Havlena, Cap, Fahndrich, Becker Family-History

Family Photos

• 3 generations of my Havlena ancestors - Detroit (36 KB)
  Albina Cap (my grandmother); Joseph Havlena (my dad - son of Frank and Albina); Frank Havlena (my grandfather & son of Josef and Kate); Virginia Havlena (Frank and Albina's baby); Kate Trnka (my great grandmother); Josef Havlena (my great grandfather); Mamie (aka Marie) Havlena (Josef and Kate's daughter). Photo taken at the family home at 5037 Seebaldt Avenue in Detroit around 1920.
• www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/ (223 KB)
  Recently acquired photo of my Great Grandparents and their children. Photo is on a pillowcase (!) and is from circa 1904 in Detroit. From left to right: Josef Havlena (born in Zahrobi, Bohemia in 1851); Daughter Mamie (aka Marie) Havlena born in Detroit in 1893; Joseph Havlena born in Detroit in 1895; Frank Joseph Havlena (my grandfather) born in Detroit in 1890; Katherine (nee Trnka) Havlena born in Svinitice, Bohemia. Photo received May, 2005 from the daughter of young Joseph.
• 1920 photo of Josef Havlena & his wife Kate Trnka (27 KB)
  This photo, taken at their 5037 Seebaldt Avenue home in Detroit about 1920, is of my great grandparents Josef Havlena (born in 1851 in Zahrobi #24, Bohemia) and Katherine Trnka (born in 1859. She was born in Svinetice #37, Bohemia - not in Belcice or Bavorov, Bohemia as mistakenly mentioned in the introduction to these photos above)
• Family photo of Paul Leask and Mary Myotte (47 KB)
  Joseph Leask; Emma Leask (infant); Mary Myotte; Paul Leask (Jr.); Agnes Mary (aka Tootsie) Leask; Adelie Leask; Paul Leask (born 1861 - great grandfather of my wife); Ambrose Leask; Celina (aka Katie) Leask; Tom Leask (born 1896 - my wife's grandfather)
• 1540 drawing of "A Fahndrich" (51 KB)
  This is the Fahndrich "crest" drawn in 1540. The drawing was titled "A Fahndrich". I got the drawing from the cover-page of a 1930s family tree of a so far unrelated Fahndrich family from Luckenwald, Germany (on a Mormon microfilm)
• Photo of Mary Jane LaVigne and Angus McCoy (79 KB)
  Mary Jane LaVigne (born 1875) and husband Angus McCoy (born 1873) - Great grandparents of my wife.
• Portrait - Frank Havlena, wife Albina Cap & family (26 KB)
  Joseph Havlena (born 1914 - my dad); Frank Havlena (born 1890 - my grandfather); Albina Cap (born 1891 - my grandmother); Paul Havlena (born 1920); Virginia Havlena (born 1917). Family lived in Detroit.
• My Havlena ancestors & friends - Belle Isle, 1907 (52 KB)
  (1) Victor Hlavka (later married Rosie Cap); (2)Albert Kavan; (3) Rosie Cap; (4) Anthony Rose (aka Ruzicka)(later married Anna Cap); (5) ?; (6) Mamie Havlena (Frank Havlena's sister); (7) Anthony Parez; (8) Albina Cap (my grandmother); (9) Anna Cap; (10) Frank Havlena (my grandfather). 1907 photo taken on Belle Isle, Michigan. Frank Havlena and Albina were not married yet.
• Phyllis Fahndrich and husband Joseph Havlena (108 KB)
  Phyllis Fahndrich (my mother) and Joseph Havlena (born 1914 - my father). Photo taken at Blue Spring State Park near Orange City, Florida January 1990.
• Group photo of my Cap ancestors in Detroit (45 KB)
  This is the only known photo of my great grandmother Albina Cap's family. Photo taken in Detroit. My great grandfather, Josef Cap (b. 1852) is the elderly bearded gentleman. The next photo on this webpage is an index to the identities of these Caps.
• Only known photo of Benjamin Franklin Spray (36 KB)
  Only known photo of Benjamin Franklin Spray (born 1857) the great grandfather of my wife.
• Index to who is who in the above Cap photograph (49 KB)
  Index to who is who in the above Cap family photograph
• House #4 Zahrobi - Havlena house since the 1700s (59 KB)
  This is the oldest known house of my Havlena ancestors. Matous Havlena (born about 1705) & his family lived in this house in the 1700s. Today it is the village pub as well as a dwelling.
• Havlena cousins at house #24 Zahrobi, Bohemia (76 KB)
  Barbara Chourova (wife of elder Jan); Jan Havlena (b. 1865 - 1st cousin of my grandpa Frank Havlena); Marie Havlena; Jan Havlena (b. 1892); younger Jan's wife Emilie Benesova; their daughter Emilie Havlenova. Outside their home - house #24, Zahrobi, Bohemia. Note wooden shoes.
• House #24 Zahrobi where Josef Havlena born in 1851 (44 KB)
  This is the house (house #24, Zahrobi, Bohemia - about 50 miles south of Prague)where my great grandfather Josef Havlena was born (in 1851) and lived. Many other Havlena ancestors were born and lived here. Today this house is still owned by Havlena relatives who use it as a cottage. I visited this house and other Havlena houses in 1999.
• Charles Fahndrich & wife Johanna Antoinette Becker (72 KB)
  My grandparents, Charles Fahndrich and Johanna Antoinette Becker, both born in 1874. Photo likely taken in Detroit where they lived.
• My sketch of house #24, Zahrobi (in foreground) (99 KB)
  I drew this in 1999. This is house #24 (in foreground) where my great grandfather Josef Havlena was born (in 1851) and lived. It is located in the tiny village of Zahrobi in southern Bohemia.

Related Links

• Homepage of Dennis Havlena at the Straits of Mackinac