The Wellisch family has been traced back to
about 1750, when they were living in the small Hungarian town of
Rajka (Ragendorf) which is near Moson (Wieselburg). In the
middle of the nineteenth century, Salomon Wellisch, great
grandfather of Emil and Hugo, moved with his family of nine
children to nearby Moson. This place is now called
Mosonmagyarovar. Adolf, grandson of Salomon, was born in 1848. He
worked as a cooper, and moved around the Austro-Hungarian
empire, eventually settling around 1890 in Vienna. |