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Tidik Family of Udol, Slovakia & America

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This family is part of my one-place study of St. Dimitry’s Greek Catholic (today Byzantine Catholic) Church parish, serving Udol and Hajtovka, Slovakia, covering the years 1827-about 1920. I will be sharing family records, roughly once a week, until all families in the parish are posted. Be aware that ages at marriage and death frequently don’t match baptismal records, when found. If you have ancestors who lived in these two villages and would like to receive an invitation to a shared Dropbox folder, please leave a comment and I will contact you.

TIDIK

Tidik, Andrew & Maria Kundrat, Ujak, GC, GC
Children:

  1. Maria, born c1822, married John Figlar, born c1818, son of Michael Figlar & Susanna Miklus, 30 January 1843
  2. Anna, bp 1 December 1829
  3. Michael, born c1830; married Anna Pruzinszky, bp 3 December 1839 in Plavnica, daughter of George Pruzsinszky & Judith Szent, 28 January 1861 in Plavnica
  4. Peter, bp 12 January 1835; buried 27 April 1835, aged 1 year (sic)

Tidik, Elias (19 July 1858-17 March 1883), son of John Tidik & Anna Lescisin & Susanna Mikulik alias Patorai (born 18 January 1859-1882+), daughter of John Mikulik alias Patorai & Anna Szurgent of Ujak 1, married 7 February 1881, Ujak 26, GC, GC
Children:

  1. Maria, born 11 August, bp 18 August 1882

Tidik, Ferdinand, Ujak, born c1757, buried 28 February 1832, aged 75 years

Tidik, John & Maria Tengi, Ujak GC, GC
Children:

  1. Helen, bp 5 April 1828

Tidik, John & Maria Csanda, Ujak, GC
Children:

  1. Anna, born c1817, married John Kravcsak,born c1813,  son of Nicholas Kravcsak & Catherine Dornics, 15 November 1838
  2. Susanna, born c1821, married John Szoroka, born c1817, son of John Szoroka & Maria Dolyak, 14 November 1842

Tidik, John (c1831-1879+) & Anna Lescisin (c1833-8 December 1878), married 16 October 1851, Ujak 13, 16, 17, 23 & 26, GC, GC

Anna, wife of John, born Lescisin, died 8 December, buried 16 December 1878, aged 45 years. John, 48, widower, married (2) Helen Hriczenyak, born c1855, daughter of Andrew Hriczenyak & Helen Joppa, 20 February 1879.
Children:

  1. John, born 1 September, bp 7 September 1856; buried 24 October 1857, aged ¾ year
  2. Elias, born 19 July, bp 1 August 1858; died 17 March, buried 19 March 1883; married Susanna Mikulik alias Patorai, born 18 January, bp 23 January 1859, daughter of John Mikulik alias Patorai & Anna Szurgent of Ujak 1, 7 February 1881
  3. John, born 7 February, bp 10 February 1861; married Maria Szovik, born 8 August, bp 12 August 1860, daughter of Michael Szovik & Maria Bartko of Ujak 31, 4 February 1884
  4. Susanna, born 11 April, bp 17 April 1864; married John Kolyar, born 5 April, bp 13 April 1867, son of John Kolyar alias Velkyvanya & Anna Dornics, 23 April 1893

Tidik, John (7 February 1861-1888+), son of John Tidik & Anna Lescisin & Maria Szovik (8 August 1860-1888+), daughter of Michael Szovik & Maria Bartko of Ujak 31, married 4 February 1884, Ujak 23 & 26, GC, GC
Children:

  1. Michael, born 11 November, bp 22 November 1885; went to America.
  2. Maria, born 22 November, bp 2 December 1888; died 29 November, buried 1 December 1889, aged 1 year

 Tidik, John, begger, Ujak 47, born c1796, died 24 January, buried 26 January 1876, aged 80 years

 Tidik, John, begger, Ujak, born c1820, died 25 November, born c1820, buried 27 November 1910, aged 90 years

Tidik, Maria, Ujak 22, GC
Children:

  1. Son, born 30 January 1890, no baptism date; stillborn or died soon

Tidik, Maria, Ujak, born c1796, buried 18 October 1836, aged 40 years

Tidik, Maria, daughter of Michael, Ujak, born c1840, buried 18 July 1847, aged 7 years

Tidik, Michael (c1801-1 March 1871) & (1) Judith Drabisin (c1794-26 November 1865), Ujak 13, GC, GC

