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Deciphering a Russian word

GrantKynaston
GrantKynaston ✭
March 20, 2021 in Social Groups

Hi all,

I was hoping someone might be able to help decipher a place-name written in Cyrillic (in an 1887 marriage record, from Libau, modern-day Latvia). I have worked almost the whole text out, but this one word eludes me!

Marriage Record (detail).PNG


So far I have the following:

[28] лет от роду

из Неханицы

в Австрии с

Австрийскою

подданною Ана-

стасиею Люняк

девицею 27 лет

от роду, из [Мет-

понах (???)] в Австрии

обоих Римско-Ка-

толического веро-

исповедания, от

6 лет в горо-

де Либаве...

"28 years old, from Nechanice in Austria, with an Austrian national Anastasia Ljuniak, maiden, 27 years old, from [Metpony (???)] in Austria, both of Roman-Catholic creed, in the city of Libau for 6 years."

Any help with deciphering the ??? word would be greatly appreciated!

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  • IgorYa
    IgorYa ✭✭✭
    April 4, 2021 edited April 4, 2021 Answer ✓

    Hello,

    I posted a detailed reply here, but it's missing for some reason. Will try again with a shorter version.

    I've checked that a list of 17k+ Austrian settlements only has a dozen of places starting with "Met" and believe the word in question is Меттмахъ (i.e. Mettmach). Possible dim o is probably just something on the other side of the document.

    photo_2021-04-04_15-42-58.jpg

    thanks,

    Igor.

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  • Cindy Jarvis
    Cindy Jarvis ✭✭✭
    March 23, 2021

    @GrantKynaston great request - sometimes we have to wait patiently for the right person with the needed skill set to come along. Thanks for your patience. Enjoy today! Cindy Jarvis

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  • Ellie Vance
    Ellie Vance ✭✭✭
    March 30, 2021

    Hi Grant! Do you by chance have a full version of the page or a link to the document? Sometimes it's helpful to me to analyze the handwriting on the entire page to figure out how a particular hand forms certain letters.

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  • GrantKynaston
    GrantKynaston ✭
    March 30, 2021 edited March 30, 2021

    Hi Ellie! The link is: https://www.raduraksti.arhivi.lv/objects/1:4:15:2053:2261:14096?fbclid=IwAR3FNvALHftJgRsYPwLL4JNjVCxp_J1ZYZ3LxDCDnM18-Bnr6iyGlDkRr9E#&gid=1&pid=182. Accessing the page requires (free) registration, so I have included a full copy below:

    Marriage (high res).png

    Many thanks!

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  • GrantKynaston
    GrantKynaston ✭
    April 5, 2021

    @IgorYa - thank you so much for all your effort: your point on the dim o is particularly insightful, and I think you must be right on Mettmach.


    This has given me a bunch of avenues to explore: many thanks!

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