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Duble Austria

Posted: 28 Mar 2001 1:50PM GMT
Edited: 24 Jun 2001 11:19PM GMT
my grpa John Tezak was born in the village of Duble Austria 8/16/1888. He emigrated from Havre France to America 6/17/1911. He was in Crested Butte Colorado until 1928 When he moved to Mi. Can any other Tezaks or someone related to a Tezak give me any more information about Duble Austria.

RE: Tezak from Austria

Patrick A. Tezak (View posts)
Posted: 5 Apr 2001 11:48PM GMT
It has been said that my grandfather Anthony John Tezak Sr. may have come from Austria but I do not know what city or the year.

Duble, Austria

Mark Tezak (View posts)
Posted: 21 Apr 2001 11:50PM GMT
Hi Sandra,
The chances are good that Duble is now part of Slovenia, as Tezak is a Slovenian name, and at the tyime your grandpa came, it WAS Austria (Austrian-Hungarian Empire). The name Tezak originally had a little "v" type accent over the "z" (don't know what they're called), and made the Z a friction-like consonant, like saying "shhhh", but adding voice to it. The pronunciation was "tay-ZHAK" and means "heavy" or hard worker. Pronounced like that, it sounds like it too. I spoke to a Russian once, who claimed that word meant powerful in Russian.
My dad's name was Stanley, too, and his dad's name was Anton. Anton came from Maribor (then Austria, now Slovenia), which is close to Graz, Austria, and is incredibly beautiful country. Some of Anton's relatives settled in Crested Butte, Colo., most were in Pueblo, Colo.

Mark

Duble Austria

Posted: 22 Apr 2001 9:31AM GMT
Edited: 24 Jun 2001 11:19PM GMT
Hi Mark;
I know my Grandfather was born in the part that was Austria and now is Slovenia. This is the first time I knew my Tezak Ancestry was actually Slovenian instead of Austrian . But because he was born in Austria he was considered to be Austrian. What I had wondered about the village of Duble was is the name the same or was it changed to another name. Thank you also for the other interesting info on Tezak name. My grandpa married Mary Stubler. Do you know if Stubler is Austrian or Slovenian?

Tezak - Duble - Stubler

Mark (View posts)
Posted: 22 Apr 2001 11:27AM GMT
Hi Sandra,

wow, that was a quick reply...
That's a good question about those names. I think Duble could be a Germanized form of another word in Slovenian. Have you run a search on it on the net? Stubler is definitely a German name, but could also have been Germanized. Without the "r" on the end, it looks really Slavic. There are so many names down around there (including in Bavaria and Switzerland), that you're not entirely sure where they came from.

When I was living in Germany, a German kid, a tough guy, encountered me once, looking for Tezak, because my name and the name of my girlfriend (who became my wife), "Schaller" both appeared on our door name plates. Seems he thought I was Turkish, and told me he was absolutely against Turks and Germans cohabitating (br-r-r-r...). I told him I was Amrican, but the name was Slovenian, asked him if he had anything against Slavs and Germans...?

The "-ak" ending is seen a lot in Hungary, Slovakia and Poland as well. My dad met a Tezak in Hawaii, who claimed he saw a Tezak coat-of-arms on the Austrian-Hungarian border in a castle of some sort. He wasn't specific, though, and the border is kind of long with many villages along the way. I guess if you had a whole summer to go over there and camp out, you could figure out where it is.
So I asked my German father-in-law about that, and it didn't surprise him one bit, that Tezak might actually be Hungarian. He brought out a historical world atlas, which showed how nations looked periodically in the Balkans in the last 400 yrs. and I was amazed. The borders have been constantly changing down there for a long time. Also, there were more or less large migrations of peoples from all over the area taking place, especially in the last 300 yrs., i.e. Czechs going there, Hungarians going there, etc, etc. Vienna was the "capital" of Europe, much like New York City is the center of activity in the US today.

So it's a tough call, getting into the name thing. People will change their names in order to "fit in", into their new living circumstances. As an example, our name was pronounced tay-ZHAK, then in the US, our family dropped the little inflection over the "z", and we became "TEE-zak" (with a long "e" sound over the first syllable), then when I went to Germany, the Germans pronounced the "e" again correctly, which is like a long "a" in the US, but insisted on a hard "z", (pronounced like "Ts") and called me TAY-tsak, and I said no, it's TAY-zak. So I've experienced 4 variations of the name alone in my own life!

Mark

Tezak, Duble, Stubler

Posted: 22 Apr 2001 3:41PM GMT
Edited: 24 Jun 2001 11:19PM GMT
Hi Mark;
Thanks for the great story on the Tezak clan I really enjoyed reading it.
Sandra

Re: Tezak - Duble - Stubler

Josef Stubler (View posts)
Posted: 19 Sep 2002 7:12PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi!

Saw your posting while doing a seach on the name STUBLER in Yahoo. Hope you don't mind my jumoing into this discussion.

My family originated as far as I have been able to determine in Slovenia which as I understand was a part of Austria at one time. Stubler is definiteley a Germanic name. It comes from the word STUBE which is German for "Inn". Accordingly I have always gone under the assumption that Stubler means Innkeeper.

~Joe

Re: Tezak - Duble - Stubler

Posted: 20 Sep 2002 9:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Stubler, Tezak
hi Joe;
Dont mind you joining this conversation. Thanks for the tip on the name Stubler meaning inn. My grandmother was also from Slovenia which at the time of her birth was under the hapsburg rule and was part of Austria.

Sandra

Re: Duble, Austria

Posted: 28 Mar 2003 6:51AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 31 Mar 2003 4:12AM GMT
Surnames: Tezak,
Just saw your message on this page.
I originaly come from Maribor,Slovenia, have also lived in small towns near Maribor, but have never heard of place/village name DUBLE. There is a place east of Maribor called DUPLEK (Spodnji Duplek),would maybe be it?
I also had a classmate and a good friend named Ivan Tezak, who lived in Sveti Andraz/Slov. Gorice.The school we went to was in Cerkvenjak/Slov.Gor.in year 1951.
We lost the contact ever since, but I heard from a relative,that he, Ivan Tezak is now retired from school teacher job and is living in Ptuj (Petau in germ.). At my next visit to Slovenia, I might just look him up...If I could be of any help, feel free to contact me....

Re: Duble, Austria

Posted: 28 Mar 2003 4:12PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Tezak
Hello Raymond;
I have been told that Duble Austria has had its named changed but the person who told me didnt remember the changed name. A cousin Dennis Tezak found our grandfather John Tezak Sr's Emigration papers in his home. It stated that he was from Duble Austria. That was back in 1911. I was told that the name had been changed to a Slovenian name. So if the name Duplek is Slovenian it is possible that is it but its just a guess. I would like to thank you for trying to help.

Sincerely Yours;

Sandra Tezak Pelky




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