Name of Town from ship script

[known_unknowns]

@ monke

I looked through an old atlas I have - and there's two towns called Mitrovitza (in that spelling), one of which is most likely Mitrovice, as stated above, one of which is close to the border with modern-day Kosovo and Serbia.

Could one of these be the towns or villages you're looking for? I made notes, but can't now find them: I believe they were both in old Serbia. I'll find them and report back.

[Koromo]

I also have an old atlas (1928) which has the following index entries:
   Mitrovica  Yugoslavia  44.59 N  19.36 E
   Mitrovitza  Yugoslavia  42.43 N  20.57 E

... neither of which are in Croatia.


K.

[known_unknowns]

OK. Here is what I have from my particular atlas:-

Mitrovitza, town on R(iver) Save, Sijem dep(artment). Croatia, Slovenia, (pop. 12,935) NW of Belgrade on map

Mitrovitza, town, Serbia. NW of Pristina on map

[Mike in Cumbria]

OK. Here is what I have from my particular atlas:-

Mitrovitza, town on R(iver) Save, Sijem dep(artment). Croatia, Slovenia, (pop. 12,935)

Mitrovitza, town, Serbia.

Seems to fit the bill very well. Good find.

[known_unknowns]

Cheers, Mike. Glad to see you might have got the cap-badge ID sorted.

John

[Mike in Cumbria]

Cheers, Mike. Glad to see you might have got the cap-badge ID sorted.

John

Hi John. I'm still hoping the Shropshire guy will come back with a better scan but, yes, it's looking as though it's sorted. Thanks for your help with that one.

[monke]

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.

mgf i respect and aprecciate your help very much. But i think you are wrong. I know better circumstances in these lands of that age. The land says Hungary because Croatians didn't have their own country and were part of Austro-Hungarian empire and they wrote their country as Austria or Hungary. Secondly nobody from Croatia wanted to live i Kosovo at that time or in Serbia, it was much poorer country than Austro-Hungary. Believe when i say that Southe East Europe was not America and people didn't change town of living that much. Believe it or not there were no divorces at that time in Croatia. I always suprise when i read this forum how someone's ancestor divorced and it gives difficuties to trace him.

Once more thanks everyone for help

[Mike in Cumbria]

But what about the Mitrovica in Croatia that John found for you?

I don't know why you're so sure that it's not Mitrovica, when it looks exactly like that on the page, and there is at least one place that it could be.  What do you think it is?

[Billyblue]

And are you sure his name is Pero?  It looks like Petr to me.  The end letter is the same as one a few higher which is an r.

Can't comment on anything else as on my screen I can't get past the column after his profession for some reason (and I've slid the bar across as far as it will go, thanks)

Dawn M