Petar Kovačina

…, kovacina: heading: Ursula's people: the Kovačina of house 119 , lead: Anton Rudolf married Ursula Kovačina, and until now that was the whole of it — a surname with no family behind it. Two entries in the same Crikvenica death register give the household. , rows: who: Petar Kovačina , what: Died at Crikvenica on 3 November 1904, aged 55, of pulmonary tuberculosis; sacraments administered; buried the next day by Carl Aleksander. The register gives his standing in full: «umirovljeni c. kr. financijski Nadstražar» — a retired Imperial-Royal financial senior guard, the Habsburg customs and excise service. He was born at Draga, in the kotar of Sušak…

…he kotar of Sušak, and lived at Crikvenica house 119. , key: true , who: Uršula, called Ursa, née Stojčić , what: His wife, entered as «kućarka» — housekeeper — and, by the time the clerk wrote the entry out, as «žena pokojnog Petra Kovačine Nadstražara», wife of the late Petar Kovačina. The name Uršula is standing in this family a generation before Anton Rudolf's wife carried it. , key: true , who: Josipa Kovačina , what: Entry 49 of 1898: dead at Crikvenica on 10 September, aged one year and six months, of «Tuberculosis pulmonum», buried on the 12th. Her parents are given as Petar Kovačina, son of Petar, «stola…

…nding in this family a generation before Anton Rudolf's wife carried it. , key: true , who: Josipa Kovačina , what: Entry 49 of 1898: dead at Crikvenica on 10 September, aged one year and six months, of «Tuberculosis pulmonum», buried on the 12th. Her parents are given as Petar Kovačina, son of Petar, «stolar» — a joiner — and Marija née Car, at house 119. The same house number as the financial guard, and the same first name; whether the joiner is the guard under an earlier trade, a brother, or a son, the register does not say and this archive will not guess. , close: What can be said is that Crikvenica house 119 was a Kovačina house thro…

…s household — but the marriage entry that would prove it has not been found, and the link is inference, not record. , next: What to ask for: the Crikvenica marriage register for the 1900s and 1910s, for Anton Rudolf Defranceski and Ursula Kovačina; and the Crikvenica birth register around 1890 for a daughter of Petar Kovačina and Uršula Stojčić. Draga in the kotar of Sušak is a new place for this archive — nobody in the family has come from there before. , builtit: heading: One sentence in the family's own file about this house , quote: He built this house himself, for his family, but was lost due to family greed. , text: It is entered against Josip — «Josip Bepo de F…