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, Mravinec, Pavlešič and Špehar 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 22 individual households existing in Perudina 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 Perudina are long standing families where ownership of households did not change hands very often. We have found 6 distinct surnames in the oldest church records including, Flajnik (6 houses), Maljevac (1 house), Mravinec (3 houses), Pavlešič (7 houses), Špehar (4 houses) and Valant (1 house).

Below is a list of the houses of Perudina 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	DNE	Skrajini		1.
2	5	Mavriči
3	DNE	Kužini		2.
4	DNE	Gornji Mravinci		3.
5	DNE	Dolnji Mravinci		4.
6	6	Šutejovi	Ziljani
7	9	Matašovi
8	7	Maljevaci
9	DNE	Doljanii		5.
10	20	Kozličekevi	Kovačevi
11	18	Stari Kovačevi
12	17	Krejačevi
13	19	Belinovi
14	21	Valentovi
15	14	Ivančevi
16	15	Gornji Bertovi	Medešovi
17	16	Dolnji Bertovi	Flajniki
18	14	Gornji Ivančevi
19	13	Stari Pavlešiči	Pavlešiči
20	11	Dolnji Ivančevi
21	4	Pirjanovi
22	DNE	Novoseli		6.
23	DNE	Glavčkefa		7.
24	DNE			8.
25	DNE	Jurehi		9.
26	12	Kočanovi		10.
27	Drenovec 2			11.
28	DNE			12.
29	DNE			13.
30	10

1. This house no longer exists. It ceased to exist before the 20th century.
   
2. This house no longer exists. It stood next to Perudina 2.
   
3. This house no longer exists.
   
4. This house no longer exists. It stood next to Perudina 2.
   
5. This house no longer exists. It stood ahead of Perudina 8 in the direction of Hrast.
   
6. This house no longer exists. It stood by the street under Perudina 21.
   
7. This house no longer exists. It stood at the intersection of the street Perudina-Hrast.
   
8. This house no longer exists. No one knows where it stood.
   
9. This house no longer exists. It stood under the Medešov house no. 16.
   
10. This house no longer exists. On this spot now stands the Ziljanovo vineyard cottage.
    
11. This house now resides in the limits of Drenovec.
    
12. There is no evidence of this house ever existing.
    
13. There is no evidence of this house ever existing.