In Brbinj, the surname Baran exists today, the other surnames from the subtitle, Božulić, Barićević, Barićev, Zanetov, do not exist today. The reason why I deal with all these surnames under the same chapter is my assumption that all these surnames are probably only two families from Brbinj, which may be related to members of the Božulić family. With all the information I had in front of me from the Glagolitic registers of the parish of Brbinj and information from the Franciscan cadastre and other sources, I was unable to come to a firm conclusion about the structure and origin of the families that bore these surnames in the past in Brbinj, primarily the Barićević family. That's why below I give some interesting details about the families that bore these surnames and some of my assumptions.

That the Barans and the Barićevićs are two separate families can perhaps be concluded based on the data from the census of 1608, in which two Barićević families are listed in Brbinje, with the heads of the families Antonio Barichievich and Piero Barichievich, and one family which I believe to be the Baranov family, with the head of the family Maddalena Baranchicha.

What I am relatively sure of is that sometime in the beginning of the 18th century, the surname Božulić was associated with the Baran family in Brbinj, and that is because the Baran family died out in the male line and Božulić from Brgulje came to their estate (that was called "vlaštvo" in Croatian). There are explicit entries about this in the Glagolitic registry books, more on which below. In the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a family with the surname Barićević in Brbinje. The surname Baran survived in Brbinj, but the surname Barićević did not.

The members of the Barićević family are sometimes also called the Zanetov, after Zaneto Barićević, who apparently came to Barićević family and on their estate, and before that he bore the surname Božulić. In 1679, the marriage register of Brbinj parish recorded the marriage of Zaneto Božulić and Lucija, daughter of Ivan Barićević "from the same parish". There is an overlap here of the surname Božulić, which is often used in regards to Baranov family and where it is explicitly written that they are the Božulićs from Brgulje, who came to the Baranov estate. The surname Božulić is also related to the Barićević family from Brbinj, and probably because Zaneto Barićević is actually Božulić, as he is called in the register of marriages, and by marrying Lucija Barićević he took the surname Barićević. Is Božulić, who comes to the Baranov estate, related to Zaneto, who probably comes to the Barićević estate? We have no evidence of this yet, but I am in the book Veli Rat[1] found information about the genealogy of the Božulić family also called Šargetini compiled by Vladimir Uglešić, where he writes about this Božulić family that he assumes, because there is not much information, that the ancestor of these Božulić family is Luka Božulić, who had two sons, Ivan (born around 1722) and don Šime (born around 1723). He is not sure if it is the same Luka Božulić whose daughters Mara and Jelena were married in Brgulje around 1712 and 1719, but it is more likely that it is two people, father and son or uncle and nephew. The father of the older of them could be that Ivan Božulić whose daughters were married in Brgulje: Katarina around 1679, and Lucija around 1701 (it is possible that they are two different Ivans). So these man with surname Božulić are also connected to Brgulje.

That the Zanetov family are the same as the Barićević family can be seen from the genealogies of the Veli Rat families, which were prepared by the aforementioned Vladimir Uglešić[2] so in the genealogy of the Stamać and Maletić Buligin families, we learn that Matija Baričević Žanetov, born in Brbinj, married Matij Maletić on June 10, 1758 in Zadar.

The Baran surname are mentioned in the oldest Glagolitic registers from Brbinje. Thus, in the excerpts from the register of baptisms of Brbinj parish from 1603, Katuša Baranka was entered as the godmother at the baptism in Brbinj. In the population census from 1608 in Brbinje, Maddalena Barancich is mentioned, which entry could refer to the Barans. If they are the Barans, the entry of a female person would mean that they did not have an adult male family member at that time. In 1664, in the marriage register of Brbinj a marriage of Šimun, son of Ivan Vidošić, and Katarina, daughter of Ivan Tudiško, was recorded, and the witnesses were Ivan Baričević and Anton Baran..

The register of marriages of the Brbinj parish reveals that Ivan Božulić from Brgulje came to Baran's estate and married probably the widow Matija from the Baran family, who was originally from the Kaleb family. In the marriage registration from 1764, it is written: "Between Anton the son of Ivan Božulić, who came to Baranov estate in Brbinj and between Klara, daughter of Tomas Grgin", and before that, in 1737, there is an entry of the marriage "between Jue Božićević from Brgulje son of Jivan Božićević and Filipa Miklanev, the daughter of Ivan Miklanić from Brbinj... in the presence of the known witnesses Šimun Masnov and Matij Oblakov from the same village". We learn that Ivan Božulić from Brgulje married a widow in Baranov family from the marriage registration from 1758: "between Šimun, son of Ivan Božulić from Brgulje and Matia Baranova, daughter of the late Šimun Kaleb and among Franica, the daughter of the late Petar Rančić and Manda Murluneva from Dragove... in the presence of witnesses Šimun Pesićev and Filip Brunac and shipbuilder Miho? Jadrošić from Premuda".

In the register of dead of Brbinj parish in 1742, the fact of the death of Šimun Božulić "deto" (called) Baran" from "incirk" (around) the age of 75 was recorded. In the list of souls from 1709, Šime Božulić and Manda Božulić were entered. In 1710, there is not a single Božulić, but Šime Barin and Manda Baranka are registered. In both years, the Božulići and Baranovići were registered next to the Brunčev family, which corresponds to the position of their houses in Brbinj.

