Brief Life History of Mátyás
When Mátyás Sárkány was born on 21 May 1888, in Szolnok-tó, Hajdú-Bihar, Hungary, his father, Imre Sárkány, was 38 and his mother, Fekete Katalin, was 37. He died on 20 September 1965, in Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar, Hungary, at the age of 77.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Sárkány Mátyás, "Hungary Civil Registration, 1895-1980"
- Matyas Sarkany, "Hungary, Catholic Church Records, 1636-1895"
Parents and Siblings
1849– Male
1851–1908 Female
Siblings (12)
1874– Male
1876– Male
1878–1932 Male
1880– Female
1880–1910 Female
+7 More Children
World Events (5)
1914
Age 26
1920
Age 32
1938
Age 50
Name Meaning
form of the name of the Christian evangelist, author of the first gospel in the New Testament. His name is a form of the Hebrew name Mattathia, meaning ‘gift of God’, which is fairly common in the Old Testament, being rendered in the Authorized Version in a number of different forms: Mattan(i)ah, Mattatha(h), Mattithiah, Mattathias, and so on. In the Authorized Version, the evangelist is regularly referred to as Matthew, while the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot is distinguished as Matthias . A related name from the same Hebrew roots, but reversed, is Jonathan . Throughout the English-speaking world Matthew has been particularly popular since the 1970s.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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