Orkwis Family - Poland?

[stewey75]

I'm having a hard time finding my husbands family. I believe they are from Poland but I think the last name was altered when they immigrated.  Here is all I have so far:

* Frank Orkwis ( 1892- 1964) married to Mary Ann Lewandowski (1893 - )
lived I believe in Duryea, PA 

https://www.familysearch.org/search/recordDetails/show?uri=https://api.familysearch.org/records/pal:/MM9.1.r/QDVF-XMM/p1

I would love to know what the last name might have been and who his parents were.

Thank you,
Tammy

[stewey75]

Can anyone help me..pleaseeee 

[apwright]

He's in Duryea on the 1930 census as Frank ORKWIS. Says he immigrated in 1909.
In 1920 (Duryea again) he's indexed as Frank ORKFICE, which somebody on Ancestry has corrected to ARKFICE, although the manuscript says ORKFICE. I can't find him in 1910.

The New York Passenger Lists have a likely match: Franz ORKWISZEWKI, 18, from Wronki, Poland, arriving on 22 Dec 1909 aboard the SS Roon from Bremen. It lists his father as Franc O. of Wronka, Płock. But Wronki, in western Poland now, was under German rule in 1909. Wronka and Płock are towns in central Poland, so maybe it should read "Wronka" for Franz jnr too???

Adrian

[stewey75]

Thank you!! I was struggling trying to find Frank but the last name I couldn't get!
Thank you for the last name variations! I appreciate it! I'm going to give it another go with all the info you provided! Hopefully I can tell my husband what his last name should really be lol

[stewey75]

ugh..I'm having no luck at all! I see the orkfice but the orkwiszewki doesn't show up.. any other place I can look?

[stewey75]

Could this be him? I think I found an est. birthdate of 1891

http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=1068&iid=K_1763_080522-0614&fn=Franz&ln=Orschefski&st=r&ssrc=&pid=896050

[apwright]

Sorry, I spelt his name wrong above! He's Franz OrkwiszewSki in the New York Passenger Lists.
Your link to the Hamburg Lists is not him, because he sailed from Bremen, not Hamburg! Passenger lists from Bremen for that period have not survived, unfortunately.

Adrian

[stewey75]

oh darn! I thought I was on to something...I tried the name with the (s)ki  but still didn't find anymore information. Is there a way to contact Poland to find out more information. I don't speak or read polish so I would need some help with translations. Thank you!

[stewey75]

I found a family tree on ancestry.com...it lists a Ignac Orkwiszewski Birthday 6/27/1890 from Warsaw Poland..Do you think this is a stretch that they are related to Franz?