Therefore, it is clear from the Glagolitic registers that Ivan Božulić from Brgulje came "to the Baranov family estate". It is unclear who Šimun Božulić "deto Baran" is, who died in Brbinj in 1742 from "incirka" at the age of 75, and what is his relationship to Ivan Božulić, the father of Anton, Jure and Šimun Božulić, i.e. Baranov, who are mentioned in the above quotations from the Glagolitic registers Brbinj parish book?

We learn that the Baran family also had "mulica" (adopted child) from an entry in the register of marriages of Brbinj parish from 1732, when the marriage between Šimun Lušiš (Lukšić or Supinov) and Mare "adopted child who was brought up by Manda wife of Šimun Baran" is recorded.

From the book of baptism of Brbinj parish, we learn that in 1651 Eve, son of Manda Baranova, "his father is unknown", was baptized, and in 1663, Matij, son of Manda Baranova, "his father is unknown". So, obviously, in the 17th century, the Baran family lacked adult men, so it is clear that the Božulić family from Brgulje came into their estate. Don Leonard Riko Finka, who also researched families from Brbinj, but mostly the origin of the Brbinj clans from the 19th century, writes about the Baran family that they died out both in the male and female lines, that the Baran family of today have a house where the "old" Barans lived, and that according to the male line, today's Baran family members actually originate from the Grgin family of Brbinj. This corresponds to the data from the registers, but don Riko mistakenly believed that the Barans, on which estate came Ante son of Andrija Grgin, were the "old lineage" of the Baran family. According to the above, these Baranov , who died out both on the male and female lines, were not the "original Baranov family", but actually on the male line they were the Božulić family from Brgulje, and on the female line the Kaleb family from Brbinj, from Manda Baranova, born Kaleb

In the register of marriages of Brbinj parish, in 1808, a wedding was recorded "between Anton son of Jadrij Grgin and between ??? Jadrijana daughter of the late Anton Baranov". So, Anton or Ante, son of Andrija or Jadrij Grgin, marries Andrijana or Jandrijana of the late Anton Baranov, who was the son of Ivan Božulić who came to Baran's estate from Brgulje. Don Riko writes that this Anton Grgin came to the Baranov estate and took the surname Baran, and that he was later married to Filipa Mirkova, which means that Andrijana Baranova dies, and thus the Božulić family of Baranove dies out both in the male and female lines. The data from the Latin registers of the Brbinj parish agree with don Riko's statements, so in 1729 we have the entry of the birth of Tomica to parents Filipa Mirkova and Anton Baran. According to this entry, Filipa and Anton were married in 1811, which would mean that Andrijana Baranova died between 1808, when she married Anton Grgin, later Baran, and 1811, when that Anton Baran married Filip Mirkov. I did not find the death record of Andrijana Baranova in the death register of Brbinj parish. Since there is a period between the Glagolitic and the beginning of the writing of the Latin registers of the parish of Brbinj in which no registers have been recorded, I could not even find a direct entry of the marriage of Anton Baran and Filipa Mirkova.

The Barićević family in Brbinj, according to the 1608 census, consisted of two families, headed by Antonio Barichievich and Piero Barichievich. According to that census, Piero Barichievich had no other family members. As I stated before, I was not able to clearly determine the family history of this Brbinj family or the exact location of their house, considering that the Barićević family did not survived, or the surname didn t survive until the Franciscan cadastre in Brbinj in 1824. According to the list of souls of Brbinj parish, the Barićević family probably lived somewhere "on Japrk" in Brbinj, perhaps near the Baranov family. In the Glagolitic registries of Brbinj parish, the Barić family rarely appears. Are they Barićevići?

What can be seen from the registers is that the surname Barićević died out at the very end of the 18th century in Brbinj. Namely, in the register of deaths of Brbinj parish, in 1798, the death of 66-year-old Šime Barićev was recorded, for whom there is a note that he died in Meštrov family house. In the same year, the fact of the death of Šime Barićević at the age of 67 was recorded, and there is the same note that he died in Meštrov family house. Is it double enrollment? That year, Matij Barićević also died at the age of 40, and in 1801, Mate Barićević died at the age of 82, and in 1802, Jela Hanetova died at the age of 70. As early as 1758, the fact of the death of 33-year-old Tomo Barićević was recorded, for whom a note was recorded: "who lived in the house of Hrišić family in the village of Brbinj". Therefore, the Barićević, before the disappearance of this family, were connected with the Hrišići, that is, the Meštrov family in ​​Brbinj. In the register of marriages in 1749, the marriage was entered "between Tomas Baričević from Brbinj, son of Fran Baričević and Mara Meštrov, daughter of the late Mikula Hrunčev from Savar, witnessed by don Ivan Špano and Anton Masnov, both from Brbinj".

[1] Veli Rat, editors Josip Faričić and Ante Uglešić, University of Zadar, 2013, p. 531.

[2] Veli Rat, editors Josip Faričić and Ante Uglešić, University of Zadar, 2013, attachment 19.