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Pyka from Independence, WI

Pyka from Independence, WI

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 3:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
My father was John P. Koshney, born in Independence WI on 3/27/1905 to Peter and Elizabeth (Klimek) Koshny. Elizabeth's sister was Mary Pyka. I met her once in 1960. She was a widow, in her 80's, and I remember that she had a glass eye! My parents spoke to her in Polish.

I have limited information about the Klimek's but was told that, although they were of Polish decdent, they actually came from Hamburg Germany where they had been employeed in something to do with ships. The family spoke both Polish and German. My father said that during WW1 they received letters from a relative who flew with the Red Baron???

I am looking for information on the Koshney's. I have a copy of my grandparents wedding certificate from ss P&P's and I've seen the sensus records from 1910 and my father and aunts birth records. But I'm looking for any information about my great grandparents either Koshney or Klimek. I don't have any first names.

Re: Pyka from Independence, WI

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 3:08AM GMT
Classification: Query
hi i am charlene pyka...my father was henry pyka...his dad also served in the ss in germany...i am in canada born and raised...wow...my father and his parents fled during the war also...i dont recognize the names that you mention but my father was born polish german in hamburg...
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