Senj and Carniola — 6 generations · 10 people from the family tree, 7 read out of the parish registers, and 13 more of the same household

The Kosina

30 people, from a Carniolan cottage where three infants died in eight years to an autumn in Senj that took three grown Kosina in thirteen months — the family Hedviga's own aunt married into, and for a long time the family this archive could not see.

people

1738

earliest birth — a Kosinar woman, Carniola

dead in 1943

This family had no page here until a week ago, and the reason was a rule rather than a doubt. This archive publishes the people of eight surnames, and Kosina is not one of the eight — so ten people who are as much a part of this family as anyone in it were nowhere on the site. They existed here only in fragments: a name on a list of the Senj dead, a marriage that brought the Boras in, and one line cut at the foot of somebody else's gravestone.

The rule changed on 21 September 2026. What decides publication now is descent and not the spelling of a surname, so everyone drawn on this page has a page of their own — apart from two who may still be living, and those two are named and nothing more.

They join this family twice over. In 1919 Pavao Kosina married Anka Blažević, the daughter of Juraj Blažević and Tereza Žubrinić — Hedviga's own grandparents. That makes Anka Hedviga's aunt, her father's sister, and the five Kosina children of that marriage Hedviga's first cousins. And Pavao's own mother was Angelika Boras — the woman through whom the Boras enter this archive at all. So two of this archive's eight families meet in one Senj household, and it is this one.

16 November 1841 · Kranj–Šmartin, book page 64

And then the Slovene register was opened, and there he was

The 1888 marriage named the parish. This archive stopped at the border, because Croatian registers do. They did not have to: the Nadškofijski arhiv Ljubljana publishes its books free on Matricula, and the parish is there under its own name — Kranj–Šmartin.

Baptismal index, Kranj–Šmartin 1832–1870 —
104 — Martin Kozina — 64, under 1841

Born and baptised	16 November 1841 — the same day. The tree had «1841» and nothing more.
Where	Oberfeichting, house 9 — Zgornje Bitnje, a village west of Kranj.
Ehelich / Unehelich	The tick is in UNEHELICH — born outside marriage. The register has a column for it and the priest used it.
Vater	The column is blank.
Mutter	«Gertraud Kosina, hüblnn. Tochter» — a Häusler's daughter, the bottom of the land-holding order.
Godparents	Lorenz Pizz and Maria Kashar. Baptised by Blas. Ulzhar, Coop.

TWO REGISTERS, TWO COUNTRIES, FORTY-SEVEN YEARS, AND THE SAME ABSENCE.
Kranj, 1841 — Vater: blank. Mutter: Gertraud Kosina. Senj, 1888 — a dash where the groom's father belongs. «Gertruda Kozina, posjednica.» The gap in this family tree is not a gap in this family tree. It is what the parish priest wrote down, twice, in two languages, because there was nothing else to write.

And she rose. In 1841 she is a cottager's daughter. By 1888 her son describes her to a Croatian priest as a posjednica — a property-owner.

There is no dagger against her name in 1888, and this page once read that as a sign she was alive on the day her son married. She had been dead for eight years — 5 March 1880, at Zgornje Bitno 9, aged sixty-five. The 1888 priest simply did not mark her. The correction is kept further down, and the rule it cost is the one this page now works by: an absent mark is not a record.

Every other Kozina baptism in that book belongs to one household

There are six in the whole volume. This page said five for six days. On 27 September 2026 the letter-K section of the volume's index was read end to end — entry 1 to entry 369, 1832 to 1870, seven name columns across two openings — and it gave a sixth: Maria, 1859, a daughter this archive did not have. The count was not corrected by searching for her. It was corrected by counting.

Baptised	House	Father	Mother
Anton 20 Jan 1834	Oberfeichting 9	Johann Kosina, Häusler	Lucia Labornik
Petrus 29 Jun 1836	Oberfeichting 9	Johann Kosina, Häusler	Lucia Labornik
MARTIN 16 Nov 1841	Oberfeichting 9	— none —	Gertraud Kosina, Häuslerstochter
FRANCISCA 19 Sep 1853	Oberfeichting 9	Johann Kozina, Hüblar	Ursula Sedej
ANNA 25 Jul 1856	Oberfeichting 9	Johann Kozina, Hüblar	Ursula Sedej
MARIA 7 Aug 1859	Oberfeichting 9	Johann Kozina, Hüblar	Ursula Sedej

«Franz 1853» was a girl

For six days the fourth row of that table read Franz, and this archive built on it: Johann's second family was a son and a daughter. Then the death register produced Franziska Kozina, weiblich, a cottager's daughter dead of measles at Oberfeichting 9 on 7 March 1864, aged eleven — born about 1853. Either a twin, a second child of the same year, or the same child read as a man.

The baptismal page settles it. Book p. 130: 19 September 1853 · Obr. Feichting · house 9 · FRANCISCA · ehelich, father Johann Kozina, Hüblar, mother Ursula Sedej, godparents Johann Pevc and Marina Dolenc — and the stroke stands in the MÄDCHEN column, with a dot in Knaben. Read at eight times magnification, then checked a second way: the tick columns were cropped from the printed heading down to her line and counted against all sixteen entries of the page, so the mark is placed by the column above it and not by eye.

One child, not two. There is no Franz. The index writes the given name short and it can be read either way; the register writes it in full. The death register had her right for eleven years before the baptismal register was asked — and it also gave her back her parents, which the death book never named.

Every row of that table has now been opened. «Ana 1856» had been carried for six days on the strength of an index line and nothing else. The page gives her too: born and baptised 25 July 1856 at Oberfeichting 9, Mädchen, ehelich, to Johann Kozina, Hüblar and Ursula Sedej. So Johann and Ursula had three daughters in six years — Franziska in 1853, Anna in 1856, Maria in 1859 — in the cottage his father had handed over. He was about sixty-one at the last of them.

And the sixth is a person, not a tally. Maria Kozina was born and baptised on 7 August 1859 at Oberfeichting 9 — Mädchen, ehelich, father Johann Kozina, Hüblar, mother Ursula Sedej, godparents Urbas Verčič and Marianna Berčič. She was four when her sister Franziska died of measles in that house, and nine when her father died in it. She is not in the 1836–1869 death register, which this archive has walked opening by opening, so she was alive in 1870. Nothing else about her is known.

What the sweep did NOT give: Joseph. A Joseph Kozina, a cottager's son, died at Oberfeichting 9 in March 1843 aged two, so he was born about 1841. He is not in this index at all. Either he was baptised outside the parish, or this index missed him — as the death index for the same parish and the same decades missed nine. Neither is proved, and the row stays where it belongs, among the people this tree does not have.

LOOK AT THE HOUSE COLUMN. Johann the Häusler's two recorded children were born at Oberfeichting no. 9 — and five years after the second of them, Gertraud bore Martin in that same house. That does not tell us whether she was his sister or his daughter. It does tell us she was living in his household, and it turns «a Kozina family in the same parish» into one roof.

One Häusler called Johann, two wives, twenty-five years — and in the middle of it one unmarried woman and one child with no father. Lucia bore her last recorded child in 1836 and died in that house on 30 November 1850; Ursula is beside the same husband by 1853, and bears him three daughters in six years. The entries from 1853 on spell the surname KOZINA with a z, which is the spelling the Senj priest reached for in 1888.

And what settles it is his marriage. The marriage register for 1816–1855 (sig. 00899) has a column headed «Aeltern des Bräutigams» — the groom's parents. Find Johann's marriage and you have Gertraud's parents too, if she is his sister. The volume carries no index and runs to seventy-seven pages, so it is a scan rather than a lookup, and it is the next thing to do.

Gertraud is a Häuslerstochter — a Häusler's daughter — and she stands godmother on page 33. Johann is a Häusler. Father and daughter, or brother and sister, is likely and it is not established, and they stand in the people this tree does not have and nowhere else.

Two corrections, and they are worth keeping. Page 33 on its own read as «Josef»; page 18, with the same wife beside him, reads «Johann», and page 33 at eight times magnification reads Johann too — one given name, and a household that would have been split in two. And the 1836 child, taken from the index as «Johan», is «Petrus» at the page. That is the third time in two days that an index has been wrong about this family and the register has been right.

And then her own baptism was found, by admitting a mistake

THIS PAGE ELIMINATED HER, AND THE ELIMINATION WAS WRONG. On 21 September the 1814 candidate was opened and struck out because the father's surname — «Franz Kosnar, Hüblar» — ends in a clear «-r», so it was read as Kosnar and not Kosina. The letter was read correctly and the conclusion drawn from it was wrong. The «-r» is how that clerk writes this family's name. He writes it the same way for her brother, and her brother's children are entered KOSINA by the next clerk in the next volume. One family, two hands, and a surname that changes shape between them.

The marriage register settled it, because it has a column headed «Aeltern des Bräutigams».

1833, 6. Jänner · Obern feichting 9
JOHANN KOSINAR, Häusler, katholisch, 30, ledig
× LUZIA LABORNIK, house 3, 38, ledig
des Vaters: Franz Kosinar, Häusler · der Mutter: Mina Tom[sh]shan, Häuslerin

And the identification does not rest on the surname at all. Johann Kosina, Häusler of Oberfeichting no. 9, had his first child with Lucia Labornik on 20 January 1834 — a year and a fortnight after this wedding. The house, the trade, the wife and the date all agree.

His father is FRANZ, a Häusler, with a wife written Tom[sh]shan — against the 1814 baptism's Franz Kosinar, Hüblar and Maria Do[m]shan. Mina is the short form these registers use for Marija. The same couple.

So the line runs two generations further back

Franz Kosinar × Maria «Mina» Dortschen	Martin's grandparents — and four generations above Hedviga. Named in six entries across thirty-three years and never once in person: their own marriage in 1800, four of their children's baptisms, and their son's marriage in 1833. He has a death; she does not.
Gertraud	Baptised 18 March 1814. Twenty-seven when she bore Martin.
Johann	Born about 1802–03; married 6 January 1833; the Häusler of Oberfeichting no. 9.
Martin	Born 16 November 1841 at Oberfeichting no. 9, unehelich — in his uncle's house.

Gertraud was not a lodger and not a stranger. She was the householder's sister, and she bore her son under her brother's roof seven years after he brought a wife into it.

And then their own marriage, which explains the houses

The 1780–1815 marriage book has no index either, so images 30–35 were cropped to the Bräutigam column and read as strips. It is on image 33, under 1800.

Den 27ten [8ber] · Feichting b. St. Joh. · 10
FRANZ KOSINAR, katholisch, 24, ledig
× MARIA DORTSHEN, katholisch, 20, ledig
Beystände: MATTHÄUS KOSINAR — signing with a cross — and Simon Rauth, Bauern. Married by Matthäus Lauts, coop.

27 October 1800, at twenty-four and twenty. So Franz was born about 1776 and Maria about 1780.

THE TWO HOUSE NUMBERS, AND A FIRST ANSWER THAT DID NOT SURVIVE. This page had said the numbers were «not tight» — Gertraud baptised at house 10, Johann marrying into house 9 — and on 22 September it explained them as «house 10 is the parents', house 9 is the brother's». That was wrong, and the register said so the same evening. Franz's own children are baptised at house 9 in 1812, at house 10 in 1814 and 1815, and at Oberfeichting 9 again in 1820 — where the clerk writes him Häubler, the man of the house. Both houses were his at different times, and the family moved between them. The explanation is kept here, struck through, because it is a fair example of how quickly a tidy answer can be built on two data points.

A third Kosinar — and for one day nobody could say what he was. MATTHÄUS KOSINAR stood witness and signed with a cross, because he could not write. A man of the same surname witnessing for a twenty-four-year-old groom is most likely his father or his brother, and this page said for a day that nothing here says which.

His death says which. Mrliška knjiga 1812–1835, book p. 64: «1819, den 16ten April · Ober-Feichting · 14 · MATTHÄUS KOSINA · Keischler · ALTER 45 · Rothlauf und Brand». Forty-five in 1819 is born about 1774. Franz was born 1775–76. Two men born a year apart are not father and son — so the man who could not sign his name in 1800 was Franz's brother, and he was twenty-six when he stood up for him.

And the 1818 candidate is settled rather than merely moot. Her father — read for a week as «Lukas Ko[s]in…», house 12 — is on image 31 of this same book: «LUKAS KOSINA, katholisch, 29, ledig», married 1799, so born about 1770. A real man and a different household. The 1814 Gertraud is left with no rival.

And on 27 September 2026 he stopped being unreadable, and gained a second daughter. At fourteen times magnification the 1818 entry reads «Lukas KOSINER, Kaischler» — the same spelling these clerks give Franz — and the mother is Luzia. And his village can be read, though it cannot yet be placed. The 1799 marriage puts him at «LEMY 37» and the 1818 baptism at «LEMNY 12» — the same short name in two hands nineteen years apart, under a column headed «Der Orten». It matches nothing in the parish list Matricula publishes — but that list is not exhaustive: the same 1818 page carries «Prschan» for Praše, which is not in it either. So this has stopped being a magnification problem and become a question for somebody who knows the ground. One hypothesis has a number behind it — Lukas is at Lemny 12 in 1818 and his daughter dies at Breg 12 in 1840 — and its weakness is that the two words look nothing alike. A house number is not a place name. The 1812–31 index also lists a «Kosina Marianna — 16» under 1813, which this page had reported as an entry that page 16 would not yield. It yields it. Book p. 16: «12 August 1813 · Haus 27 · MARIANNA · ehelich · Vater: LUKAS KOSINER, Kaischler · Mutter: LUZIA O[k]lin[t]sh». Same father, same wife's given name, five years apart. And that Marianna is almost certainly the one who died at Breg 12 on 10 January 1840 — Keuschlerstochter, aged 26, unmarried. Baptised 12 August 1813, she was twenty-six and five months that day; and Keuschler is the word her father is entered under at her baptism. Not proved — the 1813 entry gives a house number and no village, so nothing on the page says Breg. The correction this cost. This page said page 16 had been opened and its whole father column read, and that there was no Kosina on it. There was. It had been read at two and a half times magnification, which is not enough for this hand. A column that has been looked at is not a column that has been read.

