Background
During Josef Fiala"s tenure in the court of Friedrich Wilhelm II, The king honored Josef by giving him his own family crest, which still exists today.
The heritage of this particular Fiala family stems back to Bohemia (currently the Czechoslovakian Republic), which at the time of Stefan Antoni Fiala was concurrently moved to Poland. Bohemia was a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subsequently a province in the Habsburgs’ Austrian Empire. As Prague was the capital city of the Holy Roman Empire at that time, it is believed that one of the Habsburg members of the Royal family made a decree and named a small rural street after Josef Fiala"s family name (Fialova), due to the services of Josef Fiala as Kapellmeister.
This street can still be found today, outside the city of Prague.
From the late 19th century to the early 20th century the balance of the family was primarily living in Poland, with future generations moving to the United Kingdom and the United States.