Hello:
My name is Tim O’Bryan, some may know me as Tim Tropeck.
To all the Tropeck /Tropek’s out there in the in the
United States and around the world; I am putting together a Family Tree that consists of Tropeck family members and related together. Currently I have six separate Tropeck/Tropek trees I am working on. I only have (1) on line and the other (5) I have offline and incomplete. yet all (6) are related someway or another. If you are or think you might be related to any tropeck, feel free to contact me anytime.
If you would like to participate and help out just leave me a message. I have plenty on info to work with, more is helpful. I just need to put these trees together.
My phone number is 330-750-1842 if you want to call, if not e-mail me.
Thank you for you attention, I look forward to any responses.
Tim
A Brief History on name Tropeck:
The Tropeck’s came from a village called Rabcice situated very close to the Polish border and some 4 miles north from small town Namestov, North Slovakia, in the Orava Region.
Rabcice originally spelled (Rabcsicze) in it’s Hungarian form, pronounced (ROB-chee-tseh),was in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Arva megye (county), now Orava a dual monarchy in Central Europe from 1867 to 1918, dissolved at the end of World War I.
Some of the Tropeck’s have been known to come from Poland and Austria. With these Tropeck’s coming from different country’s; take in mind that there were territory changes in the time period. According to my research I came across one other way to spell Tropeck and that is Tropek, which is just another name change, possible due to family choice. But more than likely when our ancestors went through Ellis Island, they changed the spelling, probably to make the name look more American, sometime after they immigrated.
On the journey to America, the Tropeck’s settled in places like Pennsylvania, New York, and Illinois. Generations later, the name carries on and with this very short, but brief history lesson that is sure to grow with more and more research; by a true blood line there is a Hungarian.
T.O./J.K.
