The Barrick/Brzozowski/Romanowski Home Page

I've been researching my family roots, which seem to originate mainly in the Buffalo,Erie Co., NY area.
The BRZOZOWSKI side emigrated to the U.S. about 1905, and settled in the Buffalo, NY area. From the records that I've been able to locate, they originated in Austrian Poland. Frank & Stanislawa CIESIELSKA were the original immigrants(their children were;Lottie,Bertha,Arthur,Louis,Sophia,Vincent,Wanda,Sylvester,Theophil, & Stefan). Frank's first wife died in 1916,and he married Tekla CERKIEWICZ in 1917 (their children;Stanley,Chester,& Theodore) .
LESNIAK, DUBIEL, & BUREK are also some ancestral names from that branch of the family.
My Dad legally changed his surname from BRZOZOWSKI to BARRICK in 1950, before I was born.

The ROMANOWSKI side arrived in Buffalo around 1890. Some of my maternal ancestral names are HOCHMUTH, LOWICKI, KOLODZIEJEWSKI, WINTROWSKI,GOLABEK, & SKOTNICKI. I have tracked some of these relatives to Klonowka, Poland (near Gdansk).

I'd appreciate any additional information, and I'm willing to share my research also.

NEWSFLASH!

7/6/99
Since I started this site, I’ve had a chance to travel back to Buffalo & dig into the dark dusty dungeon known as the Erie County Hall basement. On my first try, I found Grandpa Brzozowski’s U.S. Naturalization papers! They showed that he was born in Jakubkowo, German Poland, and his final residence in Poland was Wabrzezno. He & the rest of his immediate family traveled on the “Noordam I” from Rotterdam, and landed in NY, NY in August 1904.
My thanks to the very helpful people in the E.C. Records Dept. – unfortunately, I didn’t get their names.

ROMANOWSKI
7/8/99
If anyone on the Romanowski side is interested, there's a picture of my great-great-grandpa Frank Romanowski in his 65th New York Volunteer uniform on the Spanish American War site, http://www.spanam.simplenet.com/65thNewYork.htm . Check it out!

Family Photos

• Romanowski & Ruminski (57 KB)
  adults in back - Clement Romanowski(left), Walter Ruminski(right) child - Edmund(?) Romanowski 1910's - early 1920's(?)
• Alexander Hochmuth & Maryanna Lowicka (76 KB)
  February 9, 1892 - Buffalo, Erie, NY
• Brzozowski family store (39 KB)
  Interior of the store at 299 Cable, on the East Side of Buffalo NY. The little boy is Conrad Brzozowski, & the woman is Elizabeth Downie Brzozowski. In this picture I think Elizabeth (Elsie) is pregnant with Catherine E Brzozowski (Wilkie) Picture most likely taken in late 1947.
• Family Group Shot (13 KB)
  Left to right - John Hochmuth, Clement Romanowski, James O'Horo, Vincent Shaddack children - Bernard & Emily Romanowski late 1920's - early 1930's
• Frank Brzozowski & Tekla Cerkiewicz Lesniak (36 KB)
  Photo taken in back of store on 299 Cable, Buffalo, Erie, NY (in the 1950's).
• The Noordam (12 KB)
  The ship that carried Frank Brzozowski, Stanislawa Ciesielska, Lottie, Bertha, & Arthur to the U.S.
• Theodore B. (Brzozowski)Barrick (144 KB)
  First Holy Communion
• Buffalo 1915 - East Side Wards (431 KB)
  This map has the ward boundaries that were used in the 1915 NY State Census for the East Side of Buffalo. This includes Wards 4,5,9,10,11,15,&16.
• Bernard F. Romanowski(1921-1945) (40 KB)
  Uncle Bennie in his WW II uniform
• The Hill Family (+ 2 friends) 1998 (103 KB)
  From a visit to the Viacom store, downtown Chicago - Russell Hill Jr., Russell Hill III, Claudia Barrick Hill, & Melissa Hill are the 4 in the middle.
• John Romanowski & Charlotte Kielisczewska (42 KB)
  Wedding photo - February 5, 1894, Buffalo, Erie, NY
• Colin Barrick's Family - 1998 (22 KB)
  Colin's family - Kaitlin, Jeremy, Emily, Jessie, Jill, & Colin - Clarence, NY 1998
• 65th NY Volunteers (16 KB)
  from Buffalo, NY - Spanish-American War 1898 - John W. Romanowski seated on the right
• My Dad & some fellow glider pilots (36 KB)
  Here's a photo that I recently found, of my father & some of his fellow pilots at South Plains Army Air Force Base. Standing: Bob Bramsford, Dan Crotty - Lower Row: Bill Bryant, Pat Baxter, Harry Entwhistle, Theodore Brzozowski(Barrick). The picture was probably taken around 1943-1944.
• Theodore Brzozowski(Barrick) & Emily Romanowski (25 KB)
  circa 1940's
• John W. & Clement Romanowski - WWI (72 KB)
  Great-grandfather John W.(left) and Grandfather Clement(right) Romanowski in a World War I camp.
• Theodore Brzozowski (later Barrick) - WW II (65 KB)
  My father in his glider pilot officer's uniform
• 65th New York Regiment pamphlet (67 KB)
  This page describes the history of the 65th, up to 1906. I believe this is about the time that they were about to open the 65th N.G.N.Y. Armory in Buffalo.
• Clement Romanowski & Helen Hochmuth (33 KB)
  Wedding photo - July 16, 1918 - Buffalo, Erie, NY
• 65th NYArmory (45 KB)
  Buffalo NY

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• Claudia B Hill - InterneTree


• User Home Page Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of Maciej Brzozowski


• User Home Page Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of John Hochmuth


• User Home Page Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of Johann Lowicki


• User Home Page Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of Josef Romanowski


• User Home Page Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of Thomas Golabek

Related Files

• My surname list (1 KB)
  These are the family surnames that I've been able to discover so far.

Related Links

• 65th New York Volunteers - Spanish-American War
• Klonowka Description (Hometown of HOCHMUTH, LOWICKI, etc.)