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Martha & Jacob Wywka<\/div> <\/div>\n\n <\/div> <\/div><\/div>

Our Family Heritage<\/h3>\t\t\t

This is the family site of Jacob and Martha (Matrona) Wywka. Our family traces our heritage back to the Ukraine, however some members were born in Poland as the borders kept changing. Both Martha and Jacob were Ukrainian and spoke that language all their lives. They never did learn to speak English. Jacob taught himself to read Ukrainian. Martha and Jacob arrived in Canada on July 12, 1929 with three of the five children. Nettie was not allowed to board the ship because she had a cold. Martha\u2019s oldest daughter, who was also named Martha, stayed behind and both sisters came across a year or more later.<\/p>\n

The Wywka family went to Saskatchewan (Martha had a brother who lived there\u2014John Teransky. She also had a sister there ? Boyko.) They got a farm in Ketchen, a very small community in Saskatchewan between Preeceville and Hazel Dell, about 200 miles east of Saskatoon.<\/p>\n

The children who travelled with the parents to Saskatchewan were John, Stella, and Mike. Other children were born in Saskatchewan. The order of the children was: Martha, Mary, John, Stella, Nettie, Mike, Annie, Pauline.<\/p>\n

Three family members died as children. Mary died very young still in the Ukraine. John died when he was about 15 from an ear infection in Saskatchewan and Pauline died in B.C. on February 8, 1950 from nerve disease.<\/p>\n

Martha married Nick Mykytyn and had children. The family stayed in Saskatchewan. Martha died in Porcupine and is buried in Saskatchewan. Some of her children live now in Saskatchewan and some in B.C.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>