Karel ( Charles ) Josefa Votapka f 1850 Bohemia i Czech Republic . Emigrerte ifølge censuser i 1866 og gift i 1869 i USA med Marie ( Mary) Ludra f 1849 Bohemia, Czech Republic . Er det noe News Clip å finne - samt Karel Josefa Votapka sitt skipsmanifest ?

[Bjørn Andreas Johansønn Løkken]

Hei ....litt utenom det vanlige .....🙂

 

Gloria Faye Puckett var født den 25 juli 1929 i Pelican Rapids i Otter Tail County i Minnesota , og ble gift den 10 juni 1952 i Pelican Rapids i Otter Tail County i Minnesota med Ray Leroy Votapka , født den 20 mars 1916 i Oberlin Township i Decatur County i Kansas .

 

Gloria Faye Puckett https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/87945167/person/48591428797/facts 

 

Ray Leroy Votapka https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/10206933/person/6005734353/facts 

 

Ray Leroy Votapka sine foreldre var ; Jaroslav (Jerry) Votapka født den 23 mars 1874 i New York i New York County i New York , og han ble den 22 desember 1897 i Jennings Township i Decatur County i Kansas viet til Hettie Ann Ferguson som var født den 30 oktobe 1879 i Greene County i  Indiana .

 

Jaroslav (Jerry) Votapka https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/10206933/person/6005734320/facts 

 

Hettie Ann Ferguson https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/10206933/person/6005730847/facts     

 

Hettie Ann Ferguson sine foreldre på Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/10206933/person/-599076862/facts og https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/10206933/person/-599076867/facts 

 

Jaroslav (Jerry) Votapka sine foreldre var ;  Karel ( Charles ) Josefa Votapka , født den 11 mars 1850 i Hajek 8 iKutná Hora i Central Bohemia i Czech Republic , og han ble gift den 3 april  1869  iNew York med Marie (Mary) Ludra , født den 26 mars 1849 i Sedlice i Bohemia i Czech Republic .

 

Marie (Mary) Ludra sitt skipsmanifest har jeg funnet , og hun emigrertte til Amerika i 1866 .  Nr 130                        https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7488/images/NYM237_274-0438?treeid=&personid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=bVz251&_phstart=successSource&pId=5775892

 

Karel ( Charles ) Josefa Votapka emigrerte til Amerika i 1866 i følge censuser på Ancestry . I censuser og naturalization papers skrives han for Charles Votapka , neppe i forbindelse med hans emigrasjon og skipsmanifest . 

 

Han ble naturalisert den 10 Oktober i 1872  https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/10206933/person/6005759562/facts

 

1900 census for Altory, Decatur, Kansas https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/10206933/person/6005759562/facts

1910 census for Garfield, Decatur, Kansas https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/10206933/person/6005759562/facts     

1920 census for   Garfield, Decatur, Kansas https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/10206933/person/6005759562/facts 

 

Karel ( Charles ) Josefa Votapka  og hustru Marie (Mary) Ludra på FAG https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62524029/marie-votapka de døde henholdsvis i 

24 desember 1929 ukjent sted , men muligens i Decatur County i Kansas , og den 9 april 1922 i Decatur County i Kansas . 

 

Biografi 

 

Printed in the from Bohemia to America ; Karel Josefa ( Joseph )Jedlicka Karel Votapka ( Wotapka ) & Mary Ludra Votapka .

 

Kutná Hora er en by i regionen Sentral - Böhmen i Tsjekkia ca. 70 kilometer øst for Praha .

 

I was born March 11, 1850 at Kutna Hora , Czechoslovakia . When I was 1 1/2 years old , we moved in to the city where my father was an officer . We moved to a dwelling near the courthouse . Later we moved to Tahadla near a sugar refinery , where I started to go to school . Later we moved to Oumemina and I went to school at Kresetice . When I was 10 years old, we moved again to Kutna Hora and I went to school until I was 14 years old . Then I started to learn the trade of mechanic .

 

After the war in 1866 , on the first ship I came to America , New York City and in 1869 I got married . Our first child , a daughter , died 9 days after birth . Later , another daughter , she was ailing for more than a year and when she was 2 years old , she died of diptheria . Her name was Jennie . At that time our son , Jaroslav (Jerry) was born . After Jennie's burial we left Iowa , fearing diptheria would take our son, too .

 

We started farming 3 miles from St Ansgar . In that time , we lost $1000.00 , so the fourth year we moved to Kansas . The first three years we had no crops , it was too dry . The first year I went to Nebraska to help harvest and any other work from May to December . The second year the same . The third year they were building the railroad at Lenora , so I went to work for the railroad . After that , we began to have crops and things were better . I got most needed machinary for field work and a threshing machine . Later I sold my farm and bought another on the Big Timber (north of Jennings) and now have 560 acres .

 

March 11, 1923 at 73 years old Karel Votapka Sr .

 

Both Karel/Charles and Marie/Mary Ludra Votapka worked in the cigar factory , making cigars by hand when they first came to America and lived in NYC . Later they helped making chewing tobacco . After their marriage , Charles went to night school and learned English and German . He could not stand very comfortably making cigars and did not like the tobacco , so he went to work for the Bliss Sewing Machine Company .

