anyone help me track down some info on his return with his 3 children Steven , Marie and John . Also loking for any history on my grandmothers family , the Yacyshyn's in Ukraine . Many have settled in Saskatchewan and some in Manitoba , Canada. The 2 villages mentioned for Roman are Tarnavka and Pilatkiwi. Thanks for the info received recently on these 2 villages.

[Czubak]

FOLLOW THE FURROW page 174:
"Wasyl Iwanyshyn was born in Halychyna (western Ukraine) on January 7, 1877. At that time, this part of the Ukraine was under Austrian rule."
"Upon reaching the age of 21, he was called up to the Austrian Army and served his term of three years in the Feld-Jager Battalion. He was discharged in 1901 and joined the police force, serving as a policeman in the city of Hordenka until 1906."
"On November 18, 1901 he married Docia Kindrachuk, the eldest daughter of a widow."
-after immigration in 1906: "Late in October of that year, one could see long lines of loaded wagons, drawn by oxen, leave Rosthern and head west, 'past the Doukhobor's as the people used to say. It was cold, and when they camped they often found there food frozen hard. Often, the bread had to be chopped with an axe. It was a slow trip.
"Wasyl dug a hole in the side of a high bank of the creek, and that was their first home."
"Seeing no future for himself or his family, and being ever subject to army service, he decided to immigrate to Canada. Docia's mother, Maria, had a brother, Stefan, already living in Fish Creek area of Saskatchewan who kept urging them to come and take advantage of the free lands. In April 1906 Wasyl, with his family and younger sister Wasylyna, joined the Kindrachuk family and left by train for Trieste. Wasyl's married sister, Maria, refused to go.
"In Trieste, they boarded the ship "Georgia" and on May 24, 1906 arrived in New York. From there, they left by train for Montreal. While on board ship, little Maria took ill and had to be taken to a hospital upon arrival. The rest of the group continued on, but Wasyl and Docia had to stay behind. Unfortunately, Maria died and had to be buried before they could continue on their journey - not a very auspicious beginning of life in the new world."
"Not being of good health, he retired from farming, and a short time before his death, he and Docia went to live with his son Peter in Denholm. On February 25, 1950 he died in the North Battleford Hospital and was buried in the Ukrainian Orthodox cemetery in Hafford."

FROM "FOLLOW THE FURROW"
I HAVE OTHERS IN MY DATABASE, BUT MOST JUST LIST THEY ARE FROM UKRAINE.

A CZUBAK