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Gawels in Amsterdam, NY

davelo — 2012-04-27 23:54:50Z

John Gawel born in 1906 in Amsterdam, NY to Frank Gawel and Katinzyna Sszegok. Rumor has it they soon returned to Poland and John came back by 1930 and married Stella Illnicki. The family does seem to disappear from US records until John appears in the 1930 census with Stella. There are other Gawels living in Amsterdam from the early 1900s until at least the 1920s but not sure of the connection. Does anyone know much about this family? Thanks.

John later changes name to Gavel

Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

barkko — 2012-02-12 00:52:59Z

Barbara Ann Gawel wasa classmate of mine at St Stanislaus Kostka Scool in Wilmington, DE. We graduated in 1954.

GAWEL John L - Vietnam Wall section 29W

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Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

thegavel — 2009-05-17 11:45:37Z

Jozef would not have been a close relative of mine, we came from Widelka which is near your town. I found a record showing that Jozef Gawel, age 35 years, came to the US on February 19, 1912 from Krezczkova, Austria. It gave his brother's name as Wojciech. Based on the name of his town this would seem to be your grandfather. I found two men who could have been Jozef one lived in Connecticut and the other in Cleveland, Ohio. If you would like I can look further and see what more I can find. If your mother or any of her brothers or sisters were born after 1912 then this Jozef would not be the right one. Some times the old records were wrong or misread and you just cannot trace people.

Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

danmacoignat — 2009-05-17 02:34:30Z

My GOD ALL MIGHTY bless whole familys of GAWEL,and MY LORD CHRIST,Save You for ever,through His mercy.amen.
My name is Danuta Maciolek ,and my mother"s name is
ANIELA GAWEL ,she born and living now in vilage KRACZKOWA near RZESZOW ,and LANCUT.My grandfather JOZEF GAWEL emigrat to US,befor 2 WAR.He was all ready merit with Maria NOWAK,they have 4 daughtres;Helena,Weronika,Bronislawa and Aniela,only Aniela Gawel is a live,JOZEF GAWEL never come back to POLAND -Kraczkowa,my mather Aniela Gawel miss Him all the time.WE know,He was merid again in USA and He had childeren,till 1980 Helena Gawel resivet for Christmas letter from someone of HIs NEW Family.Now,Im daughter of Aniela Gawel ,Aniela was merit with Tadeusz Maciolek-from Futoma/Rzeszow/Poland and God gived them 6 childern EDWARD,IRENA,GENOWEFA,ZBIGNIEW ,DANUTA(myselve 44)and Alina-Alicja.Im missing my new family,I LOVE THEM with Christ LOVE,ANIELA GAWEL still a live with GRACE of THE LORD.
It be GEAT for ,to have contack with one of JOZEF GAWEL family,GOd bless YOu.

Saskatchewan Gawel Family

desireeofsaturn — 2008-09-05 22:00:08Z

I've never looked into the family lines of Gawel. My dad's name is Ron Gawel, and his brother is Jack Gawel. My grandma was Wanda Gawel, but I am not sure what granpa's name was - he died before I was born.

Re: Gawels in Michigan/Detroit

lipgloss30 — 2008-07-25 07:43:16Z

my name is anna laver-gawel and i am 10
my granmother is anna gawel we live in australia she had to move here because of the war in poland she was captured and lost all her reatives please contact me if this connects with you
love anna

Gawel/Szelc in Milwaukee

wolnduffy — 2006-06-15 02:58:06Z

Looking for some relations of APOLONIA GAWEL. She was from Sigorska Dolna (?) Poland/Austria and came to the USA via Philadelphia in 1899. She was going to John Dentkos in Milwaukee. On Sept. 9, 1900 she married JOHN SZELC. This record lists her parents as WAWRZYNIEC GAWEL and ANNA ORZECHOWSKA. They had children who include: Frances, Frank, Thomas, Ludwig, John, Paul, and Mary. Apolonia died Nov. 28, 1956 in Milwaukee.

Widelka research

LouiseB74 — 2006-05-27 20:30:46Z

Have you been able to locate church records or census records for Widelka? My g-g-great-grandfather, Michal SUSEK, was born there in 1837. He was illegitimate, and his mother was Katarzyna Susek, also born in Widelka (year unknown). Michal was later married (to Hedvig ZUBER in 1867) and lived in Kupno, and I've been very successful tracing the line from that point forward. But I have had no success with Widelka.