 

Charles became a naturalized citizen while in New York . The original name was spelled Wotapka , but his naturalization papers show Votapka as pronounced in the old country . He did not have the money to change the name back to Wotapka , thus it is spedded with a "v" to the present time .ith my wife together 51 years . She passed away , had a heart attack . Son and family moved with me . He is renting the farm .

 

Familien opplevde endel tragedier i sitt harde liv i Kansas . 

 

Er det mulig å finne skipsmanifestet til Karel Josefa (Wotapka )  Votapka ?

 

Er det mulig å finne noen News Clip som angår denne familien ? 

 

Dette gjelder også selvfølgelig Jaroslav (Jerry) Votapka og hustru Hettie Ann Ferguson og deres sønn Ray Leroy Votapka og hans hustru Gloria Faye Puckett . 

 

Eller andre ting - alt av interesse her . 

 

Jeg takker på forhånd for gode funn , svar og innspill . Ta godt vare på hverandre der ute 🙂

 

                            

 

Endret April 8, 2022 av Bjørn A Løkken

[Egil Johannessen]

26 minutter siden, Bjørn A Løkken skrev:

Er det mulig å finne skipsmanifestet til Karel Josefa (Wotapka )  Votapka ?

 

Du har kanskje sett denne?

 

Lenke Ancestry

 

The U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

Name:	Karel Votapka
Arrival Year:	1866
Arrival Place:	America
Primary Immigrant:	Votapka, Karel
Source Publication Code:	8410

 

 

Annotation:	A local history that contains copies of records from the U.S. National Archives' microfilm holdings of ships' manifests and passenger lists for the years 1858 to 1901. Names Czech and German families and supplies facts on individual's birth date, place of

[Egil Johannessen]

Legger lenke til et annet familitre som har flere kilder - https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/4040983/person/-1602947955/facts?_phsrc=cIZ20&_phstart=successSource

[Bjørn Andreas Johansønn Løkken]

1 minutt siden, Egil Johannessen skrev:

 

Du har kanskje sett denne?

 

Lenke Ancestry

 

The U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

Name:	Karel Votapka
Arrival Year:	1866
Arrival Place:	America
Primary Immigrant:	Votapka, Karel
Source Publication Code:	8410

 

 

Annotation:	A local history that contains copies of records from the U.S. National Archives' microfilm holdings of ships' manifests and passenger lists for the years 1858 to 1901. Names Czech and German families and supplies facts on individual's birth date, place of

 

Ja Egil jeg så denne , men jeg forsto ikke helt hva det er 🙂

[Frank Marton Pedersen]

OBIT Mary Lourda:

 

Oberlin Herald (Oberlin, Kansas)

13 Apr 1922, Thu

Page 7

 

13 Apr 1922, 7 - Oberlin Herald at Newspapers.com

 

[Bjørn Andreas Johansønn Løkken]

3 minutter siden, Egil Johannessen skrev:

Legger lenke til et annet familitre som har flere kilder - https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/4040983/person/-1602947955/facts?_phsrc=cIZ20&_phstart=successSource

 

Utdrag fra en annen biografi ; Joseph Jedlicka and his sister, Johanna, and her husband, Frank Zemanek, arrived in New York City on the 9th of July in 1863 from Bremen, Germany aboard the steamship "Astroman". They disembarked at Castle Gardens, a customs and immigrations area at the south end of Manhattan Island. 

[Egil Johannessen]

10 minutter siden, Bjørn A Løkken skrev:

Ja Egil jeg så denne , men jeg forsto ikke helt hva det er 🙂

 

Det er hentet utfra denne boken; 

SHIMMICK, LILLIAN, and HARWOOD G. KOLSKY. Big Timber 1873-1976, Altory Township, Decatur County, Kansas - Cesko Narodni Hrbitov - A History of Big Timber Cemetery (Czech National Cemetery), the Final Resting Place of Pioneer Settlers from Czechoslovakia & Germany.... n.p. [1976], pp. 4-5, 9-12.

 

En annen bok, Early Pioneer Families In Decatur County, Kansas, THE CHARLES VOTAPKA FAMILY, fra side 26 osv. - https://scholars.fhsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=fort_hays_studies_series

 

 

[Bjørn Andreas Johansønn Løkken]

@Frank Marton Pedersen og @Egil Johannessen knallbra funn og den linken til boka var et skikkelig scoop fra side 26 til og med side 33 . Knallbra ...........dette blir jæ.... bra 🙂🙂🙂

[Egil Johannessen]

10 minutter siden, Bjørn A Løkken skrev:

den linken til boka var et skikkelig scoop fra side 26 til og med side 33 . Knallbra ...........dette blir jæ.... bra 🙂🙂🙂

 

Så flott! Der forklares også endringen av W til V som 1 bokstav i etternavnet også....

 

The original spelling of the Votapka family name was Wotapka. The naturalization authorities, however, made an error by writing the surname with the letter "V" instead of "W." When Charles went to the authorities to have the error corrected, he was told that it would take a court action and considerable money to correct the mis- -26- take. Since Charles had very little money at that time, the spelling of the family name remains Votapka to this day.