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Poterucha family

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raffles12

Sep 2, 11, 21:24 #1

Hi,
Does anyone have any info on the Poterucha or Paterucha family? My grandmother was Katerzyna Paterucha from Lvov. She died between 1910 and 1940. Does anyone know how I would go about tracing where she is buried ? She had a brother Nikoli who had 2 sons and a daughter named Mary. He was still alive in the 1950s. Some of my grandmothers family also moved to the USA between the 1st and 2nd world wars..
Many thanks
Marion

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Sep 3, 11, 02:16 #2

PATERUCHA: root-word pater (Latin for father). A small group of surnames are traceable to church Latin and include Pater, Noster, Vobis, Meus, Sekuła, etc. They probably emerged to identify someone attached to the parish (eg sexton, organist, servant). The -ucha is an augmentative, often pejroative ending making somethign sound bigger, older, tougher, rougher, coarser or less desriable than the original (as in starucha -- mangy old hag).

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