Family Nibbles

19 – Anton Petras and Terezie Zahradnik (4G)

Let’s meet Josepha Petráš Teply’s parents, Anton Petráš and Terezie Zahradnik.

Interestingly, Anton Petráš and Terezie Zahradnik each has a Teply parent or grandparent.

If you stopped your car in front of a house in Solomon, Kansas, and started walking around the house taking photos, you might get confronted.

We’ve learned a lot about Joseph and Josepha Petras Teply (3G).

Let’s meet Joseph’s parents, Joseph Teply and Frantiska Dvořák (4G) .

Joseph and Josepha Teply left Bohemia in 1867, bound for America. They are the only ones of our direct Teply ancestors to emigrate.

Illegitimate Children were a fact of life, literally.

Illegitimate children were common. It’s not unusual to see an illegitimate child on each page of the parish register.

We met Joseph and Josepha earlier, when we were in Borová and Oldřiš. They had gotten married and had a son Frantisek. Let’s learn more about them.

We have nine generations of Teplys in Bohemia to learn about. Let’s start with the most recent, and work our way back in time.

At last! Pustá Rybná. The goal of our pilgrimage. The documented location of our Teplys since 1600s.

I’m going to write some Pustá Rybná nibbles, just to get you interested.

As we were driving out of Telecí, Jan made a turn up a country lane. “Let me show you a tree that I’m sure your grandparents knew well.”

Telecí is a village on the southeast corner of Teply world.

The Telecí church is important to us because it was the first protestant church for the surrounding villages.