Josef Mohelnitzky/Mohelnicky - 1862

Registration dated 1949

for Joseph Mohelnicky (born in 1862 in Skornany)

German Translation: 

This document was copied from the city hall of Mohelnice in the Czech Republic in 1995.

Towns mentioned in the 1949 registration: 

Skornany (possibly in northern Moravia)

Mohelnice (click to see pictures of the town and a brochure)

Map showing Mohelnice

Nové Těchanovice in county Opava (type the town name into the search bar on the top left of this map; click the green "Hledat" button)

Following is an English translation

by Jan (Honza) Kyrs of the Czech Republic:

Přihláška trvalého pobytu cizince = Registration for present whereabouts

Hlášeno podle vyhl. MNV ze dne 1. 6. 1949

Recorded in accordance to the decree of the local municipality dated on Jun 1, 1949

Surname: Mohelnickým

Given name:  Josef

Born on:  Feb. 19, 1862

Place of birth: the town of Skornany, Czechoslovakia

Occupation/profession: potter

Parents:  father … Tomas Mohelnicky

              mother … Mariana, born (= maiden name) Krofta

Nationality: homeless

(what a strange kind of nationality! But my translation is correct! I don’t know what this might mean. A man living in Nove Techanovice, but he was a homeless?)

Mother tongue: Czech

State: widower

Nové bydliště:  Starobinec pro Němce v Mohelnici, pošta Mohelnice na Moravě, okres Zábřeh

New whereabouts: „Starobinec“ for Germans in Mohelnice, post office in Mohelnice in

Moravia, the county of Zabreh

(„Starobinec“ was a house in town run by local authority. There were old lonely people living in it that had nobody who who would care of them. „Starobinec could be translated as „alms-house“, I guess.)

The day of arrival to the alms-house: Oct. 21, 1948

The reason of his stay in Czechoslovakia: not transferred, being of Czech origin

Bydlel již v ČSR (kdy a kde):

Did he live in Czechoslovakia before (when and where): in 1948, in the town of Nove Techanovice

Předchozí bydliště: = Previous whereabouts: the town of Nove Techanovice, the house #19

county of:  Opava

country: Czechoslovakia

Stranger’s autograph: Josef Mohelnicky

The apartment and or house owner: Starobinec pro Němce v Mohelnici, …. (see above)

Registration form confirmed by: Registry office in Mohelnice (the round stamp)

Official notes: He died on April 11, 1950 in Mohelnice

[Unfortunately, I don’t know where the town of SKORNANY, the birth town of Josef Mohelnicky can have been. It is not listed in the map quest. I guess the village of SKORNANY must have been in north Moravia as well, and it became a part of a bigger town after 1950.]

Question for the Czech translator:

Could "Skornany" be "Skvrnany"? If so, this is a town near Plzen in the Czech Republic.

Answer: The town of Skvrnany was an independent town in past. Later, it became a district of the city of Plzen, west Bohemia, the third largest city in the Czech Republic. Old parish books on people who lived in west Bohemia have been deposited in the State Regional Archives in Plzen. Birth record of Josef Mohelnicky will be just there.