Second Generation

5. Anna B. "Annie" SVITAK (^) was born on 26 September 1884 in Komarov, Beroun District, Okres Pardubice (Central) Region, Bohemia (Czech Republic). The 1910 Census listed her birth place as "Aust. Bohemian."

Komárov is a market town in Beroun District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It is located 23 kilometres (14 mi) southwest of Beroun and 50 kilometres (31 mi) southwest of Prague. She emigrated on 22 October 1904 from Komarov, Beroun District, Okres Pardubice (Central) Region, Bohemia (Czech Republic). (Komarov is located approximately 35 miles due East of Prague.)

She emigrated with her mother and brother John from the port of Bremen, Germany, and landed in the port of Baltimore on 22 October 1904 on the ship "S.S. Rhein." She was listed as "Single" and a "Servant," but she supposedly was already married. Her husband was on the same ship, but he was not listed near her on the passenger manifest. The manifest indicates that her passage was paid by an "uncle."

She became an American citizen in 1915. She appeared in the census in 1910 in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD. Annie appeared in the census in 1920 in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD. Her birth place was listed as "Komarov" and her mother tongue was listed as "Czech." She appeared in the census in 1930 in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD. She appeared in the census in 1940 in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD. The census indicates that her occupation was "Janitor, Public School" and her "Highest grade of school completed" was the 8th grade. Annie lived in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD in 1942. Her residence was at 4910 Pennington Avenue and her occupation was Janitor. She lived in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD in 1956. Her household was at 4910 Pennington Avenue. She died on 27 September 1970 at the age of 86 in Maryland. Annie was buried in Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel County, MD. in the Holy Cross Cemetery.

Anna B. "Annie" SVITAK (^) and Eduard Josef "Edward" SRP Sr. (^) were married in 1902 in Bohemia (Czech Republic). His immigration passenger manifest lists him as married, but it lists his wife as single. The 1910 Census indicates that they had been married for 5 years, so they may have married in late-1904 or early-1905. Eduard Josef "Edward" SRP Sr. (^), son of Josef SRP and Barbora SVAMBERK, was born on 26 January 1875 in Zajecov, Beroun District, Okres Pardubice (Central) Region, Bohemia (Czech Republic). (Zajecov is located approximately 20 miles southwest of Prague.)
He was baptized on 27 January 1875 in Praha (Prague), Bohemia (Czech Republic). Between 1904 and 1909 he was a furnace fireman in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD. where he tended the coal-fired boilers at Curtis Bay #208 grade school. When he first applied for the job with the Baltimore City public schools, the principal told him that he would have to change the spelling of his given name from "Eduard" to "Edward," and the spelling of his surname from "Srp" to "Serp," so that it included a vowel. The birth certificates of all of his children used the spelling "Serp," but their baptismal certificates retained the spelling "Srp." Edward emigrated on 6 October 1904 from Praha (Prague), Bohemia (Czech Republic). He emigrated from the port of Bremen, Germany, on the ship "S.S. Rhein" and arrived in the port of Baltimore on 6 October 1904. His race was listed as "Bohemian" and his occupation appears to be listed as "Iron Founder." His passage was paid by "self."

The manifest asked whether he was going to "join a relative or friend," and he indicated that he was going to join his brother-in-law, Rudolph Bolard at 930 Hopkins Avenue, Baltimore. Rudolph was the husband of Marie Svitak, the oldest sister of Eduard's wife, Anna.

Eduard emigrated with his wife, Anna, and her mother and brother, John. They were on the same ship with him, but they are not listed with him on the same page of the passenger manifest.

They then lived in the Curtis Bay section of Baltimore. Curtis Bay is a residential / commercial / industrial neighborhood in the southern portion of the City of Baltimore. The neighborhood is on steep sloping heights, about four city blocks wide (west to east) and fifteen blocks long (north to south) and above and surrounded on three sides (northeast - east - southeast) in a highly industrialized waterfront area in the southern part of the city, and receives its name from the body (cove) of water to the east in which it sits.

The cove of "Curtis Bay" with two small branches - Stone House Cove and Cabin Branch is fed from the southwest by Curtis Creek which in turn is formed further south by Marley Creek and Furnace Branch/Creek in (currently) Anne Arundel County. Adjoining nearby to the east is Thoms Cove near Hawkins Point at the north end of the Marley Neck peninsula. Curtis Bay cove itself also has a dredged deep water channel with considerable port facilities and waterfront industries and is a branch of the main stem of the Patapsco River, which forms the extensive frontage of Baltimore Harbor and Port, northwest off of the Chesapeake Bay.

The residential community of Curtis Bay is along three major north-south thoroughfares of Curtis Avenue, Pennington Avenue (Maryland Route 173 on which most commercial businesses are located) and residential Fairhaven Avenue and a partial street of Prudence Street. Running west to east are fifteen smaller residential streets named alphabetically for various types of trees. "The Bay", as it is often called colloquially, also offers a variety of housing, townhouses, rowhouses, individual homes, (both constructed of wood-frame, brick, stone and concrete block/stuccoed) and corner stores, taverns/bars.

Curtis Bay is home since 1897 to the United States Coast Guard Yard (formerly the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service until 1915) on Hawkins Point Road." He appeared in the census in 1910 in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD. His family lived at 210 Cherry Street. His household consisted of Edward, age 35, occupation "Moulder, Iron Foundry;" his wife Anna, age 25; and their children Edward, Jr., age 5; Adolph, age 3; Anna, age 7 months; his mother-in-law Anna Svitak, age 59, a widow; and his brother-in-law John, age 19.

(At the time of the 1910 Census, Curtis Bay was in Anne Arundel County. By the 1920 Census, it had become part of Baltimore County.) He registered for the Military Draft in 1917 in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD. He appeared in the census in 1920 in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD. He owned his home at 213 Cherry Street and his occupation was listed as "Laborer." His birth place was listed as "Dobrotivia" and his mother tongue was listed as "Czech." Edward was naturalized in 1924 in Baltimore County, MD. (Family records indicate that he may have been born in Kvan or Zajecov in Dobrotivia, Bohemia. But his Declaration of Intention for Citizenship states that he was born in Svata, Dobrotiva, Austria.) The 1910 Census listed his birth place as "Aust. Bohemian."

His citizenship application dated March 22, 1924, lists him as 5'9", 166 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. At the time he was living at 213 Cherry Street in Curtis Bay and his occupation was "Carpenter." He lived in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD in 1928. His household was at 733 Pennington Avenue. He lived in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD in 1929. His household was at 4910 Pennington Avenue. Edward appeared in the census in 1930 in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD. His family lived at 4910 Pennington Avenue. He owned his home and his occupation was "Janitor at School." He appeared in the census in 1940 in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD. His household was at 4910 Pennington Avenue. The census indicates that his "Highest grade of school completed" was the 8th grade. He lived in Curtis Bay, Baltimore (Independent City), MD in 1942. His household was at 4910 Pennington Avenue. Edward died on 17 May 1949 at the age of 74 in Maryland. He was buried on 20 May 1949 in Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel County, MD. in the Holy Cross Cemetery. His funeral was conducted by Rev. Paul J. Sandalgi at his home at 4910 Pennington Avenue, followed by a Requiem High Mass at St. Athanasius' Church.

Anna B. "Annie" SVITAK (^) and Eduard Josef "Edward" SRP Sr. (^) had the following children: