Johan (*1821) and Johan (*1815) move to America
The house no.40 is in this village, this is Johann´s birthplace
Johann was born on this homestead
Catholic Church Olmitz. This is the first known place of Johann´s domiciliation in America -click here
This sculpture of our first ancestor emigrated to america was made by sculptor Pepa Smek.
American line 01
This line is called american
A01 because the predecessors emigrated to Olmitz, Kansas, USA in 1877. Some datas were confirmed
by Mr. Bert Riedl (554 W Broadway Awe, Kansas 67 544-2610, USA) and by my cousin from Nebraska
– by James Phillips. The predecessors of this line are still alive and from time to time we
also communicate together. So from the beginnig the founder of this line is KARL * 19.2.1791,
son of Georgius IV * 26.7.1751 and his wife Theresia Philips – the 6th generation of the main
tribe´s line.
The 7th generation - KARL
Seven years after Joseph was born Karl – the son of Georgius IV and his wife Terezia born
Philip-ová as the seventh child. Karel was born in natal farm land number forty on the 16th of
February in 1791 in Šumvald. Finally he became his inheritor. He got married with Eve Svoboda-ova
1814 (* 1790, +9.8.1858) in November 1814. They had eleven children:
MARINA * 18.3.1815, 9.2.1835 she got married Anton Kouřil (+ 1813) who was farmer from Šumvald
74. Marina died at the age of eighty years 13.1.1895
TERESIA * 18.9.1816, + 26.9.1816
FRANZ * 12.8.1817, + 27.9.1837 as twenty years old
JOSEPH * 2.9.1819, + 16.3.1826 at the age of six years old
JOHANN * 6.5.1821 - continuator of american line A01
KLARA * 10.8.1823, got married 26.5.1845 Franz Brachtl (* 1813) from Šumvald 29. Son František
Brachtl (*1855) got married Maria Wiederman-ova from Šumvald 91, their daughter Maria Brachtl-ová
(*1896) got married Romuald Wiederman from Šumvald 34. Their daughter Bohumila Wiederman-ová
(* 1926, + 1998) got married František Lachnit (*1924) 16.6.1951.Their daughter Bohumila
Lachnit-ová got married Czech and has got two children. She lives with her family and her father
at „Pastorate mill“. No.133.
BARBORA * 21.9.181825, + 22.6.1827 did not live two years.
KARL * 8.12.1827, the farmer and inheritor of farm land number 40 in Šumvald.
MAGDALENA * 3.7.1830, 6.7.1857 got married Joseph Haitner (* 1828) 6.7.1857 who was farmer from
Šumvald No. 10. Magdalena did not live sixty years.
JOSEF * 2.10.1832, no other reports.
EVA * 21.12.1836, 1.3.1859 got married Anton Nagel, who was the miller (+ 28.7.1916)
According to the Šumvald´s memorial Karl bought the „Pastorate mill“ number 133 in 1834 for
720 quid and it overpassed on his son John in 1846. Karel died in Šumvald 40 4.1.1853 at the
age of sixty-two years. His wife Eve overlived Karl five years . She died 9.8.1858 at the
age of sixty-eight years old.
The 8th - JOHANN
Johann was born 6.5.1821 in Šumvald 40 and died in America.
18.4.1901 Olmitz Barton, Kansas, USA.
Protokol about death
This protocol of Johann Riedl I found when looking for Riedl in Kansas, Olmitz.
Johann got married in 1848 Anna Pavlíček-ová. Anna was a daughter of Gottfried Pavlíček (* 1774)
and Katarina Pohl-ová (* 1786) both from Šumvald. Anna was born in Šumvald 27.4.1824. Johann and
Anna had twelve children:
JOHANN * 11.9.1849, Šumvald No.133. As the only son did not depart with parents to America. At the
time his family emigrated he was twenty-eight. Johann, according to american relatives, called John
Capistran, as Gary Riedl wrote, was married. His wife´s name was Elizabeth – I suppose Alžběta.
Until 1911 they lived in Vienna and then in Plzen. Their last known address was Plzeň, 4 Rokycanova
street, Bohemia, Austria. According to the notes that lady Čechová gave me he worked on the railway.
His son was the director of grammar-school in Jihlava.