Judith died 26 November, buried 28 November 1865, aged 59 years. Michael, aged 56, married (2) Maria Dragan, born c1838, 29 April 1866. Michael died 1 March, buried 3 March 1871, aged 70 years. Maria, widow of Michael, died 6 August, buried 6 August 1873, aged 37 years.
Children:

  1. Michael, bp 8 September 1828
  2. Anna, bp 22 January 1832; probably buried 31 July 1847, aged 14 years (sic)
  3. Maria, bp 12 Jan 1835
  4. John, bp 9 July 1837, probably buried 31 July 1847, aged 8 years (sic)
  5. Helen, bp 28 February 1840
  6. Susanna, bp 10 July 1842; buried 26 July 1843, no age noted.
  7. John, bp 9 November 1850
  8. Maria, born 21 August, bp 29 August 1858

Tidik, Michael (c1801-1 March 1871) & (2) Maria Dragan (c1838-6 August 1873), married 29 April 1866, Ujak, GC, GC
Children:

  1. Michael, born 16 November, bp 20 November 1869; died 2 January, buried 4 January 1871. Mother called Maria Dragan in burial record.

Tidik, Michael (c1826-1871+) & Maria Hrinya (c1831-15 August 1873), married 25 November 1850, Ujak 13 & 79, GC, GC

Maria, wife of Michael, born Hrinya, died 15 August, buried 15 August 1873, aged 42 years.
Children:

  1. Maria, born 12 April bp 18 April 1858
  2. Michael Daniel, born 22 December, bp 23 December 1860; married Helen Bisz, born 19 July, bp 27 July 1862, daughter of John Bisz & Anna Knap of Ujak 63, 9 November 1884
  3. John, born 27 March, bp 29 March 1863
  4. Anna, born 16 December, bp 18 December 1865; died 31 December 1945, Passaic, Passaic, New Jersey; married George Kuczko, born c1860, Velky Saris, Slovakia; died 18 February 1908, Slovakia
  5. Stephen, born 5 Apirl, bp 11 April 1869. Mother called Helen Hrinya.
  6. Susanna, born 9 October, bp 15 October 1871; died 14 June, buried 15 June 1874, aged 3 years

Tidik, Michael (c1831-1873+), son of Andrew Tidik & Maria Kundrat & Anna Pruzsinszky alias Jurecsko (bp 3 December 1839 in Plavnica-17 May 1874), daughter of George Pruzsinszky & Judith Szent, married 28 January 1861 in Plavnica, Ujak 17, 20, 21 & 60, GC, GC

Anna, wife of Michael, born Pruzsinszky, died 17 May, buried 19 May 1874, aged 30 years.
Children:

  1. Michael, born 28 December, bp 31 December 1861
  2. John, born 2 April, bp 10 April 1864; died 11 October, buried 13 October 1864, aged 6 months
  3. Stephen, born 20 August, bp 24 August 1865; died 26 February, buried 28 February 1869, aged 3 years
  4. Maria, born c1868, died 8 May, buried 10 May 1871, aged 3 years
  5. John, born 29 January, bp 3 February 1871; died 3 February, buried 5 February 1871, aged 2 days
  6. Anna, born 2 May, bp 12 May 1872; died 4 January, buried 6 January 1873, aged 8 months
  7. Stephen, born 13 November, bp 20 November 1873; died 15 August, buried 17 August 1874, aged 6 months

Tidik, Michael (c1832-9 April 1911), widower & Anna Kseniak (bp 15 February 1841–30 October 1899), daughter of Michael Kseniak & Anna Vancso of Ujak 64, married 9 November 1873, Ujak 13, 15 & 37, GC, GC

Anna, wife of Michael, born Kszenyak, died 30 October, buried 1 November 1899, aged 58 years. Michael died 9 April, buried 11 April 1911, aged 87 years.
Children:

  1. Veronica, born 22 June, bp 4 July 1875
  2. Helen, born 24 November, bp 8 December 1878; died 15 April, buried 16 April 1880, aged 1 ½ years

Tidik, Michael & Anna Varcholyak alias Sendrek of Kis Lipnik, Ujak 20, 21 & 25, GC, GC
Children:

  1. Maria born 17 September, bp 17 September 1875; died 25 September, buried 27 September 1875, aged 7 days
  2. John, born 8 February, bp 14 February 1877
  3. Stephen, born 27 August, bp 31 August 1879
  4. Nicholas, born 28 April, bp 30 April 1882

Tidik, Michael Daniel (22 December 1860-1903+), son of Michael Tidik & Maria Hrinya & Helen Bisz (19 July 1862-1903+), daughter of John Bisz & Anna Knap of Ujak 63, married 9 November 1884, Ujak 21, 22 & 25, GC, GC
Children:

