1818 - Ján Káš

Ján Káš was born about 1818 in Moravské Lieskové, Slovakia, Hungary. We have no record of his parents or his siblings.

1822 - Katarína Blanár

Katarína Blanár was born about 1822 in Moravské Lieskové, Slovakia, Hungary. We also have no record of her parents or his siblings.

Moravské Lieskové

Today Moravské Lieskové is a village and municipality in Nové Mesto nad Váhom District in the Trenčín Region of western Slovakia. In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1398.

Slovakia, Hungary

The region of Slovakia had first been settled by Celtic tribes around 400 BCE, then by Germanic tribes, and finally by Slavic tribes over the course of several centuries. The major political regions that emerged consisted of three historic lands: Bohemia and Moravia in the west (often called the Czech Lands) and Slovakia in the east.

Slovakia had been ruled by Hungary for almost 1,000 years and was known as "Upper Hungary” (Horné Uhorsko in Slovak). From 1526 to 1918, the Kingdom of Hungary came under the control of the Habsburg monarchy, which had ruled areas around Austria since 1276.

In the sixteenth century, Hungary served as a buffer between the Ottoman Empire of the Turks and the Holy Roman Empire to the west and the Kingdom of Poland to the north. As the Turks encroached on Hungarian soil, they captured the area that is today the modern nation of Hungary, while another Hungarian region, Transylvania, became a Turkish protectorate. Only Slovakia was left as the remaining independent piece of the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1536 it became known as "Royal Hungary" with Bratislava, as the capital. From 1526 to 1830, nineteen Habsburg sovereigns were crowned "Kings and Queens of Hungary" in the St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava. At the time, Bratislava was known as Prešporok (in Slovak), Pressburg (in German), and Pozsony (in Hungarian). Bratislava remained the capital of Hungary until the Turks were finally ousted from Central Europe in 1786 and Buda became the capital city.

marriage and children

Ján Káš married Katarína Blanár in Moravské Lieskové, Slovakia, Hungary.

We only have a record of one child born to Ján and Katarína. Alžbeta Káš was born August 7, 1844 in House #379 in Moravské Lieskové.

Alžbeta most likely married her first husband, Martin Drietomský, some time around 1864 or 1865. By 1873, Alžbeta was a 27-year-old widow.

Alžbeta Drietomský (nee Káš) married Andrej Ochodnický on November 4, 1873 in Bošáca. After marriage, they lived in her home town of Moravské Lieskové. (See Andrej Ochodnický and Alžbeta Káš)

deaths

Ján and Katarína Káš died in Moravské Lieskové, Slovakia, Hungary. We have no record of their death dates.