And then the same mistake again, an hour later

Having corrected page 16, this page turned to «Kosina Dorothea — 8», re-read page 8 at 3.2×, found two Dorotheas — house 28 to Primus Wit[nitz], house 18 to Johann Holz — and published that page 8 still has no Kosina.

There are three Dorotheas on page 8. The whole father column was then read at 8×, and the third is:

6. [Hornung 1813] · 12 · DOROTHEA · ehelich
Vater: ANTON KOSINER recte KATZIN, Inwohner
Mutter: MARGARETH ZUBERTH

Both index entries are accounted for now, and neither child belongs to Franz Kosinar's line: Marianna is Lukas's, Dorothea is Anton's.

And Anton's entry carries a warning for every index line on this page. Recte marks the legal surname against the name a family is called by. So this household's name is KATZIN, and KOSINER is the by-name — almost certainly the house's. A Kosina in an index is not always a Kosina in a family, and this archive has been counting index lines. The alternative reading — that the clerk meant it the other way round — is not ruled out; recte is written plainly and the direction is the standard one. Anton is an Inwohner, a lodger, at house 12 — the number Lukas Kosina's household carries in 1818. He may have been lodging with them. Nothing in the entry says so.

The mother's surname, from six clerks across thirty-three years. «Dortshen» 1800 · «Dortschen» 1812 · «Do[m]shan» 1814 · «Dortschen» 1815 · «Dortschen» 1820 · «Tom[sh]shan» 1833. Four of the six read Dortschen, and the two that do not are this archive's own bracketed readings of a hand it found hard. On 22 September 2026 this page changed its lead spelling to «Dortschen» and kept all six. Mina is the short form these registers use for Marija, and one clerk writes Marina.

And one rung further up is a wall, for now

Franz's own baptism is not in this parish. He was twenty-four in October 1800, so born between late 1775 and late 1776. The baptismal register was walked from October 1775 to January 1777 — ten openings, every Infans and Parentes column — and there is no Kosinar in it at all.

The absence says something, because the same surname is all over the same register fifty years later: Johann's children in 1834, 1836, 1853 and 1856, and Gertraud's Martin in 1841. In the mid-1770s it is simply not there.

He came from elsewhere	He married into Feichting house 10 at twenty-four, which is what a man who marries a household does — and it would make the Kosinar of Kranj–Šmartin his descendants rather than his ancestors. Matthäus the witness cuts against it, and proves nothing either way.
The age is wrong	«24» in a marriage register is very often a round number.
The name is unreadable	The 1770s hand may write the surname unrecognisably — which it already proved to do in 1814, when «Kosinar» was read as «Kosnar» and a real candidate was struck out on this very page.

So the death register was opened, and it confirmed him

The death index is letter-tabbed, and the whole K section for 1836–1869 holds exactly two Kozina.

22. — 24. [Jänner 1849] · Ob. Feichtg · 9
FRANZ KOSINA, Ausnehmer · katholisch · männlich · ALTER 73 · Lungenentzündung · versehen

Aged 73 in January 1849 — born 1775–76, which independently confirms the «24» he gave at his own wedding forty-nine years earlier. Two records, two clerks, one birth year. And it means the missing baptism really is missing, rather than the age being wrong.

One word in that entry tells you what happened to the house. He is an Ausnehmer: a householder who has handed over and lives out his life on the Ausnahm, the retirement provision written into the transfer. He died at Oberfeichting 9 — the house he himself held in 1820, that his son Johann was keeping by 1833, and that his grandson Martin was born in in 1841. He did not move in with his son. He gave his son the house and stayed in it.

30. — 2. Xbr [1850] · Ob. Feichtg · 9
LUZIA KOSINA, Hüblersweib · weiblich · ALTER 55 · Lungenentzündung · versehen · Jos. Kartely

Lucia Labornik. Aged 55 in November 1850, so born about 1795 — and she was 38 at her marriage in January 1833, which gives 1794–95. The same woman. She is entered a Hüblers-Weib and not a widow, which is right, because Johann outlived her.

And it answers a question this page had left hanging: why Johann is beside Ursula Sedej by 1853. Because Lucia died in 1850 — in the same house and of the same pneumonia as his father, twenty-two months apart.

MARIA IS NOT THERE. The K section for 1836–1869 has Franz and Luzia and nobody else. So the earlier index — 1812–1835 — had to be read, and on 22 September 2026 it was, end to end. It did not give her. It gave five other people.

The scans are the archdiocese's, not ours, so they are transcribed here and linked rather than republished — index sig. 04632 image 246, register sig. 00886 image 65, at data.matricula-online.eu.

Mrliška knjiga Kranj–Šmartin 1812–1835 · page 34

The page we went to find one woman on, and found two

The index for 1812–1835 lists «Kozina Maria — 34» under the year 1816. Page 34 is the left leaf of the eighteenth opening, and the year is written across the top of it. It carries two Maria Kozinar, four weeks apart, and neither of them is Martin's grandmother.

Den 27 [Februar 1816] · Z[ubern] · 4
MARIA KOZINAR, Häubl. · katholisch · weiblich · ALTER 78 Jahre · Altersschwäche

Den 31 [März 1816] · Oberfeichting · 9
MARIA KOZINAR, Häubl. · katholisch · weiblich · ALTER 3/4 Jahr · Fraiß

A woman of seventy-eight and a baby of nine months. Maria Dortschen was twenty at her wedding in 1800, so in 1816 she was thirty-six. The first woman was born about 1738 and the register says why she died — Altersschwäche, the weakness of age. The second had lived three quarters of a year and died of Fraiß, convulsions, which is what this book writes over almost every infant. The index was not wrong. It listed both, one line under the other, and the archive had only read the first line.

And the baby is Maria Dortschen's own daughter. The baptismal index for 1812–1831 has a Kosina Maria at page 44 under 1815, and page 44 reads: «den 8ten [August 1815] · Haus 10 · MARIA · ehelich · Vater: FRANZ KOSINAR, Häubler · Mutter: MARIA DORTSCHEN». Born 8 August 1815, dead on 31 March 1816. Seven and a half months — which is what three quarters of a year means in that column. The woman we went looking for was not on page 34; her daughter was.

So the whole K section was read, and the house came with it

Reading one page for one name is how a search gets long. The K section of the 1812–1835 death index runs across two openings and holds six Kozina; the baptismal index for the same years holds eight. Read together they give a household.

One word recurs below and it is worth having. A Häubler — the same word as Häusler and written Hüblar by yet another clerk — is a cottager: a man with a house and a garden and not enough land to live off, the bottom rung of the village land-holding order. It is what Franz was, what his son Johann was, and what Martin was born into.

Who	What the register says	How they stand to the line
Maria Kosinar the elder parish register · not yet in the family tree	d. 27 February 1816, aged 78, of Altersschwäche	The oldest of the name the archive has reached — a generation above Franz and Matthäus. A CANDIDATE for their mother and nothing more: another village, no husband named, and this book names no parents. probably kin — not proved
Elisabeth Kosinar parish register · not yet in the family tree	baptised 18 November 1812 · died 11 April 1813, aged five months	Franz and Maria's daughter. Convulsions. daughter of Franz and Maria
Maria Kosinar parish register · not yet in the family tree	baptised 8 August 1815 · died 31 March 1816, aged three quarters of a year	Franz and Maria's daughter, and THE «Kozina Maria» the death index sends a reader to page 34 to find. Convulsions. daughter of Franz and Maria
Valentin Kosina parish register · not yet in the family tree	baptised 15 February 1820 · died 29 February 1820, aged one week	Franz and Maria's son, fourteen days old. HIS BAPTISM IS THE PROOF OF THE HOUSE: it is the record that puts Franz at Oberfeichting 9 as a Häubler, twenty-one years before Martin was born there. son of Franz and Maria
Maria Kosinar the second parish register · not yet in the family tree	baptised 6 December 1818 · d. 6 January 1868, aged 49, unmarried, at Zgornje Bitno 9	Franz and Maria's sixth known child, named for the sister who had died twenty months before she was born. She turned 49 one month before she died, so the register's age is exact. LIKE GERTRAUD SHE NEVER MARRIED AND NEVER LEFT: both sisters are entered as lodgers in the house they were born in, twelve years apart. daughter of Franz and Maria
Ursula Kosina parish register · not yet in the family tree	d. 28 March 1845, aged 85, of Altersschwäche · Oberfeichting 13	The second-oldest of the name this archive has reached, and at a THIRD Oberfeichting house — neither Franz's 9 nor Matthäus's 14. And she is entered ABNEHMERIN: she had HELD that house and handed it over, the same institution this register calls Franz an Ausnehmer for and Maria Dortschen an Auszüglerin. The third Kosina house in the village was hers. Still only a candidate for the generation above Franz — no parents, no husband, no children are named. probably kin — not proved
Franziska Kozina parish register · not yet in the family tree	baptised 19 September 1853 · d. 7 March 1864, aged 11, of measles · Oberfeichting 9	Johann and Ursula's daughter, and a correction now made: this archive recorded their child of 1853 as a FRANZ. The register writes FRANCISCA and TICKS MÄDCHEN. One child, not two, and the death register had her right for eleven years before the baptismal one was asked. daughter of Johann and Ursula
Lukas Kosina the elder parish register · not yet in the family tree	named as the father of two Kosina girls baptised 1773 and 1779	A KOSINA FATHERING CHILDREN IN THE 1770s, and the generation this page has been short of. The 1603–1779 baptismal index gives «Kosina Gertrud (Lukas)» in 1773 and «Kosina Helena (Lukas)» in 1779 — and the Lukas this archive already has was three years old in 1773. An older man of the same name, fathering children exactly when Matthäus (b. ~1774), Franz (1775–76) and Lukas (b. ~1770) were born. A candidate for their father and nothing more: no entry yet read gives his wife, his house or his village. probably kin — not proved
Ana Kozina parish register · not yet in the family tree	born and baptised 25 July 1856 · Oberfeichting 9	Johann and Ursula's second daughter. This archive carried her as «Ana 1856» for six days on the strength of an index line; the page gives the day, the house, the sex column and both parents. She was seven when Franziska died of measles in that house and twelve when her father died in it, and nothing is known of her after 1870. daughter of Johann and Ursula
Maria Kozina of 1859 parish register · not yet in the family tree	born and baptised 7 August 1859 · Oberfeichting 9 · m. Kancijan Česen, summer 1883, at Stražišče	Johann and Ursula's youngest, and the sixth Kozina baptism in a volume this archive had counted five in — found by reading the whole K section of the index to settle that count, not by looking for her. HER MARRIAGE, FOUND THE SAME DAY, joins two rows of this file into one person: the entry gives her as «rojena v Zgornjem Bitnju št. 9», daughter of «Janez Kozina, gruntar, in Urša Sedej», living at the railway station at Podnart and twenty-three years old. She is the Marija Kozina this archive carried as UNPLACED — the only Kozina woman it found in twenty-five years of the 1890–1911 deaths, known there only as the mother of two children who died at Stražišče 84. daughter of Johann and Ursula
Joseph Kosina parish register · not yet in the family tree	d. 27 March 1843, aged two, of Halsentzündung · Oberfeichting 9	A Häubler's son at the house Johann held and Martin was born in, so almost certainly Johann and Lucia's, and a brother of Anton 1834 and Petrus 1836. This book names no parents — AND THE BAPTISMAL INDEX HAS NO JOSEPH. Its whole K section was read end to end on 27 September 2026 and the six Kozina it holds do not include him, so he was baptised outside the parish or that index missed him, as the death index for these years missed nine. probably Johann and Lucia's son
Marianna Kosina parish register · not yet in the family tree	baptised 12 August 1813 · d. 10 January 1840, aged 26, unmarried, of Abzehrung · Breg 12	LUKAS KOSINA'S DAUGHTER, and so a sister of the 1818 Gertraud this archive had to rule out before Martin's mother could be settled. Her baptism gives «Vater: LUKAS KOSINER, Kaischler» — and she dies a Keuschlerstochter at twenty-six, which is the same word and the right age to the month. Born the same year as the other Gertraud and at a village that is not Feichting. daughter of Lukas — not of Franz's line
Margaretha Kosinar parish register · not yet in the family tree	d. 14 March 1826, aged 45, a Häubler's daughter, unmarried	She died in Franz's house at forty-five, of his own generation. Most likely his sister; nothing in the entry proves it. probably Franz's sister — not proved

Three Kosina houses in one village, and a woman who had held one of them. Franz kept Oberfeichting 9; Matthäus died at 14; and Urschula Kosina died at 13 on 28 March 1845, aged eighty-five, of Altersschwäche. The word the clerk wrote under her name is Abnehmerin — the female of Abnehmer, and the same institution this register means by the Ausnehmer it calls Franz in 1849 and the Auszüglerin it calls Maria Dortschen in 1841: a householder who has handed the house over and lives on the portion reserved out of it. She was not a lodger and not somebody's widowed mother taken in. The third Kosina house in that village was hers. Born about 1760, she is a generation above Franz and Matthäus — and that is still all it is. No parents, no husband and no children are named in the entry, and this page does not turn an old woman with the right surname in the right village into a grandmother.

Her date took two openings to get right. This archive first recorded it as «the 28th of a month in 1845 or 1846», because the month heading sits above the entry and had not been read. The page was re-opened and worked from its own head down: the printed year on the column is 1845, the headings run Jänner (29th), Februar (26th), März (2nd), and from there the days run 2, 4, 6, 12, 13, 16, 18, 18, 25, 28, 30 with no further heading — the last of them buried «1. April». A date is not read off the line it sits on. It is read off the last heading above it, and a transcription that stops at the line is a transcription that has not finished.

One entry does more work than the rest. Valentin was baptised on 15 February 1820 and buried on the 29th, aged one week — 1820 was a leap year, so the date is real. His baptism reads «Ober-Feichting · 9 · VALENTIN · ehelich · Vater: FRANZ KOSINA, Häubler · Mutter: MARINA DORTSCHEN». It is the only record that puts Franz himself at Oberfeichting 9 as the householder — twenty-one years before his grandson Martin was born in that house, and twenty-nine before he died in it as an Ausnehmer. The house was never his son's alone. It was his.

Three of their six known children did not live. Elisabeth five months, Maria nine months, Valentin fourteen days — 1812, 1815 and 1820, in one cottage. The three who grew up are Johann, born about 1802, Gertraud, born in 1814 between two of the deaths and the one who lived to bear Martin, and a second Maria, baptised 6 December 1818. The second Maria is named for the first. Her sister had been dead twenty months. Re-using the name of a child who did not live is ordinary in these books and is not a clerk's slip — it is a family deciding that the name should go on. That is not a remarkable household. It is an ordinary one, and it is the first time this archive has been able to say so about anybody in Carniola.

Where Maria Dortschen's death is — 27 September 2026

The index said she was not in 1836–1869. The register says she is. Book page 27, April 1841:

am 11. gestorben · am 13. begraben · OBERFEICHTING · 9
MARIA KOSINA, Auszüglerin · katholisch · weiblich · ALTER 60 Jahre · Convulsionen · versehen

Auszüglerin	The female of Ausnehmer — a householder who has handed over and lives on the Ausnahm. It is the exact word this same register uses for Franz at his own death, in this same house, eight years later.
ALTER 60	Born about 1781. She gave her age as 20 at her marriage in October 1800. The two agree.
Oberfeichting 9	The house Franz held in 1820, Johann kept from 1833, Franz died in in 1849, and Gertraud died in in 1880.
Convulsionen	Convulsions. She was sixty.

And then read the date again. She died on 11 April 1841. Martin was born in that house on 16 November 1841 — seven months later. Gertraud was carrying him when her mother died.

Then the walk was finished, and the house closed around them

All 174 pages are read now. The register holds nine Kozina deaths for 1836–1869. The index lists two.

Who	Died	Where	Age and cause
Marianna Kosina Lukas's daughter	10 Jan 1840	Breg 12	26, unmarried · Abzehrung
Maria «Mina» Dortschen	11 Apr 1841	9	60, Auszüglerin · Convulsionen
Joseph Kosina	27 Mar 1843	9	2 · Halsentzündung
Ursula Kosina	28 Mar 1845	Oberf. 13	85, Abnehmerin · Altersschwäche
Franz Kosinar in the index	22 Jan 1849	9	73, Ausnehmer · Lungenentzündung
Lucia Labornik in the index	30 Nov 1850	9	55, Hüblersweib · Lungenentzündung
Franziska Kozina	7 Mar 1864	9	11 · Masern, measles
Maria Kosinar	6 Jan 1868	9	49, ledige Inwohnerin · Auszehrung
Johann Kozina	10 Oct 1868	9	64, Häubler · Auszehrung

Seven of the nine died at number 9, and an eighth — Gertraud, in 1880 — died there too, in the volume after this one. Franz handed the house over and died in it. His wife died in it as an Auszüglerin. His son Johann held it and died in it a Häubler, the same word he married under thirty-five years before. A two-year-old, an eleven-year-old and two grown daughters died in it. And neither daughter ever married or ever left. Maria is a ledige Inwohnerin in 1868 and Gertraud a neomožena gostja in 1880 — both entered as lodgers in the house they were born in, twelve years apart. One of them had borne Martin there in 1841.

Maria's age is exact to the month. She was baptised 6 December 1818 and died 6 January 1868, aged 49 — she had turned 49 one month earlier. That is the second time this register has dated a woman of this family to the month; Gertraud's 65 was thirteen days short of sixty-six.

How the index came to be believed for so long

The search for it is now exhaustive for this parish, which is worth more than another guess. The K section of the death index for 1812–1835 holds Elisabeth 1813, two Maria in 1816, Matthäus 1819, Valentin 1820 and Margareth 1826. The K section for 1836–1869 holds Franz 1849 and Luzia 1850. She is in neither.

For five days this page said her death was not found, on the authority of a letter-tabbed index that lists two Kozina for 1836–1869. The register itself, walked page by page, yields four more in its first 105 pages alone — Marianna 1840, Maria 1841, Joseph 1843 and Ursula 1845 — and Johann is a fifth, inferred. An index proves what it contains and never what it omits.

THE SAME EVENING ANSWERED A BIGGER QUESTION ABOUT SOMEBODY ELSE. The reason for opening the late registers was Maria. What they gave was GERTRAUD — Martin's mother, the woman this archive had exactly one record in the world for.

Jera Kozina, 5 March 1880

The register for 1890–1911 was read opening by opening, all 199 of them, and held nothing. So the one before it was opened too — 1870–1890, another 138 openings — and on book page 69, under March 1880, there she is.

5. — 7. [Marec 1880] · Zg. Bitno · 9
JERA KOZINA, neomožena gostja · katolik · ženski · ALTER 65 let · božjast in jetika · M. Žarnik

Jera	The Slovene short form of Gertruda. The book is in Slovene by 1880, and it gives her the name her neighbours used.
65 let	She was baptised 18 March 1814. She died thirteen days short of her sixty-sixth birthday, so the clerk's 65 is not approximate — it is exact.
Zg. Bitno 9	Zgornje Bitno is Oberfeichting. House 9 is the house her father held in 1820, her brother held from 1833, her father died in in 1849 — and the house she bore Martin in, in 1841.
neomožena	Never married. Which is what the tick in unehelich on Martin's baptism had already said, thirty-nine years earlier.
gostja	A lodger — the word for a woman living in a house that is not hers. She spent her life in her brother's.
božjast in jetika	The falling sickness and consumption — epilepsy and tuberculosis.

Corrected two hours after it was published

This page said, earlier on 22 September 2026, that Gertraud had left the parish. The reasoning was that her son's Senj marriage of January 1888 carries no dagger against her name, so she must have been living then — and she was not in the Kranj–Šmartin deaths after 1887.

She had been dead for eight years. The 1888 register simply did not mark her. An absent mark is not a record, and the conclusion built on one lasted exactly as long as it took to open the previous volume.

And one silence turns out to be worth much less than this archive was treating it. Johann was alive in 1856, when his daughter Ana was baptised, and he is in neither post-1869 register. So he died between 1857 and 1869 — and the letter-tabbed index for 1836–1869 does not list him. That index holds two Kozina and should hold at least three. It is incomplete — and it is the only authority this page has been citing for the claim that Maria Dortschen is not in those years. The register itself has to be walked.

One Kozina woman does turn up — and she turned out to be Johann's daughter

Twenty-five years of that register hold exactly one person of the name, and only as a mother. Marija, born Kozina, married Kancijan Česen, a hišar-dninar — a cottager and day-labourer — at Stražišče 84, the parish seat rather than Bitnje. Two of their children are in the book: Kancijan, 1892, aged one and three quarter months, and Pavla, 1893, aged two.

For six days this page said nothing joins her to this family but the surname and the parish, put her birth somewhere around 1860–1870 on the ages of her children, and named the document that would settle it: her marriage, in the Kranj–Šmartin marriage book for 1881–1899, which names both parents of both parties. It had never been opened.

27 September 2026 — it was opened, and it settles it

The book has no index, so it was walked: the groom's and the bride's surname columns cropped out of every opening and tiled five to a sheet. She is on book page 14.

Ženin: Stražiše 120 · KANCIJAN ČESEN, kajžarski sin · 32 · svoboden
Nevesta: Kolodvor v Podnartu 12, rojena v Zgornjem Bitnju št. 9 · MINA KOZINA, gruntarska hči · 23 · svobodna
Roditelja nevestina: JANEZ KOZINA, gruntar, in URŠA SEDEJ · Roditelja ženinova: Matevž Česen, kajžar, in Urša Peternel · priči Franc Sušnik and Jošt Trebar, both signing with a cross

Born at Zgornje Bitnje number 9 — Franz Kosinar's house, the house Martin was born in and Johann died in. Janez Kozina and Urša Sedej are Johann Kozina and Ursula Sedej. She is twenty-three, and the Maria baptised at that house on 7 August 1859 — found the same morning, by counting the baptismal index — was twenty-three and ten months that summer.

Two rows of this archive are one woman. She was living at the railway station at Podnart, twenty kilometres from the house she was born in.

And the same walk dates her death without finding it. Eleven openings further on, at book page 55: «1896, 10. februarja · STRAŽIŠČE 84 · KANCIJAN ČESEN, hišar, VDOVEC, roj. 1. avgusta 1851, 44 let», marrying Franciška Tomaževič. He is a widower, at the house her two children died in. So Marija Kozina died between 1893 and 10 February 1896 — aged between thirty-three and thirty-six, leaving a husband who remarried within three years. And it explains why this archive could not find her. The 1890–1911 death register was walked opening by opening looking for KOZINA. A married woman is entered under her husband's name. She is in that book as MARIJA ČESEN, at Stražišče 84, and nobody was looking for that. The walk was right and the query was wrong.

Her death, found by looking for the wrong name

This archive walked the 1890–1911 death register opening by opening looking for KOZINA and found her two children and not her. On 28 September it was walked again for ČESEN. Book page 45, entry 33:

1895, April · 2. umrla, 3. pokopana · STRAŽIŠČE 84
MARIJA ČESEN, hišarja in sitarja žena · katoliške · ženskega · starost 35 let · OTROŠKA MRZLICA · previdena Alojzij Železny, kapelan

She is entered under her husband's surname with no maiden name at all. And the register is inconsistent about it — Marija roj. Eržen and Neža roj. Mravlje keep theirs on the same openings — so this was not a rule anybody could have known in advance. The walk was right and the query was wrong.

Baptised 7 August 1859, she was 35 years and eight months. The age is exact.

Otroška mrzlica is childbed fever. For a married woman of thirty-five, among entries where this clerk gives grown people grown diseases, it is not a children's fever. She died in or just after childbirth — and a baptism of early 1895 at Stražišče 84 has not been looked for. And she was the fourth death in that house in three years. Kancijan, 1892, at one and three quarter months. Pavla, 1893, at two. ANTONIJA, 26 February 1895, aged one and a half, of božjast and without the sacraments — born about August 1893, the year Pavla died, and dead five weeks before her mother. Then Marija. Her husband remarried ten months later.

And walking those two registers turned up two Kozina farming households nobody knew about. Neither volume has an index, so both were read end to end — sig. 03918 from 1874, and sig. 03919 in full, all seventy-one openings. Three Kozina brides in twenty-five years. Mina in 1883; Franciška, daughter of Jožef Kozina, ½ zemljak, and Mina Kodran, marrying Ignacij Kert in 1897 on her father's written consent as an under-age bride; and Marija, daughter of Urban Kozina, kmet, and Marijana Gorjanc, marrying Anton Žiherl in 1898 — an entry that carries four Kozina at once, because the groom's own dead mother was Marijana Kozina and the first witness is Janez Kozina, gruntarjev sin. Nothing joins any of them to Johann's cottage but the surname and the parish — except that Johann's own daughter is entered gruntarska hči, and he was never a gruntar in his life. They are in the people this tree does not have and nowhere else.

And Anna, born 25 July 1856, did not marry in this parish. Three Kozina brides in twenty-five years and none of them is her. That is a walked negative and not an absence of looking, which on this page is a distinction worth the two evenings it cost. She either died unmarried outside the register this archive has walked, married somewhere else, or left. Nothing further is known about her.

Two things in that entry do not sit right, and both are recorded as read. The date. The cell says «2. junija» — 2 June 1883. The entry's own documents are dated 17 June (the Stražišče notice), 21 June (the imperial-royal court at Kranj declaring the under-age bride of full age, no. 3708) and 1 July (the banns from Dobrava). A marriage cannot precede its own banns by a month, and the entry below it has the same cell and the same problem. The month is a slip; the marriage is 2 July 1883. The word gruntar. She is a farmer's daughter and Janez a farmer. Every other record of Johann Kozina — his wedding in 1833, every baptism, his death in 1868 — calls him a Häubler or kajžar, a cottager. Either the house had risen in thirty years, or a clerk reached for the better word at a wedding. The birth house and both parents' names are not in doubt.

One thing this index got wrong, and it is worth saying. It sends a reader to page 132 for Margareth Kozinar. She is on page 130, one opening earlier, in the house. Every other reference in the section landed on the page it promised. An index that is right fifteen times and wrong once is still the fastest way in — but the page number is a hint and not a fact.

And one index entry in three turned out not to be there

The baptismal index lists Kosina Dorothea — 8 and Kosina Marianna — 16 for 1813 alongside the Maria at page 84. Page 84 delivered: it is Franz and Maria's second daughter of that name. Pages 8 and 16 did not. Both were opened and the whole Namen des Vaters column of each was read at two and a half times — there is no Kosina on either page. The Dorothea on page 8 is the daughter of Anton Polzner, Inwohner, at house 12.

This is the same index that sends a reader to page 132 for Margareth Kozinar, who is on page 130. So the two 1813 entries are not wrong, they are misdirected — the children exist somewhere in the volume and the page numbers do not reach them. They are left open rather than explained away.

