Dear Robert,
I´m a descendant of the (Austrian)Moravian Uxa line who lives/lived at Brünn/Brno Moravia since about the 1850s. I have recently started exploring my maternal ancestors and read your post at ancestry with great interest.
By using the notes of my greatgrandfather i have been able to trace my line back to the area of Rokycany at the Pilsen/Plzen region of the late 18th century.
The earliest ancestors my great grandfather knew about were an Ignatz Uxa, married to a Barbara, nee?, both born ca 1740 and John Uxa, married to a Katharina nee Illich, both born ca 1740, whose line merged when their grandchildren married. These families seems to have lived at Holoubkov, near Rokycany until the 1850s. I don´t know their religion then for sure, but as the Uxa ancestor seems to have come from the North Sweden/North Finland border region (where the name originates from) to Bohemia within the host of the Swedish king Gustav Adolph in the early 1640s during the 30-year-war, his early descendants should have been Protestants.
I suspect that the seperation of the Bohemian, Moravian and the Missouri lines happened about 1850 when parts of the family emigrated to Missouri or moved to Moravia (as they use the same given names: Wenzel, Joseph, Frank, Charles, Robert.. i suspect the John Uxa, who moved to Missouri in the 1850s to be a son of John Uxa born in 1776, he would therefor be the brother of my great great great grandfather
Frank aka Franz Uxa, born in 1803.
How far have you been able to trace your ancestors back? I´m really interested in the linkage between the local Uxa families.
Please contact me under
robert.seebacher@gmx.net if you want to know more.
yours, Robert