FAMILY SURNAME

MY RESEARCH INDICATES THAT LITHUANIAN RECORDS SHOW THAT THE ORIGINAL NAME BUDZINSKI REMAINED WITH THE FAMILY UNTIL AT LEAST THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY WHEN IT WAS CHANGED TO BISHINSKY AND BUCHINSKY. MEMBERS USING THE NAME BISHINSKY WENT TO CANADA SETTLING IN MONTREAL WITH SOME LATER GOING TO MERIDAN, CONNECTICUT AND OTHER AREAS IN NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, ARKANSAS, AND CALIFORNIA. THE SURNAME BISHINSKY LATER CHANGED TO A MUCH SHORTER VERSION BISHIN AND BISHINS. THE BUCHINSKY FORM OF THE SURNAME WAS USED BY FAMILY MEMBERS WHO WENT TO THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH AFRICA. THERE WAS A ABRAHAM BISHINSKY, B. 1865 RUSSIA, DIED MARCH 1950 NEW YORK WHO WAS MARRIED TO A JENNIE, B. 1865 RUSSIA D. MARCH 25, 1947 NEW YORK WHO HAD FIVE CHILDREN: HERMAN, HENRY RUTHERFORD, DAVID, ELLA, AND WILLIAM EDWARD. THE FAMILY WAS IN THE CLOTHING MANUFACTURING BUSINESS. ABRAHAM BISHINSKY IMMIGRATED TO NEW YORK IN 1891. I DO NOT KNOW HOW THEY ARE RELATED BUT MY GREATGRANDMOTHER GITTLE BISHINSKY FROM MONTREAL WENT TO SEE HIM AROUND 1917 AND LISTED HIM IN THE BORDER CROSSING RECORDS AS A COUSIN. I HAVE HER MAIDEN NAME LISTED IN RECORDS AS BOTH BACH AND BISHINSKY. HER HUSBAND MY GREATGRANDFATHER BERNARDITSYK / ISSAC BISHINSKY DIED IN ZAGARE, KAUNAS IN 1902. SO ABRAHAM BISHINSKY AND HIS FAMILY FROM NEW YORK ARE RELATED TO MY GREATGRANDPARENTS IN SOME WAY.