Name of Town from ship script

[monke]

Yeah those Mitrovica could have been part of Hungary but in Serbia.

Pero was Croatian. And there is no fullstop on top in letter i.

Not Mitrovica for sure... Pero was Croatian

[Alexander.]

Maybe this one then? :

From Wikipedia under Sremska Mitrovica

With the abolition of the Slavonian Military Frontier in 1881, Sremska Mitrovica was included into Syrmia County, which was part of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and Kingdom of Hungary within Austria-Hungary.

[monke]

No, it's not mitrovica for sure.

[monke]

Could there be written Mahovica ??

[Alexander.]

Where's that?

[monke]

It's a small small village in Croatia. Now is called Maovice but 100 years ago it was mahovice.

The question is could that writing be Mahovica ?

[mgf]

Why are you so dead set against Mitrovica? The ship's manifest says his "Race or People" is Croatian, and his "Last Permanent Residence" was Mitrovica, Hungary, which seems to make perfect sense. I can't read that place name as anything but Mitrovica -- the lack of a dot on the "i" is really not significant, as I can see at least 3 other definite "i"s in the snippet which are undotted.

[monke]

because mitorvica is in kosovo or in serbia in north. Ethnicity would be serbian or albanian....

[mgf]

I think you are wrong on that one. The line says he is Croatian, with his last known permanent address in (wherever) Hungary. Sremska Mitrovica is close enough to Croatia that it doesn't seem impossible for someone born in Croatia to live there for a while -- especially someone who later turned up in America! Unless you have reason to believe that an ethnic Croatian would not have been able to live in Mitrovica at that time, in which case you need to provide your evidence.