JOSEPHA * 19.3.1851, + 6.5.1852 was born and died in Šumvald No.133
ADOLF * 15.6.1853 in Šumvald No.133, according to Bert Riedl from the USA, died young because of
phneumonia 4.11.1880, twin with Aloisia
ALOISIE * 15.6.1853 in Šumvald, + 10.12.1853 in Šumvald. Twin with Adolf
SIGMUNT * 26.4.1855 in Šumvald, moved with his parent in 1877 to the USA and there are no other
reports about him
RUDOLF * 17.4.1857, Šumvald No.133 - continuator of american Rudolf´s line A01R
JOSEF * 18.3.1859 v Šumvald No.133, died the same day he was born, + 18.3.1859
FRANZ * 11.1.1861, Šumvald No.133 - continuator of american Franz´s line A01F
TERESIE * 14.10.1862 in Šumvald No.133, moved with her parents to the USA in 1877, got married
Joseph Bahr probably 18.7.1882. Their children are Mary Bahr Mauler, John J., Anna Bahr Schon,
William and Adolp. Teresia died 23.1.1923 at the age of sixty-one years.
MARIANA * 14.8.1864, + 20.8.1864 in Šumvald No. 133, twin with Josefa.
JOSEFA * 14.8.1864, +14.8.1864 in Šumvald No. 133, twin with Mariana.
HERMINA * 6.4.1868 in Šumvald No. 133, moved with her parents to the USA in 1877. She got married
John Bahr 8.3.1886. Their children are Josephine Bahr Maneth, Stephanie Bahr Gleissner, HERMINA
Bahr Gleissner, Frank W a John S. Hermína died 2.6.1939 at the age of seventy-one years.
Johann Riedl and his wife Anna decided to go to the USA in 1877. It is without doubt they settled
in Kansas in the village Olmitz or its near surrounding. Married couple emigrated to Kansas with
their children. This fact is confirmed in the following text. Datas of birth are taken from registry
office Šumvald, the same data of birth were found out in evidence of dead in Olmitz, Kansas
and on server and this fact was also
confirmed by Mr. Bert Riedl from Kansas (predecessors of Ibnatz Riedl and great-grandmother Wictoria
Riedel originally from Porstendorf = Bořitov, Olomoucký region). And for the fourth time, I got
data from James Philips from Kansas about the dead generation of Riedl from Johann (16.5.1821) up to
the present generation, that are on nineteen pages confirming data from Bert Riedl and broadening
them. Johann died 18.4.1901 at the age of eighty years . Anna died at the age of sixty years
18.4.1884 in Olmitz, Kansas.
At this place I have to stop and explain how I found the data of Riedl´s family in America. I have
already appealed on Bert Riedl and James Philips in the introduction and I also have to mention Mr.
Vernon Rydel-a Kostohryz-e who gave mi some contacts in Olmitz. I wrote letters, e-mails, presented
my first version of internet web pages about our tribe, asked data from the world search. One day I
received a letter with e-mail in czech language :
Dear Mr. Riedl,
My name is Jim Phillips and the natal name of my mother was Esther Riedl. My family came from the
village Sumvald at Morava, in the surrounding of Olomouc, Czech Republic. The grandfather of my
grandfather was Johann Ried who brought his family to America in May 1877 . They moved to prairie
near the town Olmitz, state Kansas, where their family farmed. Olmitz lies about 200 miles west from
Kansas City, state Missouri. I In this region also his son employed himself with agriculture for some
time, in years 1903-1910 owned a saw mill as well as a shop with general merchandise in Olmitz. One
of Franz sons, my grandfather Charley Riedl, used to farm as well.
I live in Omaha, state Nebraska and work for telecommunication company Qwest Communications. I am 51,
my wife´s name is Nancy. We have two daughters: Julie (15) and Kelli (18). For some time I have
already been working on genealogy of the family Riedl in America, from Johann to the present time but
you are the first contact with this family in Europ. I am very interested in writing with you to tell
me some information and show some photographs.
And now it actually continues.
The family of James "Jim" Philips
Next I will talk just about the predecessors „in male tail“ with the exception of James Philips who in fact is the predecessor „ in female tail“ but he is genealogist of the american Riedl´s tribe.
As I have already mentioned Johann had eight predecessors who grew up. About the two sons (Johan-John Capistran a Sigmund) there are no reports. The sons who had continuators of the tribe were:
Rudolf - continuator of line A01R
Franz - continuator of line A01F