Prpić

Krivi Put 136

Thirty-five people in this tree are born at Krivi Put 136. The baptismal register — kept in Latin — has Antonija as entry 51: nata 12 May 1859, baptisata 15 May, Antonia Perpić, legit., daughter of the spouses Joannes and Lucia Perpić, locus domicilii Krivi Put N⁰ 136, godparents Lucas Tomljanović and Anna Tomljanović, daughter of Andreas. House numbers are how Frontier registers identify a family, and a settled household can hold one for a century.

They were Frontier households too

The fuller of the two scans of Antonija's 1859 baptism carries a conditio column the other crop omits, and the word in it is Confiniar. — confiniarii. Nor is it one household: on the same opening the Perpić, Tomljanović and Butković families are all entered the same way.

So Krivi Put was a Military Frontier village, exactly as Otočac was. This archive had the Bunjevac settlement and the Žubrinić confiniarii as separate facts and never joined them. It came out of re-reading a document filed as a duplicate.

The page proves the village

Read the other entries on the same opening and the Bunjevac claim stops being an inference from place-names and becomes an observation. The surnames baptised at Krivi Put in the summer of 1859 are Perpić, Tomljanović, Blažević, Šojat, Pavelić, Vukelić, Butković — and Krmpotić, the clan the whole settlement is named for. Every child is entered against a house number: N⁰ 4, 14, 15, 18, 23, 41, 51, 54, 58, 61, 72, 79, 81, 82, 136.

Prpić or Perpić

The tree writes it Prpic 83 times, Perpic 19, Perpić 16, Prpić 8, once as Perpich, and once — with admirable honesty — as “Papić or Perpic”. Antonija is entered under both: “Perpić / Prpic”. This archive treats Prpić and Perpić as one name, which is a decision, and it is written down as one.

Where she is buried

Antonija died at Senj on 2 February 1935 and is buried at Mirogoj in Zagreb — the monumental cemetery, a long way from Krivi Put. Nothing in the record explains why, and it is worth explaining. Open questions →

Where they were born

• 26 Krivi Put 136, Senj, Lika-Senj County, Croatia
• 9 Senj, Croatia
• 8 Senj, Lika-Senj County, Croatia
• 7 Krivi Put
• 5 Krivi Put, Croatia
• 3 Mrzli Dol, Lika-Senj, Jugoslavija
• 2 Krivi Put 82, Croatia
• 2 Klaricevac, Krivi Put, Croatia

How the tree spells it

• Prpic × 82
• Prpic / Perpic × 23
• Perpic × 19
• Perpić × 16
• Prpić × 8
• Perpić / Prpic × 3
• Perpich × 2
• Perpic / Prpic × 1
• prpic × 1

Everyone of the name