The Cízek surname originated from the name of a small singing bird
The Czech spelling of the surname has a v shaped accent mark( a hacek) over the C and the z that my computer keyboard will not make.
Frantiska (spelt with a hacek over the s)was from a town called Kamenne Zehrovice, located about 25 miles west of the city of Prague. Back when Frantisek was born the town was located in Bohemia, Austrian Empire. The area is now the Czech Republic. Frantisek's occupation on his grandson's baptism was a mistra kamenického (mistr kamenicky english spelling). A mistr kamenicky is the man who went through the process of apprenticeship, learning to work with the stone. He learned to cut the stone as it was needed to build the houses. The word mistr means he graduated and it was a title. The english translation would be a Master Stone Mason. He was married to Marie Mudrové (MUDROVA english spelling). Children of Frantisek CÍZEK and his wife Marie Mudrova were:
+2 i. Jan CÍZEK.
He was born on 8 Jan 1876 and was from house #63 in Doksy, Czechoslovakia. On his son Karel's Roman Catholic baptism, his occupation was a kameník. A kameník translated to english is a Stone Mason's Labourer. On Jan's Declaration of Intention of being an American citizen his name changed to John G. Chizick. He died on 9 Nov 1912 at the Frank Coal Mine in Frank, Alberta, Canada. He was buried in Blairmore Cemetary in Blairmore, Alberta, Canada. Jan was married to Maria Madeline RUZICKOVA in the Austrian Empire. Maria Madeline RUZICKA was born on 22 Jul 1879 in Praque, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. She died in 1950. She was buried in Blairmore Cem., Blairmore, Alberta, Canada. Children of Jan CÍZEK and Maria Madeline RUZICKOVÁ were:
3 i. Joseph CIZEK was born about 1898 in Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He died about 1898 in Bohemia, Austrian Empire. 4 ii. Jimmy_or_James Vaclav CIZEK was born in 1900 in, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He died in 1937 in Frank, Alberta, Canada. He was buried in Blairmore Cem., Blairmore, Alberta, Canada. +5 iii. Frank CIZEK. +6 iv. Karel CIZEK_or_Charles George CHIZECK. +7 v. Mary Anna CHEZECK. +8 vi. Annie_or_Anna Mary CHIZECK.
He was born on 20 Mar 1902 in Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He died in 1930 in the Greenhill Mine, Blairmore, Alberta, Canada. He was buried in Blairmore Cem., Blairmore, Alberta, Canada. Children of Frank CIZEK and Emilie PROSOVA were:
+9 i. Eleanor Mary CIZEK. +10 ii. Evelyn Antonia CIZEK.
Karel Cizek was born on 21 Apr 1904 in Doksy, Czechoslovakia. His name on his Certificate of Naturalization in Canada changed to Charles George CHIZECK. He died on 4 May 1984 in Royal Inland H., Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. He was buried in Blairmore Cem., Blairmore, Alberta, Canada. Charlie was married to Martha Marie EHRLER on 14 Jun 1934 in The United Church of Canada in Blairmore, Alberta, Canada. Martha Marie EHRLER was born on 13 Sep 1913 in Fernie, British Columbia, Canada. She died in Oct 1956 in Blairmore, Alberta, Canada. She was buried in Blairmore Cem., Blairmore, Alberta, Canada. Children of Charles George CHIZECK and Martha Marie EHRLER were:
+11 i. Edward Franklin CHIZECK. +12 ii. Karel Vencl CHIZECK. +13 iii. Marlene Ellen CHIZECK.
She was born on 10 May 1907 in Hancock County, Shirley, Indiana, U.S.A.. She died in 1991 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Children of Mary Anna CHEZECK and Frank STERBA were:
+14 i. Lillian Frances STERBA. +15 ii. Audrey Anna STERBA. +16 iii. Evelyn Bernice STERBA.
Annie was born on 31 Aug 1910 in Hancock County, Shirley, Indiana, U.S.A.. She died in 1980. She was buried in Blairmore Cem., Blairmore, Alberta, Canada. Children of Annie_or_Anna Mary CHIZECK and Stanley WINARSKI were:
+17 i. Stanley WINARSKI. +18 ii. Patricia WINARSKI.
Many of the above burials can be found at the Crowsnest Cemetary website.
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