Gawels in Michigan/Detroit

DebbieCiak57 — 2006-02-17 14:38:59Z

I am looking to exchange information with anyone looking for the Gawels in the Detroit Michigan area. I have one relative (Anna Gawel) but can not make a connection to any of the others living there - I have found her application for marriage it lists Charlie as her father and Solomon as her mother.

Please contact me if you have any insights
thank you
Debbie

Louise Buber

2005-01-19 00:10:36Z

Louise Buber made a CD-ROM no 1524 of data around Kolbuszowa, Poland. How do I contact her for more information on what is on the CD and how do I go about obtaining a copy?

Re: Gavel History

meghanrowan — 2003-12-30 03:15:57Z

My ggrandfather, Jozef Wilczek (b. 1878), son of Michael and ___ Budz Wilczek, was supposedly born in Chocholow. In your research of the films, have you found any Wilczeks in Lesnica?
Jozef emigrated to Chicago.
Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Widelka research

2003-12-20 17:30:25Z

Your best bet would be to get the church records for Kolbuszawa/Widelka through the nearest Family History Center. They microfilmed records of that era (up to the 1850's). The records are in Latin mostly but are fairly easy to figure out. There are other routes to get to the records (they exist today) but for the dates you are looking for, the LDS FHC is the cheapest and possibly faster way to access them.

Re: Gawel

2003-08-07 06:01:06Z

Read and passed your PGSA translation on Palikowka to our fellow researcher. A town of 800 people with lots of Gawels. Widelka had 300 households with about 20 of them being Gawels. I guess that in small farming communities the smaller bloodlines run out of males and go away while the larger ones just grow....

Re: Gawel

2003-08-06 23:09:52Z

Those don't ring a bell but there were LOTS of Gawels in Palikowka. I'll keep looking

Re: Gawel

thegavel — 2003-08-06 14:06:09Z

You have anything on either a Blazej Gawel born 1860, brother Ignatz, father Gregorz from Palakowka?

Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

2003-08-03 08:05:54Z

It would be easier if we took this offline that way I don't have to retype a lot of information that I otherwise could just mail you. Click on my name and email me your address. You need to do a couple of things. First come up with some goals for your research - "I want to know everything I can find out" could cost you hundreds of dollars and not make you happy. I think it's best to do as much US research as is reasonable before trying to do research in Poland. You should be able to find Blaze's WWI draft registration card and quite a bit of other info that is relatively low cost. There were three versions of the card I believe and one has closest relative in country of immigration so if your lucky you might find out a name and even an address in Palikowka. In the meanwhile I'll scout around for more info on my own. Blaze's daughter Mary was born in the US Feb 1900, do you know who her Godparents were? Back then they often were relatives. Like I said, need to define what you want to know; Blaze's parents names, his brothers and sisters, his Gawel ancestor's as far back as you can go (1800 is often the limit as records started to be required around that time). For the draft registration we'll need to find an address - maybe we can find him in the 1920 census.

Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

2003-08-03 03:20:42Z

Hi John, I don't have Blazej's naturalization papers yet. I do have his Alien Registration Form. According to the form he was born July 13, 1861 in Palikowka, Poland. He entered New York on the SS Lahn on May 16th 1895. He responded to question regarding ever served in military by saying "yes" Infantry from 1882 -1885. He first applied for citizenship in 1923 and states that the papers were lost. He completed another Alien Registration Form in November, 1940.

The form also indicates that he was a member of the Polish National Alliance from 1916 at least until the date he re-submitted the Alien Registration in 1940. His name on the Alien Registration Form is listed as Blazej Albert Gawel.

Hope you can figure something out with this information. As you can tell, I have hit a dead end. Thanks again for taking the time to do this.

