| Janos: CSONKA families | Dear Fred,
In this globalized word you will met all the times somebody who will understand your postings... and maybe will answer them, even with a bad English.
The research in Romania isn't impossible, it's a matter of time and money only. You must know only that here are alowed for research only the personal data / register records elder than 100 years.
Janos - from Transylvania
www.erdelygen.uw.hu
" Hello! Angolul beszel? Nem jol tudom magyarul:(
I am looking for Csonka. First, I want to find the "original" Csonka (the father of all the Csonka). Second, I would like to create my family tree before 1900.
I. My mother was a Csonka. Grandmother told me a story of how the Csonka family got their name: "The king went hunting for boar with his nobles and after finding the boar, the king got off his horse to kill the boar. The boar charged, the king slipped. One of his nobles held the boar so the king could climb onto a tree, but the boar cut off his arm. The king went to the top of the tree and gave him all the land he could see." When did this happen? Where was this?
There are only a few royal hunting lodges, and there are only a few places named Csonka (one in Zala megye, one Baranya megye, not to mention Csonka towers). Hunting was reserved for nobility, so he must have been noble before. But what was his name?
II. My grandfather, Csonka Ferenc was born in Hatszeg in 1889 to Joszef Kovari-Csonka, a Roman Catholic, who had a pharmacy in Dicsoszentmarton. He married Maria Draga-Vilmai-Issekutz in 1877. They combined their names to Kovari-Draga-Vilmai-Csonka and had 12 children; only 3 survived: Joszef Jr. (no children?), Ferenc, and Irma (1 daughter- I went to Marosvasharhely to meet the family). Since the records for birth/marriage/death are in Romania, I can go no futher.
So I would like to got backwards from Joszef Sr. There are so many Csonka, but there must be connections. My grandmother told me the story of a 'aunt' who had a huge estate before 1918 and they made famous goose feather pillows for the wealthy in Hungary.
Ferenc was in the cavalry but went to the US in 1914 to study at Cornell Univ. for a PhD in biochemistry. He studied in Budapest and got his masters degree in Liepzig. When he bought a piece of land in the US, his family made arrangements to marry him to a Hungarian wife. They were married in Budapest, but then he went back to the US with the wife. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Koszonom. FredS" |
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