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Mion · Mione (Ovaro)

Mione

A hundred and thirty people at 710 metres — and the Italian end of a documented migration into Istria.

First written on 15 June 1185, when Odolrico called Gusetto, Strabo, and Vecellone, son-in-law of Giovanni da Mione, received concessions from Domenico, abbot of Moggio. An independent comune until 1871, now a frazione of Ovaro in the Canale di Gorto.

A stone above the village, at some 1,600 metres, carries Venetic inscriptions — this valley was a route long before it was a parish. From the parishes of Ovaro and Luincis a long series of weavers took the road into Istria; the documents become numerous in the seventeenth century and frequent in the eighteenth.

Names
Croatian / local
Mione
Friulian
Mion
Italian
Mione (Ovaro)
Parish
Ovaro
Diocese
Udine

The registers

What survives, where it is kept, and whether you can see it without going there.

Baptismsparish, pre-1866 — not online
Marriagesparish, pre-1866 — not online
Burialsparish, pre-1866 — not online
Held atParish of Ovaro · Archivio Storico Diocesano, Udine · Antenati (civil 1806–15, 1871–1911)
Confirmed dead end: FamilySearch holds only the Napoleonic civil registration for Ovaro's frazioni — Mione, Luincis, Luìnt, Muina, Ovasta, Liariis, Entrampo, Lenzone, Agrons e Cella, Cludinico, Muscletto, Chialina — filmed from the Archivio di Stato di Udine. There are no Ovaro parish books on film anywhere online. The pre-1806 church registers must be asked for at the parish.