The next two women have fathers but can't be properly placed in the correct family. This is a case where all the names are too common.
The baptism of Jan (in Latin as Joannes) Chodur-Janowych on 22 September 1838 at Vrbovce shows his parents are Paullus et uxor Elisabetha Tomecsek. This record agrees with the marriage at the same place on 29 September 1834 [in Latin] of: honestus juvenis paulus, Joannis Chodur coloni in vico Choduri uniquentem filius sponsa virgo Elisabetha, Joannis Tomascek in vivi v Tomscesku filia 18 annorum. Translation: the [male] youth Paul, the only son of John Chodur residing in this city and his spouse, the maiden Elizabeth, daughter of John Tomecek, also a resident, aged 18 years.
So we have an Elizabeth born about 1816, daughter of Jan. However, there are a number of Elizabeths born to Jans at that time period. One possibility is the Elizabeth born on 9 February 1820 and who died on 20 August 1870, daughter of Jan Tomeček and Anna Petrakova/Petracka alias Kutalkova. The last couple were married on 19 July 1807. This came from a report that the Bratislava Archives did for a cousin of mine who shares this line. However, 14 is really, really, on the young side for marriage. I could buy 16, but not 14. And later, I found out it didn't agree with the census.
The 1869 census in Vrbovce (FHL Film # 2192677) for this couple has the following:
Pavel Janovich Dolinsky, b. 1815, ženatý, rolnik
Manželka, Beta, b. 1809, vydatá [wife]
syn Jan b. 1839, ženatý [son]
manželka Anna, b. 1849, vydatá [his wife]
druty syn Pavel, b. 1842 [second son]
treti syn Jura, b. 1856 [third son]
So, her marriage record says she was 18 (b. ca. 1816), but the census makes her seven years more than that. His (Paul's) age is closer to the 1817 baptism I have for him. In any case, we know her father's name. So she's half way there.
This Alzbeta turns out to be the one born 4 October 1814, daughter of Jan and Alzbeta (Kalka) Tomecek. The 20 August 1870 death record is clearly the wife of Pavel Chodur Dolinsky and gives the maiden name as Tomecek and age as 56. That combined with the marriage record gives the birth years from 1814-1816. The 1869 census information of 1809 must be an outlier and was somehow incorrect. Jan Tomecek and Alzbeta Kalka were married at Vrbovce on 22 November 1813, thus making Alzbeta their eldest child.
One more down, just one to go.
Posted by: Martin Hollick | 03/21/2011 at 07:12 PM