The Defranceschi Archive
not in the marriage index · Vodnjan, in southern Istria

Ferrarese

A family that married into this one.

Angelus Ferrarese married Pascha Defranceschi, and the FamilySearch index names him as the father on seven baptisms between 1849 and 1864 (household h071). The archive places the family at Vodnjan, from the register book the children's images are bound into; the index gives no place.

9 person pages in the archive under the surname Ferrarese, or for someone married to a bearer of it. How each is known, in the archive's own words: Index only 1 · Household 8. Only the dead are listed here, and the dates are the archive's: none is added.

Angelus Ferrarese and Pascha Defranceschi (household h071)

Seven children baptised 1849–1864; two are named Paschalis (1849 and 1851).

Not yet searched beyond the parish books, and not searched in them either: the only search recorded that reaches this family is the Register's harvest of FamilySearch personas, mined for parent-pairs on 10 September 2026.

No register has been read for this household. The first step is to open the Vodnjan baptisms of 1849–1864 that the index points into.

Austrian Istria — the Küstenland

Gračišće · Gologorica · Pazin · Volosca · Vižinada · Svetvinčenat · Vodnjan · Ližnjan
Who held it
Habsburg from 1797 (Venetian before it), the Austrian Littoral from 1849, Italian 1920, Yugoslav 1945, Croatian 1991.
The registers
Državni arhiv u Pazinu, and the parish books on FamilySearch film.
Beyond the registers
ANNO (Austrian National Library newspapers) and ALEX (the imperial Hof- und Staatshandbuch) for anyone who held office; the Vienna Kriegsarchiv for conscripts. This is the branch the archive knows best.
Where this archive stands
ALEX is behind a security check that will not clear for this archive. It has never been read.