Josephine Olak

Title:

Given Name(s):
Josephine

Surname:
Olak

Suffix:

Maiden Name:

Age:
(unknown)

Sex:
F

Born:
Jul 10, 1924

Died:
Mar 10, 2023

Josephine is buried here.

Plot ID:

Person ID:

There is One other Person on same stone or plot:

Cemetery:

Cobourg St. Michael's R.C., Cobourg, ON, Canada

Section:
G

Row:
10C

Plot:
3

The Cobourg St. Michael's R.C. Cemetery (which is still active) is located in the town of Cobourg, on Burnham St., in Northumberland County , ON, Canada.

This cemetery:
    • was compiled by Louise Connolly
    • is up to date as of Dec 31, 2023
    • present RecordKeeper is St.Michaels Ch.

GPS Coordinates:

Latitude:
N 43° 58' 7"
43.96861111

Longitude:
W 78° 11' 28"
-78.19111111

Additional Info:

In 1837, Father A. Kernan, a native of Galway Ireland, was appointed to establish a parish headquartered in Cobourg, that would extend from Trenton to Oshawa. The first church in Cobourg built in 1839 was a frame building dedicated to St. Polycarp and was located on William Street. Father Kernan suffered a fatal injury in a fall from a horse when he was thirty-eight years old. His remains were interred beneath the church but later moved to the central mound in the parish cemetery in 1895.

By 1859, the church was found to be inadequate in size and a brick addition was erected which doubled the size of the church. Four years later, the original wood section was destroyed by fire and replaced by brick. At this time it was rededicated to St. Michael. The cornerstone for the present St. Michael's Church was laid on June 9, 1895 and the church was dedicated on Feb. 23, 1896 by Bishop R.A. O'Connor.

Records taken from a transcription by Rob Mikel in 1983 and updated from a site check by Allan Birney in July 1996. The records from St. Polycarp and St. Michael's registers were added in March 2003 by Ron Smith and Paul Morton.

The original St. Polycarp cemetery was located where Kraft Foods once stood; some of the monuments and remains were transferred to the current St. Michael's cemetery site and this file contains the combined records of both as we are unable to distinguish where many of the older burials took place and which ones may have been moved.

This cemetery was photographed and updated by Keith Edwards in March of 2019. The burial records were updated by Jayne Lazure.

Cem ID:

Notes

Died at home in Cobourg. Wife of the late Chester Olak; mother of Zbigniew, Richard, and George. MacCoubrey Funeral Home. Info from obituary.

How to Submit Photos for Josephine Olak

Until such time as a photo "Drag and Drop" function has been added to Cemsearch, here is the way to prepare your photos for inclusion in our database:

• IMPORTANT: FIRST select the person in Cemsearch for whom you want to add a photo, then re-open this help screen.

• You currently have selected Josephine Olak. You can submit photos for her plot's monument(s) or personal photos of just her.

• On your computer, locate the file(s) of the photo(s) you want to submit for Josephine Olak.

• DO NOT make duplicate photos of the same side of a stone for each person shown on it. For example, if husband and wife are both shown on one stone image, DO NOT make two copies of this image; only one is required.

• For MONUMENT Pictures, do the following:
• Copy this code: COBSTM0829; (MUST include the semicolon)
• Rename the monument files you previously located by pasting this code as a prefix to each filename.
• IMPORTANT: The code COBSTM0829; is SPECIFIC to ALL people on this stone or plot.

• For PERSONAL Pictures for JUST this person, do the following:
• Copy this code: COBSTM0829^1; (MUST include the semicolon)
• Rename the personal files you previously located by pasting this code as a prefix to each filename.
• IMPORTANT: The code COBSTM0829^1; is SPECIFIC to Josephine Olak and your picture(s) prefixed with this code will appear ONLY for her.

• HINT: for convenience, these codes also appear below the Born/Died dates where you can click on them to automatically copy them.

• ATTACH photos (full size; if you can, limit to about 1-2 megabytes in size) with the prefixed filename to an email and send to: helpus@cemsearch.ca.

• If you have further details that you would like included in the "Notes" section, add them to the email as well.

Captions:

• A caption can be embedded in the filename following the semi-colon, terminated with a tilde (~). See example below.

Monument Example:

• Suppose you have two photos of her with filenames img_2694.jpg and Olak family.jpg
• The specific prefix code for this person's plot is COBSTM0829;
• Your modified filenames will be COBSTM0829;img_2694.jpg and COBSTM0829;Olak family.jpg
• The text following the semicolon can be anything you want (including spaces), for example:
•COBSTM0829; north side of tombstone eroded by nature.
• Add a caption as follows (surrounding spaces optional; tilde (~) marks the end of the caption; otherwise we will use the complete filename):
COBSTM0829; Your caption here~ img_2694.jpg and
COBSTM0829; Another caption~ Olak family.jpg

• ALL images for Josephine Olak and others on the same stone or plot MUST have the same exact prefix up to and including the semi-colon.

Personal Pictures Example:

• Suppose you have two images for this person's monument with filenames 40thBirthday.jpg and Josephine Headshot.jpg
• The specific prefix code for her is COBSTM0829^1;
• Your modified filenames will be COBSTM0829^1;40thBirthday.jpg and COBSTM0829^1;Josephine Headshot.jpg
• The text following the semicolon can be anything you want (including spaces)
• Add a caption as follows (surrounding spaces optional; tilde (~) marks the end of the caption; otherwise we will use the complete filename):
COBSTM0829; Your caption here~ 40thBirthday.jpg and
COBSTM0829; Another caption~ Josephine Headshot.jpg

• ALL personal photos of Josephine Olak MUST have the same exact prefix up to and including the semi-colon.
• These personal images will NOT appear for others on the same stone or plot.