Some archive records regarding Vybornys from the regions
of Pisek and of Tabor (South Bohemia)

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Documents from the South Bohemia region are deposited in the State Regional Archive at the Chateau of Trebon. Preliminary results of a recent first review of the archive records collected are presented below. Information from the Index Volumes belonging to the records available mainly at present. A detailed study of the individual archive volumes will continue in the near future.

MUDr.Josef(*1864) Vyborny referred to Vybornys of the region of Tabor (South Bohemia) in his "Book of the Vyborny Family". No explanation is given there about the way he had obtained this basic information. Only excerpts from the archive records sent from the parish of Drazice were available to him. The excerpts were quite brief: they referred to five members of the Vyborny family residing at Mezirici near Drazice during the period 1787 - 1814. The author of the excerpts remarked that the earliest archive records from the Drazice parish existed since 1757(?). Even earlier records should be kept at the parish of the nearby town of Tabor (South Bohemia). Dr.Vyborny asked Tabor parish for additional excerpts but their response was negative.

Information from Berni Rula (1654) was out of reach of Dr.Vyborny apparently. There is written in the General Index of Berni Rula (issued at Prague 2003) that an abandoned "Vejborny" farmstead existed at Slapy near Tabor in 1654. The village of Slapy is very near to Mezirici - some ten kilometers to the south across the Luznice River. It implies Vybornys have lived in Tabor region for some 130 years before the oldest record from Drazice parish which was available to Dr.Vyborny.

The recent visit to the Trebon Archive revealed archive records from the parishes of Drazice, Tabor and other localities (Malsice which parish district involved also Drazicky and Slapy villages) comprise tens of relevent records regarding Vybornys. They are collected in the table below sorted according to years and localities.

Somewhat similar situation was found to exist in the region of Pisek. The author of "The Vyborny Book" did not have any information regarding Vybornys from there apparently. Mr.Karel Kysilka discovered them for the vyborny.com website in 2001. The corresponding table below (though based on more limited data comparing to those of Tabor region) illustrates the Vyborny population of the villages of Old-New Dobev was both rather large and continuous: almost up-to-now according to private communication of certain woman residing there. She told us that the farmstead exists at Dobev which is still called "of Vybornys" (in fact the most recent records found at archives so far are of the 19th century - almost all of them are of the house #14), also an another similar house exists there too. Contrary to this a man residing at Hradiste near Pisek had known nothing of the Vybornys who had lived there centuries earlier. Hradiste belongs to the parish office of Putim whereas Dobev to Kestrany parish does. During earliest periods both localities (Dobev and Hradiste) belonged to the dean's office of the city of Pisek. The records are sorted according to years and localities in the upper table, too. Two records of the localities referred to as "Predmesti" (= suburb) and "Vaclav" could have been perhaps related to descendants of Jan Vyborny of Hradiste (who himself was recorded in Berni Rula 1654). This locality probably corresponds to the present "Vaclavske Predmesti" (i.e. Vaclav Suburb of Pisek) which is situated on the left embankment of Otava River - just opposite to nearby Hradiste locality on its right side. Bartolomew Weyborney of Hradiste (recorded from the years of 1681-84) might be regarded as of the first next generation after Jan.

In both the cases (the regions of Tabor and especially of Pisek) the Vybornys population was clearly localized in one site correspondingly (Dobev or Mezirici). Dispersion out of these centers was less pronounced. It would be useful to explain the reasons of such distributions. Perhaps a great farmstead at Mezirici could attract people to settle there?

The abbreviations used throughout the tables: B = "born/baptized", M = "married", D = "died". The numbers show counts (B, M, D) during the time span given in the first column of the tables.

Surroundings of Pisek (Dobev denoted by the yellow arrow).

