Thanks very much to Dennis, Mary, Joe, Laurence, John, and Aga who have all helped me to figure this out! About the only thing I still can't decipher or find is the name of the town listed (handwritten) on the ship's manifest as Katarzyna Tyssowska's birthplace: "REYSKO" (??), or...?? I am unsure of the spelling and can't seem to find a location for this town or area. I suspect it may also be somewhere between Tarno~w and L~wo~w, perhaps near the (modern) Poland/Ukraine border. (Possibly it is "Rysko" (??) - still don't see that on a map, either, although it does come up as a surname...). Thanks again for everyone's invaluable input and help - a lot of good information! Regards, Frank > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:16:09 -0500 > From: "Dennis Benarz" <benarz@hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: [GALICIA] TYSSOWSKA, Katarzyna > To: <galicia@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <BAY141-DAV11CD65B52076608A84BC8FCF7D0@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Hi Mary and Frank > > HUJSKO was in the Dobromil administrative district and Dobromil township > (gmina). Roman Catholic residents worshipped at Falkenberg, Jewish > residents > at Dobromil, and Greek Catholic residents at Hujsko. > > Cheers! > > Dennis > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Snow" <marysnow@bellsouth.net> > To: <galicia@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:37 AM > Subject: Re: [GALICIA] TYSSOWSKA, Katarzyna > > >> Katarzyna was going to brother Mikolaj Tysowski in Wilmington, DE, found >> in 1910 census under Michael Tisouski. A search for the surname >> Tysowska/Tysowski yields other immigrants from the same town; maybe >> Hujsko (sp). >> >> Mikolai Tysowski arrival at Ellis Island: >> http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipManifest.asp?pID=102167050404 >> >> Regards, >> Mary >> >> Frank Johnson wrote: >>> List - >>> >>> Can anyone help me decipher some handwriting on a steamship Passenger >>> List? >>> >>> My ancestors are surnamed TYSSOWSKI (or TYSOWSKI) and they originally >>> came from Galicia. >>> >>> I came across this name while looking at Passenger Lists on >>> Ancestry.com.: Katarzyna (or, Katarcyna?) Tyssowska was a passenger on >>> a >>> ship from Bremen arriving in NY in 1907; she was age 16 (b. abt. 1891), >>> b. in "Reysko" (sp?), Ethnicity/Race: "Ruthenian" (which makes sense if >>> I >>> understand the term correctly), Last Permanent Residence: "H_jsko"(??), >>> Galicia. It is stated that she was going to join a "brother" at an >>> address in "Wilmington, Delaware". (Of a similar spelling to the place >>> "Reysko", the surname "Rysko" seems to be relatively common in Ukraine >>> but I don't know if there might also be a town or place of the same >>> name). >>> >>> Does anyone recognize these Galicia place names or know their exact >>> locations? Are they in SE Poland, or in what is now Ukraine? >>> >>> I can't find any other record of her (e.g. 1910 US Census, etc,) nor can >>> I find any record of the "brother" named Tyssowski she was supposed to >>> be >>> joining in Delaware. There are many Tyssowskis living in Washington, >>> D.C., in 1910, and all of them, as far as I can tell, are relatives we >>> know about, and all of them are descended from or related to my >>> g.g.grandparents, Jan Tyssowski & Antoinette Lenska, and their 7 >>> children. Jan's father, Jozef Tysowski (1779-1820), was supposedly from >>> Lwow, Ukraine, and records indicate that many of the Tyssowskis, >>> including Jan, spent time in that area as well as in Krakow and Tarnow, >>> Poland, where Jan Tyssowski was born in 1811 - he and his family >>> immigrated to the US in 1848. >>> >>> As far as we know, the name TYSSOWSKI is not very common in Poland or, >>> for that matter, in Ukraine either. Therefore, we are hoping that >>> information about this person may yield a clue about where in Galicia >>> the >>> line may have originated. >>> >>> I would be happy to forward an image of the passenger list record (or >>> you >>> can look it up on ancestry.com) if anyone would like to try to help us >>> decipher the handwriting and/or to figure out who this Katar_yna >>> Tyssowska was and where, exactly, she came from. We have been >>> researching the Tyssowski line for several years (but not, >>> unfortunately, >>> in Ukraine) and have compiled extensive data about the large extended >>> family of descendants in the US but we have never heard of anyone with >>> the given name of Katarzyna, Katarcyna, or Kathryn/Catherine. >>> >>> I don't know if it's possible to attach the passenger list record here, >>> so please contact me off-list directly: paco@gbis.com I would >>> appreciate >>> any help that might be offered! >>> >>> Frank J. >>> >>> Researching: TYSSOWSKI (TYSOWSKI), L~E~SKA, PACIORKOWSKA