Karl (Kyrylo) (Karelo) Lukey

Notes:

Cobblestone Research: Shows that Lukey, Kyrylo married Maria Oleksiuk and had nine children (Listed)
Lukey Family History Book shows that:
Father: Karl Lukey
Mother: Maria (Mary) Andreychuk

Cobblestone Freeway Research in the village of Babyntsi

LUKIY KYRYLO (Lukij Cyrillus) was born in 1849 (your information). He married Maria Oleksiuk, p.Dmytro and Iryna Byrka (Maria Oleksiuk, p.Demetrius et Irena Byrka). She was from the building No 58. They lived in the building No 58, later in the building No 295, and had
at least - 9 children:
Lukiy Petro (Lukij Petrus) 26.08.1876 DOB.
Lukiy Ivan (Lukij Joannes) 13.01.1879 – 22.01.1879
Lukiy Theodor (Lukij Theodorus) 7.03.1880 – 18.02.1881
Lukiy Vasylyna (Lukij Basilina) 25.01.1882 DOB.
Lukiy Mykhaylo (Lukij Michael) 20.11.1883 – 26.11.1883
Lukiy Semen (Lukij Simeon) 3.10.1885 DOB.
Lukiy Roman (Lukij Romanus) 9.10.1888 – 22.07.1890
Lukiy Vasyl (Lukij Basilius) 9.10.1888 – 24.12.1892 (twins with Roman) Lukiy Andriy (Lukij Andreas) 22.09.1892 DOB.

From Lawrence Huska page 6 - 7
After a short run from Winnipeg to Portage La Prairie, the family transferred to a different railway carrier, the CNR (Canadian Northern Railway), and covered the final distance to Grandview, Manitoba. There to the great joy of all, Paraska’s uncle, Kyrylo (Karl) Lukey (Кирило Лукій), and family welcomed them. It was now early June, about a week since their arrival in Halifax.

The First Homestead
Kyrylo, b. 1849, and his wife Maria (Марія) came to Canada from Babyntsi, Galicia, in 1900 where he had been the village reeve or mayor (війтом), together with three of their children, Wasylyna (Васйлйна) (b.1884), Simon (Семен) (b.1885), and Andrew (Андрай) (b.1892). Their oldest child, Peter (Петро) (b. 1876), had immigrated to Canada earlier, in 1898. It was Peter’s letters to his parents back in Babyntsi extolling the virtues of Canada that convinced them to seek a better life in Canada. They settled on SE22-27-23-W1, near Venlaw, north of Gilbert Plains, Manitoba. And like most other immigrants, who had arrived in Canada, they had maintained contact with their relatives back in Babyntsi, which included Paraska and Roman. Although there were other Huskas settled in the Dauphin region, who were also from Babyntsi, it was Kyrylo and Maria who sponsored Roman, Paraska, George, and John. Because of the untenable conditions of their lives in Babyntsi and the favorable reports they had received by letter from the Lukeys in Venlaw, Roman and Paraska decided to join the flood of emigrants leaving Galicia in search of greener pastures in western Canada. The plan was that all would stay with the Lukeys until such time that the newcomers could establish themselves sufficiently to go it on their own. The 18 feet by 26 feet Lukey log house, typical of homesteaders’ residences, must have been extremely crowded with the addition of four adults and two small children to its confines.

Although a few settlers had taken out homesteads earlier, the great immigration swell did not arrive until after the completion of the Canadian Northern rail line to Grandview in December 1896. The Lukeys were part of that swell. The settlers continued to arrive in great numbers, occupying almost all the available land by the time that Roman and Paraska and the two young men arrived. The homesteads near the Lukeys were all taken. In fact, when the Lukeys arrived in 1900, the best land had already been taken. No doubt, this lead to hesitation on Kyrylo’s part to take out a homestead entry immediately. Instead the Lukey family squatted on what was the best quarter of a bad lot. However, under pressure from the local land office, Kyrylo filed his Entry for Homestead on June 21, 1901.