  1. Michael, born 5 August, bp 16 August 1885; died 30 May, buried 31 May 1892, aged 6 years
  2. Helen, born 16 July, bp 24 July 1887; married Stephen Knap, born 18 May, bp 25 May 1879, son of Michael Knap/Gmitrov & Maria Havran, born 18 May, bp 25 May 1879; 24 October 1904
  3. John, born 11 May, bp 19 May 1889; died 25 January, buried 27 January 1901, aged 12 years
  4. Stephen, born 18 August, bp 23 August 1896; aged 21 married Maria Scserbak, born 25 April, bp 1 May 1899, daughter of Michael Scserbak & Anna Murczko, 2 September 1917
  5. Maria, died 26 March, buried 28 March 1903, aged 3 years

Tidik, Stephen & Maria Scserbak, Ujak 24, GC, GC

This family moved to America.
Children:

  1. Stephen, born 7 December, bp 14 December 1919
  2. Nicholas, born 1 December, bp 4 December 1921

Tidik, Susanna, Ujak 25, born c1828, died 18 October, buried 19 October 1882, aged 54 years

Tidik is a rare surname, like Stufflebean. Most in America are related, but there are several stragglers that appear to have come from somewhere besides Udol.

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Tidik: One Name Study, Part 2

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Yesterday, I took a look at the Tidik family of Udol, Slovakia. Records in the first half of the 1800s are limited because the church registers for this village don’t begin until 1828.

From those records, I gleaned the likely progenitors of today’s Tidiks:

Michael, born about 1801, who married (1) before 1827 to Juda Drabasin, who was born about 1806. Michael was buried on 1 December 1871, after dying of head pains. Juda was buried on 26 November 1865. He married (2) Maria Dragan on 29 April 1866. She died on 6 August 1873 during one of the many cholera epidemics to strike there.

Michael and Juda Tidik had six known children:

Michael, baptized 2 September 1828; died about 1918 and married Maria Hrinya.
Anna, baptized 22 January 1832; no further records found
Maria, baptized 12 January 1835; no further records found
John, baptized 9 July 1837; no further records found, but he may be the John who married Anna Jurecsko and buried a son, John, 4 days old, on 3 February 1871.
Helena, baptized 25 February 1840; no further records found
Susanna, baptized 10 July 1842; no further records found

I’ve mentioned it before, but I will mention again, that I am not sure how on-the-ball the village priests were in Ujak/Udol in the 1800s. In spite of the records seeming to be quite complete and mostly fairly easy to read, I have been unable to find vital records that should be there. Ages are also more often wrong than right when compared against baptismal records when I do find them.

Could villagers have moved away or attended a Roman Catholic church? Probably not. First, these families were all Greek Catholic. The closest Roman Catholic parishes look to be about 40 miles away. Second, until the 1880’s when the villages emptied out and inhabitants moved to the mills and mines in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, it is doubtful that many of the villagers ever traveled more than a few miles from their home village. Hajtovka is only about a mile from Udol and the two villages shared the same parish church, St. Dimitry.

Tidik records are somewhat scarce in the first half of the 1800’s, but in the second half of the century, the number of Michael Tidik records exploded.

We have:

Michael Tidik, born c1801, who married Juda Drabissin, before 1827
Michael Tidik, born 1828, who married Maria Hrinya, on 25 November 1850
Michael Daniel Tidik, born 1860, who married Helena Bisz, on 9 November 1884

These three Michaels were father, son and grandson. However, look at all the Michael Tidik families that popped up after 1850:

Michael Tidik & Anna Jurecsko, who had sons Michael and John born in 1861 and 1871. No marriage record has been found for them.

Michael Tidik & Anna Ksenyak, who married on 9 November 1873 and had two daughters, Veronica and Helen, born in 1875 and 1878

Michael Tidik & Anna Pruzinsky, who had three sons and two daughters born between 1864 and 1873. No marriage record has been found for them. Anna died on 18 May 1874, aged about 30 years old.

Michael Tidik & Anna Varholyak had one daughter, Maria, born in 1875. No marriage record has been found for them.

Michael Tidik & Anna Sendick had three sons, John, Stephen and Nicholas, born in 1877. 1879 and 1882.

Michael Tidik & Helena Bisz married on 9 November 1884 and had four children born between 1885 and 1896.

We also have two John Tidik sets of records:

John Tidik and Anna Leschissin had three children, Elias, John and Susanna, born in 1858, 1861 and 1864. No marriage record has been found for them.

