Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Family, Infancy (1855–1889)
1855-1880 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE ill, the girls made their living on sewing (they got 25 krajcárs for a mans shirt). 29 July 1873 - Mór Voit died in Pozsony, shortly afterwards his wife also died in Csorvás. The two girls moved in with their brother Lajos, who was overseer in the Wenckheim estate at Csorvás (Békés county). 28 August 1875 - Béla Bartok Snr who had also chosen a career in agriculture, received his leaving certificate of years 1873/74 and 1874/75 at the Hungarian Royal Agricultural Institute of Kolozsmonostor (Kolozs county), with grades of thirty subjects, 12 excellent, 17 good, and 3 satisfactory (outstanding being the best grade). He continued his studies at the Agricultural Academy of Magyaróvár (Moson county). 25 July 1876 - He received his certificate of having finished year 2 of the two-year Academy. Of six subjects 3 outstanding and 3 excellent. Then he became a teacher at the agricultural school of Nagyszentmiklós (Torontál county) where his father was the so-called “conducting teacher”, that is headmaster. 21 January 1877 - János Bartok (Béla Bartoks paternal grandfather) died in Nagyszentmiklós at age 60, and Béla Bartok Snr was entrusted with the leadership of the agricultural school. In the meantime, Paula Voit acquired a schoolmistress’ certificate and became schoolmistress in Nagyszentmiklós, where she got acquainted with Béla Bartok Snr and they got engaged. 5 April 1880 - They got married in Csorvás. Witnesses were - by testimony of the registration on page 9 in Volume I of the Roman Catholic marriage register - Kálmán Bartok (elder brother of Béla Bartok Snr) and Adolf Kos. 16
