Jozef "Joseph" Augustyn^[1]

1884 - 1925  (40 years)

• Name	Jozef "Joseph" Augustyn
  Born	21 Mar 1884	, Poland   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Joseph Augustyn
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-114605
  Died	10 Jan 1925	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Buried	Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Person ID	I114605	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Family	Eleanora Polinkiewicz,   b. 1892, , Poland ,   d. 1963, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 71 years)
  Children	1. Veronica "Vera" Augustyn,   b. 14 Jan 1910, , Poland ,   d. 16 Nov 1999, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 89 years)   2. Mary Augustyn,   b. 1911, , Poland ,   d. 1995  (Age 84 years)   3. Helen Catherine Augustyn,   b. 1914,   d. 2003  (Age 89 years)   4. Anne Sophie Augustyn,   b. 5 Feb 1924, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 10 Apr 2011, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 87 years)   5. Joseph W. Augustyn,   b. 15 Nov 1925, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 2 Feb 1988, Worcester, , Worcestershire, England  (Age 62 years)
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F28976	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Jozef (Joseph) Augustyn image from Find A Grave via Larry Augustyn 2012

  
  

• Notes

  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

  
  

• Sources

  [S87] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Woodland CC#4510 Internet Link . Mother/ Eleanora Augustyn/ 1892-1963/ Rest In Peace [S3231] Find A Grave, Jozef (Joseph) Augustyn (1884 - 1925) - Find A Grave Memorial. (2017). Findagrave.com. Retrieved 27 April 2017, from https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=161&GScid=2130194&GRid=92128187&.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 21 Mar 1884 - , Poland Died - 10 Jan 1925 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth