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Photo of steam ship taken from http://www.metkovic.hr/povijest/default.asp?izb=metcovich.asp

In 2022 Metkovic will be commemorating 600 years of the city. I plan to prepare an overview of specific period in Metkovic history based on demographic data. In particular, a period of Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia, building of first railway to connect southern Dalmatia with Bosnia, bridge over Neretva in Metkovic. It triggered influx of workers, builders, engineers and military personnel to Metkovic and Bosnia from every part of the Empire. Though technically Bosnia was still a part of the Ottoman Empire, the area had become an occupied territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with the signing of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Berlin_(1878) Treaty of Berlin in 1878. Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia in 1908, sparking the Bosnian crisis, a major European crisis that reinforced pre-World War I alliances.t.

Purpose of this project is to identify those people by using marriage and birth registry from Metkovic.

Source

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99X-NSHN?owc=9R24...

While most of the profiles are already on Geni, everything needs to checked and source addded to profiles where missing (copy the link into About me)

  • Births (Rođeni) 1859-1871 (done), 1843-1859 (done), 1825-1843 (done) Marriages (Vjenčani) 1779-1832 (350)
  • Births (Rođeni) 1871-1882 (done)
  • Births (Rođeni) 1882-1900 (done) Marriages (Vjenčani) 1859-1912 (done)
  • Marriages (Vjenčani) 1825-1857 (done) Deaths (Umrli) 1825-1858, (done) umrli 1869-1879 (done) Daily Log (Dnevnik darivanja) 1702-1736, 1781
  • Marriages (Vjenčani) 1912-1920 (done) Deaths (Umrli) 1858-1923 (done)

Entry format

Weddings in Metkovic are often from foreigners from Austro Hungary located in Bosnia who did not reside in Metkovic (regardless of religion) if at least one of the spouses from outside of Metkovic area. ✅ denotes connection to the Big Tree, ☔ not connected to Big tree, but family tree exist,

  • ✅👫couple married in Metkovic, spouses names, occupation (birth place<=>residence).
  • ✅👪 couples who married elsewhere but had children in Metkovic ( first child born in Metkovic only),
  • ✅† if person died in Metkovic
  • ♒ for military positions
  • ☎ found as a godfather or a witness
  • occupation - as it is written. There is an abbreviation often found in position description . c.k. (♔ Carsko Kraljevski ) - it means Imperial Royal position,
  • adding image of ship Metcovich to these profiles so it is easier to identify them, if more appropriate image for a person is available, please feel free to replace it.
  • example * ✅👪†♔ mother & father position (mother's place of origin, father's place of origin<=>residence) would be used if child of an royal representative died, ✅ indicating connection to the Big tree

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Vlasnik parobroda Metcovich bio je austrijski Lloyd koji je od svog osnutka 1836. izrastao u najveću brodarsku kompaniju Monarhije i cijeloga Jadrana. . Početkom 90-tih 19. st. počinje intenzivniji razvoj turizma na Jadranu pa se osjetila potreba za luksuznijim brodovima.Parobrod Metcovich nakon više od 20 godina mirne plovidbe Jadranom na turističkim i izletničkim turama vihor Prvoga svjetskog rata odvodi u novu, posebnu ulogu koju je imalo samo pet brodova Austro-ugarske mornarice. Već 16./17. kolovoza 1914. Austrougarska mornarica rekvirira Lloydu parobrod Metcovich i prenamjenjuje ga u brod bolnicu (Spitalschiff II) čime brod dobiva i vojnu oznaku SS Metcovich. Osim njega rekvirirani su i parobrodi Elektra kao Spitalschiff I te Tirol kao Spitalschiff III.

Tijekom 1914. SS Metcovich, zajedno s ta dva broda bolnice, prevezao je ukupno 742 ranjena austro-ugarska vojnika od Albanije i Crne Gore do Pule i Trsta. Čini se da 1915. te veći dio 1916. nije korišten kao brod bolnica, da bi nakon toga ponovno bio uključen u vojnu službu. Aktivirala se bojišnica u Albaniji, posebno nakon uključenja Italije u rat. Tako znamo da 26. listopada 1916. parobrod Metcovich dolazi iz Albanije u Kumbor u Boki Kotorskoj.

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Dodatni -svjedoci i ostalo

Sources:

  1. Prof. Julije Grabovac Dalmacija u oslobodilačkom pokretu hercegovačko-bosanske raje (1875–1878). Split 1991
  2. Žarko Dugandžić Stanovništvo općine Metković od 1850. do 1918

Useful source: Slovenia church records online

Slika broda Metcovich uzeta sa http://www.metkovic.hr/povijest/default.asp?izb=metcovich.asp

Bar jedan od supruznika je dosao iz nekog drugog kraja
Profili sa ✅ su povezani na Big Tree, ☔ -ima obitelj ali nije povezano na Big tree, Format * ✅ ime/prezime profesija (boraviste)

Korisni izvor: Slovenia church records online

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Rodjenja djece doseljenika

  • -- Ivan Klimpera
  • Vlasnik parobroda Metcovich bio je austrijski Lloyd koji je od svog osnutka 1836. izrastao u najveću brodarsku kompaniju Monarhije i cijeloga Jadrana. . Početkom 90-tih 19. st. počinje intenzivniji razvoj turizma na Jadranu pa se osjetila potreba za luksuznijim brodovima.Parobrod Metcovich nakon više od 20 godina mirne plovidbe Jadranom na turističkim i izletničkim turama vihor Prvoga svjetskog rata odvodi u novu, posebnu ulogu koju je imalo samo pet brodova Austro-ugarske mornarice. Već 16./17. kolovoza 1914. Austrougarska mornarica rekvirira Lloydu parobrod Metcovich i prenamjenjuje ga u brod bolnicu (Spitalschiff II) čime brod dobiva i vojnu oznaku SS Metcovich. Osim njega rekvirirani su i parobrodi Elektra kao Spitalschiff I te Tirol kao Spitalschiff III.

Tijekom 1914. SS Metcovich, zajedno s ta dva broda bolnice, prevezao je ukupno 742 ranjena austro-ugarska vojnika od Albanije i Crne Gore do Pule i Trsta. Čini se da 1915. te veći dio 1916. nije korišten kao brod bolnica, da bi nakon toga ponovno bio uključen u vojnu službu. Aktivirala se bojišnica u Albaniji, posebno nakon uključenja Italije u rat. Tako znamo da 26. listopada 1916. parobrod Metcovich dolazi iz Albanije u Kumbor u Boki Kotorskoj.