CROATIAN HERALDRY
VIDOVICH-VIDOVIC
Vidovich
can be found in all parts of Croatia because it is a fairly common name.
Vidovich
has two coats of arms, one from Dalmatia and one from inland Croatia. King
Ferdinand III of Austria granted Mathew Vidovich a coat of'arms at Prague on
Aug. 24, 1638, while George Vidovich of Sibenik was made a count of Venice in
1753.
Stefano
Vidovich served in the 4th Company, 6th Regiment, European Brigade, Italian
Guards Regiment, Louisiana Militia as a private in 1861 for the Confederate
Army of the United States. Stefano married an American woman in the 1850’s at
St. Louis Catholic Cathedral in New
Orleans. Another Vidovich was married at Biloxi, Miss., in the 1890's.
The
Slavonic Illyric Society of San Francisco, the oldest Croatian Society in
America, organized in 1857, buried Philip Vidovich at age 32 in their Croatian
Catholic Cemetery in 1870 and buried Nicholas Vidovich who died of the terrible
World War I flu epidemic in 1918.
Andrea
Vidovich, a fisherman who became an American citizen in Los Angeles in 1892,
was probably one of the first pioneer Croatian fishermen of San Pedro and San
Diego harbors.
George
Vidovich was a pioneer restaurateur in the Lida Valley, Esmeralda County,
Nevada in 1880 and Peter Vidovich was a restaurant owner in San Francisco in
the 1880's.
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.