IMMIGRATED:
Came to US in 1873 via a sailing ship. Arrived in southern port. Probably New Orleans.

MARRIAGE:
KUDERNA, MARY and TOMSCHIK, JOHAN vol.0040 pg.0117
(Cuyahoga County Marriage License Index)

OCCUPATION:
Tailor

RESIDENCES:
May have lived in Texas after arriving in the U.S. I was told that he was somehow involved in the Mexican
1892 - 118 Sackett (Bertha's birth certificate)
1894 - 118 Sackett (city directory)
1912 - 3613 Sackett Ave

VOTERS REGISTRATION:
Name: TOMSIK, Jan
Address: 3613 Sackett
Date: 10/10/07 reg. no. 217 ward 5 prec. E


CENSUS:
1900 - Ohio ED 193 - 118 Sackett Ave.
Tomshik, John, HMW, June 1844, 55y, M6, Bohemia, arrv'd 1873, Tailor
, Mary, WFW, Aug 1870, 29y, M6, Bohemia, arrv'd 1889
, Bertha, DFW, May 1882, 18y, S, Ohio
, Rosa, DFW, Aug 1891, 8y, S, Ohio
, Lena, DFW, Aug 1894, 5y, S, Ohio
, Charles, SMW, May 1896, 4y, S, Ohio
, Clara, DFW, Jan 1899, 1y, S, Ohio

CENSUS:
1910 - Ohio 1910 Census Miracode Index
John Tomsik
Age: 64 State: OH
Color: W Enumeration District: 0115
Birth Place: AUST Visit: 0013
County: Cuyahoga, Cleveland
Relation: Head of Household
Other Residents: Relation Name Color Age Birth Place
Wife Mary 39 AUST
Daughter Lillian 15 Ohio
Son Charles 13 Ohio
Daughter Clara 11 Ohio
Son-in-law Joe Minnie 20 Ohio (the surname appears to really be NEMEC)
Stepdaugther Rose 19 Ohio
Granddaughter Rose Minnie NR Ohio (the surname appears to really be NEMEC)
Niece Matilda Rozhon 17 Ohio

DEATH:
Bone cancer. (certificate indexed as TOMSEK)

Place of birth possibly "Bohutin" in Bohemia (midway between Pribram and Rokycany). His son, Charles, travelled there in 1938, purpose unknown.

1. 2. Bertha TOMSIK   b. 17 May 1882, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. Dec 1970, Garretsville, , Ohio, USA.

1. 3. Lillian TOMSIK   b. 27 Aug 1894, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. Sep 1954, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
2. 4. Charles F. TOMSIK   b. 28 May 1896, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. 1978, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
3. 5. Clara TOMSIK   b. 17 Jan 1898, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. Mar 1959, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.

MARRIAGE: License application lists TOMSHIK, BERTHA and KLETECKA, KAREL (V.0051 pg.0033)

OBIT: Name: Kletecka, Bertha
Date: Dec 12 1970
Source: Cleveland Press; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #124.
Notes: Kletecka. Bertha Kletecka (Tomsic) age 88 at Garretsville, O., passed away Wednesday p.m., wife of the late Korel, mother of Ladd and the late Charles, sister of Rose Nemec, Charles Tomsik and the late Clara Konyvka, and Lil Kala. Funeral services 1 p.m. Monday, Mallory, Memorial, Home, Garriettsville. Interment Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland. Friends received Sunday 3 To 5 And 7 To 9 at the funeral home.

1. 6. Charlotte KLETECKA  
2. 7. Ladd KLETECKA   b. 27 Jul 1901, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. Dec 1982, Garrettsville, Portage, Ohio, USA.
3. 8. Charles KLETECKA   b. Abt 1904, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. Bef 1970.

OBIT: Name: Kalal, Lillian
Date: Sep 9 1954
Source: Cleveland Press; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #122.
Notes: Kalal, Lillian (nee Tomsik), beloved wife of John, mother of Libbie, Coufalik and Oldrich, and grandmother of John Charles, sister of Bertha Kletecka, Rose Nemec, Charles Tomsik, Clara Konyvka, residence, 3328 W. 33d St. Friends may call at Kovar Funeral Home, 3505 Fulton Rd., Thursday After 7 P. M., where services will be held Saturday, Sept. 11, at 2 p. m.

1. 9. Libby KALAL   b. 14 Dec 1913, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. Feb 1980, Hiram, Portage, Ohio, USA.
2. 10. Oldrich KALAL   b. 26 Jun 1917; d. Apr 1980, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.

MARRIAGE: Vol 344, p58 or Vol 844, p58.
License application lists HANZL, LINA and TOMSIK, CHARLES (v.0107 pg.0058)

No children.

Czech newspaper article of July 8, 1938: Charles Tomsik and his wife, Lena, a teacher in the Ceska Svobodomysina Skola (Czech Free-Thinking School) on the West Side of Cleveland, left for New York July 2 where they boarded the liner Bremen. In Czechoslovakia they will visit in Bohutin, and return by way of France. [Is Bohutin the birthplace of his father, John?]

RESIDENCES: 1917 - 3615 Sackett Ave

OBIT: Name: Konyvka, Clara
Date: Mar 23 1959
Source: Cleveland Press; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #125.
Notes: Konyvka, Clara (nee Tomyik), age 60, late residence, 7503 Brookside Dr., Brooklyn, beloved wife of James, dearest mother of Mrs. Gladys Smeisik, Mrs. Rose Marie Tichy, sister of Mrs. Bertha Kletecka, Mrs. Rose Nemec, Charles and the late Mrs. Lillian Kalal, grandmother of Linda Tichy. Friends may call at Sauer's Funeral Home, 4801 Memphis, where services will be held Tuesday, Mar. 24, at 1:30 p. m. Interment Riverside Cemetery.

1. 11. Gladys KONYVKA  
2. 12. Rose KONYVKA  

1. 13. John COUFALIK   d. Abt 1968.

1. 14. Linda TICHY