Andrew

Perhaps you can contact the person at the web page below re your "BONICHA"

http://www.croatian-genealogy.com/cro-news/20100214-dubrovni...

Link to another web page re Dubrovnik genealogy

http://www.croatia-in-english.com/gen/progen/eval.html

I would not put too much into the family tale about "living in the mountains" to avoid Ottoman military service.

Robert