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What's in a name?
What are the most popular names in the Leisz Family Tree?
It can sure be confusing! All those Josephs and Johns and Antons and Marys and Julias and Annas and Theresas!
Like many families, certain favored names made their way through the family tree among the Leiszs. Let's take a look at which names are most common:
Julia, Julie or Julianna
JULIA LEISZ (abt 1885-1894)—youngest child of Leopold Leisz (1835-1893) and Anna Maria Schmidt Leisz (1840-1918). Julia, also known as Julianna, accompanied her mother and siblings to America in May 1893 on the ship Darmstadt out of the port of Bremen. Julia died on March 4, 1894 in Chicago, before the Leisz family could relocate to Turtle Lake, Wisconsin.
JULIA ANN MINNICHSOFFER DONAKER (1886-1960)—eldest daughter of Leisz Sister Mary Leisz Minnichsoffer (1862-1903) and Janos Minnichsoffer (1863-1908).
JULIA "JUEL" LOUISE LEISZ CAMPBELL (1888-1985)—daughter of eldest Leisz Brother John (1861-1939) and his wife Agnes (1866-1904). At age 4, she accompanied her parents and younger sister Agnes on the ocean voyage to America in May 1893.
JULIANNA LEISZ (1893-1898)—daughter of second-eldest Leisz Brother Leopold (1863-1925) and his wife Anna Supparits Leisz (1872-1934). She died at age 5 1/2 in Peregu Mare, Arad, Romania, before her parents and siblings immigrated to the United States in 1902.
JULIA A. LEISZ HARNDEN (1908-1935)—daughter of Leisz Brother Anton (1880-1942) and his wife Sophia Donaker Leisz (1884-1948). Julia died at the young age of 27, shortly after she married. Her niece,
JULIA ELEANOR LEISZ GREIL (b. 1959)—granddaughter of Leisz Brother Anton (1880-1942) and daughter of Henry George "Hank" Leisz (1910-1988) and wife Lucille Schmaus Leisz. She was named after her Aunt Julia Leisz Harnden..
JULIA YURKOVICH ALFORD—great-granddaughter of Leisz Brother Joseph (1868-1942), granddaughter of Louisa M "Lucy" Leisz Westfall (1907-1973), and daughter of Carol Westfall Yurkovich (1934-2015).
JULIA MARIE LEISZ (b. 1986)—great-great-granddaughter of Leisz Brother Frank (1875-1949), daughter of Dennis Joseph Leisz (1953-2010), granddaughter of Stuart Leisz (b. 1931), great-granddaughter of Joseph Frank Leisz (1906-1962).
Late musician John Lennon wrote the song "Julia" about his mother. LISTEN
LONG-LOST COUSINS
JULIA IS A FAVORED NAME
JULIA IS A FAVORED NAME
A family tree on ancestry.com led these two cousins to one another—the granddaughter of Leisz Brother Joseph, and the great-granddaughter of his sister Mary.
JULIA IS A FAVORED NAME
JULIA IS A FAVORED NAME
JULIA IS A FAVORED NAME
What is one of the most common names for girls in the Leisz family? Julia. Shown above is one of them—Julia Ann Minnichsoffer Donaker (1886-1960), daughter of Mary Leisz Minnichsoffer (1862-1903) and her husband Janos, or John (abt 1863-1908).
LEISZ FAMILY VILLAGE
JULIA IS A FAVORED NAME
LEISZ FAMILY VILLAGE
Leisz Brother Frank and wife Barbara shared stories about going to shop in the city of Battonga from their home in Peregu Mare, Arad, Romania.