From the village to the highest circles... and to war

The name Josef was passed down from grandfather to grandson. He outlived three wives and seven children. Only five of his twelve children lived to adulthood...

Read the joyful, tragic, and mysterious stories from the lives of my ancestors and relatives.

From the village to the highest circles... and to war

Karel was born to family of František and Anna Vachuška in 1873 in Sedlo, a small village located on the border of today's South...

Across the kingdom to find a wife and back home

Vojtěch Vachuška, born in 1853, went to live almost across the entire Kingdom of Bohemia from Střelské Hoštice (today's Strakonice...

He outlived three wives and seven children...

František Vachuška, born in 1863 in Slatina, had three wives during his lifetime. At the age of 24, he married his first wife, Petronila...

The family house and land on a map from 1837

One of the many remnants of the Kingdom of Bohemia are maps depicting its vastness. These maps served as the basis for the...

The tragic summer of 1847 in Sedlo 12

Registers tell joyful but also sad stories of our ancestors. This story is one of the tragic ones. During seven weeks, between June 14...

Fate could be even this cruel...

This is one of the saddest preserved stories of a person with the surname Vachuška. The unfortunate man was Jan Vachuška, born in...

Is longevity encoded in our genes?

In historical times, the average age at which people died was significantly lower than today. This was true for most people. However...

The most prolific couple conceived 13 children

In the period covered by the registers, people did not limit their fertility. As a result, families had ten or more children if the spouses...

At most five out of twelve children reached adulthood

Our ancestors lived in incomparably worse conditions than we do in today's advanced modern world. Medical knowledge was...

Only one of the 13 passed on the surname, or we almost died out

In the past, it sometimes happened that only one son passed on his father's surname (and the genes of his father and mother), even...

Barbora is pregnant again, and we don't know who the father is...

Barbora Krůtová, daughter of Filip Krůta and Kateřina, born Vachušková, gave birth to six children at a time when their father was...

The name Josef was passed down from grandfather to grandson

In earlier times, Josef was one of the most common male names in Czechia and was often passed down from father to son. The...

Where we have lived, or where we come from

The Vachuška family has its oldest roots in the village of Sedlo. From the birth record of Vít Vachuška from 1642, it is known that the...

The brothers married the sisters

The registers also tell the story of how two brothers from the Vachuška family of Slatina married two sisters from another family...

The forefather of the lienage

Legend has it that the forefather of the Czechs is the forefather Čech. The registers say that the forefather of the Vachuška family is...

The craft of wheelwrighting has been passed down through three generatuons

Among the members of the Vachuška family, there were, among others, an innkeeper, a road worker, a railway guard, a railway...