Rox Ann - Thanks for your input. I will ask the library if they have a map of Pct #6 and will also check land records, although I'm not sure they owned land before moving to Lavaca County a little later. Mary Jane At 11:51 PM 3/28/2005, you wrote: >I don't have a map of precinct 6, but I did look for names of people I think >lived in the Black Jack Springs area in 1880 and they all came up as precinct >5. The Fayette Heritage Museum & Library might have a precinct map from >that >time. You can e-mail them at library@fais.net. > >Black Jack could possibly be Pin Oak or nearby Black Jack Springs, but both >of those are west of High Hill. Catholic churches east of High Hill >would be >Schulenburg and Dubina Catholic churches, and northeast is Ammannsville. >South of High Hill is St. John's St. John Catholic Church. However, all >of these >churches were established later than High Hill and Praha and probably won't >have the records you want. An early Catholic church which served the Bluff >area north of High Hill from 1856 would be Hostyn's Queen of the Holy Rosary >Church. > >You might want to check deed records for locations if the Kuntschiks owned >the farm(s) on which they lived. > >Rox Ann Johnson > >In a message dated 3/28/05 2:02:51 PM, MJKuntschik@att.net writes: > > > > My late husband's father, Frank Kuntschik, told his children that he was > > born "at Black Jack, east of High Hill" in 1779. Would this be Black Jack > > Springs? > > > > In the 1880 census the John Kuntschik family is listed in Justice Pct. > > #6 when Frank is one year old. An older sister attended school that year. > > > > In 1881 and 1883 two baby girls were born to the family. Both of them > > died as iinfants; one in 1884 and one in 1885. They were baptized and > > buried at the Praha Catholic church and cemetery. At that time the records > > indicated the family living at Mulberry. > > > > Can anyone tell me if Pct. #6 covered that area at that time, or if the > > family would have moved from Pct. #6 to Mulberry? If this involved a move, > > where might the older girl have attended school 1879-1880? > > > > Also, I did not find baptismal records for any of the other children in > > church records for High Hill or Praha. Was there another Catholic church > > that would be close to, or in Pct. #6? > > > > Mary Jane > > > > > > > > > >==== TXFAYETT Mailing List ==== >Visit the Fayette County TXGenWeb site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txfayett > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx