Trying to track down heritage - Ostmina and Nowelhozycze? Any places like that in Poland?

Can anybody please translate/ assist me in understanding my heritage/family's background...

On my fathers australian birth certificate his parents birth places are listed as ostmina and nowelhozycze.

I have tried searching for these places but have failed to find anything
Thanks

Do you have any documents with those names in the form of handwriting? It must be misspelled.

Both localities are misspelt.

Not in the form of handwriting - just what was on the birth certificate.
Both grandparents spoke very little English (have since passed away) and that is the only background information my family has on them..

Does anyone know what the correct spelling could be?

Probably some small towns or villages - plenty in Poland, from what we have now it's even hard to guess what it might be..

I understand - I've spent countless hours researching without any success -

Thanks for your help!

If your grandparents emigrated to Australia, there should be a record in the National Archives.

naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs227.aspx

Have you found those already? Maybe the ship's manifest or the naturalization records give you a better clue of the place of origin of your ancestors.

Yes, they were sourced a few years ago - unfortunately they had the same spelling on them.
From what I understand their English and spelling was very very basic - which is making this task very difficult for me :)

If I had to play guessing game, then my first shot (from far far away) would be Nowe Rozyce (Nowe Różyce with Polish signs) - it's part of the Różyce village in the Lodz Voivodeship in Poland :)


@Tay0802 - Could you reweal some names?

That's probably it!


Hmm.......

Wrong again! It is Nowe Hołowczyce.

How would you know unless you've sen the written document? Looker may well be correct. And by the way, you're wrong again - you addressed your post to the wrong person.

Edit

A Polish atlas lists in alphabetical order Ostaszów and Ostoja - nothing with Ostm-
in between.
The closest a world-wide scan turned up was Ostmilte in Westphalia, Germany.

Ostrowina, Ostrów, Ostrowo, Słowina (Słowino), and Osowa by the Okmin lake ;)

The Ostmein surname exists in Estonia. If one were to attmept polonising that surname it might come out sounding like Ostmina.
In the 1990s there was one person in Poland surnamed Ostman (German for easterner).

It seems to be a surname. As a place, Osowo is a good bet. @Tay0802 do you have a scan of the document?

Another long shot probably, but there are 4 places in Poland with the name Osina.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osina

my suggestion is Oszmiana - it's in present-day Belarus