Pokrifcsak/Dicz

Hi there-

I am researching into my great grandparents. I know my Grandmother came from Jarabina and was born around 1890. Her name was Mary/Maria Dicz. I have seen it spelled on different documents that we have as Marya, Mary, Maria, etc. I have seen her last name spelled Dic, Ditz, Dicz, and the children always said it was pronounced Dietz. I know she came here on the Trave and found her on Ancestry.com at 15 yrs old. The puzzling thing is that she had a sister Matrona who came before her. She is listed as coming to see her sister Matrona in Martins Creek. Matrona was said to have been married to John Stasak who was my Grandfather’s friend/relative, and that the marriage for my Grandmother was arranged. Matrona is buried in a local cemetery under the name Maria Stasak. She was born in 1883 and died in 1913 leaving two children Katherine and John Joseph. What I cannot figure out is I do not show her anywhere coming over under the name Matrona, and I cannot understand why she’d be buried under the same name as my Grandmother’s first name? Also, Matrona’s daughter has her listed on her marriage certificate long after her death as Barbra Dietz?

My Grandfather came over in 1907 on the Konprinzessin Cecilie with someone I assume was his brother Petro. I have his naturalization papers and he is listed as coming from Granistov or Hranicne now and being born around 1880. His name was Stefan Pokrifchak(how they spelled it after being here a while). I believe it was either Prokrivcak or Prokrifcsak. At one point he had gone back to look for his brother in PA, but we never heard more about that. He was a miner and he married my Grandmother right after getting here and the first son was born in NJ. They then moved to WA. Something funny is that Matrona’s husband John Stasak and my Grandfather were listed as boarders on the 1910 cencus in Tacoma WA. Where would my Grandmother, her sister and child be during this time?

Any help anyone might have in helping me decipher my information or to search further would be much appreciated.

Thanks!