Anne

Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

2003-08-02 05:10:28Z

Ann, During WWI Poles served in four Armies; Austro-Hungarian, German, Russian and Haller's or the Polish Army In France which was recruited from Polish immigrants to the US. You should have a couple of things I don't have information-wise with Blazej's naturalization papers. If he came to the US before 1914 he would probably have served in Haller's Army (see the PGSA website for more info/data) - I checked but didn't find him there but I could have missed him. If he came after 1918 he could have served in the Polish Army (they fought a major war with Russia in 1920) but since you said that "there was no Poland then" maybe he served before WWI in the Austrian/German/Russian army during peacetime. But unlike WWI when Polish regiments were grouped together into Legions, the Polish regiments just came from predominently Polish areas and serving in one wouldn't have been serving in a Polish Army. To sort out this confusion can you state what his papers say about when he came to the US, when he applied for citizenship, when it was granted, where they say he came from and what monarch he foreswore allegience to?

Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

2003-08-02 04:35:54Z

Thanks so much for all the information you provided. I have just received Blazej Gawel's application for citizenship. It says he served in the "Polish Army". Since there was no polish army, I am assuming he served in the Austrian Army. I checked a few web sites and noted that I need a regimen number in order to find specific information through his army records but I have no idea how to find the regimen #.

Can you give my any leads as to how to proceed?

And thanks again for all the time and effort you put forth in providing the Gawel information. I really appreciate your help.

Anne

Re: Gawel

2003-07-30 18:47:12Z

Looks like your Jacob and Mary Gawel are buried in the Cedoux Community Cemetery along with some other Gawels.

Transcribed here:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~canada/sk/cedoux/g.htm#Gawel

Re: Gawel

PZolnierczyk — 2003-06-21 20:14:20Z

Look at http://2er.boo.pl/zs/
Gawel is popular in Palikówka parish Laka:

Gawel are good pupil look at "Osiągniecia"

..:: Olimpijczycy:

Wiktor Bojda - Historia - 1989
Fabian Kopeć - Historia - 1991
Agnieszka Gaweł Język Polski 1995
Karol Tomaka Historia 1996
Jacek Dziubek - Język francuski - 1996
Krzysztof Gaweł Język Polski 1998
Gabriela Lisak Język polski - 1999
Łukasz Rzeszutko, Tomasz Jaworski Technika i Elementy Informatyki 2000

Gawel own firm:

Re: Gawel

PZolnierczyk — 2003-06-21 20:14:07Z

Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

thegavel — 2003-06-02 21:43:27Z

Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

mpt80 — 2003-06-02 14:14:57Z

Couldn't help but join this conversation regarding Gawels Up for Grabs.

Hoping you have come across Blaze Gawel (b - 1860 (?), d - 1945) Blaze resided in Chicago, Illinois. He married Aniela Pachorek (b - 1865?; d -1933) Some of their children are:
Catherine, Antoinette, Anna, Mary, Frank, John.

I am trying to find Blaze's place of birth and his parents.

Let me know if you have stumbled across him. Thanks.

Anne

Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

2003-02-14 03:41:23Z

There are Gawels found pretty much from the southwest to the southeast but mine are so far all just north of Rzescow except for Marcin who went off to war with the Soviet Polish Army, married a Ukranian widow with a daughter and settled near Dresden, then East Germany, after the war. He gifted the farm to his 20-some year younger brother and was lost touch with after 1947 or so.

Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

2003-02-13 23:59:36Z

I see Rzeszow. Kroscienko is to the left of there, on the river boarder under Now Sacz. I am now looking for a city Kocur? or something close to that. This is my next city to search where they moved from around 1840. Have you found your gavel's anywhere else in Poland? Patricia

Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

2003-02-13 14:43:50Z

Naturally I couldn't find Kroscienko on the map but based on the index it should be near Rzescow. Widleka is just north of Rzescow in county Kolbuszawa near the town of that name.

Re: A Gawel Up For Grabs...

2003-02-13 03:44:30Z

Haven't talked to you in a while. Glad you have plenty of Gavels to give out. Would like to give away some myself. Was wondering where Widelka is located. Have found my Gawel's in Kroscienko, Poland around 1850 and then moved to Lesnica, Slovakia (changed to Gavel in the move) They listed immigrating from Lukavicz, Hungary. Lived in the US Pittsburgh,PA ; Baltimore, MD; Ohio. We will connect yet. GA peach, Patricia

Gavel History

2003-02-13 03:35:16Z

My gavel family came to US in 1903 to Pittsburgh, PA and Baltimore, MD. They were from Lukavicz/Lesnica Slovakia in the Carpathian Mountains. The next prev. town I found them in 1850's Kroscienko, Poland. I am now looking for a Kocur? Poland. Anything sound familiar please write. I have films for these areas if you need a lookup. thanks, Patricia

