The Schleiss Family

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Mathias Schleiss was the first Schleiss to move to Csavoly, Hungary, sometime in the 1790s. He was born about 1770 but his parents and birthplace are not known. Mathias married Clara Mayer, probably also in the 1790s, but not in Csavoly. Clara was born about 1775; her parents and birthplace are also not known.

Mathias and Clara had at least eight children, all born in Csavoly between 1797 and 1815. Clara died March 11, 1818 at the age of 43. One month later, on April 30, 1818, Mathias remarried to Elisabetha Uhrmann. Mathias himself died the next year on October 16, 1819 at the age of 49.

The descendants of Mathias Schleiss and Clara Mayer remained in Csavoly until the late 1800s, at which time several of the families picked up and moved en masse to Gorjani, a new town being founded to the south. Gorjani became home to successive generations until the Yugoslavian eviction of Germans in 1944. Today, some of those families have been found living in Milwaukee WI, Chicago IL, Detroit MI and Youngstown OH under the names of Schleis, Schleiss and Schlais.

One branch of the Schleiss family, however, journeyed to the United States earlier. Martin Schleiss, who left his family behind in Gorjani and journeyed alone to Akron, Ohio in 1913. It was there that Martin met Maria Willig. The couple married on Valentine's Day, 1914. It was also at this point that Martin's last name lost an 's.' The couple had 10 children, and they and their descendants continue to live in the Akron area today.

Mathias Schleiss & Clara Mayer

Anton Schleiss {1801-1871} M: Anna Maria Hohn

Julianna Schleiss {1819-?} M: Laurenz Pecz

Anna Pecz {1839-?}

Marianna Pecz {1848-?}

Anton Pecz {1859-?}

Elisabetha Schleiss {1821-?} M: George Tossenberger

Johann Tossenberger {1844-?}

Mathias Schleiss {1823-?}M: Rosina Tossenberger

Katharina Schleiss {1848-?}

Johann Schleiss {1849-?}

Theresia Schleiss {1828-1860} M: Franz Michler

Melchior Michler {1848-?}

Anton Michler {1852-?}

Katharina Schleiss {1830-?} M: George Hamhaber

Frederic Hamhaber {1852-?}

Rosina Schleiss {1833-?}M: Anton Koch

Cunegunda Koch {1851-?}

Stephan Koch {1852-?}

Johann Koch {1861-?)

Chilian Koch {1864-?}

George Koch {1867-?}

Anna Maria Koch {1869-?}

Rosalia Koch {1871-?}

Thomas Koch {1878-?}

Anton Koch {1874-?}

Johann Schleiss {1835-?}M: Anna Maria Takacs

Michael Schleiss {1854-?}

Martin Schleiss {1857-?}

Veronica Schleiss {1861-?}

Anton Schleiss {1869-?}

Regina Schleiss {1839-?}M: Joseph Veimper

Anna Veimper {1870-?}

Magdalena Veimper {1873-?}

Anton Schleiss {1843-?}M: Katharina Straub

Mathias Schleiss {1866-?)

Gabriel Schleiss {1869-?}

Jakob Schleiss {1875-1945}

Michael Schleiss {1881-?}

Katharina Schleiss {1883-?}

Anton Schleiss {?}

Susanna Schleiss {1807-?} M: Michael Hahner

Katharina Schleiss {1810-1831} M: Philip Koch

Josef Schleiss {1815-1847} M: Apollonia Steiner

Anton Schleiss {1837-?} M: Anna Maria Folkman

Josef Schleiss {1867-?}

Johann Schleiss {1869-?}

Michael Schleiss {1872-?}

Apollonia Schleiss {1876-?}

Anton Schleiss {1878-?}

Eva Schleiss {1879-?}

Magdalena Schleiss {1842-?} M: Ludovicus Pecz

Eva Pecz {1867-?}

Maria Pecz {1874-?}

We have been fortunate to meet others who share our surnames
yet cannot be connected to us:

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G. Eric Cribb of South Carolina is tracing family who have spelled the name as Schlaiss and Slice. His lineage is as follows...

Jorg Schlaiss, born before 1700; died 10/10/1738 in Bavaria
Hans Ulrich Schlaiss, born July 7, 1713; died in Bavaria.
Hans Conrad Schlaiss, born Jan. 8, 1740, Germany; died S. Carolina
(Unknown) Slice, birth unknown
John George Slice, married Mary Ann Amick (resided S. Carolina)

CHILDREN Julia Catherine Slice b. 1840 George Joseph Slice b. 1843 James Levy Slice b. 1845 John Silas b. 1849 Jacob Leonard Slice b. 1853 Mary Ann Mahala Slice b. 1855 Catherine Slice

If any names look familiar to you, contact the appropriate researcher:

	Paula Schleis, Ohio
	G. Eric Cribb, South Carolina

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