CROATIAN HERALDRY
Adam S. Eterovich
MATULICH-----MATULIC
Matulich
is found in great numbers on the Island of Brac in the villages of Dol and
Postire and in Dragove, Molat, Pasman, Zadar and Split, Dalmatia, Croatia. The
name is first mentioned on Brac in 1586 and is recorded as nobility in 1657 as
Matulich-Halaburich-Popich. This clan used Clan names of Papic, Gluho, Musa,
Skarabaje, Zoje, Federiko, Dujic, Kroculinac, Repic, Bobe, Prkacic, Druze,
Pavlic, Papiluga, Stipurina, Smiho and Burazinovich .
The
Matulich's were judqes, poets, alchemist and bishops in the 15th and 16th
centuries.The American Matulich's were an interestinq group. Jerome Matulich is
recorded as under arrest (when caught) at Mobile, Alabama in 1764 for selling
whiskey and guns to the Indians in the Louisiana Texas frontier territories and
Nikola Matulich was a fisherman and farmer with an Irish wife in Plaquemine
Parish, Louisiana in the 1850’s.
Anton
Matulich was a goldminer in the Amador of California in the 1860's and !ater
married a Swiss lass and became a stock raiser. Nikola and Simun were also
digging gold in the Amador and became American citizens. George, Michael, Mateo
and Marco had pioneer restaurants in early San Francisco. Silvano Matulich was
a priest in California and Charles Matulich an architect.
John
Matulich—Zoje of the Dol clan had an early restaurant in San Francisco and
later branched out into general commercial properties which became the Matulich
Building Corporation of California. The patriarch of this successful American
clan, John Matulich, presided over this commercial empire along with his son
Darko.
The
Matulich coat of arms colors are gold for the dots; blue for the horizontal
lines; and silver for the white.
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.