Marko Pešelj

This Marko Peselj is undoubtedly the man listed as "Marco Pesegl" on the 1736 list of the parishioners in Smokvica (Status Animarum), together with his wife Margarita and daughters Catarina and Francesca. A supplementary list from 1736 of "ragazzi d'admessi al sacramenti" (children old enough to receive the sacraments) gives him "un figlio et due figliuole" (one son and two little daughters). This is the only Peselj family on the 1736 list but the 1738 list has both Marco Pesegl and Antonio Pesegl. Marco's household in 1738 had 8 members--2 married men, 4 married women, plus one unmarried male and one unmarried female. Antonio Pescegl's household had 3 members (1 married man and 2 married women). In 1745 the list has "Margarita ud. p. Marko Pescegl" (Margarita, widow of the late Marko Pesegl), showing that he died between 1738 and 1745. These lists may be found in the book "Smokvica kroz vjekove" by Don Bozo Banicevic.