Living at 912 7th St in Wilmington Del (1910) was a Michael Tysowski (Michael Tysouski, ancestry.com) Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Wilmington Ward 8, New Castle, Delaware; Roll: T624_147; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 51; Image: 717. This looks like the address found on the ship manifest. John fm Milw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Johnson" <paco@gbis.com> To: <POLAND-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:00 AM Subject: [POLAND] TYSSOWSKA, Katarzyna > 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. > > (Also posted to Galicia List) > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at > Poland-Roots-admin@rootsweb.com > ---------------------------------- > Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as > long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: > researching our Polish roots. > ---------------------------------- > Browse the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots > Search the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLAND-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message