Surnames Bolonja and Zagorčić

Ante Zagorčić, Mate Zagorčić and Pere Zagorčić were entered in the list of souls from 1706 between the Bijakanjev and Macina family members, and the women with surname Zagorčić, Manda Zagorčić and Stana Zagorčić, were entered between the Bijakanjev and Štohera family members. The following year between the Bijakanjev and Macina family members Ante Bolona, Mate Bolona and Pere Bolona were entered, and among the women, Manda Bolonin and Stana Bolonin are listed between the Bijakanjev and Štohera family members. When the Zagorčićs are entered, there are no Bolona family members and vice versa.

In 1708, the death of Matij Bolona was recorded in the death register of Brbinj parish.

Anton Zagorčić and Petar Zagorčić were entered in the register of the souls of the parish of Brbinj in 1709, there are no entries from Bologna family, so there is no longer Mate or Matij Bolona or Zagorčić entered, which agrees with the aforementioned entry from the register of the dead. For women, Luce Bolonina and Stana Bolonina were registered. So, now Luce Bolonina appears in the state of souls list, and in 1708, the marriage register of Brbinj parish records the fact of a marriage between Peter Zagorčić, son of Anton Zagorčić, and Lucia, daughter of Jure Brunac. Therefore, these entries in the register of marriages and the list of the state of souls agree, with the fact that Lucija, according to the register of marriages, is married to Petar Zagorčić, and in the list of the state of souls she is marked as Luce Bolonin.

Ante Blona and Pere Bolonja were entered in the list of souls of Brbinj parish in 1710, but no Zagorčić was entered. For women, Mande Bolonka and Luce Bolonka are registered (where is Stana Bolonina from the previous year?).

Anyone who knows Brbinj knows that the surname Zagorčić would be the most suitable for the Bolonja family if it is assumed that the surname Zagorčić originated according to the place of origin of the family.

In the lists of the state of souls from 1709, the Zagorčić are listed between the Bijakanjev and the Hrišićs (Meštrov) family members, and in 1710 the Bologna family members are listed again between the Bijakanjev and the Meštrov (Hrišić) family members.

The surname Bolonja can be found in the registers of Brbinj parish before 1710, as well as with the Baran and Masnov surnames, that surname appears, then disappears and appears again. When there are no Bologna surname registered, Zagorčić surname were registered.

In the Glagolitic registries of the parish of Brbinj, I found the first mention of the surname Zagorčić in the register of the dead in 1669, when the fact of the death of Stošija Zagorčić, the wife of Petar Zagorčić, was recorded. In 1692, the death of Manda Zagorčić was registered at the age of 73. In 1674, the marriage between Anton Zagorčić and Mandalina, daughter of Franić Španol, was registered in the register of marriages. Franica, daughter of Anton Zagorčić, married Šimun Cvitulić in 1694, and in 1708, Petar, son of Anton Zagorčić, married Lucia Brunčeva. In the register of births of the parish of Brbinj in 1722 Petar Bolona and Lucija Zagorčića "both from Brbinj" are listed as godparents, and in 1731 also as godparents Petar Zagorčić and Lucija Zagorčića "both from this parish". I believe that was Petar, the son of Anton Zagorčić and Lucija Brunčev whom he married in 1708.

The lineage of the Bolonja family, that is, the Zagorčić family, is therefore continued by Petar Bolonja, the son of Anton Zagorčić and his wife Lucija, who was from the Brunčev family. They had children Antona, Ivan, Anton, Lucija, Matia, Manda and Jivanica[1]. The lineage continues through the descendants of Ivan Bolonja and his wife Mara Vidučić (Tomasov) from Dragove, who had children Pero, Matija, Luce, Šime, Ante, Marko, Matija, Manda, Osip, Mara and Ivan[2]. In the register of marriages, in 1766, the marriage between "Simon Bolonon and M???n Rančeva, daughter of Jure Rančić ("dispensed" from the third and fourth blood branches) was recorded", in 1773, "between Anton, son of Ivan Bolona and Jelena, daughter of Jure Rančić (dispensed) from the third branch of the blood)". So the sons of Ivan Bolonja, Šime and Anton, married the daughters of Jure Rančić (Rančev), Mara and Jelena.

Šime Bolonin and his wife Mara had children Mara, Tomica, Matija, Miho, Jure, Mihovil, Ivanica, Ivan, Petar and Osip[3], while Anton Bolonin and his wife Jelena had children Tomas, Filipa, Ivan, Antun, Jure and Matija[4]

Anton, son of Anton Bolonja, married Matia, daughter of Matia Cvitulić in 1806 ("denspensani" from the fourth branch of blood). This Matia Cvitulića is sometimes referred to as Cvitulić and sometimes as Supinova in the parish registers (for example, when her death was registered in 1844, Matij Supinov and Matija Supinova are listed as her parents), and this is because she is the daughter of Matij, the son of Visko Cvitulić, who came to the Supin family estate when the male line of the Supin family died out and that of Matija Pešušić[5], the wife of Matija Cvitulić, later Supin. This Anton Bologna is probably Antonio Bologna, the owner of the house in Brbinj under number 14 from the Register of building parcels which was compiled during the cadastral survey in Brbinj in 1824[6] . This house is described in the Register as "casa dirocata" (dilapidated house). In the Register, in addition to this house, the Bologna family have another house under number 15, the owner of which is Giorgio Bologna, that is, Jure Bolonja, the son of Anton Bologna and Matija Bologna, which we learn from the entry of the fact of the marriage of Jure Bolonja and Ivanica Lucijina from Dragove in the register of marriages of Brbinj parish from 1834. years.

