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Help[Surname] Re: Surname Pokatowicz
in reply to a message by Genevieve Chmiel
-wicz is the Polish form, -vich the common Roman transliteration of the Russian form. They are the extended forms of the attributable suffix -icz used as a masculine patronymic. East Slavic patronymics are not family names or surnames, so you might not find them. They are gendered and change every generation to match the father's name. Commonly the form is Ivan Alexandrovich Radomsky, son of Alexander Petrovich Radomsky, brother of Irena Alexandrovna Radomsky etc.
A related surname is Pokatov/Pokatova, but if your uncle is Pokatovich, that won't help you, his family name would have been different.
Now let's change tack, if you're uncle's name was Lukasz Pokatowicz, that's entirely Polish, not Russian, and in Polish usage Pokatowicz can be a family name. Not common though, the only Google results are a Polish-American mother and daughter.
Soroky may have been in the Russian empire at the time, but it's in western Ukraine, formerly ruled by Poland and until WWII probably had a significant Polish population.
A related surname is Pokatov/Pokatova, but if your uncle is Pokatovich, that won't help you, his family name would have been different.
Now let's change tack, if you're uncle's name was Lukasz Pokatowicz, that's entirely Polish, not Russian, and in Polish usage Pokatowicz can be a family name. Not common though, the only Google results are a Polish-American mother and daughter.
Soroky may have been in the Russian empire at the time, but it's in western Ukraine, formerly ruled by Poland and until WWII probably had a significant Polish population.
This message was edited 4/11/2023, 10:08 PM
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