Surname Maršan (Maršanov)

Prezime Maršan je još jedno od prezimena iz Brbinja o čijem postojanju danas u Brbinju nema sjećanja. Prema mojem istraživanju izgleda da su Maršanovi izumrli krajem 17. st. Moguće je i da se za njihovu obitelj koristilo neko drugo prezime koje nisam uspio povezati sa Maršanovima.

In the lists of souls of Brbinj parish until the end of the 17th century, female persons with the surname Maršanova appear. For example, in the list of the state of souls from 1658, we find Manda Maršanov and Kata Maršanov, and in 1677, Manda Maršanov, Mara Maršanov and Luca Maršanov

In the Glagolitic Book of Chrisms of Brbinj parish in 1674, the confirmation of Luca and Mara Maršanov, by father Tome Maršanov and his wife Manda, was recorded.

From the list of the state of souls, that is, according to the place of entry of the Maršan family in the list of the state of the soul, it can be concluded that the Maršan family lived at the end of the village, somewhere behind the Tucić family, that is, the Grgin family.

The death register of Brbinj parish recorded the death of Luca Maršanov at the age of 45 in 1695, and of Manda Maršanov at the age of 81 in 1696. The fact of the death of Tome Maršanov, who seems to be the last male descendant of the Maršan family, was not recorded in the death register of Brbinj parish, which may mean that he died before 1652.

In the Glagolitic registries of Brbinj parish from the 18th and 19th, I did not find a mention of the surname Maršanov, which is an indication that no one came to their estate in the Maršanov family and that the Maršan family probably died out with the death of Luca and Manda Maršanov.

That the Maršans died out, that is, that no one inherited their land, can be concluded from the Glagolitic document compiled by the parish priest in Brbinj in 1721 and which I found in the Archives of the Archdiocese of Zadar in the records of the parish of Brbinj[1]. I have transliterated the text from Glagolitic script and it reads like this:

"1721 month of October on the 15th.

I Šime Šćaunev ? with all my brothers and with all the people in Brbinj, in the name of the olives of the Maršan family, that late Manda Maršeneva had left to the Church on the verge of death, and for the same olives, I, the same Šimun, for that olive trees I gave some land, and on that land five olive trees, , and on other land three more olive trees besides the ones my late mother gave and all my brothers released the dead, along with those three, and all my brothers, at the same time, to Šimun, all the debt which can be found on the books of the clergy / then there would be witnesses Jure Brunac the courtier , and there would also be witnesses Ive Brunac the village judge and Jivan Rančinčćić? and I the same parishioner which wrote these lines.

So, Manda Maršanova, who according to my research was the last of the Maršan family to die, gave Maršan's olive trees to the Church on her deathbed. It is not clear whether she gave all Maršan's olives or not. Šimun Šćaunjev, according to my research, it would probably be Hujnov, exchanges part of his land for Maršan's olives, which Manda Maršanova left to the Church, and also gives three olive trees on other land, in addition to the three trees that his late mother had already given. According to the text of the document, this agreement is concluded in front of all the people of Brbinj and in front of the brothers Šimun Šćaunjev. From the text we also learn that Jure Brunac is a courtier and Ive Brunac is a village judge. 

It is an interesting story that I heard from Zdenko Grgin, which he heard from his father. He told me how there was a family in Brbinj whose last name he did not know, in which seven daughters were married on the same day, and they lived somewhere on Srić (a hill in Brbinj on which today there are no houses nor is it known that there were any houses there , that hill is located west of Grgin family houses). Were these daughters Maršan's and did the memory of this family still survive in Brbinje to this day?

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