Godfathers from Lošinj in the Glagolitic registers of Brbinj parish

Godfathers from island of Lošinj in the Glagolitic registers of Brbinj parish

In "Slovo Rogovsko" magazine, I published a small article about Lošinj's godfathers at baptisms in Brbinj in the 18th century.[1]The Glagolitic registries of Brbinj parish have preserved evidence of the connections between Brbinj and the people of Lošinj, so in the Glagolitic register of births of Brbinj parish (1693 - 1813) and in the Glagolitic register of marriages of Brbinj parish (1650 - 1808) we find a large number of godfathers from Veli and Mali Lošinj at the baptism of children born in Brbinj, and two godfathers at weddings in Brbinje. In the Glagolitic registers it is indicated that these are "paruns", that is, ship owners, much less often about masters, i.e. craftsmen, rarely without specifying their profession.

Today, there are no economic or other connections between Brbinj and Lošinj. The number of godparents at baptisms and weddings in Brbinj in the 18th century indicates strong ties between these places, and I assume that the foundation of these ties was of an economic nature. Namely, it is known that in that period the people of Lošinj had a large number of ships with which they transported cargo. Brbinj has two bays suitable for sheltering ships during bad weather, which could be one reason why the "paruns" of Lošinj were connected to the people of Brbinj.

In 2017, Grozdana Franov-Živković published an interesting article in the magazine of the Association of the researchers of the Glagolitic script from Zadar in which she describes the turbulent relationship between the population of the two neighboring villages of Brbinja and Dragova[2]. The people of Brbinj, after forcibly taking the wood from people from village Dragove, sold the same wood to "parun" (shipowner) Božo Bosanić from Mali Lošinj and divided the money among themselves.

Growing up in Brbinj, I heard a story from an older resident of Brbinj, who was probably born at the beginning of the 20th century, how the "paruns" (shipowners) from Lošinj used to buy "japno" (calx) in Brbinj. I found an indication that confirms this in the unpublished manuscript of Don Leonard Riko Finka, Chronicle of the Brbinj parish, who writes that the older residents of Brbinj told him (don Riko became the parish priest of Brbinj in the mid-50s of the 20th century) that there were, in the area from Plešćenica to Zaglavić (a locality from the west of the Brbinj bay Lucina) "japnenice" (small calx processing places), where calx was made by Mate Zverk from Istria, who built a house there for himself and his three daughters, he was a widower and God-fearing, he did not work on Sundays and holidays.

Below I give a list of godfathers from Lošinj in the indicated Register of births in chronological order:

  1. "paron" Martin from Lošinj (1700)
  2. "paron" Mikula Markezić from Lošin (year 1705)
  3. "paron" Frane from Lošinj (year 1706)
  4. craftsman Ive Delištović from Lošinj (year 1714)
  5. craftsman Ive Kovač Štefić from Lošinj Veli (1717)
  6. "paron" Rococo Šutora from Lošin (1720)
  7. "paun" Roko from Mali Losin (1724)
  8. "paron" Frane Skočić from Veli Lošin (year 1725)
  9. "paron" Osip Morin from Mali Lošin (1738)
  10. "paron" Frane Škočić from Lošinj Veli (year 1741)
  11. "paron" Zuvan Bukarin from Mali Lošinj (year 1744)
  12. "paron" Mrtin Salatić from Mali Losi (year 1747)
  13. "paron" Mrtin Salatić from Malog Losi (year 1747)
  14. Anton Bukarin called Mikočić from Mali Lošin (1748)
  15. "paron" Anton Mikočić from Mali Lošin (1748)
  16. "paron" Mrtin Salatić from Malog Losi (year 1747)
  17. craftsman Jive Štefić from Veli Lošin (1749)
  18. "paron" Martin Fedrigo from Veli Lošin (1749)
  19. "paron" Lorenzo Matuzić? from Veli Lošin (1750)
  20. "paron" Duminigo Skopini from Mali Lošin (1750)
  21. "paron" Aguštin Šutora from Mali Lošin (1750)
  22. "paron" Marko Martinolić from Malog Lošin (1751)
  23. "paron" Agudento Morica from Mali Lošin (1752)
  24. "paron" Luka Berasić from Mali Losin (1753)
  25. "paron" Marko Stuparić from Veli Lošin (1754)
  26. "paron" Frane Škočić from Veli Lošin (1754)
  27. "paron" Bažilio Morica from Mali Lošin (1754)
  28. crafstman Ive Štefić from Veli Lošin (1755)
  29. craftsman Mikula Štefić from Lošin Veli (1759)
  30. "paron" Luka Berasić from Mali Lošin (1760)
  31. "paron" Gašpar Ivančić from Losin Mali (1762)
  32. Anton Ivačević from Lošin (1762)
  33. Filip Slavić from Veli Lošin (1770)
  34. Filip Slavić from Veli Lošin (1770)
  35. "paron" Ivan Berasić of Mali Lošin (1780)
  36. "paron" Grgori Beras of Mali Lošin (1781)
  37. "paron" Martin Muškardin from Mali Lošin (1781)
  38. "paron" Tomazo Slavić of Veli Lošin (1781)
  39. "paron" Marku Baras of Mali Lošin (1782)
  40. "paron" Mate Raguzin of Veli Lošin (1787)
  41. "paron" Osip Mikolić of Malo Lošin (1795)
  42. "paron" Antun Selčić from Mali Lošin (1797)
  43. "paron" Zovan Berasić from Mali Lošign (1799)
  44. "paron" Jerolimo Jerolimić from Mali Lošinj (year 1800)

Below I give a list of godparents from Lošinj in the indicated register of marriages in chronological order:

  1. "paron" Zuvan Bukarno from Mali Lošin (1747)
  2. "paron" Zov?non Baldinon of Lošin (1764)

[1] Slovo rogovsko, Glasilo Udruge glagoljaša Zadar, Broj 8, Godina VIII 2020.

[2] Franov-Živković, Grozdana: Nekoliko glagoljskih rukopisa iz Dragova iz fonda don Ante Vidučića, Slovo Rogovsko, broj V, godina IV. 2017., str. 16. – 19.,

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