He was probably the son of farmer Josef Matějka and peasant woman Magdalena Knava from Roudnice, then in Kingdom of Bohemia, Habsburg Monarchy, but other sources gave him other parents: organist František Josef Matějka and Mariana Dolanská.
He learned music in Hradec Králové. After that he went to Poland and became a music teacher. Franciszek Edward
Edmund Marcin
Zygmunt Hilary
Emilia Łucja
Alojzy (Adolf) Franciszek
Józef Eustachy
Karol Franciszek
Maria Waleria
January Alojzy
Kazimierz Wilhelm
Bolesław Wilhelm.
