Ivan Bućan, rođen 1878. godine, vjerojatno u selu Pravutina. Drugi izvori kažu kako je Zagreb ipak.

Emigrirao je u SAD 10. lipnja 1895. Putovao je iz Bremena u Njemačkoj do New Yorka. Promijenio je ime po dolasku u John Buchan.

Naselio se u industrijskom gradu Johnstownu u Pensilvaniji gdje su već živjeli mnogi Hrvati. Čudno je da su njegovi zapisi iz 1895-1910.

Otac mu je navodno nazvan Mathias Bućan, a majka Anna Črnić (Zagreb ili Pravutina?)

Njegovi veliki unuci i danas borave u Johnstownu. Ivan se oženio ženom, Margaretom Lovretić čija obitelj dolazi iz Crnomelja, Slovenija.



Živite li Bućan u blizini Pravutine ili Zagreba? Odgovaraju li ti podaci bilo kojem od vaših predaka?

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na engleskom:

Ivan (John) Bućan (Buchan), born in the year 1878, probably in the village of Pravutina. He emigrated to the USA around 1894-1895. He arrived on Ellis Island in New York, but records from those years were destroyed in a fire.

He settled in the industrial town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which had a large Croatian immigrant community. However, no useful records of him exist until about 1920, aside from his marriage in 1900. 

Records show his father's name was Matvej and mother was Anna Chernić

His great grandchildren still reside in Johnstown today. Pravutina is located on the border of Croatia and Slovenia not far from Zagreb. At that time period Croatia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

He married a woman whose family (surname: Lovretić) came from Chrnomelj, Slovenia.

Anyone with information on this Bucan or the Bucan name in general,  please write to me.