Welcome to the Medwid * Medvid * Medwed page
In Ukrainian, med means honey and vedmid means bear. The combination may be... honey bear. Or, maybe one who collects of honey.
If anyone knows, differently... Olga Kaczmar's tree: About Stefan Wachalivski and Maria Medwid
Stephanus Wachalivski was born in 1790, in house #1 in Javirnyk near Sanok, now Poland (previously Austria.) Stephan married Maria Medwid / Medwidivna (of Dolzyca) in 1812. He was a large landowner and a molinaris (miller). At age 57 years, he died in 1847 in house #59.
Stephan's wife, Maria Medwid, was born in 1794 in Dolzyca, Austria (daughter of Theodore or Fedor Medwid and Anastasia Mirga) and died in 1842 at 48 years old. Together, Stefan and Maria had 10 children: Joseph (born 1813); Theodoro (born 1815); Basilus (born 1819); Onufrius (born 1821); Anoseas (born 1826); Theodora Fenna (born 1828 - a New Year baby); Michael (born 1831); Anna (born ?); Magdalena
Stephan and Maria's eldest child Joseph Wachalivski married Tekla Chalupa. Joseph and Tekla had a child named Stefan (b: 25 Dec 1859), who married Maria. Stefan and Maria had a child named Nikolai (born 1891 died 1963), who was my grandfather. That is 6 generations from me.
Medwied / Medwid / Nedwid / Niedwiedz / Medvid from Austrian Cadatral Records, 1787, cited by Krasovs'kyj: See: Medwid from Dolzyca. , item #11, St. Michael the Archangel church destroyed in 1840, see LDS film #0766018 Komancza
Maria Medwid, (daughter of Stefani Medwid and Anna Pankowychi of Dolzyca, age 25) married Joseph Giga (son of Theodor & Anna Giga) married on June 3, 1855
Joannes Medwid (son of Jacobi Medwid of Dolzyca, age 18 born 1799) married Anna Leczcynza, (daughter of Gregorii, age 15, born 1802); married in Komancza on 27 Jan 1817. Town of Kjaton / Kjatona / Kwiaton there were two families belong to St Paraskevija church. ,
Town of Volovec / Wolowiec, families from Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1880, still standing.
Town of Vyslok Velykyu / Wislok Wielki, see item #92 LDS film 0765864, Church Holy Ghost
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MISC. MEDWID NOTES FROM LDS FILM # 076604
Father: Michael Luczka, son of Theodore Luczka and Mariae Balaz, famers, Corlium (land owners)
Mother: Anna, daughter of Stephani Torhan and Parascevae Medwid, farmers in Dolcyca
Above Anna Torhan and Michael Luczka had daughter Maria Luczka on 26 May 1870 in Radoszyce in house #86
Father: Theodorus Medwid, farmer in Radoszyce, son of Basillus Medwid farmer, Dolczca and Anna Greg denca?
Mother: Thecla orginally of father, Theodore Cap, farmer in ?, and mother Maria, daughter of Dudyk
Baby: Above Theodor Medwid and Thecla Cap Medwid had daughter Juliarinati Medwid on 28 December 1863 in house #114 in Radoszyce
2/6/11
Thank you Olga for all your work on the Medwid
family!
I would appreciate any information from anyone who reads this website on the
Katarzyna Medwich
She
married Grzegorz Dolzycki of Dolzyca or Smolnik (Sanok, Poland)
Their children were:
Maria Dolzycka (b. 1850),
Irena Dolzycka (b. 1851),
Jan Dolzycki (b. 1861),
Andrzej Dolzycki (b. 1864),
Metro (Dymitri) Dolzycki (m. Anna Sawoczka), and
Wasyl Dolzycki (m. Helen Soroka).
My email address: jintalia@yahoo.com"
RE: Komancza LDS film #766081 Medwids in my line:
Maria Medwid (born 1882) was my grandmother. Her father, Wasyl or Basilius, his father was Michael Medwid who was the son of Panko or Panteleimon Medwid and Panko was the son of Iwan Medwid and Anna Lewicki.
Donna Hoff-Grambau
5/10/10 Hi
Olga,
My great grandmother, Florence
Medwid sent two of her daughters to America
in early 1900's; Martha and Akila Medwid.
Martha married Peter Hurey and settled in Pittsburgh; Akila married August
Gabor and settled in Charleroi, PA.
It's been difficult getting info on Hurey's and Gabor's background although
I believe they were familiar with each other in the old country.
The attached picture (click to
enlarge) of Florence Medwid appears
to have
been taken out
in the fields (she picked potatoes) but I thought the backdrop,
that carpet, may be of significance to a particular village. It may just be
a backdrop!! I would like to know a village/town name. It's in the Lemko region.
The name Kjaton/Kjatona sound very familiar !
Being a fellow Pittsburgher, you know how difficult it is to get church records.
It seems everyone had a fire or flood and records are not available. I appreciate
your involvement and help. Best regards, Lola lowuch@gmail.com
Thank you for your website. My husband's Medwid line came from Chernicza, Brody, Poland, although by the time his grandfather returned in the 1970s, it was part of Ukraine. Holly
My mother's maiden name is Orysia Medwid. She was born in Ukraine and
came to America with her parents Iwanna and Volydimir Medwid. His
parents, also from Ukraine, are Michael Medwid and Maria Tamasiuk.
I think he had two sisters named Yula Khowaylo and Steffa (don't
know her married name). Sound familiar??? Hope so.
Helena , Virginia
My great grandfather Stefan Medvigy was from Dolzyca, Poland. He was
born in 1835. He left Dolzyca around 1855 to 1865?? and traveled across the Carpathian
Mountains and settled in Polata, Slovakia. Polata is where my grandmother was
born. She later emigrated to Pittsburgh, PA in the USA.
Regards, Mike Kozy, Pittsburgh, PA.
Unfortunately, I don't have enough on my Medwid family from Galicia to be able to connect to yours. I know mine lived in Smerek, Lisko county.
3x GGF.........................George Medwid + Anna Tokarczyk
2x GGF.........................Joannes Medwid + Pelagia Lazoryszyn
GGF..............................Mikolai Medwid + Kristina Bettle (in USA)
Pelagia remarried after my GGGF died. She married Mike Kopylczak and they lived in Strubowiska. They had 4 kids, 3 of which came to the USA. My GGF, Mikolai had a brother and sister that also emigrated.
Regards, Jean
Plazek, Ohio
Searching Mary Miedwid Noreen Krutz (Olga's comment: Unfortunately, every one had a Mary in the family. It's hard to track the Marys.)
My grandfather, Walter Medwid immigrated from Poland to the US around
1929 or 1930. He died in 1979 in the town where he had lived about 50 years in
Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. His wife and my grandmother was Anna Boyko from
the Ukraine. She passed away just a couple of years ago.
Cheers, e-mail: Michael Medwid Michael & Sonya
Medwid home page
3/18/06
My G-Ggparents were Giga's and Medwid's too. Do you know a Yuri (George)? Giga
married a Maria Medwid (married around 1920, both born around the turn of the
century), four children (three girls, one boy) that lived in southern Poland
and Ukraine?
Chris, email: sparkled5@optonline.net
Olga
Kaczmar / USA