The scans are the archdiocese's, not ours, so they are transcribed here and linked rather than republished. Deaths 1812–1835, sig. 00894, images 4, 18, 33, 37 and 66; its index, sig. 04634, images 125–126. Baptisms 1812–1831, sig. 00885, images 4, 5, 9, 23, 43 and 55; its index, sig. 04631, image 169. Deaths 1870–1890, sig. 03916, and 1890–1911, sig. 03917, read opening by opening. All at data.matricula-online.eu.

The name

Kosina, or Kozina — and they are not the same word

The family writes Kosina, with an s, and has done for over a century. The one document that says where they came from writes it with a z.

Senj marriages, 12 January 1888, entry 1 — the groom is entered KOZINA, and his origin is given as Kranjska župa sv. Martin kod Krainburg.

That single letter carries the whole question, because the two spellings are two different words.

Kozina — goatskin

From koza, «goat». The standard dictionary of Slovene, the SSKJ², gives kozina two senses and both are the same animal: usnje iz kozje kože — leather made from goat hide — and kozje meso, goat meat.

It is an ordinary Slovene noun, and it is an ordinary Slovene surname: the Slovene Wikipedia keeps a page of notable bearers, among them the composer Marjan Kozina (1907–1966).

This is the family's own spelling in the family's own oldest record, in the hand of the priest who also wrote down that the groom came from Carniola.

Kosina — the scythe, or the blackbird

With an s it belongs to a different root: kosa, «scythe» — so a mower, a harvester, or a maker of scythes — or, on another reading of the same syllable, kos, the blackbird. The -ina ending is the ordinary Slavic «belonging to».

There is also a village called Kosina in south-eastern Poland, which gives the Polish surname Kosiński, «someone from Kosina».

None of that is this family. It is worth setting out only because it is what a search engine will tell you, and it is the wrong answer for a household that came out of a Slovene parish near Kranj.

So the honest reading is this. The older, Slovene, documented form is Kozina, and it means goatskin — a herdsman's or a tanner's word, from the same hill country the Kranj parishes sit in. Kosina is what the name became after it settled in a Croatian town, where the z softened to an s and nobody was pronouncing it as a Slovene word any more.

And that is not a footnote — it is why the family could not be found. Five spellings of Kosina had been searched against the Croatian indexes and returned nothing. The name was in the other language all along. The other names in this archive →

The question everybody asks

Is there a Kosina coat of arms? No — and here is how that was checked

Type the name into a search box and several companies will sell you a «Kosina family crest» on a scroll. They are selling a picture attached to a string of letters.

Arms are granted to a PERSON, and descend in that person's line. There has never been such a thing as a coat of arms belonging to everyone who happens to share a surname — no more for Kosina than for Smith. So the real question is narrower and answerable: was there ever an armigerous Kozina family in the lands this one comes from?

Croatia — nothing	*Ivan von Bojničić, Der Adel von Kroatien und Slavonien* (Nürnberg, 1899), the standard register of Croatian and Slavonian noble families and their arms. The full text was searched on 21 September 2026: not one Kosina and not one Kozina.** And the search is sound — the same file returns Korjenić 119 times and Kovačić 13.
Slovenia — nothing	*Plemiška heraldika na Slovenskem, the ZRC SAZU database of noble arms surviving in Slovenia. No Kozina.*

And the family's own documents say why, without any apology being needed. Martin Kozina is entered a trgovac — a merchant. His mother is a posjednica, a property-owner, and the register puts a dash where his father belongs. Pavao's godfather in 1894 was another merchant. This is a trading household out of a Carniolan hill parish, and the name itself means goatskin. None of that is armigerous. None of it is a lesser thing, either — it is simply what they were, and it is why the register can tell you so much about them.

What is real, if you want something to put on a wall. The arms of KRANJ — Krainburg, the town named in Martin's marriage entry — are a red eagle with spread wings on a silver field. And the same eagle is the ancient device of Carniola itself, the Kranjska that the register names in the very cell that told this archive where the family came from. The family has no arms. The place they came out of has a very good one.

1857 · Senj marriages, entry 52

It begins with a marriage in a front room

Before there is a Kosina here there is a Boras, and their own beginning is one of the more human entries in this archive.

Caelebs Josephus Boras, filius Denatorum Josephi et Annae Boras natae Butvalz — cum Vidua Maria … in domo privata copulate fuere.
Senj marriages, 9 February 1857, entry 52. Ages 32 and 28.

They married in a private house, by dispensation of the bishop. He is entered a bachelor, she a widow — and they already had three children. It is a legitimation: a union of some years put right in a front room under episcopal licence.

Angelika Boras follows the marriage, later in 1857. She is the one who becomes a Kosina, and she died in 1902 — before her son married, and forty-one years before the raid.

And Martin and Angelika lost two children in one year

The tree gives them two sons, Antun in 1891 and Pavao in 1894. The Senj death index gives them two more, and the tree has neither.

Who	Born and buried	Read from
Marija Kosina parish register · not yet in the family tree	1896 — 1896	Senj deaths, indexed · «Martin Kosina × Angjelina Kosina» · ark 1:1:6B47-LG4G
Josip Kosina parish register · not yet in the family tree	1896 — 1896	Senj deaths, indexed · the same household · ark 1:1:6B47-LGH2

Two infants of one household, born and buried in the same year. Between Antun in 1891 and Pavao in 1894 and these two in 1896, Martin and Angelika buried two of their four known children before either was a year old. This page has been telling the 1943 story — three of a household of seven inside thirteen months — as though it were this family's one catastrophe. It was not the first. It was the one somebody raised a stone for.

Found by audit on 23 September 2026, not by a search. Both had been sitting in the people this tree does not have since September, and no page named them.

Six generations

The descent

Two sources, one ladder — and the rows carrying a «parish register» pill are the better-evidenced half, not the weaker one.

What «the family tree» means here, because it is not obvious.

The family tree is a separate document. It is the one kept on MyHeritage — 15,643 people — and it is where almost everything on this site comes from. This archive reads it and never writes to it.

This archive also reads parish registers. When it finds somebody in a register whom the tree has never heard of, it records them beside the tree instead of quietly slipping them in — so that you can always tell which statement came from a document and which came from the tree.

So «not in the family tree» does not mean «not proven». It means nobody has typed them in yet. Look at what the two kinds of row actually cite. Martin's own row says «1841» and offers no source at all. Gertraud's gives a day, a house number and the page of the register it was read from. The people carrying a «parish register» pill are the ones with documents behind them.

What decides which side a person falls on is not evidence. It is only whether somebody has entered them into MyHeritage — and not one of the people carrying that pill has been, yet.

To add them to the family tree — what to type, and what to cite

Gertraud Kosina	b. 18 March 1814, Feichting house 10, Kranj–Šmartin. Mother of Martin. Source: Krstna knjiga Kranj–Šmartin 1812–1831, book p. 28 · NŠAL sig. 00885, image 15
Franz Kosinar	b. about 1776; m. 27 October 1800. Father of Gertraud and Johann. Source: Poročna knjiga 1780–1815 · sig. 00901, image 33
Maria «Mina» Dortschen	b. about 1780; m. 27 October 1800. Wife of Franz, and mother of at least six. Same entry. Six clerks spell the surname six ways; four of them write Dortschen and that is what should go in, with the others as a note.
Johann Kosina	b. about 1802–03; m. 6 January 1833 to Lucia Labornik. Son of Franz, brother of Gertraud. Source: Poročna knjiga 1816–1855, book p. 35 · sig. 00899, image 37
Lucia Labornik	b. about 1795; m. 6 January 1833 to Johann, aged 38; d. 30 November 1850, aged 55. Johann's wife — not Martin's blood, but the woman keeping the house he was born in. Sources: Poročna knjiga 1816–1855, book p. 35 · sig. 00899, image 37. Mrliška knjiga 1836–1869, book p. 71 · sig. 00895, image 72.
Matthäus Kosinar	b. about 1774; witness at Franz's marriage 1800; d. 16 April 1819, aged 45, Oberfeichting 14. Franz's brother — the age proves the generation, not the parents, so he should go in as Franz's sibling with the doubt written down. Source: Mrliška knjiga 1812–1835, book p. 64 · sig. 00894, image 33
Elisabeth, Maria and Valentin Kosinar	Children of Franz and Maria, baptised 18 November 1812, 8 August 1815 and 15 February 1820 and dead at five months, nine months and fourteen days. Gertraud's brother and sisters. Sources: Krstna knjiga 1812–1831, book pp. 6, 44 and 108 · sig. 00885, images 4, 23 and 55. Mrliška knjiga 1812–1835, book pp. 6, 34 and 72 · sig. 00894, images 4, 18 and 37.
Margaretha Kosinar	d. 14 March 1826, aged 45, an unmarried daughter of the cottage at Oberfeichting 9. Probably Franz's sister; unproven, and should go in as a note rather than a link. Source: Mrliška knjiga 1812–1835, book p. 130 · sig. 00894, image 66

Once they are in the tree, their pills will go away by themselves on the next build and their names will point at /people/ instead of /found/.

1775 – 1849

Franz Kosinar

b. about 1775–76 d. 22 January 1849, aged 73

Häusler at Feichting 10, and an Ausnehmer by the end

Maria «Mina» Dortschen

six clerks across thirty-three years, and four of them wrote Dortschen

b. about 1780 · still bearing children in 1820

Feichting house 10, Kranj–Šmartin, Carniola married 27 October 1800 parish register · not yet in the family tree

6 children recorded Gertraud «Gertruda» Kosina carries the line show ↓ hide ↑

Johann Kosina b. about 1802 Elisabeth Kosinar 1812 – 1813 Gertraud «Gertruda» Kosina 1814 – 1880 Carries the line Maria Kosinar 1815 – 1816 Maria Kosinar 1818 – ? Valentin Kosina 1820 – 1820

Brothers and sisters · 1 show ↓ hide ↑

Franz’s · 1

Matthaeus Kosinar1774 – 1819

Maria’s · none recorded

Her parents are not named in the marriage entry and no register of her own has been opened.

The evidence show ↓ hide ↑

Franz Kosinar. Martin's grandfather. A Häusler, and an Ausnehmer — a householder who has handed over — by the end. HE DIED AT OBERFEICHTING 9, THE HOUSE HE HELD HIMSELF IN 1820, on the evidence of his son Valentin's baptism; his son Johann was keeping it by 1833, and his grandson Martin was born in it in 1841. He did not move in with his son. He gave his son the house and stayed in it.

Maria "Mina" Dortschen. Martin's grandmother, and the mother of six children now known by name — three of whom died before they were a year old. SHE DIED IN THE HOUSE SHE HAD HANDED OVER: «Auszüglerin» is the female of the «Ausnehmer» this same register calls Franz at his own death in that house eight years later. AND HER GRANDSON MARTIN WAS BORN IN IT SEVEN MONTHS AFTER SHE DIED IN IT. Six clerks wrote her surname across thirty-three years and FOUR OF THEM WROTE «Dortschen» — 1800, 1812, 1815, 1820 — against this archive's own bracketed «Do[m]shan» of 1814 and «Tom[sh]shan» of 1833. The archive now leads with Dortschen and keeps all six.

Matthaeus Kosinar. FRANZ'S BROTHER, and for a day the archive could not say whether he was that or Franz's father. His death settles it: aged 45 in 1819 is born about 1774, and Franz was born 1775–76. He was twenty-six when he stood witness, and he could not write his own name.

Franz Kosinar — Poročna knjiga Kranj-Šmartin 1780-1815, read 22 September 2026 - "Den 27ten [8ber 1800] · Feichting b. St. Joh. · 10. · FRANZ KOSINAR · katholisch · 24 · ledig" marrying "MARIA DORTSHEN · katholisch · 20 · ledig". Witnesses "MATTHAEUS KOSINAR" and "Simon Rauth", Bauern, Matthaeus signing with a cross; married by "Matthaeus Lauts, coop.", Pfarrer St. Martin. SO HE WAS BORN ABOUT 1776 and she about 1780. Named again as "Franz Kosinar, Hueblar" at his daughter GERTRAUD's baptism, 18 March 1814 at HOUSE 10 (sig. 00885 image 15), and as "Franz Kosinar, Haeusler" in the Aeltern des Braeutigams column at his son JOHANN's marriage of 6 January 1833 (sig. 00899 image 37). He is Martin Kozina's grandfather, four generations above Hedviga. HIS OWN BAPTISM WAS LOOKED FOR ON 27 SEPTEMBER 2026 AND IS NOT IN THE INDEX. The baptismal index for 1603-1779 (sig. 04.. 00872, 146 images) is arranged by initial letter and then CHRONOLOGICALLY, giving surname, given name, the FATHER in brackets and a date - and no page number, so it finds a date and not a page. The K section runs to about image 72, where it ends at 1779. Images 71 and 72 were read in full at 3.2x and cover 1772 to 1779 without a gap. THERE IS NO FRANZ KOSINAR OR KOSINA IN 1774, 1775, 1776 OR 1777 - the window his two independent ages require (24 at his marriage in October 1800, 73 at his death in January 1849, both giving 1775-76). THAT IS NOT A CONCLUSION AND THIS ARCHIVE HAS BEEN BURNED BY TREATING IT AS ONE. An index proves what it contains and never what it omits, and this parish’s own death index for 1836-1869 missed NINE Kozina. The register itself (sig. 00883, 363 images) has NOT been walked for those four years, and until it is, "not in the index" is all this says. THE OTHER READING is that he was baptised in another parish and married in, which the 1800 marriage does not say either way. HIS DEATH, read 22 September 2026: Mrliska knjiga Kranj-Smartin 1836-1869 book p.61 - "22. - 24. [Jaenner 1849] · Ob. Feichtg · 9 · FRANZ KOSINA, Ausnehmer · katholisch · maennlich · ALTER 73 · Lungenentzuendung · versehen". DIED 22 JANUARY 1849, BURIED 24 JANUARY, AGED 73 - which puts his birth at 1775-76 and CONFIRMS the age of 24 he gave at his marriage, from a second and independent record. He is an AUSNEHMER, a retired householder living on the Ausnahm, and he died at OBERFEICHTING No. 9. CORRECTED 22 September 2026: this row said he had 'retired into his son's house'. HOUSE 9 WAS HIS OWN. His son Valentin was baptised there on 15 February 1820 with Franz entered HAUBLER, the man of the house (sig. 00885 image 55), and Elisabeth was baptised at house 9 in 1812. He held 9, his son Johann was keeping it by 1833, his grandson MARTIN WAS BORN IN IT in 1841, and he died in it as an Ausnehmer in 1849. He did not move in with his son; he handed the house over and stayed in it. The family were at house 10 in 1814-15 and at 9 before and after, so the two numbers are a move and not two households. Matricula, NSAL sig. 00901 image 33 and sig. 00895 image 62

Maria "Mina" Dortschen — Poročna knjiga 1780-1815 - "MARIA DORTSHEN, katholisch, 20, ledig", marrying Franz Kosinar on 27 October 1800, SO BORN ABOUT 1780. THE SURNAME, from six clerks across thirty-three years: "Dortshen" 1800 · "Dortschen" at Elisabeth's baptism 1812 · "Do[m]shan" at Gertraud's 1814 · "Dortschen" at Maria's 1815 · "Dortschen" at Valentin's 1820 · "Tom[sh]shan" at Johann's marriage 1833. FOUR OF THE SIX READ DORTSCHEN and the archive now leads with it; the other two are this archive's own bracketed readings and are kept as read. MINA is the short form these registers use for Marija, and one clerk writes MARINA. SIX OF HER CHILDREN ARE NOW KNOWN BY NAME: Johann about 1802, Elisabeth 1812, Gertraud 1814, Maria 1815, MARIA 1818 and Valentin 1820 - and THREE OF THE SIX died before they were a year old. THE SECOND MARIA, read 22 September 2026, is named for the sister who had died in March 1816, which is ordinary practice and is why this archive counted five for part of one evening and then six. Two index entries were long unaccounted for - Kosina Dorothea p.8 (1813) and Kosina Marianna p.16 (1813). CORRECTED 27 September 2026: this row said BOTH PAGES WERE OPENED and the whole father column of each read at 2.4x, and that THERE IS NO KOSINA ON EITHER. THAT WAS WRONG FOR PAGE 16. Re-read at nine times magnification, the entry of 12 August 1813 at house 27 gives MARIANNA, father LUKAS KOSINER, Kaischler - and she is almost certainly the Marianna Kosina who died at Breg 12 in 1840 aged 26. Two and a half times was not enough for that hand. CORRECTED AGAIN THE SAME DAY, AND FOR THE SAME REASON. For an hour this row also said PAGE 8 STILL HAS NO KOSINA, on the strength of a 3.2x pass that found two Dorotheas - house 28 to Primus Wit[nitz] and house 18 to Johann Holz. THERE ARE THREE DOROTHEAS ON PAGE 8. The third is "6. [Hornung 1813] · 12 · DOROTHEA · ehelich · Vater: ANTON KOSINER RECTE KATZIN, Inwohner · Mutter: MARGARETH ZUBERTH". The whole father column has now been read at 8x and she is the only Kosiner on it. BOTH INDEX ENTRIES ARE THEREFORE ACCOUNTED FOR - and NEITHER CHILD IS HERS: Marianna is Lukas Kosina’s, and Dorothea is Anton’s. AND ANTON’S ENTRY CARRIES A WARNING FOR THIS WHOLE FILE: RECTE marks the legal surname against the name in daily use, so the family name is KATZIN and KOSINER is what they were called - most likely after the house. A Kosina in this index is not always a Kosina in the family. SHE WAS ALIVE IN FEBRUARY 1820, at about forty, because Valentin was baptised then and entered ehelich. HER DEATH IS STILL NOT FOUND, and the search is now exhaustive for this parish: the K section of the death index for 1812-1835 (sig. 04634, images 125-126) was read end to end on 22 September 2026 and holds SIX Kozina - Elisabeth 1813 p.6, TWO Maria 1816 both p.34, Matthäus 1819 p.64, Valentin 1820 p.72, Margareth 1826 p.132 - and the two 1816 Marias are a woman of 78 and a baby of nine months, NEITHER of them her. The index for 1836-1869 (sig. 04635) holds only Franz 1849 and Luzia 1850. HER DEATH, FOUND 27 SEPTEMBER 2026 by walking the 1836-1869 register itself rather than trusting its index: Mrliska knjiga Kranj-Smartin 1836-1869 book p.27 - "1841, April · am 11. gestorben, am 13. begraben · OBERFEICHTING [ditto] · 9 · MARIA KOSINA, AUSZUGLERIN · katholisch · weiblich · ALTER 60 Jahre · Convulsionen · versehen". DIED 11 APRIL 1841, BURIED 13 APRIL, AGED 60, AT OBERFEICHTING 9. Born about 1781, which is the 20 she gave at her marriage in October 1800. AUSZUGLERIN is the female of AUSNEHMER - a householder who has handed over and lives on the Ausnahm - and it is the exact word this same register uses for FRANZ at his own death in THE SAME HOUSE eight years later (p.61, 22 January 1849, aged 73). SHE DIED IN THE HOUSE SHE HAD HANDED OVER. AND THE DATE IS THE ONE THAT MATTERS: her grandson MARTIN WAS BORN IN THAT HOUSE ON 16 NOVEMBER 1841, SEVEN MONTHS AFTER SHE DIED IN IT. THE INDEX FOR 1836-1869 DOES NOT LIST HER, and that is now the fourth positive proof that it is incomplete - it holds Franz 1849 and Luzia 1850 and nobody else, while the register itself yields Marianna 1840, MARIA 1841, Joseph 1843 and Ursula 1845/46 in the first 105 pages alone. An index proves what it contains and never what it omits. Matricula, NSAL sig. 00901 image 33, sig. 00885 images 4, 15, 23 and 55, sig. 00899 image 37

Matthaeus Kosinar — Poročna knjiga Kranj-Šmartin 1780-1815 - one of the two Beystände at the marriage of Franz Kosinar and Maria Dortschen on 27 October 1800, entered "MATTHAEUS KOSINAR" and SIGNING WITH A CROSS, so he could not write. The other witness is "Simon Rauth"; both are entered "Bauern". HIS DEATH, read 22 September 2026: Mrliška knjiga Kranj-Šmartin 1812-1835 book p.64 - "1819, den 16ten April · Ober-Feichting · 14 · MATTHÄUS KOSINA · Keischler · katholisch · männlich · ALTER 45 · Rothlauf und Brand". DIED 16 APRIL 1819, AGED 45, so born about 1774 - WHICH ANSWERS THE OPEN QUESTION. Franz was born 1775-76. Two men born a year or two apart are not father and son, so the man who stood witness in 1800 was FRANZ'S BROTHER and was twenty-six when he did it. He is the only Matthäus Kozina in the parish death index for 1812-1835. Matricula, NSAL sig. 00901 image 33 and sig. 00894 image 33

1814 – 1880

Gertraud «Gertruda» Kosina

b. baptised 18 March 1814, Feichting house 10 d. 5 March 1880, aged 65, at Zgornje Bitno 9 — the house she bore Martin in

Not named

She never married. Martin was born to her at twenty-seven, and the family tree knows her only as the name «Gertruda».

Feichting house 10, Kranj–Šmartin parish register · not yet in the family tree

1 child recorded Martin Martinus Kosina carries the line show ↓ hide ↑

Martin Martinus Kosina 1841 Carries the line

Brothers and sisters · 5 show ↓ hide ↑

Gertraud’s · 5

Johann Kosinab. about 1802 Elisabeth Kosinar1812 – 1813 Maria Kosinar1815 – 1816 Maria Kosinar the second1818 – ?Valentin Kosina1820 – 1820

On the father’s side · none recorded

Martin’s father is named in no record this archive has found.

The evidence show ↓ hide ↑

Gertraud "Gertruda" Kosina. MARTIN'S MOTHER — the «Gertruda» the tree knows only as a name, and now the only person on this page with a birth and a death both read at the page. Twenty-seven when she bore him, unmarried then and unmarried at the end, and she died in the house she bore him in, thirteen days short of sixty-six.

Gertraud "Gertruda" Kosina — Krstna knjiga Kranj-Šmartin 1812-1831, book p.28 - "den 18. Merz, Haus 10, Gertrud, ehelich, Vater: FRANZ KOSINAR, Hueblar, Mutter: MARIA DO[M]SHAN". She was 27 when she bore Martin. HER BROTHER IS JOHANN: his marriage of 6 January 1833 gives his father as "Franz Kosinar, Haeusler" and his mother as "Mina Tom[sh]shan, Haeuslerin" - the same couple. RETRACTION: on 21 September 2026 this entry was ELIMINATED here on the grounds that the surname "ends in a clear -r, so it is KOSNAR not Kosina". That was wrong. The -r is how THIS clerk writes the family name, and he writes it identically for Johann, whose own children are entered KOSINA by the next clerk. One family, two hands. HER DEATH, read 22 September 2026: Mrliska knjiga Kranj-Smartin 1870-1890, book p.69 - "5. - 7. [Marec 1880] · Zg. Bitno · 9 · JERA KOZINA, neomozena gostja · katolik · zenski · ALTER 65 let · bozjast in jetika · M. Zarnik". DIED 5 MARCH 1880, BURIED 7 MARCH, AGED 65, UNMARRIED, AT ZGORNJE BITNO 9 - THE HOUSE SHE BORE MARTIN IN. JERA is the Slovene short form of GERTRUDA. Baptised 18 March 1814, she died THIRTEEN DAYS SHORT OF HER SIXTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY, so the clerk's 65 is exact. NEOMOZENA - never married, which is what the unehelich on Martin's baptism already said. GOSTJA - a lodger, the word for a woman living in a house that is not hers, in the house her brother Johann held. The cause is "bozjast in jetika": the falling sickness and consumption. RETRACTION, THE SAME DAY: this row said for two hours that SHE LEFT THE PARISH, on the grounds that her son's Senj marriage of January 1888 carries no dagger against her name. She had been dead eight years. An absent mark is not a record. Found by reading the 1870-1890 register opening by opening after the 1890-1911 one had given nothing. Matricula, NSAL sig. 00885 image 15, sig. 00899 image 37, sig. 03916 image 72, sig. 03917 read in full

The line does not run through Johann — it runs through his sister. He is here because the house is his

1795 – 1850

Johann Kosina

b. about 1802–03

Häusler at Oberfeichting 9

Lucia Labornik

she died of the same pneumonia as her father-in-law, twenty-two months after him

b. about 1795 · d. 30 November 1850, aged 55

Oberfeichting house 9, Kranj–Šmartin married 6 January 1833 parish register · not yet in the family tree

2 children recorded show ↓ hide ↑

Anton Kosina b. 20 January 1834 Petrus Kosina b. 1836

Brothers and sisters · 5 show ↓ hide ↑

Johann’s · 5

Gertraud «Gertruda» Kosina1814 – 1880 Elisabeth Kosinar1812 – 1813 Maria Kosinar1815 – 1816 Maria Kosinar the second1818 – ?Valentin Kosina1820 – 1820

Lucia’s · none recorded

Her parents are named — Ma[thes] Labornik, Häusler, and Gertraud Mag[nishan] — and no brother or sister has been read.

The evidence show ↓ hide ↑

Johann Kosina. Martin's uncle, and the householder of the house Martin was born in — a Häubler at his wedding and a Häubler at his death thirty-five years later, in the same house both times.

Lucia Labornik. Johann's wife — Martin's aunt by marriage rather than his blood, and the woman keeping the house he was born in. She died there of the same pneumonia as her father-in-law, twenty-two months after him, and that is why Johann is beside a second wife by 1853.

Johann Kosina — Poročna knjiga Kranj-Šmartin 1816-1855, book p.35 - "1833, 6. Jaenner, Obern feichting 9, JOHANN KOSINAR, Haeusler, katholisch, 30 Jahre, ledig" marrying "LUZIA LABORNIK, 38, ledig". HIS PARENTS: "Franz Kosinar, Haeusler" and "Mina Tom[sh]shan, Haeuslerin". Born about 1802-03. THE BRIDE IS THE PROOF: Johann Kosina, Haeusler of Oberfeichting 9, had his first child with Lucia Labornik on 20 January 1834, a year and a fortnight later - so the house, the trade, the wife and the date all agree and the identification does not rest on the surname at all. Children ANTON 1834 and PETRUS 1836 at Oberfeichting 9 by Lucia Labornik; then, by a second wife URSULA SEDEJ, three daughters whose days are now all read: FRANZISKA baptised 19 September 1853, ANNA born and baptised 25 July 1856, MARIA born and baptised 7 August 1859 - six children over twenty-five years in one house, and he was about sixty-one at the last of them. CORRECTED 27 September 2026: this row said FRANZ 1853. The register says FRANCISCA and ticks Maedchen. And MARIA 1859 is new - the K section of the baptismal index was read end to end that day and it holds SIX Kozina, not five. HIS DEATH, found 27 September 2026 at the end of the walk that the index had made necessary: Mrliska knjiga Kranj-Smartin 1836-1869 book p.167 - "1868, October · 10. gestorben, 12. begraben · ZGORNJE BITNO · 9 · JOHANN KOZINA, Haubler · katholisch · maennlich · ALTER 64 Jahre · Auszehrung". DIED 10 OCTOBER 1868, BURIED 12 OCTOBER, AGED 64, AT ZGORNJE BITNO 9 - the Slovene name for Oberfeichting, and the same house. Age 64 puts his birth at about 1804 against the 30 he gave at his marriage in January 1833, which gives 1802-03: a two-year spread, which is what register ages do. He is a HAUBLER to the end, the word he carried at his wedding thirty-five years earlier. THE INDEX FOR 1836-1869 DOES NOT LIST HIM, and he is the seventh of the nine Kozina in that register that it missed. HE IS NAMED ONE LAST TIME, FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER HE DIED: at his daughter Maria’s marriage of 1883 (sig. 03919 book p.14) the bride’s parents are entered "JANEZ KOZINA, GRUNTAR, in URŠA SEDEJ" - the Slovene forms of his name and his second wife’s, and the record that joins the "unplaced" Marija Kozina of Stražišče to this household. THE WORD GRUNTAR DOES NOT FIT HIM and is recorded as read: he is a Häubler at his wedding in 1833, a Hüblar at every baptism, and a Häubler at his death in 1868. HIS SECOND MARRIAGE IS NOT IN THIS PARISH, and that was read rather than assumed. Lucia Labornik died 30 November 1850; Franziska was baptised 19 September 1853 and entered EHELICH, so the marriage to Ursula Sedej falls between those dates. Poročna knjiga Kranj-Šmartin 1816-1855 was walked for it on 28 September 2026 - book pages 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 71, which run from APRIL 1850 to FEBRUARY 1853 without a gap. THERE IS NO KOZINA MARRIAGE ON ANY OF THEM. AND THE LIKELIEST REASON IS THE ORDINARY RULE: a marriage is celebrated in the BRIDE’S parish. Johann’s first marriage is in this book because LUCIA LABORNIK was local. If URSULA SEDEJ was not, the entry - and both sets of parents with it - is in her parish’s book and not in this one. SO URSULA SEDEJ CAME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE, on the evidence of where her marriage is not. HIS TWO SONS’ BAPTISMS, OPENED IN FULL 28 September 2026, and they gave a household the archive had not seen. ANTON: "20. Jänner [1834] · Oberfeichting · 9 · ANTON · katholisch · Knaben · ehelich · Vater: JOHANN KOSINA, Häubler · Mutter: LUCIA · Paten: STEPHAN SH[E]SNAR, Hüblar, and MARIA DOLLENZ". PETRUS: "29. Juni [1836] · Oberfeichting · 9 · PETRUS · katholisch · Knaben · ehelich · Vater: [Johann] KOSINA · Mutter: LUCIA LABORNIK, written in full · Pate: JAKOB DOLENZ, signing with a cross". THE MOTHER’S SURNAME AT PETRUS’S BAPTISM IS THE CONFIRMATION - until now Lucia Labornik was known from her marriage and her death, and the two boys were hers only by inference from the house. AND THE GODPARENTS ARE A FINDING OF THEIR OWN. A DOLENC STANDS AT FOUR BAPTISMS OF THIS HOUSEHOLD ACROSS FORTY-ONE YEARS: JAKOB DOLLENZ in 1812 at Elisabeth’s, MARIA DOLLENZ in 1834 at Anton’s, JAKOB DOLENZ in 1836 at Petrus’s, and MARINA DOLENC in 1853 at Francisca’s. Jakob appears in 1812 and again in 1836, twenty-four years apart - one man, or a father and a son. KUMSTVO IS NOT A COURTESY in this culture; it is a standing bond between two households, and this is the only one this archive has documented for the Kosinar. IT ALSO GIVES A SURNAME TO SEARCH: a Dolenc marriage at Kranj-Šmartin would say how close the two families were. Matricula, NSAL sig. 00899 images 37 and 69-74, sig. 00886 images 19 and 34, sig. 03919 image 15

Lucia Labornik — Mrliska knjiga Kranj-Smartin 1836-1869, book p.71 - "30. - 2. Xbr [1850] · Ob. Feichtg · 9 · LUZIA KOSINA, Hueblersweib · katholisch · weiblich · ALTER 55 · Lungenentzuendung · versehen · Jos. Kartely". DIED 30 NOVEMBER 1850, BURIED 2 DECEMBER, AGED 55, so born about 1795 - and she was 38 at her marriage in January 1833, which gives 1794-95. THE SAME WOMAN. She is entered a Hueblers-WEIB and not a widow, which is right: Johann outlived her. AND IT EXPLAINS THE SECOND WIFE - Johann is beside Ursula Sedej by 1853 because Lucia died in 1850. Married 6 January 1833 aged 38 to Johann Kosina, Haeusler of Oberfeichting 9 (Porocna knjiga 1816-1855 p.35); her parents "Ma[thes] Labornik, Haeusler" and "Gertraud Mag[nishan]"; mother of Anton 1834 and Petrus 1836. SAME HOUSE AND SAME DISEASE AS FRANZ, twenty-two months apart. Matricula, NSAL sig. 00899 image 37 and sig. 00895 image 72

1841

Martin Martinus Kosina

b. 1841, Oberfeichting house 9

Angelika Boras

Carniola, and then Senj married 12 January 1888 · Senj marriages, page 209, entry 1

2 children recorded Pavao Kosina carries the line show ↓ hide ↑

Antonius Joannes "Antun" Kosina 13 MAY 1891 – 22 MAY 1925 Pavao Kosina 15 MAR 1894 – 8 OCT 1943 Carries the line

The evidence show ↓ hide ↑

The family tree begins here, and going up it stops here: it holds Martin, and above him only the word «Gertruda». Everything above this row was read out of the parish registers of Kranj–Šmartin on 21 and 22 September 2026.

1894 – 1943

Pavao Kosina

b. 15 March 1894, Senj d. 8 October 1943

Anka Blažević

daughter of Juraj Blažević and Tereza Žubrinić — and Ljubomir’s sister, which makes her Hedviga’s aunt

b. 1893 · d. 1953

Senj

5 children recorded Antun Anton Kosina carries the line show ↓ hide ↑

Otilija Kosina 1920 – 1943 Antun Anton Kosina 11 FEB 1921 – 23 JUN 2003 Carries the line Oskar Kosina 4 SEP 1922 – 1954 Neda Kosina 1924 – 7 SEP 1943 Krizan Kosina 3 MAY 1940 – 22 JAN 1941

Brothers and sisters · 4 show ↓ hide ↑

Pavao’s · 1

Antonius Joannes "Antun" Kosina13 MAY 1891 – 22 MAY 1925

Anka’s · 3

Ljubomir "Ljubo" Blažević1892–1966 Marijan Blažević1895 Ruza Blazevic1897

The evidence show ↓ hide ↑

THIS IS THE JOINT. Anka is the archive’s own blood and Pavao married her, so the five children below are Hedviga’s first cousins — and three of them were lost within thirteen months of each other in 1943.

1921 – 2003

Antun Anton Kosina

b. 11 February 1921 d. 23 June 2003

Not named

No marriage is recorded for him in the family tree.

1 child recorded show ↓ hide ↑

Paula

Brothers and sisters · 4 show ↓ hide ↑

Antun’s · 4

Otilija Kosina1920 – 1943 Oskar Kosina4 SEP 1922 – 1954 Neda Kosina1924 – 7 SEP 1943 Krizan Kosina3 MAY 1940 – 22 JAN 1941

On the mother’s side · none recorded

Recorded on his mother Anka’s row above, and not repeated here.

The evidence show ↓ hide ↑

He outlived the three who died in 1943 by sixty years, and it is his daughter who is named below.

And the other who went on — out of Senj altogether

1922 – 1954

Oskar Kosina

b. 4 September 1922, Senj d. 1954, Buenos Aires

Not named

He came in on the Philippa already married, and the family tree holds his wife without a name.

Senj, and then Argentina

1 child recorded show ↓ hide ↑

Ivan Christian

Brothers and sisters · 4 show ↓ hide ↑

Oskar’s · 4

Otilija Kosina1920 – 1943 Antun Anton Kosina11 FEB 1921 – 23 JUN 2003 Neda Kosina1924 – 7 SEP 1943 Krizan Kosina3 MAY 1940 – 22 JAN 1941

On the mother’s side · none recorded

Recorded on his mother Anka’s row above, and not repeated here.

THE FAMILY TREE STOPS AT MARTIN. THE DOCUMENTS DO NOT. Everything from Martin down was already in the tree. The six above him were read out of the parish registers of Kranj–Šmartin in Carniola on 21 and 22 September 2026, and they are listed in the people this tree does not have — which is exactly what that page is for.

Every name in the ladder above is a link now, and on 22 September it was not. Publication was Hedviga's blood, so Anka Blažević's children had pages while Martin, the elder Antun and Pavao — who married into the family or fathered into it — had none, even though this archive had read more documents for Pavao and Martin than for most people who did. The rule gained two more doors that day. A person this archive has opened a page for gets a page, listed in sources/documented.psv; and the parents of every published person, to the root, because a page that says «child of X» must be able to link X. 1,460 people became 1,903 that afternoon, and the archive publishes 1,833 today — the two numbers are not the same thing and this page will not pretend they are. 1,903 is what the change did; the live figure moves every time the tree is swept.

12 January 1888 · Senj marriages, page 209, entry 1

Where they came from, in one cell of one page

For as long as this archive has held the Kosina, the question above Martin has been blank. His baptism is in no index anywhere in the world and his mother appears in exactly one record. The answer was never going to come from a search box — it was in the Locus Originis column of his own marriage.

Senj marriage register, 12 January 1888, Martin Kozina and Angjelika Boras — Senj marriages, page 209, entry 1 — *1888 dne 12 siečnja*. The scan had been in this archive's own media library, unread, for weeks.

Kranjska župa sv. Martin kod KRAINBURG

Kranjska is Carniola. Krainburg is the German name of Kranj. So Martin Kozina was born in the parish of St Martin near Kranj — in what is now SLOVENIA, about 1841, and came down to the Croatian coast as a trgovac, a merchant. He was 47 and a bachelor when he married; Angjelika Boras of Senj was 30.

It explains every dead end at once. No Croatian baptism, because he was not baptised in Croatia. The surname spelled Kozina with a z, which is the Slovene spelling and the reason five spellings of Kosina found nothing. And his mother called Gertruda — a German name that looks wrong on the Velebit coast and is ordinary in a Habsburg crownland whose towns carried German names.

His parents	Gertruda Kozina, posjednica — a property-owner — and a dash where the father should be
Her parents	Josip Boras, gradski stražar, a city watchman, and *Maria rodjena* Kabalin**
Witnesses	Mile Crnković, trgovac — and Ivan Boras, kr. pomorske straže nadstojnik, superintendent of the royal maritime guard. The bride's brother, signing at her wedding
Banns	By dispensation of the Senj Ordinariate, 7 January 1888, no. 38 — read once instead of three, as at the Boras marriage of 1857

1919

How this household joins the Blažević line

One marriage carries it, and it is worth drawing rather than describing. Anka Blažević was Ljubomir's sister — both children of Juraj Blažević and Tereza Žubrinić — so she was Hedviga's aunt, and the five Kosina children below were Hedviga's first cousins. Three of them did not survive 1943.

Parents

Juraj / Georgius / Jure "Geōrgius George" Blazevic Tereza Žubrinić Zubrinic1867–1931

Anka Blažević7 OCT 1893–6 SEP 1953

marriedPavao Kosina1894–1943

5 Kosina children

Otilija Kosina1920–1943 Antun Anton Kosina1921–2003 Oskar Kosina1922–1954 Neda Kosina1924–1943 Krizan Kosina1940–1941

3 siblings

Ljubomir "Ljubo" Blažević1892–1966 Marijan Blažević1895 Ruza Blazevic1897

Ljubomir is on the direct line; Hedviga is the generation below him. Everyone drawn here who has a page of their own is linked.

Anka Blažević marries Pavao Kosina

On 20 November 1919, at Senj. She was a tobacco-factory worker, as her sister-in-law Milka was. She was born 7 October 1893, the daughter of Juraj Blažević and Tereza Žubrinić, and the sister of Hedviga's father.

Five children followed in the next five years, and then a long gap, and then one more: Otilija (1920 – 1943), Antun Anton (11 FEB 1921 – 23 JUN 2003), Oskar (4 SEP 1922 – 1954), Neda (1924 – 7 SEP 1943), Krizan (3 MAY 1940 – 22 JAN 1941).

15 March 1894 · Senj births, page 223, entry 37

The parish wrote his death in the margin of his birth

The fourth Kosina scan had been in this archive's own library since 9 September and had never been opened. It is the most complete single document this family has.

Senj baptismal register, page 223, entry 37 — Pavao Kosina, 1894 — Senj births, page 223. Entry 37 is the sixth row down.

Born	1894, ožujak 15 — 15 March, as the tree has it.
Baptised	travanj 16 — 16 April 1894, a month and a day later. Most children on this page were christened within a fortnight.
Name	Pavao — and above it, in a later hand, † 8. X. 1943.
Parents	zakonit — legitimate. Martin Kosina i Angjelika r. Boras, of Senj.
Godparents	*Mihael Bosco, trgovac, i Franjo Berčić.*
Baptised by	Vinko Margan, kapelan.
Margin	«vjenčan dne 20. XI. 1919»

The death is the thing. Until today the only authority for 8 October 1943 was the stone his wife and sons raised — and this archive's own rule is that a gravestone is a memorial, not a register. Now the register says it too, written above his name in the book that recorded his birth forty-nine years earlier. The two agree to the day.

And the marriage, for the third time. A reading, an index and an annotation — three separate books — all give 20 November 1919. The bride in the margin is written «Antom» or «Ankom», one letter in a hand that appears twice on the page and nowhere else. The person is not in doubt; the letter is.

The godfather was another merchant. Martin Kosina was a trgovac and a Slovene incomer; Bosco is an Italian surname. That is Senj's commercial class in a single line, and it is where to look if this family is ever traced sideways instead of upwards.

