While every house in Slovenia has a civic address, many houses also carry a household name. These names are how other people typically referred to that family. This house has the name of Lesičevi. At this time, it is unknown what the origin of this household name is.
Through the period of our studies, we have found four houses which originally carried the Kobe surname in Damelj. This is the third of the four houses (in order of house address). The Kobe surname is not uncommon in the Vinica parish but much more common in the neighbouring Sinji Vrh parish and Stari Trg parish.
The oldest record we have found to date for a person from this house is for Johan Kobe b. 1780. He married Katarina Špehar b. 1780. Together, they had at least 7 children, including:
1A. Katarina Kobe b. 1806, died at the age of 39. At this time, it is unknown if she was ever married or had children.
1B. Johan Kobe b. 1808, m. 1833 to Lucija Madronič (Dalnje Njive 9) — they remained at this house.
1C. Miha Kobe b. 1812, m. 1846 to Katarina Bubaš (Pavličeva from Učakovci).
1D. Lucija Kobe b. 1814, m. 1844 to Jože Filip (Kovačev from Draga)1.
1E. Peter Kobe b. 1817, m. ca. 1847 to Lucija Filip (Kovačeva from Draga)1 — they remained at this house.
1F. Ana Kobe b. 1819. At this time, it is unknown what happened to her afterwards.
1G. Jurij Kobe b. 1823, died in Karlovac, Croatia.
1. Jože FIlip and Lucija Filip were siblings.
Johan Kobe [1B] and his wife Lucija Madronič had 8 children, including:
2A. Ana Kobe b. 1842. At this time, it is unknown what happened to her afterwards.
2B. Katarina Kobe b. 1844, m. 1870 to Johan Žalec (Jurišajenov from Kot) — they lived at Damelj 30.
2C. Johan Kobe b. 1847, died at the age of 20. At this time, it is unknown if he was ever married or had children.
2D. Barbara Kobe b. 1850, m. 1883 to a man from Močile 25.
2E. Jože Kobe b. 1853, m. 1884 to Ursula Frank (Geisingen am Neckar, Germany).
2F. Marija Kobe b. 1856. At this time, it is unknown what happened to her afterwards.
2G. Matija Kobe b. 1859, m. 1884 to Marija Marof (Klanec 20) — they remained at this house.
Peter Kobe [1E] and his wife Lucija Filip had 8 children which died in early childhood.
Matija Kobe [2G] and his wife Marija Marof had 2 children, including:
3A. Franc Kobe b. 1891. At this time, it is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
Ana Lakner m. ca. 1863 to her second husband Matija Medved (Špehar 21). Together they had 5 children, including:
3A. Ana Medved b. 1863, m. 1881 to Jože Kobe (Petrov from Kot) — they remained at this house.
3B. Katarina Medved b. 1866, m. 1889 to Peter Madronič (Draga 5).
3C. Marija Medved b. 1869, m. 1888 to Pavel Špehar (Špeharji 24) — they lived at Špeharji 38.
Jože Kobe and his wife Ana Medved [3A] had 11 children, including
4A. Franca Kobe b. 1885, m. 1905 to a man from Klanec 13.
4B. Marija Kobe b. 1888, m. 1909 to Peter Špehar (Kot pri Damlju 35) — they lived at Damelj 7.
4C. Katarina Kobe b. 1896. At this time, it is unknown what happened to her afterwards.
4D. Veronika Kobe b. 1899, died at the age of 26. At this time, it is unknown if she was ever married or had children.
4E. Johan Kobe b. 1901, died at the age of 61 in Michigan. At this time, it is unknown if he was ever married or had children.
4F. Matija Kobe b. 1903, m. 1927 to Angela Madronič (Špeharji 33) — they remained at this house.
4G. Jože Kobe b. 1904, m. 1932 in the United States to Neža Plut.
Matija Kobe [4F] and his wife Angela Madronič had 5 children.