EMIGRATION OF MY RELATIVES

Relatives and descriptions of their emigrations are arranged:

by year of emigration for those where accurate emigration data is known
in alphabetical order by surname where data on the year of immigration is not known

2. EMIGRATION WAVE IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1918 AND 1941

Marija TRAJBER ( * 2. 12. 1909, Kobilje (SLO) - † 20. 8. 1994, Montevideo (URU) )

Relation with me: My great-grandmother's sister

Her migration path: Cherbourg (BEL) - Montevideo (URU)

Departure date: December, 1927
Arrival date: January 3, 1928
Ship name: Alcantara

MARIJA TRAJBER'S ENTRY ON THE PASSENGER LIST OF THE SHIP ALCANTARA, IN MONTEVIDEO ON JANUARY 03, 1928 (Source: FamilySearch)

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF MARIJA: My great-grandmother's older sister left her native Kobilje in 1927 at the age of 18. Not knowing that she would never return home, she embarked on a journey to Latin America in a Belgian port. She settled in the capital of Uruguay, where she soon met her future husband, Jože Krpič, a native of Gorčko in Prekmurje region, who had immigrated to Montevideo three years before her and who was one of the founding members of the local Prekmurje society Transmurana. A housewife and a mechanic by profession have married in 1931, but unfortunately no one was born to them in the marriage. Marija died as a widow at the age of 85.

Elizabeta PODLESEK ( * 14. 2. 1911, Šalamenci (SLO) - † 12. 6. 2000, Montevideo (URU) )

Relation with me: My great-grandmother's cousin

Her migration path: Bordeaux (BEL) - Montevideo (URU)

Departure date: April, 1929
Arrival date: April 29, 1929
Ship name: Pionier

ELIZABETA PODLESEK'S ENTRY ON THE PASSENGER LIST OF THE SHIP PIONIER, IN MONTEVIDEO ON APRIL 29, 1929 (Source: FamilySearch)

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF ELIZABETA: Due to poverty in her family, she was forced to leave her home environment at the age of 18, at the instigation of her father. She arrived in Montevideo with the help of an ocean liner, which she boarded in the Belgian seaside city of Bordeaux. A few years later, she met Vasilj Lozinski, a Croat of Ukrainian descent, whom she married. Elizabeta was a masseuse by profession, and Vasilj was a city bus driver. Their marriage gave birth to a son, Teodor Tito. Elizabeta, who never set foot on European soil after emigration, died at the age of 90. Their descendants currently living are her granddaughter and great-grandson.

Marija PODLESEK ( * 24. 10. 1913, Šalamenci (SLO) - † 5. 12. 1995, Montevideo (URU) )

Relation with me: My great-grandmother's cousin

Her migration path: Hamburg (GER) - Montevideo (URU)

Departure date: April, 1930
Arrival date: April 31, 1930
Hip name: Cap Polonio

MARIJA PODLESEK'S ENTRY ON THE PASSENGER LIST OF THE SHIP CAP POLONIO, IN MONTEVIDEO ON APRIL 31, 1930 (Source: FamilySearch)

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF MARIJA: Elizabeta's younger sister set out for Montevideo from Hamburg, Germany, at the tender age of 16, a year later than her sister. In addition to her father, she was convinced to do so by her older sister, who could not praise the capital of Uruguay too highly. Unfortunately, Marija never experienced it in the same way as her sister, as the economic crisis there worsened significantly in the following years. This was the cause of Marija's sadness and resentment towards her sister. She was a housewife and in 1935 she married Slovenian Jože Malačič, a tailor, with whom she had a daughter, Maria, and a son, Joset. Marija, who never visited her hometown due to her bad migration experience, died at the age of 83. Her descendants currently living are her grandson and two great-granddaughters.

Helena BAGARI ( * 14. 8. 1911, Borejci (SLO) - † ?, Francija )

Relation with me: My great-grandmother's cousin

Her final destination: France

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF HELENA: Due to widespread poverty, she left her mother, one brother and two sisters in her 20s and went to France, where, according to known information, a large number of Prekmurje residents went to work at that time. She worked as a housewife in France, where she also started a family, together with a Frenchman of Polish roots, Jean Malinowski. They had a daughter, Marie Louize, and a son, Jean Josef. Helena did not like to maintain contact with her family, although her brother-in-law and two nephews from Borejce visited her in the French village of Magneux in 1972, where she lived with her family at the time. A few years later, her nephew from Borejce searched for her again, but without success. One of her last letters arrived in Borejce in 1983, after which contact with her and her family was lost. Her descendants are still alive, but it is not known how many of them there are and where they are.

Franc BANFI ( * 15. 9. 1899, Veščica (SLO) - † 7. 10. 1981, Blumenau (BRA) )

Relation with me: My great-grandmother's cousin

His migration path: ? - Brazil

Departure date: between 1919 in 1929
Arrival date: between 1919 in 1929
Ship name: ?

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF FRANC: He left his native Veščica in the 1930s. Somehow he immigrated to Brazil, where he settled in the city of Blumenau in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina and married a woman named Joanna, with whom he had a son, Joset, and a daughter, Ina. His descendants currently living are three grandsons and one granddaughter with families.

Regina BUKOVEC ( * 8. 12. 1919, Kobilje (SLO) - † 27. 5. 2012, Saint-Laurent-d'Andenay (FRA) )

Relation with me: My great-grandfather's sister

Her final destination: Les Bizots (FRA)

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF REGINA: Due to widespread poverty, she left her mother and younger brother and sister in her 20s and went to France, where, according to known information, a large number of Prekmurje residents went to work at that time. The need to leave was all the greater due to the immigration of her father Pavel, of whom all traces have been lost. She found work in various households in the village of Les Bizots and its surroundings. In one of these households, she met the Frenchman Antoine Girardon, whom she married in 1943. The marriage gave birth to their sons Andre, Robert and Michel and a daughter Anne-Marie. Regina, who visited her birthplace only once after immigrating to France, was a widow for 50 years until her death at the age of 93. Her currently living descendants are 1 granddaughter and 8 grandsons, 8 great-grandchildren and 10 great-granddaughters, and 1 great-great-grandson and 1 great-great-great-granddaughter.

Vilma CVETKO ( * 4. 2. 1909, Moravske Toplice (SLO) - † 27. 4. 2006, Monterreau-Fault-Yonne (FRA) )

Relation with me: My great-grandfather's cousin

Her final destination: France

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF VILMA: She left Moravske Toplice, her native village, after the death of her mother. Hoping for a better economic future, she waved goodbye to her father, sister, and two brothers and set off for France, where, according to known data, a large number of Prekmurje residents went to work at that time. There, she worked as a housewife, like all other women. She never married, nor did she have children. She visited her native Prekmurje, accompanied by her guardian, towards the end of the 1970s, and she felt the last "ray of Prekmurje" in 2000, when her cousin's daughter (my grandmother) visited her at her home with her son (my father) and daughter (my aunt). She died 6 years later at the age of 98.

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