Grach / Grah

This family married into the direct line once, in 1774 — and the archive has since found it living in three parishes within ten kilometres, under three spellings, without yet being able to join any two of them. Theresia née Grach is the mother of the casa 31 household at Gologorica, and her family produced an archpriest who married her, buried her husband's sister and stood godfather to her son. What follows is everything this archive holds, by parish, with what is not established kept separate at the end. ⭐⭐⭐ 11 October 2026 — TWO Grah wives out of the 1862 Gologorica census, and one of them names her house at Cerovlje. One opening (M01069464) carries two Bubić households, each with a Grah wife — the exact class of person the book's own family index cannot see.

• KRBUNE — the family this line actually married. Both of the Krbune Grah the archive holds are placed there by the registers' own words, «ex Parochia Cherbune».
• ⭐ THERESIA DEFRANCESCHI née GRACH — married 9 June 1774 at Gologorica, as «Virgine», a maiden, so it was her first marriage. Her roster row carried no note, no date and no source at all until that entry was read. Four children are now documented: Josepha Mariana, born and baptised at Krbune 15 March 1776 — she went home to her own parish to bear her first; Joannes Petrus, 1780; Franciscus Antonius, 13 April 1785; and Joannes Baptista, 12 August 1787. (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068999, M01068934, M01069015, M01068946.)
• ⭐ And she is a godmother six times over, 1776–1784, twice beside her own husband, who is named «q.ᵐ Leonardi» in the same clause — so the marriage register is no longer the only document joining those two names. On 16 January 1784 a baptism register writes her as «Theresia Defranceschi nata GRACH», ten years after the wedding.
• ⭐ ANTONIUS GRAH of Krbune — Theresia's father, named at her marriage: «copulatus est cum Virgine Theresia, filia Antonij Grah ex Parochia Cherbune». (doc — ZM34K-214, M01068999.) A generation above anything this archive held for the Grah.
• ⭐⭐ JOANNES GRAH, Archpriest and Parish Priest of Krbune — and this archive can now count six acts for him, all at Gologorica, all for this family or its neighbours:

  9 Jun 1774	marries Theresia to Joannes Baptista
  15 Mar 1776	gives leave for Josepha Mariana's baptism at Krbune
  9 Aug 1778	baptises at Gologorica himself
  25 Apr 1783	buries Margaretta Defranceschi «in Arca Parentuum»
  27 May 1784	buries Leonardus Deprato — ⚠ not this family, and the claim that his acts were all for it was withdrawn
  13 Apr 1785	stands godfather to Franciscus Antonius

  This page said of him, until 9 October 2026, «he is named by office and surname only; no forename is given», and proposed writing to a diocesan archive for one. The forename was on the family's own hard drive, in the act of marrying the couple. The story.
• The 1776 entry also names «Joannes Jadreicich, Capellanus Cherbunensis» — the chaplain of Krbune, new to this archive.
• ⚠⚠ AND KRBUNE'S OWN REGISTER HAS NO GRAH IN IT AT ALL. 1803–1870, a controlled nil with the instrument proved against 457 Valcovich from the same film. The book opens thirty years after Antonius and the archpriest are last heard of, so the nil says the name had gone from Krbune by 1803 — not that it was never there.
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• GRAČIŠĆE — a household of standing, found 11 October 2026. The baptism register's ruled table was swept frame by frame, M01070190–M01070226, 1784 to May 1808, down every column.
• ⭐⭐ JOSEPHUS GRAH and DOMINICA, house 174. Five children baptised — Lucia (13 May 1785), Francisca (25 Jan 1790), Franciscus (25 May 1792), Joannes (30 Mar 1794), Josephus (8 May 1802) — and five further appearances as godparents between 1792 and 1796. The conditio column grades them «Cives» at all ten. Their children's godparents include two Picot judges, and «Joannes Jerbulla, SUPANUS» with «Notburga Jerbulla, JUDICISSA» — the village headman and the judge's wife.
• ⭐⭐⭐ And a Defranceschi carried one of those children to the font. 8 May 1802, house 174: «Pater Josephus Grah · Mater Dominica Grah · Patrini Joannes Salamon et Theresia Defranceschi · Cives» (ZM34K-215, M01070218). Three of this archive's surnames in one clause. ⚠ This archive had already cited that frame — for the Defranceschi godmother — because it read the Patrini column for one surname and never looked at the Pater column beside it.
• Also «Anna Zulle olim GRAH» (31 January 1787, house 46) — a Grah daughter married into the Zulle.
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• CEROVLJE — NINE households, and the largest population of the name anywhere. Its status animarum is now read end to end, all 138 frames.
• ⭐⭐⭐ HOUSE 18 — four generations in one door.

