Birth record of Thomas Kraitchar's grand-uncle Martin Krajča, born October 17, 1783 in House 6. Mentions Thomas Kraitchar's paternal great-grandparents, Jan Krajča and Anna.
—G 248` 45: 5047, Jasenná (Augsburg confession) Czech Brethren Evangelical Church birth index 1782 - 1856, image 8/243, p. 10. Moravian Provincial Archive in Brno, (https://www.mza.cz/actapublica/matrika/detail/4860?image=216000010-000253-003371-000000-005047-000000-00-B07276-00080.jp2).

Birth record of Thomas Kraitchar's grand-aunt Rosina Krajča, born July 3, 1786 in House 6. Mentions Thomas Kraitchar's paternal great-grandparents, Jan Krajča and Anna.
—G 248` 45: 5047, Jasenná (Augsburg confession) Czech Brethren Evangelical Church birth index 1782 - 1858, image 18/243, p. 30. Moravian Provincial Archive in Brno, (https://www.mza.cz/actapublica/matrika/detail/4860?image=216000010-000253-003371-000000-005047-000000-00-B07276-00180.jp2).

Birth record of Thomas Kraitchar's father Tomáš Jiří Krajča, born July 3, 1804 in House 6, Lutonina. Mentions Thomas Kraitcher's parternal grandparents, Jiří Krajča and Anna Štalmach. 
—G 249` 46: 5048, Jasenná (Augsburg confession) Czech Brethren Evangelical Church birth index 1796 - 1856, image 7/175,  p. 8. Moravian Provincial Archive in Brno, (https://www.mza.cz/actapublica/matrika/detail/4861?image=216000010-000253-003371-000000-005048-000000-FM-B09980-00070.jp2).

1829 Cadastral Map of Lutonina. Identifier, MOR138818290. Moravian Provincial Archive in Brno, (https://www.mza.cz/indikacniskici/skica/detail/1987/).

Birth record of Thomas Kraitchar's sister Marianna Krajča, born January 6, 1831 in House 6, Lutonina. Mentions Thomas Kraitcher's parents, Tomáš Krajča and Anna Matyjáštík and maternal grandfather, Jiří Matyjáštík from Ublo. 
—G 249` 46: 5048, Jasenná (Augsburg confession) Czech Brethren Evangelical Church birth index 1796 - 1856, image 21/175, p. 33. Moravian Provincial Archive in Brno, (https://www.mza.cz/actapublica/matrika/detail/4861?image=216000010-000253-003371-000000-005048-000000-FM-B09980-00210.jp2).

Birth record of Thomas Kraitchar's sister Theresia Krajča, born August 6, 1833 in House 6, Lutonina. Mentions Thomas Kraitcher's parents, Tomáš Krajča and Anna Matyjáštík and maternal grandfather, Jiří Matyjáštík from Ublo. 
—G 249` 46: 5048, Jasenná (Augsburg confession) Czech Brethren Evangelical Church birth index 1796 - 1856, image 22/175, p. 36. Moravian Provincial Archive in Brno, (https://www.mza.cz/actapublica/matrika/detail/4861?image=216000010-000253-003371-000000-005048-000000-FM-B09980-00220.jp2).

Per a church record from Zádveřice, Anna Mikeska was born on June 11, 1846, in House 57. The document identifies her parents as Petr Mikeska and Anna Šilar, her paternal grandparents as Petrů Mikeska and Anna Nedbálek, and her paternal great-grandfather as Martin Nedbálek. Additionally, her maternal grandparents are listed as Pavel Šilar and Kateřina Marek, with Josef Marek as her maternal great-grandfather.
—G 257; 163: 5063, Zádveřice (Helvetic religion), p. 126, image 127/164, Moravian Provincial Archive in Brno, https://www.mza.cz/actapublica/matrika/detail/4872?image=216000010-000253-003371-000000-005063-000000-FM-B09989-01270.jp2

"Thomas Kreiker . . . Arrival Date: 14 June 1853 . . . Ship: Henriette"; Galveston Historical Foundation citing "GEUE, C.W., E.H.; New homes in a new land..." Texian Press, 1970. Galveston Immigration Database, (http://ghf.destinationnext.com/immigration/Search.aspx).

"In 1869 he moved to Washington county, where he settled on a farm and followed farming pursuits for the next year."
—"Thomas Kraitchar" in History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties. Lewis Publishing Company, 1893, pp. 471-472. The Portal to Texas History, (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29785/m1/1/).

"He then moved to Burleson county, where he engaged in farming for seven or eight years, after which he embarked in the mercantile business at Caldwell, and has followed the same ever since."
—"Thomas Kraitchar" in History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties. Lewis Publishing Company, 1893, pp. 471-472. The Portal to Texas History, (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29785/m1/1/).

Biographical sketch of Thomas Kraitchar. 
"THOMAS KRAITCHER, senior member of the well-known mercantile firm of Thomas Kraitcher & Son, of Caldwell, Burleson county, is a native of Austria, Bohemia, where he was born April 8, 1848. His parents were Thomas and Anna Kraitcher, natives also of Bohemia, the father born in 1799 and the mother in 1809. The parents, with their three small children, two daughters and one. son, emigrated to the United States in 1855 and settled at Houston, this State. There the mother died in 1866, and the father a year later. Both were thrifty, industrious, law-abiding and home-loving people, members for many years of the Lutheran Church, and faithful in the discharge of their domestic and religious duties. The daughters married in this State, the elder, Teresa, marrying Joseph Hajek and residing now in Houston, and the younger marrying first Paul Wickophen, and after his death, Joseph Augusta, with whom she now resides on a farm in Burleson county.  Thomas Kraitcher, the subject of this notice, was the youngest of the above family. He was reared mainly in Houston, in the schools of which city he received a common English education. December 17, 1867, he married Anna Mikeska, of Houston, and for the next three or four years continued his residence in that place, being variously engaged. In 1869 he moved to Washington county, where he settled on a farm and followed farming pursuits for the next year. He then moved to Burleson county, where he engaged in farming for seven or eight years, after which he embarked in the mercantile business at Caldwell, and has followed the same ever since. Mr. Kraitcher was one of the first settlers of Bohemian birth in Burleson county. The first five families that settled in this county came in the following order: Thomas Kraitcher, Frank Mikeska, Thomas Elshik, John Gavenda and Joseph Obadal, but two of whom now remain in the county, these being Mr. Kraitcher and Mr. Gavenda. The colony, however, has been greatly augmented by other arrivals. In 1870 there were five Bohemian votes in Burleson county; there are now about 550. Mr. Kraitcher has always been a leader among his people, having won their confidence and respect by his business sagacity, his honesty and uprightness, and his uniform kindness and indulgence to them. He has also taken standing among the best citizens of the community where he resides, regardless of nationality, being a progressive, enterprising and public-spirited man. He has served as Alderman of the town of Caldwell for two years, and is now a member of the board, being on his second term. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1877, and has held a number of positions in the order. He belongs to the Knights and Ladies of Honor and to the Bohemian Benevolent Association, of which last order he is now State Collector. While on the farm Mr. Kraitcher was identified with the best interests of the farming community, being a member of the State Alliance, of which he was Vice-President.  Mr. Kraitcher has had two children, Mary and Thomas, the latter being now the junior member of the firm of Kraitcher & Son. Thomas Kraitcher, Jr., married Mary Kocourek, a daughter of Joseph Kocourek, of Burleson county, in 1890, and has one child."
—"Thomas Kraitchar" in History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties. Lewis Publishing Company, 1893, pp. 471-472. The Portal to Texas History, (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29785/m1/1/).