By luck I found a link to the Bohemian Census records from 1869.
BOHEMIAN RECORDS it takes a bit of time to figure out where you want to go and then the next problem is trying to read the writing. The form seems to be set up with each little house in each village and in Rosshaupt/Rozavadov there are about twenty.
In 1869 my husband’s second great grandfather left Bohemia headed for the land where streets were paved with gold. They first settled in Baltimore and then on to Millvale, Allegheny County, PA, USA Millvale is a borough bordering on the city of Pittsburgh.
I found a Johannes Sperl, who was born in the 1820’s. Is this Christof Sperl’s brother? I have to check the years of birth of both but if Johannes was older and inherited the land that could possibly why Christof left the old country.
Christof’s wife, Catherine Rauscher, also said she was from the same town but I initially did not find her family’s name. It is quite possible she came from a village close to that town. I will need a tiny town map and how to read Kurrent script.
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