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Blamick Joseph (Josef Blahnik) [Male] b. 18 MAR 1858 Myto, Bohemia - d. 12 JUL 1926 McKeesport, PA

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Title: Census

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Title: New York Passenger Ships 1820-1957

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Title: Donald Blahnik, Blahnik History; Descendants and Antecedents of Joseph and Josephine Schneider Blahnik

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Title: Find a Grave

Immigration: 12 FEB 1877

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Title: New York Passenger Ships 1820-1957

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Title: 1920 census

Occupation: 1920

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Title: Census

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Title: Donald Blahnik, Blahnik History; Descendants and Antecedents of Joseph and Josephine Schneider Blahnik

Occupation: 1876

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Title: Donald Blahnik, Blahnik History; Descendants and Antecedents of Joseph and Josephine Schneider Blahnik

Occupation: 1900

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Title: 1900 PA Census

Residence: 1920

Residence: 1900

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Title: 1910 PA Census

Residence: 1910

Census: 1910

Naturalization: 1884

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Title: Find a Grave

There was a Frantz Blahnik born in 1879 Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA who died 2/26/1879 Father was Joseph but mother was Barbara. Our Joseph didn't marry until abt 1881 to Katherine, unless there was a first marriage and she died as well as Frantz.
Family lived at 114 Grant Street, Pittsburgh PA
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Donald Blahnik PA - from Blahnik History; Descendants and Antecedents of Joseph and Josephine Schneider BlahnikThe "Blahnik Family History" could not be told but for the help of many people. This booklet is dedicated to three people.Joseph Blahnik of Myto, Bohemia (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) who, at the age of 41, started a new life by coming to the United States of America with son, Jacob, in 1875 or 1876 and sending for his wife Josephine and four other children, Joseph, John, Mary and Caroline who arrived in New York on February 12, 1877 on the S.S. Oder sailing from Bremen Germany.From the passenger list, it appears that four friends from Bohemia, Wenzel Spasek, Wenzel, Wenzel and Johanna Sykora came with them. All of us, as descendants should think what it was like for them to leave their homeland, families and friends for an unknown but hopefully better future.
Sylvester F. Blahnik, my late father, grandson of Joseph and Josephine, son of John, who kept a small notebook with names, birth dates and places, which was the starting point for this family history. There was little discussion of "the old country", Bohemia, but there was an ethnic connection through our church. The Troy Hill Presbyterian Church, originally named the First Bohemian Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, was founded in 1901 and located at the west end of Troy Hill in an area that became known as "Bohemian Hill". Both my mother, Louise Cervenka and father, Sylvester, attended in their early and teen years with their social life revolving around the church. They met, were married there, raised my brother and I and they attended until their deaths in 1963 and 1966. Approximately 50% of the church membership and those living on Bohemian Hill migraged from the same village as Joseph, Myto, Bohemia.To in wife, Eleanor Weis Blahnik, who puts up with my "pack rat" habits, helped with the record keeping, accompanied me to the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International's conferences in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Chicago, Illinois and Lincoln, Nebraska, went on a genealogical vacation in 1994 to the Czech Republic (which included Austria and Germany) and has heard more
Bohemian spoken than the average person (without understanding). In all fairness, I did a booklet on the Weis Family History, went to Germany in 1990, met third cousins of hers and visited the Lutheran Church in Weinbach, Germany where Eleanor's grandmother was married in 1889. I'm still working on the English and Scottish side of her family. Eleanor has been a great partner in this endeavor.
Donald J. BlahnikHistory of the "Blahnik" Family
Descendants of Joseph Blahnik (1834-1918) and Josephine Schneider Blahnik (1836-1912)
Joseph (Josef) Blahnik and Josephine (Jossefa) Blahnik lived in the
town of Myto located about 26 miles east of Plzen in what was Bohemia, a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today it is the Czech Republic. Joseph and Josephine were both born in Myto, a small village of about 750. They married on May 13, 1856 and had six children, one of whom died at 2 month. Joseph was a miner. In 1875, at the age of 41, he came to the U.S.A. with his son, Jacob, who was 12. We are not certain of the dates, however, there was a great migration starting in the 1870's from Bohemia to the U.S.A. There were various reasons such as poverty, no future, conscription into the Hapsburg's German Army, depression of the economy and hope for a better life. Again, we are not certain of the motivation. We do know that Josephine, age 37, with 4 children, ++JOSEPH (18), John (11), Mary (8) and Caroline (5) sailed from Bremen, Germany on the S.S. ODER arriving on February 12, 1877. The ship's passenger list was secured from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and indicated 82 passengers in steerage with most from Germany and ten from Bohemia according to the records filed in New York on arrival. The other five who listed from Bohemia were: Wenzel Spasek (27-workman), Wenzel Rabak (18 joiner), Wenzel Radilowsky (18 joiner), Johanna Sykora (19), and Wilhelm Gindel (21-butcher). To the best of my knowledge, these others had no family connection with the Blahniks. Their arrival in New York was before Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.We believe the family went directly to Westmoreland County and settled in Deny Township. The small village was called Bradenville. Although the name was badly misspelled, they do appear in the 1880 Census in Derry Township with the name spelled "Bromix" and listed as being from "Italy". Joseph apparently went to work in the coal mines of the area which is located about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Apparently Joseph and his three sons all worked in the mines, however, after a broken leg, John got a job with the Pennsylvania Railroad whose line ran right at the edge of Bradenville to the railroad shops in Blairsville, PA. Evidently John's brother-in. law, Andrew Titl, worked for the railroad and was the contact to get the job. About 1889, the Pennsylvania Railroad moved their shops from Blairsville to Pittsburgh and John had to move from Bradenville to the Troy Hill Section of Pittsburgh which is on the North Side. The rest of the family remained in the Derry Township area (which is near Arnold Palmer's hometown of Latrobe, PA) where they owned their own homes until about 1900. Caroline married Martin Safranek and moved to Milwaukee where Martin had a butcher Shop. Caroline's house was also a boarding house and eventually other family members moved to Milwaukee. Her sister, Mary, married Rudolph Yanda and moved to Milwaukee about 1908. Their brother, Jacob, was separated from his wife and also moved in with Caroline along with the parents Joseph and Josephine. Joseph was over 65 and probably retired. Only two of the five children stayed in the Pittsburgh area. +++JOSEPH, Jr. +++was the only one who spelled the name "Blamick" and lived in Port Vue which is near McKeesport, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh. My grandfather, John, stayed on the North Side of Pittsburgh on Troy Hill and then Mount Troy.Joseph (1859-1926) was the only one in the family who changed the spelling of the family name. He was known as Joseph Blamick and lived in Port Vue, PA (near McKeesport and Pittsburgh). He was a coal miner and later worked in a tin mill. His wife's name was Katerine and they had six children, with three of the daughters marrying three brothers by the name of Cipro.