A Stately Ancestry and a Humble Beginning

I am building a steamboat. No wait, Let's start at the beginning!

My Great grandfather Fricke Emil had a steamboat named Nyitra in Hungary around 1910.

"With this boat they hauled the sugar beet harvest to Acs. In 1914 it was commandeered for war service. The boat's name was Nyitra."

In Acs there was a sugar making factory.

"Sugar beet loading at Győr." (On the Rábca River)

-AKJ