21 Cemetery Street

Latvian translation: Kapu iela 21

15:40 Mar 1, 2009
English to Latvian translations [Non-PRO]
Genealogy
English term or phrase: 21 Cemetery Street
This was the street address where my grandfather lived when he lived in Libau Latvia in the years from 1879 to 1903
James W POLIS
Latvian translation:Kapu iela 21
Explanation:
Cemetery - kapi
21 - number of the house
But I am not sure whether there exists a street whith such name any more. And Libau today is called Liepāja.

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Note added at 12 min (2009-03-01 15:53:11 GMT)
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Probably you could find more information by contacting Liepāja City Administration: http://www.liepaja.lv/page.php?id=1819
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Kristine Sprula (Lielause)
Latvia
Local time: 11:48
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I will try GOOGLE EARTH historical site to see if this street is there.You have been a great help
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4 +1Kapu iela 21
Kristine Sprula (Lielause)
Summary of reference entries provided
I cannot find Kapu iela in Liepāja
Uldis Liepkalns
Kapsētas iela
Kunik

  

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21 cemetery street
Kapu iela 21


Explanation:
Cemetery - kapi
21 - number of the house
But I am not sure whether there exists a street whith such name any more. And Libau today is called Liepāja.

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Note added at 12 min (2009-03-01 15:53:11 GMT)
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Probably you could find more information by contacting Liepāja City Administration: http://www.liepaja.lv/page.php?id=1819


    Reference: http://www.liepaja.lv/page.php?id=927
Kristine Sprula (Lielause)
Latvia
Local time: 11:48
Native speaker of: Native in LatvianLatvian
Grading comment
I will try GOOGLE EARTH historical site to see if this street is there.You have been a great help

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Austra Muizniece: Kristine is right, "Kapu iela" is probably the right one, another option to check is the literary translation "Kapsētas iela".
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1 hr
Reference: I cannot find Kapu iela in Liepāja

Reference information:
But, of course, things can change in more than a century- it may be renamed or built over... However there is Kapu iela in Aizpute town, Liepāja region. Aizpute is a small town some 50 km from Liepāja (old name- Hasenpotten). Another suggestion- the street back in 1900 may have had a name in German (Say, Friedhof Str. or Kirchhof Str., certainly no streets there were named in English back then and also very few had names in Latvian).

Uldis Liepkalns
Latvia
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Reference: Kapsētas iela

Reference information:
There IS Kapsētas iela in Liepāja, so Austra is right.

Kunik
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