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Joseph Koza and brother from Bohemia

Joseph Koza and brother from Bohemia

Ute (View posts)
Posted: 12 Aug 2002 3:28PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: KOZA
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

Re: Joseph Koza and brother from Bohemia

Posted: 16 Feb 2005 11:43PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 26 Mar 2005 6:32PM GMT
My great-grandfather was Ludwik George Koza born 1888 in Limanova, Galicia, Austria. He immigrated somewhere before 1907 to Chicago and married Antonette Zajac. They are a little later than your family. I also have Czech family named Fiedler who came over to Hammond, IN just on the other side of the state line from Chicago (in 1910). Any possible relation?

email: bethannhays@yahoo.com

Re: Joseph Koza and brother from Bohemia

Posted: 25 Jul 2005 2:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Beth,

Re: Joseph Koza and brother from Bohemia

Posted: 25 Jul 2005 2:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Beth,

sorry, no relation to Galicia possible.


Bye
Ute

Re: Joseph Koza and brother from Bohemia

Posted: 21 Aug 2008 10:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Koza
My grandfather, Alois Koza, emegrated to the US from Budapest where he was an architect. Family there owned interest in Kempinski Hotel but sold it. Alois settled in the Chicago area (Lyons), Maried Dorothy (also from Budapest area) and had three sons, Frank, GEORGE, and JOSEPH, and a daughter Alice. I am the only male Koza to carry on from this family.

I simply noticed the similarity in the names of the brothers in your posting and wanted to comment. I didn't think Koza was a common name.

Re: Joseph Koza and brother from Bohemia

Posted: 25 Jan 2009 12:20AM GMT
Classification: Query
I am looking for descendants of my Great grandmother,Emilie Kozak,who married Frank Richard Kralicek.Her father was Joseph Kozak,born 28 Dec 1836 in Bohemia,who married Francis Balaban-Nakvinda.Any info you have will be greatly appreciated. rosena124@yahoo.com

Re: Joseph Koza and brother from Bohemia

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 1:24AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Koza
Hello. My grandfather's name was Jozef Koza, but it was later changed into Kozanowski. As I am named after my grandfather my name is Jozef Kozanowski. As far as I know he was born around 1900 and lived in Poland near Krakow.
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