Marie Pazourek

Tonight I found the record for the death of the maternal grandmother of Anna Bals.  This is Anna Novotna's mother Marie, married to Matej Novotny. She died on the 18 of June, 1865.  The record says she was 45, but we have her birth record of 1823, so I think she was only 42. When we first started looking through these archives, it seemed as though these families were fairly large;  there was a birth almost every two years like clockwork. But as we fill in the dates of the deaths for many of the children, it strikes me that the families were not so large after all.  Many of the children died very young.  And the children, like Jan Smejkal and Anna Novotna, who did survive, did not know their own mothers for very long.  Anna was only 9 when Marie died.

Drazice Registry D Book 15 Image 133.

Note:  There is sort of an "out of the ordinary" entry for Marie that is directly above her death record.  We may have to ask Olga to translate that one for us...