From Bohemia to America

According to family tradition and early research, our HAUSNER family came to the United States from Bohemia (Czechelslovakia).

William Joseph HAUSNER came from a large family in Bohemia. Here are a few excerpts from a letter written by Marie Theresa HAUSNER HIGBIE to me in 1993:

"My father lived in a small village and his father was the Mayor of that village. My father's mother died after giving birth to 3 sons William, John and Joseph. There may have been a sister, too. Then my father's father married my grandmother's sister and they had lots of children more, all girls....

"William, John and Joe come to America wither in the very late 90s or the first few years of the 1900s.

"William and John settled in New York. John had married in Bohemia and brought his wife and son. 5 other children were born in the US.

"Joseph moved to Minnesota and farmed. Apparently, he was a farmer in Bohemia. My father, William, was a tailor and what a wonderful tailor he was. His works were masterpieces..."

On March 3, 1909, Antonie HAUSNER, a 35 year-old, married non-immigrant passed through Ellis Island. She arrived from Cheznovice, Bohemia along with three children--Anna, age 5 years, Vaclav, age 4 years, and Franz, age 11 months. All three children were U. S. born. According to the ship manifest transcript, they had been to visit family back in Bohemia. This family could be our HAUSNER Family, as we know that Antonie Hausner travelled back to visit family.

We also know that Antonie and William would have had Anna Barbara (born 1903), William J. (born abt 1905), and Francis Xavier (born 1907/1908). The family seems to fit.

Research in the former Czech Republic is proving to be rather difficult, and I'm making only tiny dents in the Great Unknown that was HAUSNER life before New York City.

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