When Josef Pastyrik was born on 17 March 1793, in Březolupy, Uherské Hradiště, South Moravia, Czechoslovakia, his father, Josef Pastyrik, was 39 and his mother, Veronika Blazek, was 24. He married Veronika Otepka on 23 June 1816, in Březolupy, Uherské Hradiště, South Moravia, Czechoslovakia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 14 September 1850, at the age of 57.