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This project began in my teens, by collecting immediate family information. Thirty years later, when I finally began to document the information, this project has grown to capture other family lines. Enjoy, as you traverse my family.
Name Variations
Мандичевський, in Ukrainian.
Mandyczewsky, used in Australia and Austria.
Mandycevsky, used in the Czech and Slovak Republics.
Mandyczewski, used in Austria
Mandicevschi, in Romanian
For the Australian/Austrian branches, I have recorded using the spelling
Mandyczewsky, which is used by them. This is a transliteration from Ukrainian
cyrillic to latin script using the rules of the Polish language. Poland occupied Western Ukraine
prior to World War Two. Hence names for emigrants from Western Ukraine during and after the war
were transliterated using Polish naming conventions.
For the Ukrainian/Slovak branches, I have recorded using the spelling
Mandycevsky. Female members have been entered as Mandycevska, using the change of
suffix as commonly applied in Eastern Europe. All family members who lived within Ukraine all
their lives have been transliterated to Mandycevsky and Mandycevska, from the cyrillic script.
Family Origin
The Mandycevsky family has a proud history of parish priests in the Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts (administrative provinces) of western Ukraine. Members featured prominently as intellectuals and were actively involved in political, religious and educational life of the communities where they lived.
Five generations of priests existed prior to the family's male members eventual exodus from Ukraine. Female members married into other priestly families such as Cehelsky, Zafiyovsky, Zarytsky, Vitoshynsky, Shmerykovsky, Olesnytsky.
Heraldry
Through marriage into the Rogal-Cehelsky family, a branch of the family can postulate its origins as far back as 1109, when a knight saved the life of Polish King Boleslaw III Wrymouth, and was handsomely rewarded. Another family member was a member of the Austrian regional government when Austro-Hungary occupied western Ukraine.
Zarvanytsia
The village of Zarvanytsia (Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) features prominently in my family. A monk from Kyiv was fleeing the approaching Mongol horde in 1240 when he lay to rest in the beautiful valley which later became Zarvanytsia. The story goes that during his rest he saw an apparition of the Virgin Mary who handed him an icon. This Madonna icon has become one of the four famous icons in the Ukrainian Catholic Church. In 1865 my great grandfather Porfiriy (the parish priest) organised that the Virgin Mary be crowned on this icon. Zarvanytsia is also a birthplace to many Mandycevskys, and has become a major shrine to Ukrainian Catholics with annual pilgrimages from around the globe.
Related or Not Related ?
Research has led me to the Мандичевський (Romanian:Mandicevschi
name in the Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine (the old historic region of Bukovyna), which borders with
northern Romania. This branch consists of a highly educated clan, the most notable member of which
is the composer/teacher/musicologist/conductor Eusibius Mandyczewski. Eusibius began learning
music under the Ukrainian composer Sydor Vorobkevych. He published the works of composers
Schubert, Haydn and Brahms. He was also a personal friend Joseph Brahms. The link between this
strand (Ukrainian Orthodox) and that of the Ternopil/Ivano-Frankivsk Oblasts (Ukrainian Catholics)
is unknown.
Similar names appear in Macedonia (Mandicevski), and Romania (Mandicescu). Since the Mandycevsky family name is not common and most members appear to be related, one would assume that there may be a relationship between Ukraine, Romania and Macedonia. However, a genealogical link between these is unknown.
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