MARCIC & DRUKS LINES

FOURTH GENERATION

8. Josef Marčić/ Joseph Marcich

  • b. 28 Feb. 1885 Marburg, Steiermark, Austria (now Maribor, Slovenija)
  • d. 27 Apr. 1920 of 83rd & National Av., West Allis, WI, of lobar pneumonia
  • i. Holy Cross Cem., Milwaukee, WI
  • 5'7" fair complexion, light hair, blue eyes
  • Ethnicity: (Austrian) German (ship's manifest)
  • Occupation: Locksmith BEF 1909; "Tinner" 1912; Machinist 1920
  • Immigrated 12 July 1909, "Lapland", Antwerp
  • Destination: Cousin Heinrich Wentz, Milwaukee

9. Josefa/ Josephine Marie Druks

  • b. 10 Feb. 1888 Sv. Mihael, Schönstein, Steiermark, Austria (now Šoštanj, Celje, Slovenija)
  • d. 19 Jan. 1936 of 2218 S. 70th St. i. Holy Cross Cem., Milwaukee, WI
  • d. of (a) chronic glomerular nephritis, (b) malignant hypertension
  • 4'10" light complexion, brown hair, grey eyes
  • Ethnicity: "Slovenian" on ship's manifest & divorce cert.; "Austrian" on marriage license. Her daughter was raised speaking German.)
  • Immigrated 3 Sep. 1907, "Kroonland", Antwerp (with father & sister)
  • Destination: Father's friend, Albin Glojek, Milwaukee

FIFTH GENERATION

16. John Marcic

17. Maria Donik

SRC: Marriage license, Joseph Marcic and Jozefa Mahoric

18. Anton Druks/ Drucks

  • b. 25 Mar. 1858 Sv. Mihael, Schönstein, Steiermark, Austria (now Šoštanj, Celje, Slovenija)
  • d. 3 Nov. 1929 at home, 444 S. Pierce, (hanged himself the Monday morning following Black Tuesday) i. Good Hope Cem., Milwaukee
  • 5'7" light complexion, brown hair, grey eyes
  • Nationality: Austrian Slovenian
  • Occupation: Itinerant Farm Laborer in Slovenija; Saloon Operator and Foundry Worker AFT 1907. Later worked for Goodwill Industries
  • Brother: Peter Druks
  • Immigrated 3 Sep. 1907, "Kroonland", Antwerp (with daughters Maria & Josefa, and with neighbor Helena Tornick, b. 1878/79 Šoštanj)
  • Destination: friend, Albin Glojek, Milwaukee

The Albin Glojek family is from Gornji Grad and Ljubno, Slovenija (near Šoštanj). Albin's wife was prob. Mary Kolenc, his parents were prob. Joseph and Mary (Hresan) Glojek, and his grandmother may have been a Wasin.

Helena Tornick lived with her mother, Apolonia, and was going to live with her cousin, Markus Kiemer of Milwaukee. She may have had a brother, Josef Tornik (1876/77-), of "Suhastoli" (Šoštanj?), who emigrated to the US in 1903. The Tornick name apparently has died out in Šoštanj.

19. Franciska (/Fannie) Sitar

SIXTH GENERATION

under construction...

32. unknown1 Marčić

33. unknown (poss. Hoinik or Schlambeyer?*) (*See NOTE, below)

The Marčić/ Maricic name seems to have originated on the island of Krk in Croatia, which belonged to the Republic of Venice until given to the Austrians in 1797. One source says the name is of French origin, in which case it may be connected with the name, "Maurice". Krp was ruled by Napolean from 1805-1814, but the Marcic/ Marish name had already been in the area for a long time before this.

The Marcic name is not uncommon in the Maribor area.

34. unknown Donik

35. unknown (poss. Hoinik or Schlambeyer?*) (*See NOTE, below)

*NOTE: (8) Josef Marčić was the cousin of Heinrich Wentz (1875/76-). Heinrich, leaving his wife Helena in Maribor, Slovenia, had come to Milwaukee 27 Mar. 1909 to stay with his friend, Johann Hoinik (/Hornik?). Accompanying (8) Josef were Heinrich's wife Helene (1873/74-), her three young children Wilhelm, Emma and Helena, and another counsin of Heinrich named Alois Pristonik (b. 1880/81 Willendorf, Lower Austria-), all of Marburg and described on the ship's manifest as German Austrians. Pristonik seems to be a Slovak name.

