CROATIAN HERALDRY
By Adam S. Eterovich
KOVACEVIC-KOVACEVICH-COVACEVICH
KOVACEVICH is found in all parts of Croatia. It
is a very common name. In English it would be Smith, Smithson or Smithy. Other
variations would be Kovac, Kovacich. In America some used Covacevich.
First
Lieutenant Michael Kovacevich was granted coats-of-arms on June1,1821, during
military service. A recording of arms was deposited in the State Archives of
Croatia. Pvt. Jakob Kovacevich served in Cognevich’s company, 4th Regiment, European Brigade,
Louisiana Militia Volunteers, Confederate Army of 1861 and Cpl. Nikola
Kovacevich served in the Slavonian
Rifles , Ist Company Cazadores Esp. Regiment, Louisiana Militia
Volunteers, Confederate Army of 1861 in America.
Antonio
Kovacevich from Starigrad on the Island of Hvar
voted in Philadelphia in 1849, was the vice-president of the Slavonic
Illyric Society of San Francisco in 1860 (the oldest overseas Croatian
Society,, org. 1857) and was the owner of the famed Presidio Road Saloon in San
Francisco in 1867. Antonio also mined gold and made a strike. He died in 1882 in San Francisco. Dominic Kovacevich
voted in San Francisco in 1868 and was a barkeeper in Stockton, California, in
1873. John Kovacevich was a barkeeper in White Pine County, Nevada, in 1875 and
Vincent Kovacevich, a fisherman, died in San Francisco in 1881, far from his
beloved Dalmatia. Ivica-John Kovacevic from Australia, a used car manager, was
selling good quality vehicles to his fellow Croatians in Australia.
Croatians
have been a part of America for over 200 years.
Courtesy
of the Croatian Genealogical and Heraldic Society, 2527 San Carlos Ave., San
Carlos, California, 94070. Phone:
650-592-1190; E-Mail croatians@aol.com; Web www.croatians.com. Adam S.
Eterovich.