My wife's second cousin recently connected with me via Rootsweb due to our common ancestor, Mata Sepic, born 1855/6 at Fiume/Rijeka. A delightful surprise email! She has added greatly to my knowledge of Mata's descendants but there is also a little Croatian twist which someone may be able to help me with. Mata married Margaret Elliott in 1882 in New South Wales. Two years later Margaret's sister Bridget married another Croatian believed to be a friend of Mata. Maybe they had been fellow seafarers and had travelled there together? The following lines show two entries for Bridget's marriage in the NSW marriage index:- 6413/ 1884, NATICH, MATELE = ELLIOTT, BRIDGET; NEWCASTLE 6413/ 1884, NATICK, NAHILL = ELLIOTT, BRIDGET; NEWCASTLE The diffierence in surnames is very straightforward, Natic spelt as pronounced by a Croatian or an English speaker but I am puzzled by the two forenames. Is Nahill the same as Matele in any way? Would the Croatian pronunciation of one sound like the English phonetic pronunciation of the other? What would have been the name in Croatia, i.e. what should I be searching for? As an aside, I would of course love to hear from anyone with any knowledge of this gentleman or his family. It may be that Mata and Matele/Nahill had lived in the same suburb/village etc. and finding his family may lead us nearer to the family of Mata Sepic. Tom Kidman