| Tamas: Re: Sloeserwij | Hello, Adrie. I'm also from the Schlosarik/Sloszarik family, a brother of Endre who wrote the previous post and who called my attention to this forum. According to our family traditions, our family originally lived in Upper Hungary (today's Slovakia), and they were invited to Central Hungary, to the town of Gödöllő (some 20 kms to the east from Budapest, see here in English http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GödöllÅ‘,_Hungary or here in Dutch http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/GödöllÅ‘) to collaborate in the building of the castle of Count Grassalkovich in the early 1700s (see the images in the above pages). Since then almost every male in our family is an architect, so most probably they had been also before, and this is exactly why they were invited here.
The Count Grassalkovich originally came from Mojmírovce (in Hungarian Ürmény, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MojmÃrovce), near to Nitra in Slovakia, and we know that when he moved to central Hungary he took many people with himself from his region of origin, both masters and peasants, so most probably our family also takes its origins from there.
We do not know anything certain of the etymology of the name, but rather than "Schlossarbeiter" or similar (in fact, such a family name does not even exist in German) we guess it is from "Schlosser" (that is, Locksmith) with an added "-ik" suffix, typical in Czech and in the western Slovakian dialects, meaning "son of".
We would be happy if you could tell anything more about the eventual Hungarian origins of your family, as it seems not improbable that they also belonged to this branch of masters (and in fact it was their profession that enabled them to freely move from one country to the other, in your case to the Netherlands). I can read Dutch well, but as my Dutch is not active, I prefer to answer in English or German if you don't mind. |
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