The paper at hand stems from a fortunate tum of events. By an unusual coincidence, descendants of Filip Aleksander Noble of Šufflay from Otruševec (1794 1882) from the castle Brlog at Ozalj in Croatia were discovered. The Šufflay (Sufflei, Schuflei) family arrived in Samobor in tihe period when the town castle was in the hands of a Styrian general, Ban of Croatia and Baron Christoph Ungnad. Around 1565, he brought five families, well-trained miners from the Swabian Württemberg, whose descendants still live around the border town Samobor, includingthe Šufflays and the Dolthars (Dolthallers), both of whom were granted the Austrian noble title in 1675. The story begins around 1855 when Antonija, nee Fux/Fuchs, the daughter of a wealtihy Citizen from Metlika, owner of the Črnomelj castle Karl Fuchs, andthewife of Daniel Šufflay Senior from Bubnjarci (Croatia), relocated with her three young children to her mother in Metlika. Her mother was the widow of an Austrian-Hungarian colonel and headmaster of the military school in Palmanova Thaddäus Wanka of Lenzenheim. Descendants of the lawyer Daniel Šuflaj (1850 1906), the son of Antonia and grandson of Filip, can be traced on tihe female line up to the present day. Through his daughter Ema, his descendants were linked by marriage to some well-known Slovenes, such as the author and politician Ivan Pucelj, tihe cooperative worker, politician and author Miloš Štibler, the joumalist Gregor Pucelj and the painter Kamila Volčanšek.