I'm looking for descendants of my great-granduncles, two brothers of my great-grandfather Jiri (= George) KOZA, who was born in 1855 in Bohemia, now Czech Republik .
The two brothers emigrated from a little village near PLZEN (= Pilsen ) in the late 1800's .
Unfortunately I don't know where they settled and wether they had been seperated finally.
All the information I have about them I received by family records and I have also a couple of old photographs which were taken in CHICAGO
( at the former Scheyer's and Scholl & Mink photostudios ) and then sent to relatives in Europe.
I know that one of these "uncles" was called JOSEF KOZA (= original name, also written as Josef KOZAK ). The other might have been called Jakob ( or Jirka or Jaroslav or the like).
They both were married after their emigration. One of them (it must have been "Jakob ?") had at least three children, for sure one boy (the eldest child) and one girl (the second child) then a third ( another girl ?) and probably even more.
JOSEF KOZA / K allegedly was married to a draper's daughter.
I came to know that a certain JOSEF KOZAK shipped in from Hamburg / Germany to New York on 3rd August 1876. He was aged 19 and his occupation was listed as farmer.
Since his personal details match my knowledge of my emigrated relative, this Josef Kozak could possibly be one of the persons I'm looking for.
Besides their possible dates of birth between 1856/57 ? ( Josef ) and 1860, I don't know any more about my "uncles", but about their Czech family which remained in Europe.
Possibly the "uncles"and their families left Chicago and settled in the states of either Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska or Ohio as I know that many families called Koza or Kozak settled there.
If the one or another information given sounds familliar to you,
please contact me at
looking4koza@hotmail.com Ute