VOLCIK, Mike

   Another name for Mike was WELSHIK, Mike.²

  General Notes:

The spelling of this name has changed from VOLCIK to Welshik to Wolfshik to Wolfe in our country. The name is also spelled "Wojciech" in Polish. The name Volcik originally goes back to Saint Adalbert Vojtech who converted Poland to Christianity. He was the first Bishop of Prague from 982 onwards and a Czech Prince. He was expelled from Bohemia in 995 and went to Poland in 996 on a mission to the Prussians. He was killed by the Prussians in 997 and canonized in 999. (D-125) This information on Saint Adalbert was from a Wojciech descendant whose family came from Hluboczek, Borszczow, Galecia, Austria. It is now a part of the Ukraine. (D-125b)

The order of the children's births are unknown.

Mike's son, Mike, came over as an adult after 1920 when Sue and John Joseph Dudick were married according to John and Sue Dudick.

His son John owned a restaurant in Erie, Pennsylvania (D-10) He applied to become a U.S. Citizen on Aug. 19, 1897 in McKean Co., Pennsylvania He stated that he migrated from Austria and arrived at Philadelphia on or about the 2nd day of December, 1893. (McKean Co., PA Alien Dockets, pg. 253, D-94.)

According to the immigration records for Veron Vovcsik Perilla, she was born in Nevicske, Hungary (now Nevitske in the Ukraine) in 1884. Her father, Mihaly Wocsik/Vovcsik was living in Nevicske in this 1910 emigration record for his daughter. Other persons of this same surname spelled Vovcsik from the Nevicske area are Gabor, Jozsef, Zsuzsa, Mihaly, and Julia as well as a Mihaly Vovsik. There is an Olean Volcsik who came on the Southwark through Antwerp Belgium from .....arina, Hungary in 1899. She was born about 1878 and is a peer and possible relative of this family. Julia is probably the one who arrived on May 26, 1910 from the port of Fiume on the Pannonia. She was age 26 at the time and might be a spouse to one of Mike's sons. ¹

Mike married Mary BUGDON Jr. (Mary BUGDON Jr. was born Est 1837 in , , AUSTRIA and died after 1920.)