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My Mokos Family
The most obscure branch of my family is the Hungarian ancestress Sophia
Mokos. All I have from the earliest generation is a family photograph
from 1874 which is very faded and deteriorated. If you recognize anyone or
know anything else about this picture, please contact me.
Mokos Family Békéscsaba 1874
Having asked for advice from some people on this photo,
and merging it with the data below, I am guessing, from left to right:
- daughter, born about 1867; one possibility for Gizella?
- daughter, born about 1862; one possibility for Gizella?
- mother, born about 1838
- (back) daughter, born about 1860; probably Sophia
- (front) son, born about 1870; possibly Joseph
- father, born before 1834
- son, born about 1865; possibly Sándor
I have put together the following sketch of the Mokos family by
gleaning everything I could from known family sources.
(Father and Mother unknown)
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Sándor (Alexander) Mokos. He married Erzsébet (Elizabeth) ?. They had 3 sons and 1
daughter.
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Gizella?. She married Antal (Anthony) Szatmáry. They had 9 children.
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Zsófia (Sophia), born 10 May 1860, in Csaba, Bakesh Charva,
Austria-Hungary.1
She married János (John) Vlossak, a Slovak from Bobrov, circa 1880.
They had 5 sons and 4 daughters, all born at Nagyvarad, Bihar Megye, Hungary
(now Oradea, Romania). Janos was a merchant of cotton and linen dry goods
at town markets nearby Nagyvarad.
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József (Joseph), an organ builder and cabinetmaker in Békéscsaba.
It seems likely that other members of the Mokos family besides Sophia
moved to Nagyvarad, because the Mokos family had a cleaning and dyeing
works, "Mokos Kelmesto Vegyi Tisztito" in Nagyvarad. They had
exclusive rights to use Indigo dyes and were the first to use French solvent
dry cleaning in Austria-Hungary. They also paraded Sophia's eldest daughter
around the city to show her off in the hopes of securing a good marriage for
her.
Mokos leads in Hungary
The Budapest Philharmonic
According to family cousins in the United States who have recently visited
Hungary (in the last 20 years), there were two cousins of the family in the
Budapest Philharmonic.
Upon visiting their web site,
http://www.hhrf.org/aghegy/aghegy1/aghegy_elemei/lap.htm,
I discovered an Adam Mokos in a list of names which I believe is the members
of the orchestra.
Lazarus Mokos
In the Hungarian electronic archives, (Magyar Életrajzi Index), which
I learned can be reached via Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, link
Adatbázisok, link Adatbázisaink:
Magyar
Életrajzi Index,
I found a László (Lazarus, Leslie, or Vladislav) Mokos,
born in 1933 in Nagyvárad, Románia, and probably still living.
It seems to me that this is the same city as Nagyvarad, Hungary and Oradea,
Romania. Perhaps the name did not change to Oradea until after World War
II?
His profession is given as "kosárlabdázó,
vegyészmérnök."
As best as my translation skills tell me, this means he is a basketball
player and chemical engineer.
What, if any connection, might this Mokos have to my family?
For information on sources, please contact me.
1 I am not able to verify the source, but I believe it was an
Hungarian genealogical book, possibly by Duncan Gardner, which indicated
that Csaba, Bakesh Charva, is an obsolete naming of
Békéscsaba in Békés Megye (county). The
identification of the locale is further corroborated by other family notes
(an inscription on the back of the photograph) and old maps showing
Békéscsaba as simply "Csaba"
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