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2005-01-27
Emigration of Bandera’s Polish Silesians 150 years ago
by Elenora Dugosh Goodley
After Napoleon freed a part of Poland in 1817, problems arose for the Polish people. An agreement was made at the Congress of Vienna in Austria. Austria took the Polish Saxony region and Russia took most of Poland
2005-02-03
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
Simon Adamietz was born in Poland in 1802. He married Josepha (Josephine) Conietzko in Poland. Josepha and Simon had two sons, John and Albert. The Adamietz family came to America in 1855 and settled in Bandera.
2005-02-10
Franz Anderwald Family Part 1 of 2
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
Franz Anderwald was the son of John Anderwald and Barbara Lippok. He was born in Kadlub, Poland, on Aug. 24, 1809. He married Elisabeth Adamietz in 1834.
2005-02-17
Franz Anderwald Family Part 2 of 2
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
John, the fourth child of Franz and Elizabeth, was born May 10, 1843 in Prussia. He built a two-room rock house with a rock lean-to across the back of his property south of town near the Julian Creek.
2005-02-24
John Dugosh (Jan Johann Dlugosz) Family Part 1 of 2
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
John Dugosh was born on May 10, 1823 to Jacob (Dugosh) Dlugosz and Anna Sowka of Rozmierz, Poland. John married Franciska Kasperczyk in 1847 at St. Michael Catholic Church in Rozmierz.
2005-03-03
John Dugosh (Jan Johann Dlugosz) Family Part 2 of 2
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
Matilda (Tillie) left Bandera to live in San Antonio. She worked at Bus Barns Café where she met her husband, Rufus McNees. They had two sons, Robert and Roger. Tillie was an active member of St. Ann’s Altar Society in San Antonio
2005-03-10
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
Albert Haiduk was born in Upper Silesian Poland about 1810. The Albert Haiduk (Heyduck) family was listed on the Dec. 9, 1854 “Weser” (ship) passenger list from the Polish town of Grossstrelze.
2005-03-17
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
Franz Jureczki (Jureczko) was the son of Jacob Jureczki and Sophia Graca. He was born April 19, 1828 in Laziska, Poland. Franz married Caroline Koza of Jemielnica, Poland on Nov. 25, 1851.
2005-03-24
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
Jacob Jureczki (Jureczko) was born in 1823. Jacob was the older brother of Franz Jureczki. Jacob was baptized in St. Michael Catholic Church in Rozmierz, Poland. Jacob married Thecla Matyszek in Jemielnica, Poland in 1849.
2005-03-31
Casper Kalka Family Part 1 of 2
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
Casper Kalka (Kelfer, Kalkau) was born in 1819 in Kadlub, Poland (Prussia). His parents were Simon Kalka and Francisca Petruska. Casper married Marianna Kolibaba in 1847 in St.
2005-04-07
By Elenora (Dugosh) Goodl
Henry Paul was born in 1891. He married Susan Anderwald in 1912 in Bandera. Henry was a man of many talents. He was a carpenter by trade and a contract builder. He taught his trades to his children.
2005-04-14
By Elenora (Dugosh) Goodl
John Kindla was born in 1805 in Centawa, Poland. He was the son of Anton Kinel and Rosalia Burczka. John married Franciska Susanna Gorel (Goryl) in 1831 in the bride’s home parish of Sw. Jana Chrzciciela in Poland. John was a carpenter
2005-04-21
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
Joseph Knappik was the son of Zophia Jaksik and Gregor Knappick (Knopik) and the grandson of Silvester Knopik. He was born in Puskowie, Poland, in 1813. Joseph married Magdalena Pieczka in Sw. (St) Stanislawa Catholic Church in 1834.
2005-04-28
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
Thomas Mazurek was born around 1816. He married Hedvega Batlarek in 1840 in Upper Silesia Prussia/Poland. Two children were born to Thomas and Hedvega in Poland: Josephine and Phillip.
2005-05-01
By Eleanora Dugosh Goodle
Helen was born in 1895. She married Albert Jureczki in 1914. Albert died in 1960. Helen and Albert were the parents of seven children: Leonard, Beatrice, Lloyd, Gervasius, Richard, Mildred, and Charles.
2005-05-12
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
Luke Mazurek was born in 1869 to Thomas and Mary Mazurek in Bandera. Luke married Marciana Haiduk in 1893. He built a rock house on Pecan Street. The house is still owned by his descendants.
2005-05-19
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
Johann Pyka was born June 23, 1821 in the village of Kamien Slaski, Poland. He married Francisca Jaszkowitz on Oct. 2, 1843. Four children were born to John and Francisca, in Poland: Marianna, Constantina, John Jr. and Franciska (Frances).
2005-05-26
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
Anton Pyka was born in Kamien Slaski, Poland on Jan. 18, 1824. He was the son of Franz and Susana Pyka and brother of Johann Pyka who came to Bandera in the early part of 1855
2005-06-02
Summary of Bandera’s Polish Pioneers
By Elenora Dugosh Goodley
The New York Immigration Bureau estimated the Polish immigration from 1851 to 1860 at about 816 people through the port of New York. This was more than all the ports combined from New York to Galveston.
2005-06-02
Bandera delegation given royal welcome by Polish Officials
By Eleanora Dugosh Goodle
Dugosh family members Beanie Butler, Mary Clements, Roy Dugosh, Elenora Dugosh Goodley, and her husband John Goodley, just returned from a visit to Strzelce Opolskie, Poland where they were given a royal welcome.
2008-04-17
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