Second Generation

2. Josef KUCERA Jr. (^) was in Benov, Klatovy District, Plzen (Pilsen) (West) Region, Bohemia, (Czech Republic). He was a "Miller." The mill in Beňov is recorded in the 16th century.  It is a multi-story brick building with a farmyard.  Today, it is listed as a residential building. He was born in Benov, Klatovy District, Plzen (Pilsen) (West) Region, Bohemia, (Czech Republic). Bohemia is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in what was known as the Czech Republic and, currently, Czechia. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohemian kings, including Moravia  and Czech Silesia, in which case the region is referred to as Bohemia proper as a means of distinction.

Bohemia was a duchy of Great Moravia, later an independent principality, a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire, and subsequently a part of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Austrian Empire.  After World War I and the establishment of an independent Czechoslovak state, the whole of Bohemia became a part of Czechoslovakia, defying claims of the German-speaking inhabitants that regions with German-speaking majority should be included in the Republic of German-Austria. Between 1938 and 1945, these border regions were joined to Nazi Germany as the Sudetenland.

The remainder of Czech territory became the Second Czechoslovak Republic, and was subsequently occupied as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. In 1969, the Czech lands (including Bohemia) were given autonomy within Czechoslovakia as the Czech Socialist Republic. In 1990, the name was changed to the Czech Republic, which became a separate state in 1993 with the breakup of Czechoslovakia.

Until 1948, Bohemia was an administrative unit of Czechoslovakia as one of its "lands" (země).  Since then, administrative reforms have replaced self-governing lands with a modified system of "regions" (kraje), which do not follow the borders of the historical Czech lands (or the regions from the 1960 and 2000 reforms).  However, the three lands are mentioned in the preamble of the Constitution of the Czech Republic: "We, citizens of the Czech Republic in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia…" Bohemia had an area of 52,065 km2 (20,102 sq mi), and is home to about 6.5 million of the Czech Republic's 10.5 million inhabitants.

Bohemia was bordered in the south by Upper and Lower Austria (both in Austria), in the west by Bavaria (in Germany), and in the north by Saxony and Lusatia  (in Germany and Poland), respectively, in the northeast by Silesia (in Poland), and in the east by Moravia (also part of the Czech Republic). Bohemia's borders were mostly marked by mountain ranges such as the Bohemian Forest, the Ore Mountains, and the Krkonoše, a part of the Sudetes range; the Bohemian-Moravian border roughly follows the Elbe-Danube watershed. Bohemia, like neighbouring Bavaria, is named after the Boii, a large Celtic nation known to the Romans for their migrations and settlement in northern Italy and other places.

This is a picture of the Mill that he operated.

Josef KUCERA Jr. (^) and Magdalena SPINDLER (^) were married. Magdalena SPINDLER (^) was born about 1780 in Chrudim, Chrudim District, Pardubice Region, Bohemia (Czech Republic). at Topol 12.

Chrudim is a town in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants (2021). It is the second largest town of the region. The oldest archeological findings which provide first signs of the settlement in this area date back to the 5th millennium BC. Various cultures succeeded one on another in the territory of today's town of Chrudim and its vicinity. Chrudim town was established before 1276 and soon after came to be a dowry town of Bohemian Queens.

Until 1918, the town was part of the Austrian monarchy, head of the Chrudim District, one of the 94 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Bohemia. During the reign of Maria Theresa (1740–1780), Chrudim became the centre of the region and, in 1751, the seat of regional offices.

The 18th and especially the 19th centuries brought vigorous development. The medieval ground plan of the historical heart of the town and its suburbs were no longer able to meet the growing requirements. The population reached 13,000 inhabitants at the end of the 19th century. The first industrial factory, with its foundry and forge, and a shoe factory launched industrial development. Social life also greatly expanded in the second half of the 19th century. The number of schools, cultural and social events led Chrudim to be known as "Athens of Eastern Bohemia." She died in Rybitvi, Pardubice District, Pardubice Region, Bohemia (Czech Republic). (This is the Bohemia Coard of Arms.)

According to the marriage record of her son Ondrej, she was an "unmarried mother." Her father is thought to have been Josef Kucera, so the origin of her surname of Spindler is not known.

Josef KUCERA Jr. (^) and Magdalena SPINDLER (^) had the following children: