Velliscig (also view the variants) is an Austrian/Italian surname which is derived from the German name Welisch and the Czech name Velis. Its origins can be traced back to a German noble family which lived in Bohemia (now Czech Rep). In the 16th century, some members of this family moved to the village of Velindol, which is near the town of Gorizia, Italy. According to research conducted, the surname Vellsicig may derive from the noble family Velišovští z Velišova
The Italian branch
This name, from 1580 onwards, had its epicenter near the town of Gorz, Austria (now Gorizia Italy) in the Valley of the Judrio, concentrated in the area of Zapotok, Kanal ob Soči (now in Slovenia), but especially in the small hamlet of Vélendol to which he gave the first name. 1592 Vrsiza Vilisiza de Oborza 1596 Juuan Veliseche Cahal of Judri 1612 Michel Veliscech, 1643 Peter Velaszahk de Idria. From the year 1710, the Velluszhik families that lived in the Zapotok area also carried on the name including some of the following people, Antonius Velluszhik (born 1710); Christianus Velluszhik (born 1740, died 1820); Andreas Velluszhik (Born in Velendol 1770, died 1803); Michael Velluszhik (born 1772, died 1858); Stephanus Velluszhik (born in Zapotok 1796, died 1868) and Christianus Velluszhik (born 1827, died 1902) whose son Christian Velluszhik (born 1860, died 1934) was the mayor of a small town in Slovenia known as Anhovo from 1910 to 1914. The family surname was changed to Veluscek and Veliscek around the 1900s. The "Italian" branches of Velliscig family in 1800, which had a common ancestor, can be divided into Velliscig "cuja", Velliscig of Podresca, Velliscig of Zapatok, Velliscig "Pochig". From there it spread to the Valley of the lsonzo where it is present in the form of Slovenia (Velišček), in the valleys of San Leonardo (Vellescig), in Cividale (Vellisig) and in the Friuli and Padania plain (Velisig, Velliscig). In the 1900s after a period in France (Luigi) moves in the province of Gorizia, (Eugenio) emigrated to the United States.
Theft deacon Martino Velliscig
On the morning of November 29, 1738 the nonzolo the Shrine of Our Lady of Castelmonte, complained that he had found that morning opened the doors of the sanctuary and has verified the theft of sacred objects. The track for the identification of the thief was already the next day, when it appeared in the chapter of Cividale Paravano George, dean of the village of Codromaz, carrying a piece of candlestick and black skirt with a button thread color "monkish". Veliscigh Michele, one of the two boys, had reported that the button that seemed to come from the habit of the cleric Martin, his brother, who was living at the sanctuary. Fled from the castle, in the Veneto region, the two thieves were so direct in imperial territory, surpassing with end in the valley of Idrija, where they stayed for some time, and they headed the investigation, the chapter entrusted to the archdeacon Tolmin. Towards the end of December Martino Veliscigh, after hearing being sought, he sent a letter to the dean of Idria trying to distance himself and his brother Andrea suspected of being responsible for the theft, but also gave the track to retrieve objects . The investigations launched in the meantime had identified in Gorizia the Jew who had bought silver. The April 17, 1739 came from Tolmin the news of the capture and imprisonment of deacon Martino Veliscigh. The situation returned to move in 1748, calling into question other authorities, the nuncio bridges fi ce at Vienna and the Roman Curia. Addressing the nuncio the Veliscigh, from Albana, where he had retired with his father, he wrote that he had been released from jail and later from captivity for intervention of Our Lady of the Turks and asked to be acquitted of the charges, because Austrian subject and you want to be ordained priest. This was confirmed by Rome on December 5. For the chapter had trouble, because asking ordination and damages. The matter is closed them, while the chapter was to conduct a new investigation into the responsibility of the theft that was being laid to fabbricieri in office in 1739, in particular to the canon treasurer Carlo Boiani, to which the result was announced, not that we know of other developments. But the story of Martin did not end there, Mattia Crisetigh, with whom our Martino has a violent clash triggers the start of another process by the chapter.