1st Great Grandparents
Married October 13, 1874 Kitsman, Bukovina, Austria
Searching church book records for this time period, religion and geographical area is extremely difficult because the records are hand written in various languages in Cyrillic script. Also none of these records are indexed so each page must be manually reviewed. House numbers also play an important role in searching these records.
Grigoriu Holenchuk was born on September 2, 1848 in house #62 in Kitsman, Bukovina, Austria to Ivan Holenchuk and Maria Holovachuk. Elena Cojocar was born on June 1, 1854 in house #182 in Kitsman, Bukovina to Ivan Cojocar and Nastasia Reznec. Grigoriu and Elena were married on October 13, 1874 in Kitsman. They had 9 children.
Anna: Sepetember 17, 1875 Kitsman - February 28, 1876 Kitsman. Died as a child
Georgiu: February 7, 1877 Kitsman - August 21, 1880 Kitsman. Died as a child
Dimitriu: February 18, 1880 Kitsman - August 25, 1881 Kitsman. Died as a child
Safta: May 30, 1882 Kitsman - unknown. Married Ivan Cantemir (1877-?) on July 23, 1900 in Kitsman. They had at least 5 children: Anna (1901-1910), Ivana (1903-1904), Wasyl (1904-?), Domna (1907-?) and Georgiu (1910-?)
Anna: September 15, 1884 Kitsman - February 23, 1898 Kitsman. Died as a teenager.
Maria: October 17, 1886 Kitsman - unknown. No further information found.
George: July 21, 1889 Kitsman - 1961 Manitoba. George immigrated to Canada on April 2, 1906, first settling in Alberta before moving to Manitoba. First marriage was to Sophia Bloschuk (1900-1928) on February 17, 1916 in St. Clements, Manitoba. They had 6 children: Kathleen (1917-2002), William (1919-1944), Anne (1921-2008), George (1922-2008), Mary (1923-?), Doris (1927-?). After Sophia died. George married Pearl Semenuik (1910-?) on July 28, 1929 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They had 1 son John (1931).
Dora: June 12, 1892 Kitsman - July 15, 1966 Edmonton, Alberta. Our maternal grandmother.
Vasiliu: December 18, 1894 Kitsman - September 8, 1899 Kitsman. Died as a child
Elena died on November 24, 1902 in Kitsman. Grigoriu married Maria Zhuchkan (1855-?) on January 23, 1903. They did not have any children together.