Ancestors
Andrian “Andrew” Rapinchuk
1891-1979
Born 1891
Died 1979
Children include John
Andrian Rapinchuk was born on 25 August 1891 at Sulichevo, a village of the Polesie marshes in Grodno gubernia of the western Russian Empire. He gave the village as "Sulitchew, Russia" when he registered for the draft in 1942, and signed the card himself. His father was very probably Andrey Rapinczuk of the same village, who is named as the father of his younger brother Andrew on the ship's list that brought that brother to New York in 1912.
He was in America by 1913, by the arithmetic of the 1930 census. His brother had landed on 1 November 1912 and gone straight to Cook County, Illinois, and Andrian settled in Chicago too. He spent his working life there as a stationary engineer, the man who kept a building's boilers and machinery running. In 1942 he was working for the National Biscuit Company at 1080 West Washington Boulevard.
He married Marie Welisik, who was born in 1894 in the same borderland, and they raised six children at 7325 South Oakley Avenue: John, Peter, Ann, Edward, Helen and Daniel. He was a citizen before mid-1941, when he starts appearing as a citizen witness on other immigrants' naturalization petitions. Marie died at the Oakley Avenue address in October 1952. Andrian died in November 1979 at Downers Grove, aged 88, and was buried with her at Elmwood Cemetery in River Grove. His death notice named his brother Andrew among the living.
Children
John Rapinchuk (1927-2011)
Sources
1930 census (ark 1:1:XSLH-189); 1940 census, Ward 13 (ark 1:1:KWY5-D13); 1950 census (ED 103-1436); naturalization petitions witnessed 1940-41
Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957, NARA microfilm T715, roll 1967, page 54; SS Campanello, arrived 1 November 1912. FamilySearch, New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1925, ark 1:1:JJ1B-926, image 3:1:3Q9M-C9T6-CDQ5.
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern (Chicago) Division, Petitions for Naturalization, 1906-1991, NARA publication 593882, petition 50023, certificate 115814. FamilySearch, Illinois, District and Circuit Court Naturalization Records, 1856-1991, ark 1:1:6BLQ-T4X5, image 3:1:3Q9M-CS9M-KR6W.
World War II Draft Cards (4th Registration) for the State of Illinois, NARA M2097, serial U-622. FamilySearch, United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, ark 1:1:V1KX-CBT, image 3:1:S3HT-69PS-THH.
1930 census (FamilySearch ark 1:1:XSLH-189); 1940 census, Ward 13 (ark 1:1:KWY5-D13); 1950 census, ED 103-1436 (ark 1:1:6X12-RNJZ); World War II draft registration, fourth registration, Illinois, serial U-622 (ark 1:1:V1KX-CBT); naturalization petitions witnessed 1940-41; Chicago Tribune death notice, 26 November 1979; Find a Grave memorials 277648429 and 282178969; SSDI; petition for naturalization of Andrew Rapinchuk, U.S. District Court, Chicago, 21 December 1932, certificate 115814 (ark 1:1:6BLQ-T4X5); passenger list of the Campanello, New York, 1 November 1912 (ark 1:1:JJ1B-926); passenger lists of the Uranium, 30 November 1912 (ark 1:1:JJBB-N2P), and Volturno, 3 May 1913 (ark 1:1:JN5W-D53); Russian Wikipedia articles on Sulichevo and Volovel; Wikidata Q13134121
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