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 Dolčičkini. At this time, it is unknown what the origin of this household name is.
Through the period of our studies, we have found two houses which originally carried the Žalec surname in Damelj. This is the first of the two houses (in order of house address). The Žalec surname is not very common in Vinica parish but found much more in the neighbouring Sinji Vrh parish.
The oldest record we have found to date for a person from this house is for Matija Žalec b. 1754. He married Katarina Kobe b. 1775. Together, they had at least 5 children, including:
1A. Matija Žalec b. 1799, m. ca. 1820 to Marija Peršetič — they remained at this house.
1B. Johan Žalec b. 1806, died at the age of 42. At this time, it is unknown if he was ever married or had children.
1C. Jurij Žalec b. 1808. At this time, it is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
1D. Miha Žalec b. 1811. At this time, it is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
1E. Peter Žalec b. 1814, m. ca. 1845 to Barbara Verbanec (Markovča from Učakovci).
Matija Žalec [1A] and his wife Marija Peršetič had 10 children, including:
2A. Johan Žalec b. 1820, m. 1846 to Marija Fortun (Ivanova)1 — they remained at this house.
2B. Katarina Žalec b. 1823, m. ca. 1846 to Jože Fortun (Ivanov)1.
2C. Ana Žalec b. 1832. At this time, it is unknown what happened to her afterwards.
2D. Jože Žalec b. 1834. At this time, it is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
2E. Matija Žalec b. 1836. At this time, it is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
2F. Peter Žalec b. 1841. At this time, it is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
1. Jože Fortun and Marija Fortun were siblings.
Matija Žalec [2A] and his wife Marija Fortun had 7 children, including:
3A. Marija Žalec b. 1855, died at the age of 80. At this time, it is unknown if she was ever married or had children.
3B. Ana Žalec b. 1858, m. 1881 to Peter Lukanič (Sinji Vrh 20).
3C. Katarina Žalec b. 1863, m. 1886 to Jurij Špehar (Magdinov).
3D. Johan Žalec b. 1869. At this time, it is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
Peter Lukanič and his wife Ana Žalec [3B] had 8 children while living at Sinji Vrh 20, including:
4A. Katarina Lukanič b. 1895, m. 1937 to Dragotin Kasun (Zdihova 15) — they lived at this house.
Dragotin Kasun and his wife Katarina Lukanič [4A] had 1 child.