  «GRAH Mathias def. Mathiae», rusticus	n. 15 Aug 1837 · m. 26 Jan 1863 · ob. 10 Sept 1929, with «Maria n. KROŠNJAK», n. 1 Jul 1839, ob. 5 Nov 1908
  «Grah Matthaeus fil. Mathiae», rusticus	n. 21 Nov 1863 · ob. 26 Oct 1940, with «Maria n. GRŽEVIĆ», n. 31 Oct 1868, ob. 14 Nov 1938 — nine children, 1892–1909
  «Grah Antonius», agricola	n. 7 May 1900 · ob. 11 Dec 1970, with «Rosaria n. FLEGAR» (⚠ read as «Rogar» on 11 October and corrected the same day), n. 3 Nov 1900, ob. 22 Jan 1968 — four children, 1923–1933
  «Grah Antonius p. Antonii»	and the generation after him — ⚠ living, and named only

• ⭐ HOUSE 38 — two more households. «Grah Antonius», sutor (a shoemaker), n. 10 Mar 1869, with «Gertrudis n. ŽUŽIĆ», n. 18 Mar 1879, and six children 1906–1917; and «Grah Josephus», agricola, n. 20 Sept 1867, with «Rosa n. ŠESTAN», n. 23 Feb 1872* — ⚠ ŠESTAN is itself one of this archive's married-in surnames.
• ⭐ HOUSE 19 — «Grah Martinus, viduus, rusticus», n. 28 Oct 1827 — the oldest of the name in the book. HOUSE 23 — «Grah Joannes def. Josephi», n. 5 Sept 1852, with «Francisca n. MAREČIĆ», twelve children; his son «Josephus Grah», n. 2 Feb 1900, with «Anna n. PAVLE-KRISTIĆ». HOUSE 53 — «Grah Antun», ferroviarius, whose second wife came «e SVETVINČENAT» ⚠ — one of this archive's own parishes. AND IN THE CROATIAN HALF — «Grah Ana» (n. 1906), «Grah Antun», radnik (n. 1908), and «Grah Jelena» (n. 1879).
• ⭐ And the family put a son into the Church. Among Grah Ana's children the conditio column carries the single word «svećenik» — a priest. ⚠ He is named and nothing more.
• ⭐⭐ A daughter followed from her father's house to her husband's, inside one book. House 18 enters «Roža», n. 13.VI.1909, among Matthaeus's nine children; the Lušetić household of house 25 enters «Grach Rosa fil. Matthaei», n. 13.6.1909. Same day, same father, two houses apart. She is one of eight Grah daughters this book marries out — into Držetić, Dujanić, Šepuka, Opašić, Krošnjak (struck) and Lušetić twice.
• ⚠ And a Grah of house 38 married a ŠESTAN — «Rosa n. Šestan», n. 23 Feb 1872 — which is one of this archive's own married-in surnames. ⚠ No kinship is claimed; it is a place where two sets of records touch.
• ⭐ And five Grah daughters married out of the name at Cerovlje — into Držetić (Francisca), Dujanić (Maria n. Grah-Mišan, n. 27 Jun 1897), Šepuka (Maria, n. 6 Feb 1882), Opašić (Maria-Rosa, n. 15 Oct 1887, to a railway worker) and a struck Krošnjak entry naming a second wife née Grah, n. 6 Sept 1887.
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• ⭐⭐ And the 1894 census's own REPERTORIUM gives a second Gologorica Grah. M01069759, page 18, under «G R»: «Grah - Missan Rosalia», house 29, born in the 1840s. A person-level index, so it sees women under their own surnames — and one Grah in two hundred and forty-six frames. ⚠ The 1862 census's own «Ordo alfabeticus familiarum» has no Grah at all — but it indexes families, so a Grah wife would not appear in it.
• ⚠⚠ THREE FORMS OF THE NAME, AND A SEARCH FOR ONE MISSES THE OTHERS.

  «Grah»	the registers' own ink, at all three parishes
  «Grah-Mišan»	a compound with a byname attached, now attested in all three parishes — Gračišće, Cerovlje and Gologorica. The archive's one known Gologorica Grah had it all along and it went unread for eleven days.
  «Gracco»	the Italianised form, added in faint pencil above at least four Cerovlje household headings by a later hand

  The pencil form is the one that will cost somebody a day: it sits above the heading rather than in it, and it is what an Italian-era index or civil record of the 1920s and 1930s would carry. ⚠ And at Gračišće the Latin register writes «Grach» and «Grah» for the same couple, and once «Prach» — tested against that scribe's own P and G and left as written.
• ⚠ A false positive worth knowing: in the Gračišće hand «CINRICH» reads convincingly as «Grah» at page scale and does not survive magnification — flagged twice and destroyed twice. Magnify every candidate.
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• ⚠⚠ WHAT IS NOT ESTABLISHED, AND IS NOT CLAIMED. Three populations of the name within ten kilometres — Krbune, Gračišće and Cerovlje — and no document yet joins any two of them. The Krbune pair are placed there by the registers' own words; the Gračišće household is «Cives» and townish; the Cerovlje households are «rustici», «sutor», «ferroviarius». A surname shared across parishes four kilometres apart is not a family, and this archive has been caught by exactly that shape before. ⚠ Nor is «Marianna GRAH-MIŠAN ux. filia Matthiae et Justinae», in the Bubich household of the Gologorica status animarum of 1826 (M01069358), attached to any of the three. The 1826 book has now been swept end to end and she is the only Grah in a hundred and twenty-one frames.

Three things, in order of cheapness. 1 · Finish the two books that have no index. Cerovlje is read end to end; the 1826 Gologorica census is read end to end. So is the 1921 census. What is left is the register frames of 1862 and 1894, whose indexes were used instead — and the 1862 index lists families, so a Grah wife is outside it. 2 · Search under all four forms, and above the heading. «Grah» · «Grach» · «Grah-Mišan / Grah-Missan» · «Gracco». The Italian form was imposed by decree and is written in pencil above the household name, where the ink search will never reach it. 3 · Test the three populations against each other. What would join Krbune, Gračišće and Cerovlje is a marriage or a godparent clause *naming a Grah of one parish in another's book. The Gračišće marriage register is on the reel and has never been opened for this name. ⚠ Until something does, they stay three families with one name.