{"id":480,"date":"2022-07-04T06:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T13:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/molinos.net\/?page_id=480"},"modified":"2026-03-02T03:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:20:06","slug":"our-chadima-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/molinos.net\/?page_id=480","title":{"rendered":"Our “CHADIMA” Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The oldest relative we have positively identified isFranz Joseph Chadima<\/strong><\/a>(1825-1911) who emigrated to North America from Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) after his father received permission<\/strong> in 1856 to exempt him from the tax roles. On Aug 10, 1857 Franz, a professional musician, married Marie Theresa<\/a><\/strong> (1829-1919) at Old St. Mary\u00b4s catholic church at Chicago, Illinois, Those records burned in the 1871 Chicago fire .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franz served in the Union Army as a drummer<\/strong> during the U.S. Civil War. After the war, the couple moved to the Pacific Northwest and homesteaded near Kalama, Washington State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Their only male son, Frank Chadima had no descendants. Daughter Isabelle had one girl. Their second daughter, Blanche Rose Chadima<\/a><\/strong> (1877-1964), married three times. Her first marriage, with Joseph Archer Nesbit<\/a><\/strong> (1855-1945), gave two sons with male descendants: the Nesbit-Heuchart, Nesbit-XMary branches, and three daughters producing the Hamm-Nesbit<\/strong> and the Segar-Nesbit<\/strong> branches. Blanche Rose’s last two marriages raise only daughters that originate the branches Harris-Harmon, Wray Harmon and Pitt-Mc Gowan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Franz J. Chadima circa 1865<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Maria Therese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Recognition and Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2007 Franz\u00b4s great granddaughter Kathy travelled to Czech Republic. She did research at the Prague archives with the assistance of a local expert and met M. Chadima, a serious genealogist who over decades had built a Chadima family tree going back to the 1600\u00b4s. That Chadima family originated from Siroky Dul, a rural sparsely populated area of the Pardubice Region. To 2022 we have not been able to confirm or deny a linkage between our Franz and the ancestors in that family tree<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Priorities<\/strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. We would like to collaborate with known and new Chadima family researchers in the Czech Republic, North America or elsewhere. We plan to enable Czech and German language translations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. We are actively<\/a><\/strong> looking for Marie Theresa’s maternal family name and her adoptive last name, if any, since she always used her married name.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Summary The oldest relative we have positively identified isFranz Joseph Chadima(1825-1911) who emigrated to North America from Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) after his father received permission in 1856 to exempt him from the tax roles. On Aug 10, 1857 Franz, a professional musician, married Marie Theresa (1829-1919) at Old St. Mary\u00b4s catholic church at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-480","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/molinos.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/molinos.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/molinos.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molinos.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molinos.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/molinos.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/molinos.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/molinos.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}