From the data in the register books of the parish of Brbinj, written in Latin, it is clear that the lineage of Anton Bolonja continued through his son Anton, then through his son Jure, and then through his son Antun or Antonio born in 1837. In the list of Brbinj families made by parish priest Barani, Bolonja are family members descendants of Antun Bologna, son of Juraj[7] . The lineage of Šime Bolonja, Antun Bolonja's brother, was apparently extinct at the end of the 18th century. To this day, the surname Bolonja has survived in Brbinj, but there is no memory of the surname Zagorčić, and especially not that the Bologna family had other surname Zagorčić.

In Excerpts from the registers of Brbinj parish, we have even older information about the Zagorčić surname. Thus, in 1605 and 1609, the godfather at the baptisms in Brbinj was Petar Zagorčić, we also have another record of the godfather at the baptism from 1609, when only the last name of the godfather Zagorčić was entered, without his personal name. The baptism of Lucia, daughter of Petar Zagorčić, was also recorded in 1607. In the Excerpts of the register of married people from 1601, it is written: "1601. on the 12th of the month of October, when I made a matharmony to Mikula Odvećević and Jelena, the daughter of Marko Zagorča zOliba, and in justification of the law of the holy Mother of the church, Mikula Ranac and Šimun Pesić and Garga Tucić were witnesses. Thus, in 1601, Mikula Odvitović married Jelena, the daughter of Marko Zagorčić from Olib. The surname Zagorčić also existed in Olib[8], but I did not find links with the Zagorčić family from Brbinj. Vladimir Uglešić in the book Veli Rat[9], mentions Zagorčić because Petar Zagorčić (Zakorčić) was the godfather at the baptism of Mikula Uglević in Brbinj in 1605, so Vladimir Uglešić thinks that it is possible that the godfather at the baptism was Zakorčić from Olib. However, he does not explain why Bare Uglević, the father of Mikula Uglević, would baptize a child in Brbinj with a godfather from Olib. Therefore, I believe that the Zagorčić family from Olib are an independent family from the Zagorčić family from Brbinj, who later changed their surname to Bolonja. The connection between Zagorčić from Olib and Brbinj is that, as I mentioned before, Jelena, the daughter of Marko Zagorčić from Olib, married Mikula Odvitović in 1601 in Brbinj.

In the Confirmation Book of the Brbinj Parish, the Bolonjin surname was entered for the first time in 1674, when Manda Bolonj was registered as a godmother at the confirmation in Brbinj. In the 17th century, Franica, Mate and Pere, children of Anton Bolonja and his wife Manda, were confirmed. Ive Bolonja was confirmed in 1721, but the parents of the confirmed are not registered. It is probably Ivan, baptized in 1713, from father Peter Bologna and mother Lucia. Anton and Luce, also children of Peter Bolonja, were confirmed in 1724. Don Jure Bologna appeared as a "santu" (godfather) at the confirmation in 1752. Ivan Bologna and his wife Mare Vidučića from Dragove baptized their children Šime and Ante in 1752, and their son Mate in 1756. These data therefore agree with the data from the registers of baptisms and marriages. Šime and Ante married the daughters of Jure Rančić (Rančev), Mara and Jelena, as i mentioned before.

From this data, we can see that in the observed period, i.e. in the period in which the Glagolitic registers were compiled in Brbinj parish, the family of Bologna, i.e. Zagorčić, was one of the rare Brbinj families that continued their lineage through the male line in that period, i.e. there were no arrivals of males on their estate or "mulaca" (adopted children).

 

[1] See the register of births in Brbinj parish in the years 1711, 1713, 1716, 1718, 1720, 1722 and 1728.

[2] See the register of births in Brbinj parish in the years 1737, 1738, 1740, 1741, 1744, 1746, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1753 and 1754.

[3] See the register of births in Brbinj parish in the years 1767, 1769, 1773, 1776, 1783, 1784, 1786, 1787, 1790, 1792.

[4] See the birth register of Brbinj parish in the years 1777, 1780, 1783, 1784, 1788, 1791.

[5] See the section about the Supins above

[6] See above, p. ____

[7] See above p. 18.

[8] See more about the Zagorčići from Oliba in

[9] Veli Rat, editors Josip Faričić and Ante Uglešić, University of Zadar, 2013, p. ______???

 

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