Majos
Majesch
Tolna County
This settlement of German Lutheran colonists began in the early 1720s and found itself in a very volatile situation in terms of their religious life with their pastors and schoolmasters being banished and exiled and re-instated over the years. Information on the families who lived here are a crazy quilt pattern all over southern Tolna. There are the original baptismal/birth records kept by the first pastor from 1720 to 1726 when he was banished from the County. During another period a Levite Lehrer managed to serve here and began baptismal/birth records beginning in 1742 that were continued by the new pastor who came after the Edict of Toleration took effect in the community. In these records you will locate references to other Lutheran families living in the vicinity that belonged to underground congregations and sought the services of the pastor in Majós. They lived in Hidas, Nagy Manyók, Kismányok, Cikó, Izmény, Mórágy, Nagyszekély, Kistormás, Zsibrik, Bonyhád, Szerdahely, Börzsóny, Varsád, Szeplák, Hant and Györe. After 1785 Bonyhád became a filial congregation of Majós and countless births can be found here.
In the marriage register using the same time-frame as noted above families intermarried with others from Kismányok, Cikó, Bonyhád, Izmény, Hidas, Mórágy, Vejke, Varsád, Nagy Manyók, Kéty, Zsibrik, Mucsfa, Viragos, Mekényes, Bátaapáti, Kistormás, Rác Kozar, Nagyszekély, Szerdahely, Udvári, Alsónána, Györe, Felsö Nána, Olhau, Pressburg, Grünau, Ragendorf, Hant, Bikács, Murga, Varalja, Gyönk, Börzsóny, Tékes, Palota, Paks, Szas, Tabód, Kalaznó, Hájmas, Nagy Ág, Gerényes, Máza, Kaposszekcsö, Csikostöttös, Baja, Varas Domba, Tófü, Magyarbóly, Györköny, Bikal, Gadács, Ecsény, Keszö Hidegkut and Somogydöröcske.
by Henry A. Fischer
- The Settlement of the Village of Majos by Heinrich Marz (from his book Heimatbuch und Ortschronik von Majos/Majesch, 1997.)
- Lookups Guide: Henry Fischer - Kismányok (Evangelical Lutheran) 1728-1895 (Also includes: Majos, Hidas, Izmény, Mucsfa, Bataápati, Bonyhád, Tófü, Mekényes, Morágy, Varálja) Church Record Transcriptions
- Heimatbuch und Ortschronik von Majos by Heinrich März, 1997, Olching.
- Majos key keeper
Contributed by Henry Fischer, 1 Sep 2008
Last updated: 09/10/2026