Forty kilometers southeast of Kutna Hora, along the main
highway, lies Havlickuv Brod.
The Havlickuv Brod region is the
home of a large number of Vyborny descendents, although the
surname itself is no longer as common there as it once was. Prior
to the establishment of the Czech state and until the end of the
Second World
War, Havlickuv Brod was called Nemecky Brod. MUDr. Josef(*1864)
Vyborny studied for a time in Nemecky Brod and returned there to
examine the matrika books of the nearby parishes in his search
for Vyborny family members. He found many .
Josef(*1859)
Vyborny, Pelestrov line
The Havlickuv Brod region is the home of the ancestors of the
two readily identifiable Vyborny families in Chicago.
Josef(*1859) Vyborny
came to the United States around the turn of
this century as part of the second great emigration from the
Czech lands, the first being in the middle of the nineteenth
century when Jan(*1811) and Josef(*1828) arrived.
Josef(*1859), a
widower, landed in Baltimore with his four sons and his
housekeeper settling then in Chicago. Josef was likely the great
great great grandson of Martin Vyborny
(see the chart), uncle of Jan(+1776)
Vyborny the chief of
the farm at Pelestrov, a small hamlet to the
north of Havlickuv Brod (between Knyk and Vesely Zdar).
A listing of Josef's greatgreatgrandfather Vaclav
(Wenzl) can be seen in
the Urbar for Pelestrov in 1775, the year
before the American Revolution.
Two of the sponsors of this web site are
descended from the Pelestrov line of the Vyborny family.
Photo of the grave of Vyborny's
of Lipa.
(click to enlarge the
picture)
The second Vyborny family in the Chicago area comes from
Lipa,
a village to the southwest of Havlickuv Brod. There is to this
day an identifiable Vyborny family in Lipa. In the past this
included
MUDr. Karel Vyborny, a prominent local physician. Dr.
Vyborny's plan to develop a resort and spa in the area related to
natural springs was ended by the Second World War. Unlike some
Vyborny family members living in and nearby Kutna Hora the
Vyborny ancestors of the Havlickuv Brod region were often
Catholic in faith.
The Pelestrov and Lipa Vyborny's aided each other in the
transition to the New World, regarding themselves as family.
Those born around 1900 called each other second cousins, although
records now indicate that they were at least third cousins. The
descendents of the Pelestrov and Lipa Vyborny's for the most part
still live in the Chicago area, home to one of the largest Czech
populations in the world.
Czech patriot Karl Havlicek overlooking the skyline of
Chicago.
(click to enlarge the
picture)
A Vyborny family originating in Havlickuv Brod now also lives in Brazil.
Contact: cv@vyborny.com
Last updated: Aug 30, 2000