John Tidik and Maria Szovik had Michael and Maria born in 1885 and 1888. No marriage record has been found for them.

Since I have only one John Tidik born in a time period to be the above John/s, and that would be John, born on 9 July 1837 to Michael and Juda Drabissin, I have to assume for now that at least John who married Anna Leschissin was their son.

It is very possible that John who married Maria Szovik was the same John, but it is also possible that John and Anna’s son, John, born in 1861 was this second John.

Not being able to find these records where I would expect them to be is annoying. I truly believe that these church books have some serious errors in them. There were a couple of stray records that I came across that I think support this idea.

I found one record for the birth of a Michael Tidik to Michael Tidik and Anna Dragan in 1869, which I think is a clear error for Maria Dragan. In the same year, 1869, there is a birth record for Stephen Tidik for Michael Tidik and Helena Hrinya, which I think is another clear error for Maria Hrinya.

Thus, I know there are errors of commission and suspect that there are also errors of omission, where the priest or assistant, if there was one, forgot to enter records.

Death and burial records seem to help sort these people out at least a little bit.

The wives of Michael born about 1801 are evident: (1) Juda Drabissin and (2) Maria Dragan. Juda died in late November 1865 and Michael married Maria Dragan in April 1866. He died of head pains in 1871. Maria Dragan, noted as the widow of Michael, died in 1873 during the cholera epidemic.

Next, we have Michael born in 1828. He married (1) Maria Hrinya on 25 November 1850, although I don’t find birth records for any children until 1858. Maria was another victim of the 1873 cholera episode, dying on 15 August. She was born about 1832.

I do not have a death certificate for this Michael, but according to family lore, he lived until about 1918. That might be true, but the Udol church books are recorded in a variety of languages and in that time period, records were kept using the Cyrillic alphabet in Russian, which I don’t read very well. He was definitely still alive in the 1890s unless his death and burial weren’t recorded.

I believe that Michael Tidik who married (2) Anna Ksenyak on 9 November 1873 was this Michael.

That still leaves two other mystery Michaels. It is not possible that the remaining two were either Michael born in 1801 or Michael born in 1828, as there are four Michael Tidiks and wives having children between 1861 and 1871 – Michael with Juda and Maria Dragan, Michael with Maria Hrinya and then Michael with Anna Jurecsko and Michael with Anna Pruzinski.

Later on, we have the solitary record of Michael Tidik and Anna Varholyak’s child born in 1875 (could this possibly be another recording error by the priest?) and, finally, we have Michael and Anna Sendick’s three children born between 1877 and 1882.

All are mysteries.

Michael who married Anna Sendick can’t be Michael married to Maria Hrinya and Anna Ksenyak because they have a child born in 1878, while Michael and Anna Sendick had a child born in 1877.

There is at least one more Michael Tidik running around Udol in this time period, the one who married Anna Pruzinski. Anna died in May 1874, aged about 30. Could this Michael have soon married Anna Varholyak, who perhaps died giving birth in 1875 and then he married a third Anna, Anna Sendick, about 1876? That scenario would fit the facts, but I have absolutely no idea whose son this Michael might have been. If he was about the same age as Anna Pruzinski, he would have been born in the early 1840s, but he could have been a lot older. We might also be dealing with more than one Michael here, but I tend to doubt that.

Marching on towards the 20th century, the records thin out. There are only two male Tidiks who appear in the vital records – John Tidik and Maria Szovik have a son, Michael, born in 1885 and a daughter, Maria, born in 1888. I don’t have any information on their son, Michael, past his birth record. There is no notation that he died very young.

Michael Daniel Tidik and Helena Bisz have daughter Michael, born 1885 and died in 1892, Helena, born in 1887, son John, born in 1889 and died in 1901, and son Stephen, born in 1896.

Stephen was the only remaining male Tidik to carry on the name from Michael and Helena’s branch of the family. He married Maria Scerbak, sister of my grandmother, Julia. The family settled in Passaic, but two boys were orphaned when Maria died in 1926 and Stephen followed in 1938. There are quite a few descendants of this couple today.

There are several miscellaneous Tidiks that I have found in records. John Mike Tidik settled in Ohio, but both his marriage and death records give his father’s name as Martin Tidik. It doesn’t look like he was part of the Udol Tidik family.

There is a Michael Tidik living in Passaic in 1900 (mis-indexed as Tivik) with wife, Julia and sons Michael born in 1896 and John born in 1898. Michael and Julia married about 1895, apparently in New Jersey. This Michael was born reportedly in April 1862 and I don’t know who he belongs to. However, the names on the census page in 1900 look just like the names in the Udol church books, so he seems to be related to this family.

