Vaclav ( Wencil : Joseph ) Fanta Jr., 18401886 (aged 46 years)

Name
Vaclav ( Wencil : Joseph ) /Fanta/ Jr.
Given names
Vaclav ( Wencil : Joseph )
Surname
Fanta
Name suffix
Jr.
Birth
Note: RC Church record: Potvorov 5, image 47; Acknowledgement and thanks to Brett Ruzek for his research and for informing me of the church record of Vaclav Fanta's birth and baptism;
Marriage of parents
Note: RC church marriage record: Potvorov parish registers, online book # 12, image 81 retrieved at http://actapublica.eu/matriky/plzen/prohlizec/7480/?strana=81; Acknowledgement and thanks to Brett Ruzek for research and transcription
Birth of a brother
Note: Acknowledgement and thanks to Brett Ruzek for his research and for informing me of the church record of Jozef Fanta's birth and baptism; Church record: Potvorov 12, image 46
Birth of a brother
Note: Acknowledgement and thanks to Brett Ruzek for his research and for informing me of the church record of Jan Fanta's birth and baptism; Church record: Potvorov 12, image 52
Birth of a brother
Note: RC church baptism record: Potvorov parish registers, online book #12, image 58, line 2, at https://www.portafontium.eu/iipimage/30067480/potvorov-12_0580-n (first retrieved at actapublica.eu)
Marriage
Note: RC Church record: Potvorov 18, page 13-14, image 7 of 146 in Pilzen Archive collection at ActaPublica.eu (groom's parents names: Vaclav Fanta and Barbara Tauber; bride's father's name: Vaclav Fait)
Birth of a son
Note: RC church baptism record: Sevetin parish registers, online book #10, image 67, retrieved on 7 Jul 2013 at http://digi.ceskearchivy.cz/en/7793/67; note: his 1888 marriage registration gives his mother's name as"Kate Cabal"
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Residence
Note: son John's obit states his family was in Chicago from arrival in 1868 to his age 16 (about 1880)
Death of a son
Arrival
Note: departed from Bremen, Germany, on Ship Leocadia; only three in the family: Wenzel, Anna, and John
Death of a wife
Note: probable place of death: Chicago
Marriage
Birth of a daughter
Birth of a daughter
Residence
Naturalization
Note: "Waclow Fanta"naturalized on same day and in same court as August Fanta; many other Czech immigrants were naturalized that same day in Richland County Court
Death of a father
Note: probable location
Death of a mother
Note: probable location
Birth of a son
Note: baptism record: see image file FujiX100-2013-DSF7981; 1942 draft reg. recorded POB as Hillsboro
Birth of a daughter
Census
Note: "Wisconsin, State Census, 1885,"index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MMSW-Z1G : accessed 09 Jun 2014), Wencil Fanta, Forest Town, Vernon, Wisconsin; citing reference 2, Historical Society, Madison; FHL microfilm 1032702.
Death
Burial
Note: Knadle Czech Cemetery (Knadle Bohemian Brotherhood Cemetery)/"Vaclav Fanta", age 47, died 13 March 1886
Family with parents
father
18171880
Birth: January 6, 1817 22 25 Sedlec, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
Death: after 1880Union, Vernon, Wisconsin, USA
mother
18101880
Birth: April 8, 1810 32 34 Potvorov, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
Death: after 1880Union, Vernon, Wisconsin, USA
Marriage MarriageOctober 8, 1844Bukovina, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
-5 years
himself
18401886
Birth: January 27, 1840 23 29 Sedlec, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
Death: March 13, 1886Vernon County, Wisconsin, USA
6 years
younger brother
1845
Birth: July 1, 1845 28 35 Bukovina, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
2 years
younger brother
1847
Birth: June 16, 1847 30 37 Bukovina, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
19 months
younger brother
18491918
Birth: January 7, 1849 32 38 Bukovina, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
Death: October 20, 1918Vernon County, Wisconsin, USA
Family with Anna Fait
himself
18401886
Birth: January 27, 1840 23 29 Sedlec, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
Death: March 13, 1886Vernon County, Wisconsin, USA
wife
18381868
Birth: July 1, 1838 Sedlec, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
Death: after 1868USA
Marriage MarriageMarch 3, 1862Sedlec, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
2 years
son
18641944
Birth: May 10, 1864 24 25 Sedlec, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
Death: November 16, 1944West Lima, Richland, Wisconsin, USA
3 years
son
18661868
Birth: December 13, 1866 26 28 Sedlec, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
Death: March 26, 1868Sedlec, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
Family with Katerina 'Kate' Cabal
himself
18401886
Birth: January 27, 1840 23 29 Sedlec, Plzen-sever, Plzensky kraj, Czech Republic
Death: March 13, 1886Vernon County, Wisconsin, USA
wife
18411895
Birth: May 18, 1841 Neplachov, Ceske Budejovice, Jihocesky kraj, Czech Republic
Death: July 22, 1895Vernon County, Wisconsin, USA
Marriage Marriageabout 1872Illinois, USA
-8 years
son
18631928
Birth: September 20, 1863 23 22 Neplachov, Ceske Budejovice, Jihocesky kraj, Czech Republic
Death: 1928Wisconsin, USA
11 years
daughter
18741952
Birth: 1874 33 32 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
Death: August 10, 1952La Crosse County, Wisconsin, USA
6 years
daughter
18791892
Birth: about 1879 38 37 Illinois, USA
Death: May 5, 1892Vernon County, Wisconsin, USA
3 years
son
18811944
Birth: June 5, 1881 41 40 Hillsboro, Vernon, Wisconsin, USA
Death: after 1944USA
2 years
daughter
18831949
Birth: October 16, 1883 43 42 Union, Vernon, Wisconsin, USA
Death: July 18, 1949Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin, USA
Birth
Arrival
Residence
Naturalization
Name
Burial
Birth

RC Church record: Potvorov 5, image 47; Acknowledgement and thanks to Brett Ruzek for his research and for informing me of the church record of Vaclav Fanta's birth and baptism;

Marriage

RC Church record: Potvorov 18, page 13-14, image 7 of 146 in Pilzen Archive collection at ActaPublica.eu (groom's parents names: Vaclav Fanta and Barbara Tauber; bride's father's name: Vaclav Fait)

Residence

son John's obit states his family was in Chicago from arrival in 1868 to his age 16 (about 1880)

Arrival

departed from Bremen, Germany, on Ship Leocadia; only three in the family: Wenzel, Anna, and John

Naturalization

"Waclow Fanta"naturalized on same day and in same court as August Fanta; many other Czech immigrants were naturalized that same day in Richland County Court

Census

"Wisconsin, State Census, 1885,"index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MMSW-Z1G : accessed 09 Jun 2014), Wencil Fanta, Forest Town, Vernon, Wisconsin; citing reference 2, Historical Society, Madison; FHL microfilm 1032702.

Burial

Knadle Czech Cemetery (Knadle Bohemian Brotherhood Cemetery)/"Vaclav Fanta", age 47, died 13 March 1886

Media object
Vaclav / Wencil Fanta Headstone