The People

Our earliest research to date has been able to take us back to about 1750 for this village. At that time, the most dominant names to exist in this village are Flajnik, Balkovec and Gorše among others. Many of these names still exist here today with some much more diminished from what they once were before. More recently, as with other villages in this region, they have become deserted as many of the original inhabitants moved to larger cities in Slovenia in search of work as well as Canada and the United States.

When we turn to Birth and Marriage Registers (matične knjige) kept by the Catholic Church, we can identify 41 individual households existing in Hrast in the year 1820.  Some of these households, and the houses themselves, have since vanished.  Other have been since created, usually as delniki, i.e.  by partitions of a pre-existing household into two (or more) households.

With the existence of a local church in Hrast, it is interesting to note that the village of Perudina was once a part of this parish as well. Because of this, many of these families share a common ancestry with the people of Hrast.

The families in Hrast are long standing families where ownership of households did not change hands very often. We have found 13 distinct surnames in the oldest church records including, Balkovec (7 houses), Čadonič (1 house), Flajnik (17 houses), Gašparič (1 house), Gorše (5 houses) and Mravinec (2 houses).

Below is a list of the houses of Hrast with both the original house numbers and today’s house numbers (if the house still exists). Also included is the household name (if known).

Old House #	New House #	Original Name	New Name	Special Notes
1	37	Pirnatovi
2	36	Kaplanovi
3	33	Kaplanovi
4	35
5	34	Miheličevi
6	49	Gornji Flajniki
7	32	Turmarovi	Ludčevi
8	DNE	Dolnji Turmarovi	Školniki	1.
9	38	Tundekovi
10	31	Mali Balkovci
11	30	Jesihovi
12	DNE			2.
13	28	Tundekovi
14	DNE	Polaničevi		3.
15	DNE			4.
16	DNE	Lukaničevi
17	21	Magainčevi
18	7	Blažetičevi
19	2	Javšanovi
20	4
21	5
22	17	Kalihčanovi
23	16	Vrtinovi
24	15	Papovi
25	14
26	13	Gašparičevi
27	10	Bartolovi
28	DNE	Juničarovi		5.
29	9	Špeharji
30	8	Panjanovi
31	23	Polančevi	Mišičevi
32	24	Ziljani
33	26	Zapojčevi
34	DNE	Polančevi		6.
35	DNE			7.
36	28
37	DNE			8.
38	3	Janšanovi
39	18
40	11
41	DNE			9.
42	DNE			10.
43	27	Kraljevi
44	DNE			11.
45	12	Gašparičevi
46	20
47	39
48	DNE			12.
49	DNE			13.
50	DNE			14.
51	DNE			15.

1. This house no longer exists. It is not known which house this is. No one knows where it stood.
   
2. This house no longer exists. No one knows where it stood.
   
3. This house no longer exists. Nothing is known about its location.
   
4. This house no longer exists. No one knows where it stood.
   
5. This house no longer exists. No one knows where it stood.
   
6. This house no longer exists. It stood behind the Mišičeva house on the lawn
   
7. This house no longer exists. No one knows where it stood.
   
8. This house no longer exists. This is now the location of the fire station.
   
9. This house no longer exists. Nothing is known about its location
   
10. This house no longer exists. No one knows where it stood.
    
11. This house no longer exists. Under Jakob’s house on the same spot is now a wine cellar.
    
12. This house no longer exists. No one knows where it stood.
    
13. This house no longer exists. No one knows where it stood
    
14. This house no longer exists. No one knows where it stood.
    
15. This house no longer exists. No one knows where it stood.