Cizler Family

Village of origin:  the Czech village of Girnic, Austria-Hungary (now in Romania)

Date of Arrival in Virginia: 1900

Purchased land:  1914 in Dinwiddie County

Burials:  St. John's Church, Dinwiddie, Virginia and Sacred Heart, Prince George, Virginia

Listed on the 1920 Census for Dinwiddie County (John, Jennie, Annie, John, William, Barbara)

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Reference: Habenicht, Jan, History of Czechs in America, originally published in Czech in 1910, translation into English by Paul M. Makousky, 1996,St. Paul, MN, CGSI, p. 136-139.

“There are not many families to have come to Virginia directly from Bohemia… Nearly all the colonists of Dinwiddie County came from southern Hungary: The Pecek, Blaha, Kustek, Kaftan, Cizler, Mizera and others.”