Bisch - Drohobycz, Austria (Ukraine)
Searching for relatives of Philip BISCH (b. July 4, 1869 in Drohobycz, Austria).Philip married Barbara Maria METZLER (b. July 2, 1874 in Grabowic, Austria).They were married in 1895 in Stebnik, Austria.(All these areas are in what is now known as the Ukraine.)
Their first two children, Joseph (b. February, 1896) and Philip (b. March 7, 1898), were born in Lemburg, Austria (now the town of L'Vov, Ukraine).They emigrated to the U.S. (Minnesota) in 1899 along with Philip's older brother, Heinrich (b. December 28, 1857) and Heinrich's family.
Philip and Heinrich had another brother, Johann, also born in Lemburg.It is believed he also emigrated to the U.S.He had a son, Rudolph, who lived somewhere in the U.S.
They also had a sister, Elizabeth, who supposedly married a man with the last name of BIZANS and lived in Switzerland.
Phillip's parents were Heinrich BISCH (b. abt. 1820) and Barbara THRON.
Barbara Maria Metzler's parents were Phillip Johann METZLER and Karoline SCHMIDT.