A Marko family web site says the Marko family were: "Carpatho-Rusyns (also known as Rusyns or
Ruthenians). Like most Rusyns, they were Greek Catholics."
http://www.markofamily.com/
Wikipedia gives the ethnic make up of the Bukovina region as follows: (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukovina)
"Under Austrian rule Bukovina remained ethnically mixed: predominantly Romanian in the south, Ukrainian (commonly referred to as Ruthenians in the Empire) in the north, with small numbers of Hungarian Székely, Slovak and Polish peasants, and Germans, Poles and Jews in the towns. The 1910 census counted 800,198 people, of which:
Ruthenian 38.88%, Romanian 34.38%, German 21.24% (Jews 12.86% included), Polish 4.55%, Hungarian 1.31%, Slovak 0.08%, Slovene 0.02%, Italian 0.02%, and a few Croat, Romani, Serbian, and Turkish. Romanians were still present in all settlements of the region, but their number decreased in the villages in the north. Many of Bukovina's Germans, and a few Romanians, emigrated in 19th and 20th century to North America.[5][6][7]"
From web site for Eleonora Marko, mother of Gloria Joy Renwick, mother of Karla Ford
Birth:*
Sep. 5, 1896
Death:*
Sep. 20, 1982
Toronto
Ontario, Canada
-Born Eleonora Marko in Ladonia Stowrynotz Bukovina (part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Ukraine)
-arrived in Canada on July 30,1913*
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Family links:*
*Spouse:
**George Renwick (1893 - 1971)*
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*Children:
**Sylvester Renwick (1916 - 1992)*
**Gloria Joy Renwick Minshull (1932 - 1981)*
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