Written by
Greg Juratowitch on
25. Feb, 2012
Bobar dan (Hello or Good Day in Croatian), My name is Greg Juratowitch. I live in the Lake Macquarie Region of NSW.
I am married to Julie and have to adult children; Amy & Joel.
We have five grand children; Jack, Maygan, Marlie, Jaren & Brielle. The girls are our daughter Amy's children (Maygan, Marlie & Brielle). The boys are Joel's children (Jack & Jaren).
Amy is married to Chris Cody & Joel's partner is Karen Schutlink.
The photo shows myself & Julie (I'm in white shirt) with my son Joel, his partner Karen with their two boys and my sister Margy with her two, Jayden & Kristi.
My parents are Anthony Bede Juratowitch (desceased) & Janice.
My siblings are Cathy, Anthony, Margy, Anne (deceased) & Elizabeth(deceased).
My sister Cathy is married to Leo and has two children, Dylan & Jai, Anthony and his partner Sharon have one child, Hannah and Margy has two children Jayden & Kristi.
My grandfather was Anthony Bede Juratowitch who married Esme Alice Pawley and they lived in Gunnedah.
They had three children, Anthony Bede (my Dad), Nicholas & Michael (deceased).
My great grandfather is Anthony Juratowitch who married Elizabeth Bree. Anthony is one of the 16 children of Nicholas Juratowitch.
My great great grandfather is Nicholas Juratowitch (Duratovic), who married Elizabeth Kavanagah (Cavanagah) and settled in Singleton.
I am very excited about the family reunion and hope to meet as many of the extended family as possible.
In my opinion we all owe a great deal to Tim for the pain-staking, time consuming dilegent detective work that he has done on our family history.
It is a wonderful story and shows the rich history of this family. Please if you have been just a little curious as to the origins of the Juratowitch name, were did we come from then this is a great opportunity to share and add to the family's history.
I look forward to meeting as many as possible in October. If you have any photos and information please e-mail it to myself or Tim so it can be added to growing collexction of Juratowitch History.
And please spread the message through as many family members that you can. Post your story here.
I am currently researching venues to hold the event and will post on this web site and advise by e-mail as soon as I have tied down a suitable venue.
best regards,
Greg