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From: Laurence Krupnak <>
Subject: Re: [PBS] what does this mean?
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:07:35 -0500
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Anne Sprentz wrote:

> I've been searching the Ellis Island database for my great grandmother
> for months now with a zillion different spellings of her last name.
> Today, I found the closest match. I'm not convinced it's her but would
> like to know what the ending means on this surname. This is what I found:
>
> Maryanna Siedlewiczowna
>
> The spellings I have on documents for her name are:
> Mary Helen Szedlovich
> Mary Szedlewicz
> Mary Setlowitz
>
> My question is, what does the OWNA on the end of the surname mean, if anything?






an unmarried female.




> Also, she is listed as being Magyar born in Ungvar Megye, (which is now in Ukraine)


o Part of former Hungarian Ung magye is also in Slovakia.


> on my grandfathers birthrecord.



Szedlovich, Szedlewicz, Setlowitz are not Magyar surnames. Maybe they
meant her, Maryanna Siedlewiczowna's, nationality was Hungarian.






> On the above mentioned Ellis Island find, this lists this Mary as ethnicity being Russia/Polish and place of birth Szywinty.




No part of former Ung megye is now in Poland so Maryanna
Siedlewiczowna cannot be your gr.gnd.mother.





> The age and date match as does the name with the exception of the OWNA at the end.
>
> Any comments on the OWNA ending?
>
> A. Sprentz


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