Re: Gawel

2003-02-06 12:36:21Z

Thanks you so much I will do that. Jane

Re: Gawel

2003-02-06 10:59:47Z

Palikowka is east of Rzescow and my ancestor's village was Widelka near Przewrotne and Dolna Kolbuszawa which is a bit further to the north of Rzescow but definetly is the vicinity. Since the civil and church archives are at Rzescow it sounds like she could help me also. I've pretty much used up my allowance for February but I'll contact her next month. If you run across an Agnieszka Gawel born 1859 do let me know. She married my great grandfather Gregorz Gawel. Despite the same last name she was said not to be related which probably means she was a distant cousin from a village a bit further away than Przewrotne/Kolbuszawa which was home to other Gawels.

Re: Gawel

2003-02-06 00:37:23Z

Hmmmm. Maybe you should contact her. Iwona Dakiniewicz at genealogy@pro.onet.pl. She found some records there for me. She charges reasonable rates and you can pay her over the web with western union using www.westernunion.com.

Re: Gawel

2003-02-05 13:48:03Z

Was born in Palikowka, Poland on July 10th or 11th 1878

Re: Gawel

2003-02-05 13:33:39Z

Thanks for the help. Jane

Re: Gawel

2003-02-05 03:53:26Z

I have given you all the info I held and could find, like I said If you contact Kevin Schneider: AZDINKS@AOL.com he probably has more information possibly including date and place of birth. Good luck!

Re: Gawel

2003-02-05 01:40:44Z

when and where was he born?

Re: Gawel

thegavel — 2003-02-04 14:59:48Z

Please go to this website where you will find:
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:14756...
ID: I183
Name: Jacob GAWEL
Sex: M
Marriage 1 Mary ZAREMBA b: in Chicago, Ill.
Married: 1906 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada
Children
Henry Jacob GAWEL b: 28 OCT 1908 in Canada
Herman Harry GAWEL b: 21 SEP 1910 in Canada
Joseph J. GAWEL b: 19 FEB 1912 in Canada
Helen GAWEL b: 1914 in Canada
Emil J. GAWEL b: 1 DEC 1921 in Canada
if you click on Mary you can get to:
Children of Antionette ??? and ??? ZAREMBA are:
i. Alex ZAREMBA. He married Mary ???.
ii. Frank ZAREMBA was born 29 NOV 1891, and died OCT 1977. He married ANNE.
iii. Catherine ZAREMBA was born 29 SEP 1885, and died 1966 in Harvey, Ill.. She married John J. GORSKI 6 FEB 1910 in Chigago, Illinois, son of Jacob GORSKI and Catherine ???. He was born 10 MAY 1885, and died 6 APR 1961 in Harvey, Ill..
1. iv. Mary ZAREMBA was born in Chicago, Ill., and died 4 JUN 1974. She married Jacob GAWEL 1906 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada.
When you click on Henry it says he married Ruth Wittkowski in 1939.
If you contact Kevin Schneider: AZDINKS@AOL.com he probably has more information.

Re: Gawel

2003-02-04 13:29:49Z

I only know my GGrandfathers date of birth, baptism (place and the priest who done it) and death. I don't know anything about his parents except their names. Will this cause a problem. I would love the name of the person who could help me. Thanks for any help. Jane

Re: Gawel

2003-02-04 01:52:35Z

I am away from my records for a while so I cant help you much. I know a researcher in Poland you can contact if you want to hire her to search for records in the Krasne and Laka parishes where my Gawels came from. You need to know dates of birth and parents if possible. Let me know.

Re: Gawel

2003-02-03 16:40:42Z

He landed in Chicago about 1898 or 99 but in 1903 was lured with a "free" homestead grants to settled in the western Canadian plains, near Weyburn. No mention of his brother John going with him so I think he stayed in Chicago. My Grandfather came to America and recieved his citizenship in 1941. He is now 94 and his memory isn't very good. Trying to find as much from him as I can but not getting much from him. All his brothers are dead he is the only one left from that side except maybe some cousins but don't know them. Will you beable to help me? I'm running into blocks. I did look up the Ellis island and found a Jakob Gawel arriving there in 1899 at age 19. Sounds like my GGrandfather but not sure. Thanks for any help you can give me. Jane

Re: Gawel

conri — 2003-01-31 17:12:14Z

Halo Barbara.
My name Gawell may by Gawel becouse i my familly many people written by one l.
My grandfather Wacław have brothers : Stefan. Marian,
Stanisław and sister Apolonia (Pola ). Profesjon of my grandfather -jojner. May by with us its any conection.

