Güssing: Birth Records
from the Roman Catholic Church Records at Güssing, Vas Megye

This database is courtesy of BB members Ed Marx and Tom Steichen (copyright remains with them). It is based on the online image collection located here: familysearch.org/...cat=105175, which contains images from the baptism book for Németujvár, Vas, Hungary, for years 1861 through 1895.

Güssing (Németujvár, N Ujvár) was also the official recording location for villages
- Glasing ([Kis]Kolozsvár),
- Langzeil (none),
- Neustift bei Güssing (Gödörfő, Ujtelep),
- Rosenberg (Rosáhegy, Rozsáhegy),
- Urbersdorf (Orbánfalu, Orbánfalva, Úrbér) and,
- Tobaj (Tobaj) after 1874 (prior to 1875, records were in parish Deutsch Tschantschendorf).
[the underlined names are what appear in this transcription]

Güssing's hotter also held a number of named Maierhofs (Mayerhofs), large residential farms in the outlying areas that were owned by the Batthyány nobility (Philip and Christopher). The two main ones were Ludwigshof and Zsánkoháza. but there also were Poltelmayerhof and Tómajor. They each consisted of multiple facilities having multiple conscription numbers (95, 96, 151-156) that appear in the records (inconsistently) under names Lajosmajor, Ludwigshof, Földmajor, Sankoház, Lipótmajor, Tómajor and Németujvár.

Lajosmajor was the Magyar name for Ludwigshof (#s 155,156); Földmajor (Magyar name) and Sankoház were substitutes for Zsánkoháza (#s 153,154); Lipótmajor (Magyar name for Poltelmayerhof, #s 151,152) and Tómajor (Magyar name for Teichhof, #s 95, 96) also appear occasionally with a Zsánkoháza conscription number. Further, all of these conscription numbers were simply labeled Németujvár at times.

The database (as obtained from the above online collection) consists of 4,310 birth records from 1861 to 1895.

However, all images for year 1890 (149 records) were not in that collection, as well as one image from 1869 (15 records) and one from 1895 (21 records), for a total of 185 missing records. Klaus Gerger provided a transcription of the missing records (from the original images), bringing the total to 4,495 birth records from 1861 thru 1895 (these additional records were added only to the "standard" transcription; see below).

Please note that the records were so inconsistent on spellings of names that two versions of their transcription are provided. The first, labeled "(raw)" is the unadjusted transcription, being out best effort to accurately record what was written. The second, labeled "(standard)" consolidates each given name into a single form (generally the Latinized German version) and consolidates surname variations for each family into a single version when we felt confident enough to do so (the surname variation chosen was usually the most common one for that family in the transcribed records... no statement concerning "correctness" of the chosen version is intended by such a choice). It is our belief that the standard version is much more useful for searching... but we also recommend that you consult the raw version to understand how big a leap we made for some families between raw and standard names.

However, neither transcription includes all the information from each birth record. Please refer to the online collection (see image and sequence numbers in the first two columns of the database) to access the records if you wish to view all the information or to verify the accuracy of the transcribed information.

A few comments: The lack of a father's name indicates an illegitimate birth (the images have columns that denote legitimacy / illegitimacy but those columns were not transcribed). The [names] in square brackets and the [stillborn] notation were absent from the images (blank) but were filled in during the transcription, the first by looking at other related records (so they are not really part of the “raw” transcription) and the second by reading the Latin notes on those records.