Heinrich's nationality was listed as "Slovenian" on the ship's manifest. A Henry Wentz (30 Apr. 1876-19 Dec. 1924) died on the West Side of Milwaukee, and was buried in Holy Cross Cem. His father was Frank Wentz. His widow Helen and son William also lived and died in the Milwaukee area. He was listed as born in Germany, father from Germany, though on the ship's manifest Heinrich is said to have been born in Marburg. His wife was the daughter of Josef Schlambeyer.

The Donik name is found in Slovenija, Austria, Ukraine, Armenia and other countries. It is not common in Slovenija.

36. (Meheuer*/) Michael Druks

37. Ana Hriberšek

*(36) Michael Druks and (37) Ana Hriberšek are listed as parents in the marriage record of (18) Anton Drucks & (19) Franciska Sitar in the Sv. Mihael, Schönstein, Steiermark records in Maribor. "Meheuer" is the name given for Anton's father on the certificate for his second marriage to Helena Dunaj in Milwaukee, WI

NOTES: (37iii) Marija Druks and apparently also her mother, (37) Ana Hriberšek, both had their first child before marriage.

A Steve Druks, of 78th St. & Greenfield, Av., Milwuakee, died as an infant 17 Dec. 1918 (during the Great Flu Epidemic) and was buried in Holy Cross Cem. This may have been (72[2]c_1) Joseph's son.

The name Zajc is the 31st most common in Slovenija, comprising 1 of 500 surnames in the Ljubljana telephone directory, and 2445 persons in Slovenia in 1994. It means "rabbit".

38. poss. unknown Sitar (M)

39. unknown (F)

A family member who visited Slovenia said that the (18) Druks/ (19) Sitar family "lived in Celje and farmed out of Ljubljana". Šoštanj is a few miles N of Celje, and Godic is a few miles N of Lmubljana and 24 mi. WSW of Šoštanj -- on the road from Ljubljana to Šoštanj. A search of the Ellis Island site and other sites for Slovenia showed no Sitars in all of Styria, but a small cluster of apparently related families in the Kamnik-Godic area, and a larger (and apparently older) cluster focussed on the town of Mirna -- both in the Ljubljana District, part of the former Krain. The name "Fany" -- a variant of Franciska, and so possibly a cousin -- appears in a family in the smaller cluster in Vrhpolje, near Kamnik. Of all the families researched, therefore, the above guess seems the most reasonable, but please note that it is only a guess.

Most Sitars in the Ellis Island records from Slovenija were Slovenians; of these, all lived in Krain (Carniola). Other Sitars were Slovak, German, Czech, Croatian, Polish, & Hungarian. It is a common name in Ljubljana, comprising 1 in 2000 surnames in the telephone directory. The earliest record I can find in Slovenija is Janez Sitar (M), b. ABT 1817 Mirna, Krain.

The Sitar female line appears most likely to be native to Slovenia or the surrounding area, though it may be from the Near East or even Western Europe (see table, below) The mtDNA type is unique; the most closely related samples in MitoSearch, from Old World locations (along with their differing base pairs), are:

(Note that the above are from a database strongly skewed towards the British Isles and NW Europe)

 

"The paraphyletic ancestral cluster, H*, is the main Near Eastern representative of haplogroup H, in agreement with the suggestion that the haplogroup evolved in the Near East and spread subsequently into Europe. Its distribution is to some extent the inversion of the distributions for H1 and H3 (W. European subclades, centered in Navarre and Sardinia): It is most frequent in east-central Europe and the Balkans, but is also well represented on the western fringes of Europe, including Iberia and Ireland."

-- Pereira, et al, "High-resolution mtDNA evidence for the late-glacial resettlement of Europe from an Iberian refugium" Pereira2005.pdf

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