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grdngrl09

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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 8:27 am Post subject: In search of CYCYK from Arlamów, Dobromyl

I have many great ancestors that came from Arlamow and possibly Luzek under the surname CYCYK

They were from Arlamow, Dobromyl County, Galicia, Austria. They also immigrated originally to Wilmington DE. They self-identified as Ukrainian.
John/Johan would then have been born in around 1891. His father Jacko/Jacob's were possibly Antoni and Katarzena/Catherina Macej Jacob was 24 in 1886???, so he was born in about 1862 if thats correct. Anna's parents were Peter and Maria Horostynska Bankowska/Bandowska; she was 19, so she was born in about 1867.. Another speculation.

I have found somethings on Geneteka, but Johan had a brother Mikolay and nothing ties them together. I found 1 passagenger manifest that says a Mikolay CYCYK came from Luzek.

I only read English and my Latin is terrible. Any help is appreciated.

John/Johan was married to a Thecla Stecki from Luka Wielka (I have the most information on John)

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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2025 10:53 am Post subject: Re: In search of CYCYK from Arlamów, Dobromyl

grdngrl09 wrote:

Hi!
Welcome to the forum! I'm posting the ship manifest for Johan Cycyk so everyone on the forum can see the record. Not everyone on the forum has access to ancestry.com.

It's a two page manifest. Johan is on line #14.

Name Johan Cycyk
Gender Male
Nationality Ruthenian (Russniak)
Arrival Age 21
Birth Date abt 1891
Birth Place Arlauir, Galicia
Last Residence Germany
Departure Place Bremen, Germany
Arrival Date 13 Nov 1912
Arrival Place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Father Jacko Cycyk
Friend or Relative Jacko Cycyk
Relationship to Passenger Father
Ship Breslau

Do you need a copy of his marriage record? I can post it if you need it.

Name John Kycyk
Gender Male
Age 21
Birth Date abt 1893
Father Jacob
Mother Annie
Marriage Date 21 Nov 1914
Marriage Place Wilmington
Spouse Theila Steckyj
Spouse Gender Female
Spouse Age 19
Spouse's Father Basil
Spouse's Mother Katie
Collection and Roll Marriage Certificates - 4

Regards,
Trish

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grdngrl09

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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2025 12:08 pm Post subject:

Thank you! I found the first page last night, the 2nd was not with it. It appears Mikolay may be his cousin? Are you able to read line 14? John puts him as a brother on his Migration form and 1 other place. But then I lose all other connects between them. They both end up having wives named Anna and living on Heald St. in Wilm, DE

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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2025 2:11 pm Post subject:

grdngrl09 wrote:

Hi Again,

I need someone on the forum to look over the Johan's (Jan/John) ship manifest. I am having trouble reading it.

Isn't this the marriage information for Johan? His wife was Theila. However, on Johan's petition for naturalization record, she is listed as Stella. (See below.)

Marriage information for John Cycyk. Do you need the record? I can post it if you need it.

Name John Kycyk
Gender Male
Age 21
Birth Date abt 1893
Father Jacob
Mother Annie
Marriage Date 21 Nov 1914
Marriage Place Wilmington
Spouse Theila Steckyj
Spouse Gender Female
Spouse Age 19
Spouse's Father Basil
Spouse's Mother Katie
Collection and Roll Marriage Certificates - 4

Marriage Information for Mikolaj (Nicholas) Cycyk. (Note: Mikolaj has different parents than Johan.) Do you need the record? I can post it if you need it.

Name Nicholas Cycyk
Gender Male
Age 23
Birth Date abt 1893
Father John
Mother Anasthasia
Marriage Date 11 Aug 1916
Marriage Place Wilmington
Spouse Annie Michalka
Spouse Gender Female
Spouse Age 18
Spouse's Father Blazej
Spouse's Mother Catharina
Collection and Roll Marriage Certificates - 9

Petition for Naturalization for Johan Cycyk. (Image posted)

Name John Cycyk
Sex Male
Age 32
Birth Date 7 Jun 1892
Birthplace Arlamof, Dobromil, Galicia, Poland
Spouse's Name Stella
Spouse's Birthplace Galicia, Poland
Event Type Naturalization
Event Date 22 Sep 1924
Event Place Delaware, United States
Event Place (Original) Delaware, United States Of America
Certificate Number 5509
Affiliate Publication Number 573393
Affiliate Publication Title Declarations of Intention for Citizenship, 1817–1990 :U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

Petition for Naturalization for Mikolaj Cycyk (Image posted)

Name Nicholas Cycyk
[Nikolay Cycyk]
Gender Male
Petition Age 35
Record Type Naturalization Petition
Birth Date abt 1893
Birth Place Dobromil, Poland
Arrival Date 9 Jun 1913
Departure Date 1913
Departure Place Bremen, Germany
Marriage Date 26 Aug 1897
Residence Place Delaware
Petition Date 22 Nov 1928
Petition Place Delaware, USA
Spouse Annie Cycyk
Child Michael Cycyk
Court District Court

Regards,
Trish

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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 5:29 am Post subject:

[quote="Trish"]

grdngrl09 wrote:

Hi Again,

I need someone on the forum to look over the Johan's (Jan/John) ship manifest. I am having trouble reading it.

