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 Kondešovi. At this time, the origin of this name is unknown to us.
Through the period of our studies, we have found three houses which originally carried the Kobe surname in Kot pri Damlju. This is the third of the three 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 Matija Kobe b. 1772. Together with his first wife, they had at least 2 children, including:
1A. Matija Kobe b. 1801, m. ca. 1825 to Lucija Žalec — they remained at this house.
Matija Kobe m. to his second wife Katarina Barič b. 1796. Together, they had at least 7 children, including:
1B. Jože Kobe b. 1825. At this time, it is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
1C. Johan Kobe b. 1833. At this time, it is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
1D. Peter Kobe b. 1838, died at the age of 32 in Zagreb. At this time, it is unknown if he was ever married or had children.
Matija Kobe [1A] and his wife Lucija Žalec had 8 children, including:
2A. Katarina Kobe b. 1833, had 1 illegitimate child — she remained at this house.
2B. Ana Kobe b. 1837, m. 1876 to Matija Fortun (Županov from Damelj) — they lived at Damelj 32.
Matija Kobe [1A] m. ca. 1843 to his second wife Katarina Kobe. Together they had 7 children, including:
2C. Miha Kobe b. 1848, m. 1868 to Marija Žalec (Jurišajenova) — they remained at this house.
2D. Katarina Kobe b. 1855. At this time, it is unknown what happened to her afterwards.
Miha Kobe [2C] and his wife Marija Žalec had 6 children, including:
3A. Matija Kobe b. 1868. At this time, it is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
3B. Marija Kobe b. 1870. At this time, it is unknown what happened to her afterwards.
3C. Miha Kobe b. 1871. At this time, it is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
3D. Pavel Kobe b. 1875. At this time, it is unknown what happened to him afterwards.
3E. Katarina Kobe b. 1878, m. 1903 in Calumet, Michigan to Joseph Shimatz
3F. Ana Kobe b. 1881, m. 1900 in Lukovdol Parish.