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Lisko District, present day SE Poland


Lemko Surnames cited by Krasovs'kyj from 1787 Austrian Cadastral Records


  1. Basaraba ( 2 families)
  2. Bachur / Bakhur
  3. Bozhyk
  4. Braczko / Braszko / Brasko / Brashko
  5. Waydak / Vajdak
  6. Wudycz / Vudych (2 families)
  7. Halay / Galay / Halaj
  8. Hapulak / Hapuljak
  9. Hasulak / Hasuljak
  10. Dorosz / Dorosh
  11. Ilkow / Il'kiv
  12. Kauczak / Kavchak (2 families)
  13. Kowal / Koval (2 families)
  14. Lucyk / Lutsyk
  15. Maruszczak . Marushchak
  16. Paszczak / Pashchak
  17. Pelech / Pielech / Pelekh
  18. Piech / Pekh
  19. Rusyn / Rusin
  20. Senko
  21. Snyczak / Snychak
  22. Solowej / Solowiey / Solovej
  23. Tatyk
  24. Fedoriw / Fedoriv
  25. Cyktor / Tsyktor
  26. Szwec / Szwiec / Szewc / Shvets' ( 2 families)
  27. Szkurat / Shkurat
  28. Sztyma / Shtyma
  29. Jurcaba / Jurtsaba ( 4 families)

Parish Data: [from Blazejowskyj and Iwanusiw]

Church was "Saint Nicholas" [1790] [still standing]

The wooden church was built on the site of an ancient church from 1533. It was renovated in 1922 and is now used by Poles

In 1785 the village lands comprised 21.70 sq km. There were 200 Greek Catholics 240 Roman Catholics and 45 Jews

1840 - 330 Greek Catholics

1859 - 424 Greek Catholics

1879 - 339 Greek Catholics

1899 - 526 Greek Catholics

1926 - 540 Greek Catholics

1936 - 762 Greek Catholics

In 1936 there were 964 Roman Catholics and 179 Jews in the area

The village was not incorporated in to the Lemko Apostolic Administration in 1934

Filial churches were located in ROSOLYN 3km. The villages of OSTRE, SEREDNE MALE 3km and VYDRNE 1km were served by the priest


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