Jozef "Joseph" Augustyn

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• Name: Joseph Augustyn
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-114605

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Wojciech Augustyn was born in the former Mazowsze Region of Poland, which is now the Mazovia Province. As a seasonal farm worker he met Matrona Wilczynski in Jezupol, Galicia (now Yezupil, Ukraine) and married there on 24 February 1881. He and Matrona had 11 children. They owned 50 acres of land which they farmed and also owned a butcher shop in Jezupol. Wojciech died at age 53. Church records state he died of asthma, but family lore says he died from injuries sustained in an accident working on his property. At the time of Wojciech's death the town was Jezupol, Poland, which was in Galicia. It became part of the Soviet Ukraine during WWII. I hired a Ukrainian researcher in October of 2014 and he found that the old part of the Polish cemetery at the old Roman Catholic Church in Yezupil, where he was buried according to church records on 21 May 1908, was destroyed or desecrated during WWII and no sign of a grave exists anymore. Ethnic Poles who were in Yezupil at the time of the transformation into the Soviet Ukraine were either killed or forced to leave by the Nazis and Russians- some to Siberia, others to western and southern Poland. There was also an attempt to erase all signs of Polish existence there, including the destruction of cemeteries. The area where the old cemetery was is now overgrown and untended. There is every reason to believe there was a headstone at the time of burial, but it is now gone.

Cemetery, O., & Cemetery, O. (1855). Wojciech Augustyn (1855-1908) - Find A Grave... Retrieved 13 April 2021, from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92126981/wojciech-augustyn

Jozef — Eleanora Polinkiewicz. Eleanora was born 1892, , Poland; died 1963, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Veronica "Vera" Augustyn was born 14 Jan 1910, , Poland; died 16 Nov 1999, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
2. Mary Augustyn was born 1911, , Poland; died 1995; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
3. Helen Catherine Augustyn was born 1914; died 2003; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
4. Anne Sophie Augustyn was born 5 Feb 1924, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 10 Apr 2011, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
5. Joseph W. Augustyn was born 15 Nov 1925, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 2 Feb 1988, Worcester, , Worcestershire, England.