Born 18. 1. 1894, died (about) 1975, no grave - his ashes have been thrown into the wind by his daughter Pavla.
Wife ??? nee ???, Children Maria, Stepan, Rudolf, Ludmila (a.k.a. Milena) and Pavla.
Jozef Cingel’s wife, whom I met only once in Banská Bystrica, was a small slim woman about 75 years old at the time (1967), gnarled from severe arthritis, with "birds' claws" gnarled palms and fingers. Shown below she is the "maminka", as Milena exclaimed when she saw the picture for the first time. Also, she is shown here with her children (Milena, Štefan, Rudolf - Pavla & Maria are missing):
Wife ??? nee ???, Children Maria, Stepan, Rudolf, Ludmila (a.k.a. Milena) and Pavla.
He was the father of my wife's mother. He is shown above with daughter Pavla.
Next pictures were taken about two years before he died:
Next pictures were taken about two years before he died:
Medium height, normal built.
I met him only once when I came in 1967 to his flat in Banská Bystrica to collect Mireille & George (less than one year old then) who were staying there for a few days. A pleasant person. I also met his wife there, a very much arthritis stricken old woman. He used to feed her one or two types of food (bryndzové halusky), anything else she could not hold in her stomach, and she died shortly after our visit. He was very fond of his first great-grandchild George, and from Australia we exchanged several letters with him. His letters were very warm and cordial, quite talkative and were written with complete disregard for grammar, punctuation or spelling (an example: the ywe re writ ten a ppr oxi matelyli ket his….). One of them is shown here, written after 1971:
In the letter he sends greetings to "Charlie, Mireille, Georgie, Johnny & Julia", informs that they moved to a new address in Karlovy Vary, & at the end apologizes for any spelling errors. From what I gather from Mireille, they lived in Kynžvart (near Karlovy Vary) where he used to ring the bell in the nearby church, and they also spent some time abroad (Belgium?) before the second world war.
I met him only once when I came in 1967 to his flat in Banská Bystrica to collect Mireille & George (less than one year old then) who were staying there for a few days. A pleasant person. I also met his wife there, a very much arthritis stricken old woman. He used to feed her one or two types of food (bryndzové halusky), anything else she could not hold in her stomach, and she died shortly after our visit. He was very fond of his first great-grandchild George, and from Australia we exchanged several letters with him. His letters were very warm and cordial, quite talkative and were written with complete disregard for grammar, punctuation or spelling (an example: the ywe re writ ten a ppr oxi matelyli ket his….). One of them is shown here, written after 1971:
In 2004 and 2008 I visited his daughter Milena in Cheb, who lived in a flat with her husband Jaroslav Slabý (died April 2006), and her brother Štefan (died March 2006). Her son from the first marriage, Vojtech Lískovec, worked as a veterinary surgeon in Karlovy Vary. With George we also visited his son Rudolf in Banská Bystrica. Jozef's daughter Mária (Mireille’s mother), refused to see us at the time. His daughter Pavlína wrote several letters to us in Australia, exhorting us to turn our face to God, for she was deeply religious and also sent to us a Bible in Czech language. Her son Pavel was killed in a car accident, she died a few years later. His sons Rudolf and Štefan both died unmarried and childless.
Jozef Cingel’s wife, whom I met only once in Banská Bystrica, was a small slim woman about 75 years old at the time (1967), gnarled from severe arthritis, with "birds' claws" gnarled palms and fingers. Shown below she is the "maminka", as Milena exclaimed when she saw the picture for the first time. Also, she is shown here with her children (Milena, Štefan, Rudolf - Pavla & Maria are missing):
Despite having only minimal formal education he managed to organize good education for his children: Štefan finished a university and worked all his life as an earth engineer; Rudolf worked as a foreman in a factory in Banska Bystrica; Milena finished a university and worked as an engineer on industrial projects; about Pavla I am not sure; for Maria, Mireille's mother, see separate page.
Of the siblings only Milena Slaba (her full Christian name is Ludmila) is still alive (2022), she is 92 years old and lives in a house in Karlovy Vary, Josefa Lady ul.) with her cat and dog. Her son from her first marriage Vojtech Liskovec used to be a district veterinarian in Karlovy Vary until his retirement in 2019 (?). His wife Sylvia has died a few years before that. I visited them there a couple of times, and we are still in occasional contact.
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