Regards,
Trish

Hi Trish and grdngrl09,

I agree with most of what was written in the transcript that you posted, Trish, for Johan Cycyk's manifest. I will add a few details. While the transcript does acknowledge his last permanent residence as being in Germany, the manifest says more specifically that he lived in Bremen, prior to sailing from Bremen. The spelling on the manifest is somewhat creative for his town of origin, but since you already know that it is Arłamów, Dobromyl, Galicia, it is not so difficult to see that is what they were trying to write, both on page 1 of the manifest where it shows the address for his father Jacko, and on the second page of the manifest where it shows Johan's place of birth.

You are trying to decipher Johan's relationship to Mykolaj and that is somewhat more difficult. In column 18, the first word indicating their relationship was crossed out. It was replaced by a word that could possibly say "brother" but that is more of a deduction than anything because it clearly is not "father" or "uncle" or "brother-in-law" or other choices that you might expect that column to contain. If you look back at column 15, "by whom was passage paid?" that clearly says cousin, so it is possible that the crossed-out word in front of Mykolaj's name was cousin. As for Mykolaj Cycyk's address, it may say 707 Church Street, Wilmington, Del.

The only other thing of note, on page 1 of the manifest, is that along with his name in column 2 you see the number 67334 and the date Sept 24 1927. These notations relate to him obtaining citizenship.

If there is anything else you have difficulty reading, let me know.

Best regards,
Sophia

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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 10:27 am Post subject:

Hi Sophia,

Thank you for replying with detailed facts on the manifest. I'm sure all this information will all help the poster with their research.

Warm Regards,
Trish

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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2025 4:56 pm Post subject:

Hi, yes.. I believe these above are accurate. I am starting to think Mikolay is John’s cousin. John’ s wife Thecla Stecki did become a Teckla, then Stella over time.

What I cannot find is Jacob /Anna CYCYK/ BANKO___? marriage that makes sense. I don’t believe they came to the US.
I DO believe Thecla parents Wasyl/Katie were in the Us, but that’s messy too.

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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2025 7:05 pm Post subject:

Hi Trish, Sophia and grdngrl09,
I am back. I read all the posts and have some new information. Sharing with you tomorrow.

Regards,
-Barb

grdngrl09

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 7:30 am Post subject:

Hi Ladies,
This is great news. If it helps, I have them on family search and Ancestry and it looks like above, minus Mikolay bc I haven’t been sure where to put him. Thecla has a ton of Teodor/ Theodore’s tied to her too so I think I need to revisit her side.
You can PM me on FamilySearch @bcycyk2 if that is helpful.

I am just hitting brick walls at the amount of people who have put Jacob CYCYK in another area of their tree, and it doesn’t make any sense. Plus, I’m not great at using the wiki/ other links on there quite yet for such in depth research.

Thank you again, so much!

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 8:02 am Post subject:

When I look in Geneteka this is all I can find from pre 1873..

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 8:07 am Post subject:

I also have found these...[img][/img]

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 8:10 am Post subject:

Hyacynthus? to Anna Ban...?????

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 10:42 am Post subject:

Hi,
I have tried to look at all the information I could read in your posts. I thought I would start from what was written in the Manifesto to Jan. Here it is stated that the father's name was Jacko (Polish Jacek, Latin Hiacynt). Unfortunately there are not many resources available online. I managed to do this with the help of Genetyka. Look at the diagram I am attaching. I have 7 records that relate to your main line. I can send it by e-mail if you wish. I will see if I can find anything about Mikolaj tonight.
It would be interesting to see what is available in Ancestry and FamilySearch.

-Barb

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 2:28 pm Post subject:

grdngrl09 wrote:

When I look in Geneteka this is all I can find from pre 1873..

Hi grdngrl09,

I see Barb has posted a family tree for you. Looks like a lot of work went into that!

I want to discuss the screen shot you put up from Geneteka, showing marriages from 1873-1889 where it appears your search term was the surname Cycyk. Forgive me if my guess is wrong, but I think you are misinterpreting how the names are presented. In two places, you underlined the name Mikolaj, but this is not Mikolaj Cycyk. This is Mikolaj Gerega, whose wife's name was Anna Gerega; her maiden name was Cycyk.

As an example for reading the table, let's take the second line. This was the marriage between Jan Cycyk and Anna Suski in 1874. Jan Cycyk's parents were Antoni Cycyk and Katarzyna Cycyk, whose maiden name was Macej. Anna Suski's parents were Michal Suski and Katarzyna Suski, whose maiden name was Chalos.

Does that help?

Sophia

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 5:48 pm Post subject:

Sophia~
Yes, that helps a ton. This is why I came here!

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