Some History About The Little Lodge of Many Wonders!

Conversation with Ferenc Guba, grandson of the builders and family who owned the property for just under 100 years!

The house was built in 1919   by Istvan JOBBAGY (1893-1948) and Zsuzsanna TÜDŐS (1893-1976)

Builder and original owner of the property...

Beautiful wife of Istvan and co-owner of the property. It was built after he returned from the 1914-18 world war 1

Pal Tudos...Ferenc's great uncle?

The big photo is Pal TÜDŐS who was a brother of my grandmother, and martyr in World War Ist.

I am very glad, that this house is managed by you who is very extraordinary and emphatic for the heritage,This house might be collapsed if you do not arrive.  You can see the hard life in Tiszaigar, And you COPE WITH!

My Uncle Janos live there the longest from 1924-2010.

This is taken a year before he died in 2010

A nice pic for posterity...

I love this cheeky smile...note his lips and check out the lady following...her smile is very similar.

Yup, they stick the sticker directly onto the bread!

• My grandparents were farmers.
• In 1948-1963 there was a forced nationalisation and communist repression against my family also.
• My uncle was forced to cooperatives. 
• He was the last one who joined .
• My uncle lived only here, his older sister also
• My mother ILONA moved to my birthplace MEZOTUR in 1969

Ferenc's Mother...

My mother in 1957. lived in this house

My aunt JOLAN had 3 sons, they also lived here with her husband Ferenc VARGA (born 1913-2000) 

My aunt husband was partly communist fan, tried to remove his mother in law and sister and brother in law from the house in 1950's

My widow grandmother and her family was declared class enemy by the communists, since they have 25 acres land

My uncle Janos not married

My mother moved to Mezotur

My aunt Jolan raised 3 kids 

In 1960s my Aunt JOLAN and her family lived in the room left from the entrance door (5 person) and in the room at the street my grandmother, uncle and my mother.(8 people total)

The long awaited sketch of the property. The room on the end right in this pic was not originally connected to the 3 rooms. I cut a hole in the 15 inch internal mud brick walls to gain access internally. So the 3 rooms the original family lived in were the first 3 rooms from the left, inwards. Amazing. 

My another cousin Ferenc died last September

His wife is in Rakoczi 43.

Their daugther is Mariann Szelene, who is a teacher in the primary school.

I have a feeling this pic was taken about 2009 ish...on the 85th birthday perhaps???

Looks nice and lush! The middle shed looks pretty good here, but obviously fell down and deteriorated very fast once the roof broke.

I can't find a good front on shot of the place, can you believe? You can see there is no big shed and the end 3 door shed here was fast going to join it. But we saved most of it in the nick of time, thankfully.

By the looks of it, we'll have to clean off the roof tiles! They looked nice a few years ago in the older pics.

OK...that, with a tiny bit of spelling correction, is directly from Ferenc, the grandson of the original owner - taken from a chat we had the other night.

This is Ferenc and his lovely family. They live in Budapest.

I am hoping they will visit in the summer as they have said they desire to, so am looking forwards to that very much. 

Feeling really very special and blessed to be able to help preserve a tiny piece of rural Hungarian life over the past century. 

2 World wars, a Communist regime for 15 + years and thousands of years of so much past history of take overs and suppression of their rights, it certainly is an amazing country, filled with a very strong and resilient people.

Would love someone like my sister or even Tom Warne to ask better questions from Ferenc to obtain more history, as I'm not really a good asker of questions. 

Perhaps someone could write out a list of questions for me to ask of Ferenc... as he said he'd love to help.

I'm not afraid to ask...my brain just doesn't seem to go there, but I really appreciate the history when it comes out, via someone, anyone!

OK, that's it.

I hope you enjoyed this little trip back in time.

I did, it was interesting to note that the Hungarian Revolution, where the Hungarians lost in their quest to over throw the Communists in 1956, had an effect on our family in Corowa at that time. 

My parents took in 3 refugee families, one each from Italy, Holland and Germany at the one time, as all the camps were overflowing with people from Europe, fleeing the Communist regimes. 

They all stayed for 18 months in our house and the Italian couple and the German couple both had babies at our place.

My Dad divided the house into 4 big flats, yes, it was a huge home on 10 acres. Idylic.

To accidentally discover that Hungary had an arrangement with Australia, in thanks for assistance provided at that time, was KARMA indeed when I came here 2 years ago and the solicitor told me I could stay now, because of it. 

So, I didn't have to marry one of the 30 year old hunkies I had nice friendships with after all...I had 2 lined up...

Australians wanting to live in Hungary are welcomed and the paperwork is basically 5 simple questions!

Bye until next week when I hope the 3 door shed has a roof on it if it stops raining!

Cheers,

M