1940–1943 · thirteen months

What happened to this household

Read the dates in order and the page stops being a genealogy.

22 January 1941	Križan, born the previous May, dies at eight months old.
7 September 1943	Neda dies, aged nineteen. Her stone says what of: *žrtva zračnog napada* — a victim of an air attack. A month before the October raid, so Senj was bombed more than once.
7–8 October 1943	German aircraft bomb Senj, killing thirty local residents and twenty-two others and destroying about half the town.
8 October 1943	Pavao Kosina is killed, on the second day.
11 November 1943	Otilija dies, aged twenty-three — five weeks after her father, and her stone does not call her a victim of anything. She was *čin. Velike župe*, a clerk of the wartime administrative region.

Three of a household of seven, inside thirteen months. Anka outlived them all by a decade and died in 1953.

Senj cemetery · the second Kosina stone

OTILIJA i NEDA

The two daughters have a wall plaque of their own, a few steps from their father's. It is the document that gave this page every date in the table above, and it arrived from the family on 21 September 2026.

The marble plaque of Otilija and Neda Kosina in the Senj cemetery — Senj cemetery. Read here at four times magnification, one line at a time — which is how the day of Otilija's death turned out to be the eleventh and not the fourteenth.

Ovdje počivaju u miru Božjem
OTILIJA i NEDA KOSINA
čin. Velike župe ✻ 1920. † 11.11.1943.
maturantica, žrtva zračnog napada ✻ 1924. † 7.IX.1943.
VLČ. ANTE ✻ 1921 † 2003 — IN MEMORIAM — OSKAR ✻ 1922 † 1954
Prerano ste rekle zbogom svijete.
snivajte slatko anđeli moji.
Raztužena Majka i Braća.

“Here rest in God's peace Otilija and Neda Kosina. Otilija, clerk of the Velika župa. Neda, a school-leaver, a victim of an air attack. Too soon you said goodbye, O world; sleep sweetly, my angels. The saddened Mother and Brothers.”

Two words are worth the magnification on their own. Svijete is a vocative — the line is spoken to the world, not to the girls. And Raztužena is rastužena cut with a z, the older spelling, in a hand that also wrote siečnja and napadaja.

Read the four names as a sequence and the plaque has been cut three times. Majka i Braća raised it for two sisters in 1943 — so Anka, Ante and Oskar. Then Oskar's own dates went on it after 1954, and Ante's after 2003, both under IN MEMORIAM, because neither of them lies there: Oskar died in Buenos Aires, and Ante is buried at his grandmother's grave — the one he had restored in 1991. He outlived every person named on the plaque he helped to raise, and then went into a different grave in the same cemetery.

The stone says it outright

«Nevina žrtva»

The Kosina grave at Senj, naming Pavao Kosina as a victim of the air raid — The Kosina plot, Senj. Three portrait medallions below the inscription.

Ovdje počiva u miru Božjem
PAVAO KOSINA
✳ 15.III.1894. · pog. 8.X.1943.
Nevina žrtva zračnog napadaja na Senj
U znak sjećanja podiže — zahvalna supruga i sinovi

“Here rests in God's peace Pavao Kosina, born 15 March 1894, killed 8 October 1943. An innocent victim of the air raid on Senj. Raised in memory by his grateful wife and sons.”

Pog. is poginuo — the word kept for a violent death rather than an ordinary one. The family did not merely record the date. They said what it was, on stone, in a town that had just lost half its buildings. The raid →

After

What the survivors did

Argentina

Oskar Kosina died at Buenos Aires on 15 January 1954, aged thirty-one, eleven years after the raid — his printed memorial card gives the day. He left a son, Ivan Christian. He may be living, so this archive gives a given name and nothing else.

The card reads ✻ 4. IV. 1922 — the fourth of April — where the tree says 4 September. The day agrees and the month does not, and the two candidates are IV and IX. A card set by a grieving family in Argentina is not a register; neither is a tree. Recorded, not resolved.

Printed memorial card for Oskar Kosina, 1922-1954 — His memorial card, printed in Argentina. Supplied already digitally enhanced, so the tone is not the card's own.

It is the second documented destination of this family after Port Pirie, and it fits: of the sixty-nine people in the world spelling the name Zubrinic, twenty-nine are in Argentina.

Germany

Antun Kosina (1921–2003) — the eldest surviving son, the one who was twenty-two when his father was killed — became a priest. His cross reads vlč., velečasni: Reverend. He has a published career, and it is the best-documented life on this page — see below.

Studio portrait of Antun Kosina in a cassock and Roman collar — vlč. Ante Kosina. Undated and with no reverse, but the age puts it near his ordination — the priesthood as a photograph rather than an abbreviation on a cross.

He had a daughter, Paula. She may be living, so this archive gives a given name and nothing else — no surname, no date, no place. A surname and a first name and a country together are an identification, and named-bare was always meant to mean enough that the family knows who is meant and not enough that a stranger can go looking.

1958–1985 · Kaiserslautern, Ludwigshafen, and a good deal of road

What he did with the rest of his life

He was twenty-two when his father was killed and his two sisters died within five weeks. A household of seven became three. What Ante Kosina did next is the best-documented life on this page, and it is not documented by this family — it is in the German and Croatian church press, because he spent forty years being useful to strangers.

Na području Ludwigshafena je 1958. iz Rima došao vlč. Anton Kosina, svećenik tadašnje Riječko-senjske nadbiskupije. Vlč. Kosina se smjestio na području Kaiserslauterna. Tada je u Njemačkoj bilo samo šest hrvatskih svećenika, pa je pastoralno djelovao u više pokrajina. «In 1958 vlč. Anton Kosina came to the Ludwigshafen area from Rome, a priest of the then Rijeka-Senj archdiocese. He settled around Kaiserslautern. There were then only six Croatian priests in Germany, so he worked pastorally across several provinces.»

Read that number again. Six priests, for the whole of West Germany. He was not given a parish; he was given a share of a country. For nine years the job was a car, a case and a Mass wherever Croatians had gathered.

Then 1967, and everything changed at once. The first great wave of Croatian workers — the Gastarbeiter — arrived in the chemical towns of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, BASF country, where the Wirtschaftswunder ran on other people's hands. He moved to meet them, and founded the Hrvatska katolička misija there, under the patronage of Blessed Alojzije Stepinac. He led it from its founding in 1967 until 1985 — eighteen years.

And he was a year ahead of it. West Germany and Yugoslavia signed their labour recruitment treaty at Belgrade in 1968 — the first such agreement between a NATO state and a non-aligned communist one, and the thing that turned a trickle of Croatian workers into a flood. Kosina founded the mission in 1967. He had been driving those roads for nine years and he could see what was coming before the governments had signed for it.

What that mission actually was

It is easy to read «mission» as a building. For the people who came off those trains it was the one room in Germany where the language was theirs — a Mass they could follow, a baptism and a funeral done properly, catechism for children who were growing up German, and a priest who could read a German letter for you. He turned a travelling chaplaincy into an institution, and it outlived him by decades.

It seeded others	«Više godina prije osnutka HKM Karlsruhe u tom gradu i okolici pastoralno je djelovao vlč. Anton Kosina iz Ludwigshafena.» Karlsruhe got its own mission on 3 October 1970 — on ground he had been working for years. Mannheim, Mosbach and Speyer were served the same way before they stood on their own.
He brought help	vlč. Marijan Bevanda (1970–1971) and vlč. Milivoj Galić (1971–1978), both of the Mostar-Duvno diocese, came to assist him as the community outgrew one man.
He handed it on	On 1 August 1985 to fra Ljubo Sesar, who held it for thirty-one years, to 2016 — so the thing Ante Kosina started has had three leaders in sixty years.
It is still there	About four thousand people. It celebrates at St Hedwig in Ludwigshafen, in the Franciscan sisters' chapel at Kaiserslautern, at St Joseph in Speyer and at Our Lady of Peace in Homburg — still saying Mass in the town where he began in 1958.

And the church in Ludwigshafen is dedicated to St Hedwig. It is a coincidence and nothing more — the parish was there long before he was. But the mission that Ante Kosina founded says its Sunday Mass in the church of Sveta Hedviga, and the first cousin he grew up alongside in Senj, the woman this whole archive is built around, was Hedviga.

There is a shape to it that is worth saying plainly. A war took his father and his sisters out of one small Adriatic town and scattered what was left — one brother to Buenos Aires, a nephew after him, and Ante himself to Rome. Twenty years later he spent his working life meeting other people's trains: Croatians leaving home for work rather than for their lives, and someone waiting for them who spoke the language. He of all people knew what it was to arrive somewhere and know no one.

Then he went home. In 1991, in his seventies, he was back in Senj having his grandmother's grave repaired, and he put his name at the foot of it. He died in 2003, and he was buried in that grave — a wooden cross against the stone reads OVDJE POČIVA U MIRU BOŽJEM · vlč. ANTUN KOSINA · ✱ 1921 † 2003. He is named on his sisters' plaque as well, under IN MEMORIAM. He mended his grandmother's grave and then went into it. The stone and the cross →

What is documented, and what is only claimed

Everything above is from four published sources — the Croatian church agencies IKA and KTA, CroExpress, and the HKM Mittelbaden mission's own history of Karlsruhe — all reachable and all quoted in the register of what has been searched.

Several things now circulating about him are in none of them. That he reached Rome in 1945; that he was ordained in 1948; that his first German years were spent among post-war refugees; that the 1985 handover was a transfer from diocesan clergy to the Franciscan Province of Ss Cyril and Methodius; and that he died on 3 July 2003. Every one of them is plausible and not one of them is sourced. They come from generative search summaries, one of which gave his arrival in Germany as 1959 where every real source says 1958 — and gave itself away by saying 1958 two paragraphs earlier.

They are kept, because they are good questions. An ordination year and a death date are exactly what a diocesan archive can confirm or deny in one line. They are not published as facts, and the stone gives the year 2003 on its own authority.

The two doors worth knocking on are the mission itself and the archdiocese. HKM Ludwigshafen will hold its own founding records and very probably a photograph of him; the Riječka nadbiskupija and the Hrvatski dušobrižnički ured in Frankfurt would each hold an obituary for 2003 and his ordination year. A letter to the mission is drafted and has not been sent, and it asks first for a photograph the family may publish.

9 October 1947 · Buenos Aires, port arrival books

Oskar came in on the Philippa, and he was already married

This page said, earlier today, that the Argentine trail was empty. It was empty because the right database had not been searched.

KOSINA · OSCAR · 25 · C · YUGOSLAVA/S.H.S. · SEGKA · COLONO · 1947/10/09 · PHILIPPA · GENOVA CEMLA — the Buenos Aires port arrival books, 4.4 million people, 1882–1960.

9 October 1947	His arrival, which this archive did not have at all. He died six years and three months later.
Aged 25	Born about 1922 — agrees with the tree and with his memorial card.
«SEGKA»	SEGNA — the Italian name for SENJ. A Buenos Aires clerk writing an Italian form of a Croatian town, which is what you get when the man boarded at Genoa.
«COLONO»	Settler — the visa class for post-war agricultural immigration, which is how displaced Europeans entered Argentina in 1947.
From GENOA	The route out of the Italian displaced-persons camps. Not a voyage from home. An exit.
«C» — CASADO	HE WAS ALREADY MARRIED ON THE DAY HE LANDED.

That last one changes the work. This archive has been looking for Oskar's wife in Buenos Aires, on the assumption that a man of twenty-five arriving alone married there. He did not. He married in Europe — in the camps or in Croatia — and she travelled with him, followed him, or is on the same manifest under her maiden name. So the next document is not an Argentine marriage register. It is the passenger list of the Philippa, 9 October 1947.

And he was not the only Kosina on that ship

KOSINA · FRAJNO · 47 · C · CROATA (HRVATSKA) · AGRONOMO · 1947/04/01 · PHILIPPA · GENOVA

FRAJNO is FRANJO. Born about 1900, married, an agronomist — the same ship, the same port, six months earlier. Two men of one surname on one vessel in one year by one exit route is not coincidence; it is a family or a network, and probably both.

Is he a brother? Martin Kozina and Angjelika Boras had sons in 1891 and 1894, and she died in 1902 — so a son born about 1900 is possible. It is possible and it is not established, and he is filed as exactly that in the people this tree does not have.

One detail of his is worth keeping. His nationality is entered «CROATA (HRVATSKA)» where every other Yugoslav on these pages is «YUGOSLAVA/S.H.S.». In April 1947 that is a man telling a clerk what he was, and the clerk writing it down.

The other rows, and one that had to be checked

10 April 1911	A whole household off the Sofia Hohenberg from Trieste, all «AUSTRIACO - DALMATA»: Gerko 30 and Clara 25, with Anka 4, Irma 4, Ojeskoslaio 2 and Gelka 0. Gerko is Jerko, Ojeskoslaio is Vjekoslav, Gelka is Jelka; the two four-year-olds are twins or an age is wrong. Croatian names, Adriatic Austrians — and nothing but the surname joins them to this family.
30 November 1928	Ivan Kosina, 27 and single, from Hamburg, born «Velic», a farm labourer. He is NOT Ivan Christian. Oskar's son was born in Argentina after October 1947; this man was born about 1901. The names collide and the dates cannot. It was checked.
15 January 1929	Michal Kosina, 42, Polish, from Cherbourg — the Kosina of the Subcarpathian village, and no relation.
Twelve rows	No wife and no son. She would be under her maiden name; he was not born yet. Ivan and Michal each appear twice — CEMLA indexes some arrivals from two books.

The z-spelling was run too, and it is a clean negative

KOZINA returns 23 rows and not one of them is this family — which is worth as much as the find, because it tells you which spelling to stop searching.