Family/Spouse: Maria (Mary) Oleksiuk(Andreychuk). Maria (daughter of Dmytro (Demetriu) Oleksiuk and Iryna (Irena) Byrka) was born in 1860 in Bldg 58, Babyntsi, Borodianka Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine; died in 1941; was buried in St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Norquay, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Roman and Vasyl were twins.

1. Peter Lukey was born in 1876 in Babynci, Western Ukraine; died in Apr 1953; was buried in St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Norquay, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2. Ivan Lukey was born on 13 Jan 1879 in Babyntsi, Galicia, Borshchiv Raion, Western Ukraine; died on 22 Jan 1879 in Babyntsi, Galicia, Borshchiv Raion, Western Ukraine.
3. Theodor Lukey was born on 7 Mar 1880 in Babyntsi, Galicia, Borshchiv Raion, Western Ukraine; died on 18 Feb 1881 in Babyntsi, Galicia, Borshchiv Raion, Western Ukraine.
4. Wasylina (Baleva) Lukey was born on 25 Jan 1882; died in 1955; was buried in St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Norquay, Saskatchewan, Canada.
5. Mykhaylo (Michael) Lukey was born on 20 Nov 1883 in Babyntsi, Galicia, Borshchiv Raion, Western Ukraine; died on 26 Nov 1883 in Babyntsi, Galicia, Borshchiv Raion, Western Ukraine.
6. Simon Lukey was born on 3 Oct 1885 in Babyntsi, Galicia, Borshchiv Raion, Western Ukraine; died on 3 Mar 1963 in Norquay, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Norquay, Saskatchewan, Canada .
7. Roman Lukey was born on 9 Oct 1888 in Babyntsi, Galicia, Borshchiv Raion, Western Ukraine; died on 22 Jul 1890 in Babyntsi, Galicia, Borshchiv Raion, Western Ukraine.
8. Vasyl Lukey was born on 9 Oct 1888 in Babyntsi, Galicia, Borshchiv Raion, Western Ukraine; died on 24 Dec 1892 in Babyntsi, Galicia, Borshchiv Raion, Western Ukraine.
9. Andrew (Andrej) Lukey was born in 1892; died in 1977; was buried in Canora Cemetery, Canora Saskatchewan, Canada.
10. Nellie (Esther) Lukey was born in 1900; died in 1982.

Notes:

Cobblestone Research: Basic Information:

The research has been done on the base of Greek Catholic Registers of the village of Babyntsi. The documents are:
Ternopil archives: registrations of births 1872-1895;
Borschiv Registry Office: registrations of births 1893-1944, marriages 1880-1944, deaths 1872- 1944.
Although there are chronological limits of the Registers, documents of some years are not available.
They wrote the Registers in Latin until 1905; I will write names until that period according to Ukrainian transcription and original names in brackets.
I have also studied Roman Catholic Registers of Babyntsi (registrations of births 1789-1941, marriages 1785-1941, and deaths 1788-1937) from Borschiv Registry office. Nevertheless, there is no information in the documents, as members of both your families were only Greek Catholics.

LUKIY
In the Registers, they wrote the surname in Latin as “Lukyj” and “Lukij”. In the land documents 1820, they wrote “Lykijow”. I will write “Lukij”.
I have managed to determine that the first of the kin was IVAN LUKIY (Joannes Lukij). He was obviously born at the beginning of the 19th century. He married Martha Yarema (Martha Jarema). I should mention that in birth registrations of her grandchildren, they sometimes wrote her surname as “Vasylynchuk”. It could be a slip of pen. The building where Ivan and Martha lived is unknown.
According to the land documents 1820, 6 Lukiy families lived in Babyntsi at that time: Lukiy Yakym (the building No 8), Lukiy Panteleymon (No 9), Lukiy Theodoziy (No 12), Lukiy Vasyl (No 80), Lukiy Ivan (No 107) and Lukiy Yakiv (No 121). Some of them could be father to Ivan, but there are no Registers of the previous period to confirm/disprove it.
Ivan and Martha had at least 5 children: Anna, Yuriy, Kyrylo, Onuphriy and Iryna:

Ivan married Martha Yarema (Jarema). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]