c. 1830 - Jiriho Plašenka

Jiriho Plašenka was born in Hrušové (š is pronounced "sh"), Slovakia, Hungary sometime around 1830. We have no record of his birth, his parents, or his siblings.

c. 1830 - Anna Pavlovic

Anna Pavlovic was also born in Hrušové, Slovakia, Hungary sometime around 1830. Like Jiriho, we have no record of her birth, her parents, or her siblings.

Hrušové

Today, the village of Hrušové is in the Nové Mesto nad Váhom District in the Trenčín Region of western Slovakia. Hrušové is less than a mile southeast of the larger town of Lubina.

Slovakia, Hungary

The region had been settled first 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

Jiriho Plašenka married Anna Pavlovic in Hrušové (perhaps around 1855) and lived in House #39 until their deaths.

Jiriho was a miller in the town of Hrušové.

Their daughter Anna Plašenka was born November 29, 1856 in House #39 in Hrušové.

Anna married Štefan Klč (č is pronounced "ch") on May 12, 1872 in either the village of Hrušové or in Myjava, Stefan's home town.

After their marriage they moved in with Anna's parents in House #39 in Hrušové and it was here that all their children were born. (See Štefan Klč and Anna Plašenka)

Štefan Klč became a miller in Hrušové like Jiriho Plašenka. We don't know if Štefan learned this trade after his marriage by working for his father-in-law, or if he was apprenticed to Jiriho Plašenka before his marriage and the situation led to him marry the boss's daughter.

deaths

Jiriho and Anna Plašenka died in Hrušové. We have no record of their death dates.