GENEALOGY
MATERNAL SIDE
THE CHWEDCHUKS IN POLAND, BALRUS AND RUSSIA
WOYTOWICH DESCENDANTS
UNKOWN WOYTOWICH
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Unknown Woytowich and ?
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Catherine (Ekaterina) Woytowich (-c 1922), b. probably STARA STRELNA, BELORUSSIA
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Unknown Brother
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Paul (Pavlo) Woytowich
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Ivan Woytowich (stayed in Stara Strelna, now Strelno)
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CATHERINE (EKATERINA) WOYTOWICH
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Catherine (Ekaterina) Woytowich (-c 1922), b. probably STARA STRELNA, BELORUSSIA married Daniel Chwedchuk (1876-1949), b. STARA STRELNA, BELORUSSIA, d. SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
ANCESTRAL GENEALOGICAL NOTES
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Catherine (Ekaterina) Chwedchuk (Fled in c. 1914 to the Ural Mountains near Ufa where she died in 1921 together with her two daughters (died of cholera) when the family, that included Anton - but not Daniel who was in the USA since 1913 - left to return to Stara Strelna [Strelno, Poland].
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Paul (Pavlo) Woytowich went to USA c. 1913 and lived with Daniel Chwedchuk (1876-1949) [Fedchuk in the USA] who came alone to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1913. Paul (Pavlo) Woytowich married a widow (who had two children) after 1949. He probably had no children of his own.
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Stara Strelna [Old Strelna]: Later, until 1918, Strelno in German when it was located in Prussia; Afterwards, 1918-1939, Strzelno in Polish when it was located in Poland], Volost of Yanovo, Drohichin Region, Belorussia [Strelna in Belarus: СТРЕЛЬНА] - Belarus pre 1918 and post 1945, sometimes known as White Russia]
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Village Strzelna, district of Drohiczynsk
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Stara Strelna [Stara Strzelna] village, Brest Oblat, Ivanov Region, Belorussia, was near Kobrin, about 120 km east of Brest, and 20 km east of Drogichin [Drahicyn].
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Village of Alexandrovka, Volost of Nagat [Nagadat], Sterlitamak Region, Oblast of Ufa, USSR, about 2000 kilometers from Stara Strelna [Strelno, Poland].
SOURCES
Leonard Chwedchuk, From Revolution to Depression (Memoirs of an immigrant family from Eastern Europe arriving in Canada in 1930) (Ottawa, January, 1999)
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