[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Tschechei

[Richard Benert]

John,

I suspect that our German members will have a better answer to your question 
that I can come up with, but here's perhaps a start.  I'm not aware, first 
of all, of any use of the word "Tschechei" to designate a particular 
governmental region in the 18th century, although I certainly could be 
wrong.  In the good old 1911 edition of the Britannica, I read that 
"speaking generally, it can be said that the Czechs inhabit a  large part of 
Bohemia, a yet larger part of Moravia, parts of Silesia--both Austrian and 
Prussian--and extensive districts in northern Hungary."  Apparently you have 
found entries in the records in which immigrants to the Lodz area said they 
were from "Tschechei"?  If this word refers to "areas where Czechs lived" 
(which is possible), then perhaps they had come from any of those areas, 
which doesn't nail it down much for you, does it?

Dick B.
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>    Can anyone provide me a brief description of the area that comprised 
> Tschechei in the mid 1800s please?
> There were a considerable number of Catholic migrants from Tschechei into 
> the Lodz area during the mid 1800s likely attracted there by work in the 
> textile industry.
>
> John Marsch
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