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SHAPKA, Andrew "Andy"

Male 1898 - 1973  (74 years)


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  • Name SHAPKA, Andrew "Andy" 
    Birth 24 Aug 1898  Chernivtsi, die Bukowina, Austria-Hungary Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Day from Caroline Butlin (Nee SHAPKA), and she confirmed place as Bukowina. Mar 2013 Also, Bukowina Poland place from other SHAPKA families in 1911 & 1916 census forCalgary. Mar 2013. Town or area Chernivtsi from Gaylene SHAPKA [this is her family research idea] in email of 15 Mar 2013. Year, originally from AFHS web site, cemetery index. . Feb 2013.
    Gender Male 
    Anecdote
    • The name Bukovina came into official use in 1775 with the region's annexation from the Principality of Moldavia to the possessions of the Habsburg Monarchy, which became Austrian Empire in 1804, and Austria-Hungary in 1867.
      The official German name, die Bukowina, of the province under Austrian rule (1775?1918), was derived from the Polish form Bukowina, which in turn was derived from the Ukrainian word, ???????? (Bukovyna), and the common Slavic form of buk, meaning beech tree (??? [buk] as, for example, in Ukrainian or, even, Buche in German). Another German name for the region, das Buchenland, is mostly used in poetry, and means "beech land", or "the land of beech trees". In Romanian, in literary or poetic contexts, the name ?ara Fagilor ("the land of beech trees") is sometimes used.
      Nowadays, in Ukraine the name is unofficial, but is common when referring to the Chernivtsi Oblast as over 2/3 of the oblast is the northern part of Bukovina. In Romania the term Northern Bucovina is sometimes synonymous with the entire Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine, and (Southern) Bucovina to Suceava County of Romania (although 30% of the present day Suceava County covers territory outside of the historical Bukovina.)
      In English, an alternative form is The Bukovina, increasingly an archaism, which, however, is found in older literature. Taken from wikipedia.org Mar 2013.
    Name Andrei [Romanian variation] Shapka 
    Name Andrew "Andy" Chupka 
    • a possible name variant.
    Name Andrew "Andy" Czapka 
    • a possible name variant.
    Name Andrew "Andy" Czapki 
    • another possible name variant.
    Name Andrew "Andy" Czypka 
    • a possible name variant.
    Name Andrew "Andy" Schafka 
    • a possible name variant.
    Name Andrew "Andy" schapėl 
    • German, with Slavic suffix -ka.
    Name Andrew "Andy" Schapka 
    • a possible name variant.
    Name Andrew "Andy" Shapkarov 
    Name Andrew "Andy" Shapkauski 
    Name Andrew "Andy" Shopka 
    • name as underestood by Gaylene Shapka, in her email of 15 Mar 2013.
    Name Andrew "Andy" Shpak 
    • literal translation of Russian.
    Name Andrew "Andy" Siefkas 
    Name Andrew "Andy" Sopkiw 
    • a possible name variant.
    Death 1973  Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 1973  Mountainview Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • AFHS web site. Feb 2013.
    Person ID I4761  Ward
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 

    Father SHAPKA, Michael "Mike",   b. 1866, Oroscheny (modern Oraseni), Kotzmann, Austria-Hungary Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 07 Mar 1932, Hubalta, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Mother AXINA, Rosie,   b. 1871, Austria-Hungary Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1943, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Marriage Est 1890  die Bukowina, Austria-Hungary Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1401  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family HILL, Ammaly "Molly",   b. 15 Jul 1904, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 May 1990, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage 02 Jun 1923  Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • HILL Family book, in posession of Caroline Shapka, April 2013. Originally memory of Kay Ward. Mar 2013.
    Children 
    +1. SHAPKA, Lawrence Andrew "Larry",   b. 15 Jul 1924, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2000, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    +2. SHAPKA, Kathleen Rose "Kay",   b. 26 Jan 1926, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Nov 2015, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
     3. SHAPKA, Leonard,   b. 18 Jan 1934, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jun 1934, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
    +4. SHAPKA, H.
     5. SHAPKA, C.
    Family ID F113  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2018 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 02 Jun 1923 - Calgary, Alberta, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1973 - Calgary, Alberta, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 1973 - Mountainview Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • On Bukovina Group on Yahoo Groups "If they were indeed of Romanian ethnicity, their names would have been (most likely): Mihai Sapca, with wife Roza and children Andrei,Ion and Ana." by Eugen. 14 Mar 2013.
    • There is a John SHAPKA born about 1900 in Orshivtsi, Chernivitsi, Ukraine, who died in Kelowns in 1974 on Ancestry.com. Another is Orshivitsi, Bukovina, Ukraine. Theseare examples of a town where they could have come from. Mar 2013.


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