Years	Dobev	Kestrany	Zatavi	Lhota	Vaclav	Predmesti	Hradiste	Source, volume #
1654	Mikulas Vyborny						Jan Vyborny	Berni rula
1661, Jan 25		1N = Anna, father Pawel Weyborny, mother Alzbeta						Pisek 4
1663	1B							Kestrany 1
1664,	1B = the child of Mikulas V.							Kestrany 1
Years	Dobev	Kestrany	Zatavi	Lhota	Vaclav	Predmesti	Hradiste	Source, volume #
1665	1B							Kestrany 1
1681, Aug 21							1N = Anna, father Rartolomej Weyborney, mother Rozyna	Pisek 4
1681-83	2B							Kestrany 1
1684, Feb 6							1N = Mateg, father Rartolomeg Weyborneg, mother Rozyna	Pisek 4
Years	Dobev	Kestrany	Zatavi	Lhota	Vaclav	Predmesti	Hradiste	Source, volume #
1741, Aug 12						1B Weyborny Anna		Pisek 61
1750, May 2					1B = Weyborny Florian			Pisek 61
1784-85	2D							Kestrany 19
1786			1M					Kestrany 19
1787-94	4D							Kestrany 19
1795			1D					Kestrany 19
Years	Dobev	Kestrany	Zatavi	Lhota	Vaclav	Predmesti	Hradiste	Source, volume #
1795		1M						Kestrany 19
1796	1D							Kestrany 19
1797	1N = Wyt Weyborny							Kestrany 19
1798				1D				Kestrany 19
1799		1D						Kestrany 19
1800	1B, 1D							Kestrany 19
Years	Dobev	Kestrany	Zatavi	Lhota	Vaclav	Predmesti	Hradiste	Source, volume #
1802				1D				Kestrany 19
1805	1B							Kestrany 19
1807	1D							Kestrany 19
1810	1B							Kestrany 19
1812-15	2Z							Kestrany 19
1816-23	2B, 1D							Kestrany 19

Records statistics: Dobev 23, Kestrany 3, Hradiste 2, Zatavi 2, Lhota 2, Predmesti 1, Vaclav 1 (total 34)

Tabor region (the yellow arrow denotes localization of Mezirici).

Years	Slapy	Drazicky	Cenkov	Malsice		Mezirici	Makov	Sichova Vesec	Hurka	Nehonin	Brtec	Source, volume #
1654	Vejborny (abandoned? farmstead)											Berni rula
1684	1B											Plana 19
1687					1B							Plana 19
1688	1D											Plana 19
1689					1M							Plana 19
1689					1B							Plana 19
1691 - 1701					6B							Plana 19
Years	Slapy	Drazicky	Cenkov	Malsice		Mezirici	Makov	Sichova Vesec	Hurka	Nehonin	Brtec	Source, volume #
1703-11						5B						Tabor 48
1706 (*1641)	1D											Plana 19
1712	1M											Plana 19
1714	(1M ->	<-1M)										Plana 19, 20
1714						1B						Tabor 49
1714-16					2M							Tabor 53
1715			1B									Plana 19
1716	1B											Plana 19
1717-26						5B						Tabor 49
Years	Slapy	Drazicky	Cenkov	Malsice		Mezirici	Makov	Sichova Vesec	Hurka	Nehonin	Brtec	Source, volume #
1721		1M										Plana 19
1722-26		3B										Plana 19
1723					1M							Plana 20
1727							1B					Tabor 49
1728					1M							Tabor 53
1729		1B										Plana 19
1732						1B						Tabor 49
1742-44					3M							Tabor 53
1745						1B						Tabor 49
1747-48					2M							Tabor 53
Years	Slapy	Drazicky	Cenkov	Malsice		Mezirici	Makov	Sichova Vesec	Hurka	Nehonin	Brtec	Source, volume #
1747-56		5B										Malsice 13
1748-59						14B						Tabor 49
1760-74					10D							Tabor 55
1766						1M						Jistebnice 37
1766					1D							Jistebnice 39
1774					1M							Tabor 53
1774								1B				Jistebnice 33
Years	Slapy	Drazicky	Cenkov	Malsice		Mezirici	Makov	Sichova Vesec	Hurka	Nehonin	Brtec	Source, volume #
1775									1M			Jistebnice 37
1777-85						2B						Tabor 50
1778-85					3D							Tabor 55
1790-99				6B								Malsice 13
1790 - 1816										1D		Jistebnice 40
1812						1M						Jistebnice 38
1816											2D	Jistebnice 40

Records statistics: without locality specified 33, Mezirici 31, Drazicky 10, Slapy 6, Malsice 6, Brtec 2, Cenkov 1, Makov 1, Sichova Vesec 1, Nehonin 1 (total 92)

The table shows: the archive records were localized on the left side of the Luznice River (near Slapy) during the earliest period. They became more frequent on the opposite side of Luznice (around Mezirici and further to north) later, however. Distribution of those localities illustrated on the map lower:

Individual record localities denoted by yellow spots. Those with magenta centers correspond to multiple record localities.

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