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From: katydid <>
Subject: [HUNGARY-L] NAGY-SZKAL
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:04:07 +0000

Your answer and another I received both indicate that the Nagy-Szkal could
be a noble family or at least a family of means because of the title Domina
before her first name... and I believe this could be accurate as I had not
mentioned in this post that the Silhavy's worked for Count Bela Hadik and
his family on their estates throughout Austria-Hungary and family story was
that the Silhavy's married into a minor line of the Hadik family before
Leopold's birth in 1853. I also find the Count and Countess as godparents
to the children of Leopold and his wife , and I was told by a person
specializing in genealogy of noble families that any nobility were not
commonly godparents to those who worked for them, that it indicated a
connection of some sort, or at the very least a degree of respect.

While this document does not give a location for Leopold's birth in 1853,
now at least with parents names I hope to be able to write to Archivex and
get some info... the baptismal records of his children indicate Pohor,
Bohemia... and I am trying to track that down.

Thanks!
Maura

Scharek Péter wrote:
I think with this question you have been dropped into the central

> european history.
>
> In 1853 and in Bohemia the official langues was tchequish(sic). I think
> the record is in Tchequish not in Hungarian.
>
> Ms. Anna Nagy of Szkal could be a daughter of a Hungarian noble family
> from Szkal (it was a village in Hungary, now is in Slovakia).
>
> In Hungarian we never use the -ova letters for the female surnames, it
> is used in slavic langueses except of the original Slovak before the
> first world war.
>
> Wishes
>
> Peter Scharek
> Hungary

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