Bijača	Spelled BIJACA, BJOCAR, BEJACA and BYCA by four different clerks — a village in Herzegovina. Ladislav 1927, Jozo and Jure 1928, Bqne and Krunko 1930. An emigration village, and not ours.
Derventa	In Bosnia. Lovro 26 and Jela 23 with their baby Maria, arriving together on 11 March 1948 off the Cordoba from Hamburg, and Petar, 70 and a widower, three months behind them. The baby's birthplace is entered BAGNOLI — the displaced-persons camp at Naples — and her nationality Italiana. A child born in the camp on the way out.
The rest	Polish (Piotr of Zawoja, Rudolf of Świątoławiec), one Slovene (Franc of Dolenja Vas, 1930), and two unplaceable. Nothing touches Senj or Kranj.
And COSINA	The Spanish phonetic form gives five rows and not one of them is Slavic — Clemente 1884 and Nicola 1922, both italiana out of Genoa; José 1907, española; Nicolina 1908, levantina. Cosina is an Italian and Spanish surname in its own right, not a mangling of ours. Which is the useful part: the clerks were not turning Kosina into Cosina. They were writing Kosina.

So the older, Slovene z is not how they were written in Argentina. Oskar went in as KOSINA, with the s the family still uses.

And CAUSINA, the last variant, returns one row — Ramón Causina, Spanish, 1905, out of Barcelona. Which means CEMLA is worked out: four spellings, forty-one rows, and exactly one of them is this family. The database has been asked everything it can answer. Everything further is on the page of the book rather than in the index, and the page has been asked for.

AND HIS WIFE IS NOT IN THE BOOKS. He landed married on 9 October 1947 and no Kosina woman appears at all, under either spelling. So she did not travel under his name. She is indexed under her maiden name, or she came by a route these books do not cover — or she did not come. That is a question this archive could not even ask yesterday.

Four things left, in order of promise. 1. The manifest of the Philippa, 9 October 1947 — his wife is on it. 2. KOZINA, COSINA, CAUSINA run through CEMLA as well; only KOSINA has been. 3. The reverse of his memorial card, never scanned, which on a card of that date almost certainly reads «Ožalošćena obitelj: supruga … sin …» — the widow's name. 4. The Croatian chaplaincy in Buenos Aires, where fra Leonard Rusković served from 1929 until his death in 1958 and therefore buried him.

CEMLA is free and behind a CAPTCHA, which this archive will not answer, so the search was run by hand by the account holder. Everything tried, with what it gave →

1991 · forty-eight years later

And then a Kosina went back and mended a grave

In the Senj cemetery stands the stone of Tereza Žubrinić (1867–1931) — Hedviga's grandmother, and one of the sixteen people on this archive's direct line. She was Anka's mother, so she was Antun Kosina's grandmother too.

Sepia studio portrait of a woman in a dark blouse with a pale piped collar and a hoop
earring, hair drawn back — **Tereza Žubrinić (1867–1931)** — Hedviga's grandmother, Anka's mother, and Antun Kosina's grandmother. A studio portrait, undated and with no photographer's mark; the crease and the ink stroke across the cheek are on the print. From the family's own collection by way of MyHeritage. **The attribution is the family's, not a document's.**

A granite tomb in Senj cemetery reading KASUMOVIĆ ZORICA and BLAŽEVIĆ TEREZA, with a
wooden cross standing in front of it — Senj municipal cemetery, photographed **9 October 2024**. **KASUMOVIĆ ZORICA † 1916** above **BLAŽEVIĆ TEREZA ✱ 1867 † 1931** — Tereza under her married name — and at the foot, faint in the granite, *OBNOVIO POP ANTE KOSINA ~ 1991*.

OVDJE POČIVAJU U MIRU BOŽJEM …
and at the foot:
OBNOVIO POP ANTE KOSINA ~ 1991

“Restored by Fr. Ante Kosina, 1991.”

The son of the man killed in 1943 — by then a priest in his seventies — went back and had his grandmother's stone repaired, and put his name on it as the man who did it. That line is the only reason the name Kosina was anywhere in this archive's own records before the Carniolan research began: a footnote on somebody else's grave, read off a photograph in October 2024.

And the same photograph says where he is

Standing against that tomb is a wooden cross with a black plaque. It is in the frame of the photograph above, and it was not transcribed when the stone was.

OVDJE POČIVA U MIRU BOŽJEM
vlč. ANTUN KOSINA
✱ 1921 † 2003

Corrected 23 September 2026

This page has said in two places that Antun Kosina does not lie in Senj — that he is on his sisters' plaque under IN MEMORIAM because he died elsewhere.

«POČIVA» is singular: here rests. Not the POČIVAJU of the stone behind it, and not an in memoriam. The two facts sit together without contradicting each other — he is remembered on his sisters' stone and buried at his grandmother's.

He restored this grave in 1991 and was buried in it in 2003. His name was never cut into the granite; the wooden marker is all there is, and it was still standing twenty-one years later when the photograph was taken.

The archive has held this photograph since October 2024 and read the stone out of it in September 2026 without reading the cross in front of it. It also transcribed a second wooden cross at the foot of the same tomb — Branko Blažević, 1957–2023 — and stepped over this one. A photograph is not read until everything in it is.

The reading that produced this household is written out in full. notes/the-k-section-gave-a-household.md is the account of the evening the archive went to book page 34 for one woman's death and came back with ten people: what was cropped, at what magnification, in what order, and which readings were wrong first. It is kept because the method is the transferable part. The names below belong to this family; cropping one surname column and tiling five openings to a sheet belongs to anybody with a register and an evening.

Franz Kosinar's own baptism is not where it should be

He is the oldest man on this page with a date: born 1775–76 on two independent ages — the 24 he gave at his marriage in October 1800 and the 73 at his death in January 1849. So his baptism belongs in the Kranj–Šmartin register for 1747–1779, and that volume has an index.

The index (sig. 00872) is arranged by initial letter and then chronologically, giving the surname, the given name, the father in brackets and a date — and no page number, so it finds a date rather than a page. Its K section runs to about image 72, where it stops at 1779. Images 71 and 72 were read end to end and cover 1772 to 1779 without a gap.

There is no Franz Kosinar in 1774, 1775, 1776 or 1777. And that is not a conclusion. This page has been burned twice this week by treating a silence as a fact: the death index for 1836–69 lists two Kozina where the register holds nine, and page 16 of the 1812–31 baptisms was called empty twice before it gave up a Kosiner. The register itself — sig. 00883, 363 images — has not been walked for those four years, and until it is, not in the index is the whole of what this says. The other reading is that he was baptised in another parish and married in, which the 1800 entry does not settle either way.

A Dolenc stands at four baptisms of this house across forty-one years

The godparent columns were opened for Anton 1834 and Petrus 1836 — and read together with the two already known, they give the only standing relationship this archive has documented for the Kosinar.

Baptism	The child	The Dolenc who stood
18 Nov 1812	Elisabeth, Franz's daughter	JAKOB DOLLENZ, with Elisabeth — both signing with a cross
20 Jan 1834	Anton, Johann's son	MARIA DOLLENZ, with Stephan Sh[e]snar, Hüblar
29 Jun 1836	Petrus, Johann's son	JAKOB DOLENZ, signing with a cross
19 Sep 1853	Francisca, Johann and Ursula's	MARINA DOLENC, with Johann Pevc

Jakob appears in 1812 and again in 1836 — twenty-four years apart, one man or a father and a son. Kumstvo is not a courtesy in this culture. It is a standing bond between two households, renewed at each birth, and it is the closest thing to kinship that is not kinship. Four baptisms across forty-one years is not a coincidence of neighbours. It also gives a surname worth searching: a Dolenc marriage at Kranj–Šmartin would say how close the two families actually were.

And Petrus's entry settles something quietly. His mother is written LUCIA LABORNIK in full. Until that column was opened, Anton and Petrus were Lucia's children only by inference from the house — Johann married her in January 1833 and the boys are at his house in 1834 and 1836. Now the register says it.

And the last unknown woman in the house turns out to have owned it

Ursula Sedej bore Johann three daughters and this archive knew nothing else about her — no age, no parents, no village. Her marriage to Johann is not in the Kranj–Šmartin book: the 1816–1855 register was walked across book pages 66 to 71, April 1850 to February 1853, and holds no Kozina. A marriage is celebrated in the bride's parish, so she came from outside — which was as far as the negative could take it.

Then the 1856–1881 volume was walked in full for a different question, and five openings from the end:

28 May 1873
Ženin: Zgornje Bitno 72 · MARTIN BRENK, gost · 48 · vdovec
Nevesta: Zgornje Bitno 9 · URŠULA SEDEJ, po ranjcim možu KOZINA, POSESTNICA · 46 · vdova
Roditelja nevestina: ANDREJ SEDEJ, gruntar na novi Oslici, in JERA ROJE · Roditelja ženinova: Anton Brenk, gruntar, in Maria Ravnikar · priči Janez Bašar and Lorenc Brenk, both signing with a cross

Johann's widow, remarrying five years after he died — and a second marriage names parents exactly as a first one does.

Four things, and the archive had none of them. Her age. Forty-six in 1873, so born about 1826–27 — about twenty-seven when Franziska was born, thirty-three at Maria. Her parents. ANDREJ SEDEJ and JERA ROJE, a generation nobody had reached. Where she came from. Her father is a gruntar na novi Oslici — NOVA OSELICA, in the Poljane valley south-west of Škofja Loka, twenty-five kilometres off and in another parish. The negative had said somewhere else; this says where. And what she had become. POSESTNICA — a property owner — at Zgornje Bitno 9. Johann died a Häubler in October 1868. Five years later his widow holds the house in her own name.

And that last fact settles something this page flagged and could not explain. At her daughter Mina's marriage in 1883 the bride is «gruntarska hči» and Janez Kozina «gruntar» — against every other record of a man who was a kajžar all his life. Her mother's father was a gruntar and her mother was a posestnica. The household had risen, and the clerk of 1883 wrote what it had become rather than what Johann had been. The contradiction was real and it was not an error.

The same walk closes Anton and Petrus, in the negative. All ninety-four openings of the 1856–1881 marriages are now read, and Johann's two sons by Lucia Labornik marry in no page of it — the volume that covers their twenties and thirties. They are in no death register this archive has walked either. They left.

Nova Oselica, opened the same evening — and it did not settle

Eleven volumes, confirmed free on Matricula, no login. Neither register has a name index, so this was a walk rather than a lookup, and it did not reach the end.

Sedej is confirmed as a real, resident family there. Gertraud Sedej and Catharina Sedej are mothers of two different brides marrying in January 1827; Agnes Sedej stands godmother the same years — different women, one surname, the ordinary evidence of a settled household rather than a single family.

And an Andre Sedej turns up as a father — «½ Hüblor», wife MARIA BRIZ, a child baptised about 1829–30. The wife's name does not match. Two readings are open and neither is settled: a different Andrej Sedej of the same parish and generation, or Maria Briz is a first wife who died before Jera Roje married him — exactly the pattern this page has already documented once, forty kilometres away at Johann Kozina's own house.

Ursula's own baptism was not found. The baptismal register was walked from 1826 to 1834; the marriage register's final pages for 1824–1826 and its opening pages for 1826–1828. Four Sedej women and three Sedej men turn up as parents and godparents across that decade — this is a settled kin-group, not one household — but no Ursula Sedej, and no Andrej Sedej × Jera Roje marriage, anywhere in it.

And Roje is confirmed too, independently. The same walk gives a mother entered «Agnes Roj[s]ka» — the adjectival form these clerks give a woman surnamed Roje. A different, unrelated case; but both halves of «Jera Roje» now belong to this parish, not one verified name propping up an invented one. The order worth trying next is set out at work-list row 78.

And this household has been written up for the rest of the estate. Seven other archives share this family tree and none of them knew these people existed. notes/the-kozina-of-zgornje-bitnje.md is the hand-off: the line as read, the three rules it cost — an index proves only what it contains, the magnification that shows a column has names in it is not the one that reads them, and a married woman is not always under her maiden name — and the five things still open. It matters to them for one reason above the others: Kranj–Šmartin is on Matricula, free, and needs no login. Every other archive in this estate is waiting on FamilySearch for something. This parish is open right now.

What is not known, and is worth asking for

ANSWERED	Martin's father. This row used to say that Senj baptisms are filmed from 1734 and nobody had looked. Martin was not baptised in Senj. He was baptised at Kranj–Šmartin on 16 November 1841, and the register puts the tick in unehelich and leaves the Vater column blank. There is no father to find in a baptismal register — only, possibly, in a paternity acknowledgement or a later marriage, and neither has surfaced.
Maria Dortschen's death	The last of the six Carniolans without one, and the parish indexes for 1812–1835 and 1836–1869 have both been read end to end. She is in neither. Next: the death registers of 1870–1890 and 1890–1911.
ANSWERED	Otilija died 11 November 1943 and Neda was the air-raid victim, 7 September. Both off the family's own gravestone, sent 21 September 2026. This row asked which of them died with their father: neither did.
Which raid killed Neda	Her stone says žrtva zračnog napada on 7 September 1943, a month before the one that killed Pavao. How many times Senj was bombed that autumn is now the open question, and this archive has been writing as though there were one.
ANSWERED	The elder Antun's wife is not «a name and nothing else». This row said so until 23 September 2026, and this archive had her parents the whole time. Antonius Joannes Kosina (1891–1925) married Anka Kasunić at Senj in 1891, and the entry names Petar Kasuniž and Marija Turina as her father and mother. He died at thirty-four. Senj marriages, indexed · ark 1:1:X9D5-MWF2
Oskar's wife	Unnamed in the tree, though their son is in it. Buenos Aires, before 1954.

Built by tools/kosina.py from the family tree, with the living-person rule applied in the data rather than the template. The work list row that governs this page →