HESCH HISTORY: Back to Bohemia, ok?

This branch of the Austrian Hesch family is descended from Johann Hesch and his wife Marya (Schlinz) Hesch, who came to America from Oberschlagles, Bohemia with three sons: Paul, Mathias, and Anton. +++Johann & Marya settled in Buffalo County, Wisconsin but moved to Pierz, Mn in about 1885. .+++Mathias settled in Waumandee, Wisconsin and moved to Pierz in 1911. +++Anton never married but farmed with his dad in Agram Township, where he died in 1911.+++And Paul, my great grandfather, settled five miles away, in Buckman, Minnesota. He died there in 1900.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Back to Bohemia, ok?

(Copied and pasted from my other blog...lol)

Remember how, when we were kids, a "funny" mans' name was "Ignatz"? Like when dad was teasing a kid, or we were naming a puppy--"What do YOU think we should call him, daddy?"--the answer was usually "Ignatz"...and we'd all groan...lol

Imagine my surprise, then to find not one, but TWO Ignaz Heschs in Southern Bohemia in the 1800s. Larry found them in a village south of Oberschlagles and Schamers--Zinolten. The birth was recorded this way:

12 December 1854

Zinolten #4
IGNAZ HESCH

Catholic, Male, Legitimate

Father:

Ignaz Hesch, citizen, son of Franz Hesch, citizen, in Oberschlagles #11, and Agnes born Blaschko of Schamers #26

Mother:

Franziska daughter of --- Ambrosch, (frn..?) in Zinolten #4 and Anna born Stiedl in Zinolten # 27

Sponsors:Albert Maihr (?) in Zinolten #28 and Franziska Schinka of Zinolten #1
Midwife Franziska Neubauer