Re: Frank's brother Jacob Gawel

conri — 2003-01-31 17:12:14Z

I know , in Poland only living two family Gawel. My family and family of Ryszard Gawel in Poznań town. Wa are have this same ancrectors. My grandfather and grandwfather of Ryszard's were brothers.
My by your interested this information.
See Your in Poland.

Re: Gawel

2003-01-31 17:11:10Z

Can you tell me where Jacob lived in the US? When he died?I'll try and find him in the US and maybe I can backtrack him from there. I didn't find any Jacob/James in the Ellis Island records for 1898-1900, knowing where he wound up may help.

Re: Gawel

2003-01-31 15:12:59Z

Sorry was moving, just got back on line, Do you have anymore info on the family? I only have after Jacobs father died his mother married a Andrew Gunia and they had a son named Andrew Jr. Don't know much about the family. Any info will help. Thanks Jane

Re: Gawel

2002-09-22 23:33:15Z

I will do that. Just wanted you to know that I looked up the info on my paternal grandfather, that my cousins brought with them, and his mothers name was Helena Gawel and his dad was Andrzej Przybylo. He was born in Widelka in 1883. :))) So we might be related.

Re: Gawel

thegavel — 2002-09-22 21:24:20Z

I have written to a Polish born cousin working in the US, Stachnik is her married name several times (in Polish even), sent her all I had on the family and asked easy questions like what was her father's first name and got no answer. In my case, since I'm a retired US military officer I had a cousin seriously ask me if I was American Intelligence. Why they would be interested in the name of the tailor that Sophie Gawel married around the time of WWI escapes me but reflects just what you said about suspision. I visited Poland in 1988 but could not ask about family. It was hard enough for me to do since I was on active duty and did have access to classified material. So the suspicion was on both sides. If you figure out a way to send money and get up the courage to ask a cousin - post a message. We can probably get several people interested in researching the church records if we can figure out the details. I know that US dollars aren't worth what they used to be in Poland but surely they have some value.

Re: Gawel

2002-09-22 20:31:14Z

You are right. Widelka was a very small place when they all immigrated. Now it is a little town. My grandfather on my mothers side was Ploch and they are many of them in Widelka. The part of Widelka called Przekupne. I went there to visit the whole family in late 70's. One of my sisters in law is Buczek and her father was born in Przewrotne. Going to church records would be the best. My cousin told me the book pages were thin and full of hand writen records. The cemetery would be a little more difficult. I wish I can get someone from my cousins to help me get the records. I know the church expects a fee for their records. So far I have not written to anyone about it because they will find it kind of silly.

Re: Gawel

thegavel — 2002-09-22 19:58:13Z

I wish I knew how you could help! I wish I could help you, the Przybylo's do not appear in any of my Gawel family trees but they certainly lived in my birthplace of Sayreville, New Jersey. I have found that usually where Gawels from Widelka settled in the US you found Buczeks, Smyrskis, Weglowskis, Selwas, Plochs, Chemuras had traveled there with them. Widelka cannot be such a large place that these people weren't somehow related. I understand that there is a cemetery in Widelka and one in Kolbuszawa, are they small enough that a person could walk through and copy down the names and dates from the headstones? My grandparents had no headstone until many years after they died, I wonder if a lot of graves are unmarked? I continue to be puzzled by my relatives talking about neighbors with our surname (even my great grandmother's maiden name was the same as her husband's) that "weren't related". Frustrating....

Re: Gawel

2002-09-22 19:12:34Z

The church will not cooperate very much. My cousins from San Diego visited Widelka last July and got their fathers and mothers records from the priest. Those included the names of their parent which we never knew. My dad is their fathers yougest brother. Until now no one was interested in this stuff. In Poland they are little suspicious why anyone would want to know. 50 years of comunizm will do it to you.They are not aware of the geneology craze. My maiden name was Przybylo.Good luck. If I can be of help let me know. I speak and write polish fluently