There is also a Michael Tidik arriving at Ellis Island in 1896, aged 36. I can’t find the passenger manifest page since it is another one of the many mis-indexed pages on the new, improved totally  messed up Ellis Island website. (Can you tell I don’t like their new website?) However, this seems to be Michael Daniel Tidik who married Helena Bisz and if I could find the passenger list, he was likely headed to Passaic, New Jersey.

There aren’t many surnames whose entire history can be covered in two blog posts, but Tidik is one of them. I even have two photos of Stephen Tidik:

Mary Tidik
Maria Scerbak, left, with husband
Stephen Tidik and friend, c1917

SteveTidikLeftPeteScerbakRightUnknownMan
Stephen Tidik, left with unknown
man and Peter Scerbak, right, c1925

It seems strange to end a story with a photo, but since Stephen Tidik is the one who crossed into the 20th century, so it is.

 

 

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Tidik: One Name Study

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The Slovak surname of Tidik is quite rare. It is actually ranked in a surname frequency list at #2,426,616. Searching online brings up very few hits and pretty much all of them tie into the village of Udol, Slovakia, formerly called Ujak.

The earliest record that I have found for any Tidik is the burial record on 28 February 1832 for the likely patriarch of this family, Ferdinand Tidik. I have no idea how the name Ferdinand got into a family where John, Michael, Stephen, Nicholas and Andrew run rampant. In fact, this Ferdinand is the only person with that name that I’ve come across in Slovak records.

Ferdinand Tidik, buried 28 February 1832, had his age at death recorded as 75 years old.

The problem is that the Udol (Ujak) records begin in 1827 and these villagers were pretty much all peasants – tenant farmers – so the only records that they would leave behind are births, marriages and deaths, with an occasional census thrown in. In this case, the earliest surviving census was in 1869.

We have a few other hints from Jarabina, another village about ten miles west of Udol. There are two more Tidik records, both baptisms, but they pre-date the Udol records. First is John “Tzidik”, son of Vanyo (nickname for John) Tidik and his wife Eva, baptized on 17 June 1812. The second child, Eva “Stzidik,” daughter of Stephen Stzidik and his wife Maria, was baptized on 22 February 1790.

There are also some marriages in Jarabina, between “Tchidiks” and “Schidiks” and others, but none that appear to cross into Udol. Ten miles is not far, but when walking was the only mode of transportation, young men went courting young ladies who generally lived locally – less than five miles away. The Jarabina folk might be related to the Udol folk, but no documentation has been found to link them thus far.

So, back to Udol. After Ferdinand’s burial, there are records for three Tidik males with their families.

First, we have Andrej Tidik who was married to Maria Kundrat. Andrej was born about 1791 and was buried on 5 June 1847. Only one other record has been found for this family, the marriage of their daughter, Maria, and her parents are named:

Maria Tidik married Ivan (John) Figula, Roman Catholic, on 30 June 1843.

The second family is that of John Tidik and Maria Csanda (Chunda), who had three daughters:

Elena (Helena), baptized 5 June 1828; married Peter Lesko on 30 October 1848. Peter, Helen and three of their children all died in the 1873 cholera outbreak.

Anna Tidik married John Kravecs on 15 November 1838

Susanna Tidik married John Soroka on 14 December 1842.

The last is Michael Tidik, born about 1800. Michael is the progenitor of the other Tidiks who later lived in Udol. Some migrated to the United States.

Michael married (1) before 1827 to Juda Drabasin, who was born about 1806. Michael was buried on 1 December 1871, after dying of head pains. Juda was buried on 26 November 1865. He married (2) Maria Dragan on 29 April 1866. Maria died on 6 August 1873 during the village cholera outbreak.

Michael and Juda Tidik had six known children:

Michael, baptized 2 September 1828; died about 1918 and married Maria Hrinya.

Anna, baptized 22 January 1832; no further records found

Maria, baptized 12 January 1835; no further records found

John, baptized 9 July 1837; no further records found, but he may be the John who married Anna Jurecsko and buried a son, John, 2 days old, on 3 February 1871.

Helena, baptized 25 February 1840; no further records found

Susanna, baptized 10 July 1842; no further records found

From the limited record set in the first half of the 1800s, it appears that most of the Tidik descendants would have to be from Michael who married Maria Hrinya.

The next post will take a look at the 1850-1900 set of Tidiks.