Joseph/Jan/Adolph/Henry (Pecka/Petska)
My great great grandfather was Joseph Pecka, he came to this country when he was about 9 years old in 1858 from Bohemia with his parents (Jan and Anna Pecka), brother (Jan or Jahann Pecka)and grandmother (Katherina or Catherine Pecka).I know that Jan is Bohemian for John.Also in the early 1900s, some of my Pecka family changed their name spelling to Petska.I don't think that my great great grandfather had any other siblings beside Jan, but I'm not for sure.I'm looking for people who think they are related to the Jan Pecka family.I believe this family lived in the Manitowoc or Kewaunee counties in Wisconsin from the 1860 to about the 1900s.I have a obituary for a John Pecka/Petska from Cook Co. IL.
Also, I'm looking for some lost brothers of my great grandfather Fred Pecka/Petska.Adolph Pecka and Henry Pecka.I don't know if they ever changed their name spelling to Petska.They were both born in the 1870s in Kewaunee Co. and Manitowoc Co. areas of Wisconsin.Their parents had a homestead in Curran, Franklin Township, between Denmark WI and Kewaunee, WI.Their parents names were Joseph Pecka and Anna (Cizek) Pecka.All I was told about these men is that both ran away from home in their late teenage years early 20s.I know that Adolph visited my great grandfather Fred once in the late 1920s early 1930s to pick up an old trunk of belongings and told my great grandfather that he settled some place out west.
Please contact me if you have any information about Adolph or Henry Pecka/Petska.Or if you think you have information about the Jan/John Pecka/Petska family from Wisconsin.Thanks - Amy Petska