Looking for inroads to our family Surname
I am looking to find further information about my great great grandfather. I have done as much as I can over the last several years and hit a wall with the Austro Hungarian Empire records. I just couldn't crack the nut in how to get/search archives from that period. It would be great to find out some birth dates, who the wives and their families were, it may give us a further insight as to our origin.
Duka ŠUKUNDA he was born in Brezovo Polje near Glina in Croatia. Working backwards because we do not have any information on him at all apart from his name and possibly place of birth. He would have been born while the Austro Hungarian Empire was still in effect. If I understand correctly the Austro Hungarian dissolution occurred on On October 15, 1918, Croatia and Slovenia declared independence from Austria-Hungary and established the state of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.
Other information regarding our family name came from Sisak, they had 140 Sukunda details, period covers 15/17 years 1885 to 1900. Zagreb has microfilm for that area from 1857 and Glina 1900 to 1940.
So Duka ŠUKUNDA my great great grandfather, going backwards if my grandfather was born in 1896, his father Nikola we don't have birth details of him say had his first child at age 25, it would take us back to 1876, and if his father say again had him at age 25 it would bring Duka back to 1850 there abouts which would have been well within Austro Hungarin Empire control.
It would not be surprising if Duka had served the Austro Hungarian military as well during that period?
So we managed to find a lot of information re Sukunda's everyone in Glina and other parts except for our direct ancestors.
As a by the by one of our family married into a Belgium family, DeCap she has been quite studious and has been listing her fathers side of the family for a number of years going to the start of 1800's some 257 links.
Feel free to browse our family tree and the decap family
tree http://www.sukunda.eu/familytree/
So any help would be much appreciated!
Duka ŠUKUNDA (before I forget my ancestor name was probably Đuka, or Djuka (short version of Đurađ / George). The love of nicknames in our region makes things soooo hard to track.
had 4 sons Nikola, Pero, Simo, Aleksa
Brezovo Polje near Glina Croatia
The oldest record of our surname ŠUKUNDA that I have been able to find is Mosije ŠUKUNDA (1771) he is listed as a monk (priest) from the monastary Komogovine which is in now Croatia. This in turn was in the borders of the Austro Hungarian empire.
This was found in : Izvor: Građa za istoriju vojne granice u XVIII veku: Banska krajina, 1690-1783; autori: Slavko Gavrilović, Radovan Samardžić (History of miliary borders of the 18th century: Banska Krajina, 1690-1783 : Authors Slavko Gavrilović, Radovan Samardžić)
Please find two images one of google maps which gives a migration path from brezovo polje/glina to where our family finally ended up (current generations) and one Austrian document excerpt
mentioning the monk/priest Mosije Sukunda.
I would be more than happy to be educated as to how to find further records and do more research in the Austro Hungarian records of the time. So far I am about as sharp as a rock.
Cheers and thank you in advance,
Stojan