The Defranceschi Archive
3 indexed marriages · Volosca, on the Kvarner — and Fiume; with a house at Gologorica and a doctor living at Pazin

Peschle

A family that married into our own direct line.

Lambertina Peschle married Josephus de Franceschi at Gologorica on 3 February 1807 and became the mother of Carlo De Franceschi, the historian this whole archive leans on. She was born about 1786 and died on 16 July 1863; the 1826 status animarum of house 7 records her as Lambertina.

Seven Peschle, one marriage into this family, and exactly one stated filiation among them. Drawn here because Lambertina is the mother of Carlo De Franceschi and therefore stands behind a great deal of what this archive believes about itself — and because her own parentage is blank. The households are in the order the records give them, with the join that everyone would like to make marked as the inference it is.

b. 1756

Mathias Peschle × Justina Jacich

Volosca · 1 child indexed
  1. 1803 Alexander Peschle

The oldest Peschle this archive holds. One son recorded.

inferred Is she Mathias's daughter? She was born about 1786; he was born in 1756 and would have been thirty. The name is rare, the place is the same, and the generation is right. Nothing says so — her father is named in no record this archive has seen, and the Volosca registers have not been read.
b. 1786

— her father is not named × Lambertina Peschle

Volosca · ten children by the marriage · one named here
  1. 1809 Carlo De Franceschi — the historian

The marriage that matters to this archive. Lambertina Peschle married Dominus Josephus de Franceschi at Gologorica on 3 February 1807, second of ten children by that marriage being Carlo, born 17 October 1809 in house 17, class Civilis — the historian whose letter to Kobler is the family's own account of itself, and on whom half this site depends. She died at Gologorica on 16 July 1863. The 1826 status animarum of house 7 writes her Lambertina.

Carlo's page →
no join shown Two Alexanders, eleven years apart: one born 1797 who married Anna Promagnoli, one born 1803 who is named as Mathias's son and married Franca Descovich. Whether they are brothers, cousins, or one man the index has split is not shown by anything here.
b. 1797

Alexander Peschle × Anna Promagnoli

Volosca, then Fiume · 4 children indexed ·1 buried as infants
  1. 1832 Paschalis Maria Peschle
  2. 1832 Carmina Peschle d. 1833
  3. — Pasqualina Peschle — at Fiume
  4. — Ercolano Peschle — at Fiume

Paschalis Maria baptised 28 April 1832, and Carmina born and dead across 1832–33 — the two dates sit close enough that they may be twins, or a name re-used after a death, and the register would say which. Two of the children are recorded at Fiume, which is the move that matters: Volosca was Austrian, Fiume was Hungarian crown land, and the family crossed that line.

b. 1803

Alexander Peschle × Franca Descovich

Volosca · no children recorded

Named in the index as son of Mathias and Justina — the only filiation anywhere in this group that is written down rather than guessed. No children recorded.

What would turn this into a tree

The Volosca registers. Lambertina was born there about 1786 and married out of it in 1807; her baptism would name her father in one line and either close or break the link to Mathias. Volosca — Volosko, beside Opatija — was Austrian Istria, so its books are at Pazin or Rijeka, not in Hungarian paperwork. And the Fiume side is the opposite case: Pasqualina and Ercolano are recorded there, on Hungarian crown land, in exactly the jurisdiction this archive opened for the first time on 13 September 2026 and has barely begun to read.

Fifty-one hits on Hungaricana, and almost all of them are one man. Dr Cäsar Peschle, a medical officer of the K. K. Landwehr, commissioned 1 August 1895 with rank from 5 September 1895, serving as Assistenzarzt and then with the 5th and 23rd Regiments, attached to the Landsturm district of Görz — Gorizia — and still on the lists in 1918. Twenty-three years of an Austrian army doctor's career, free, page by page.

⭐ SOMETHING NOW JOINS HIM TO THIS VILLAGE — 5 October 2026. The Gologorica baptism register enters «REMIGIUS CÆSAR natus 1 Oct.», 9 October 1864, house 4, son of «Albertus Peschle, Doctor medicinæ» and «Victoria nata Calligarich». (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01069140, folio 126.)

Four things agree with the man on the army lists at once: the surname; the given name, uncommon enough to be worth something; the profession already in the household; and the age — a man born in October 1864 is just under thirty-one when that commission is granted in August 1895, which is exactly when an Assistenzarzt is commissioned after his training.

⚠ It is an inference and it is written as one. The Hungaricana entries are army lists: rank, regiment and date, no birthplace. Neither record names the other. What this archive has is a Gologorica birth that fits an Austrian career at four points, where before it had a career attached to nothing. (inf.)

And it changes what the Gorizia coincidence is worth. Cäsar Peschle's Landsturm district was Gorizia, where Carlo De Franceschi was sent to the seminary — recorded here as a coincidence of place and not evidence. It is still not evidence. But a coincidence between two strangers is worth less than a coincidence between a man and his mother's family's village, and this entry is what moves it from the first kind to the second.

⚠ AND THE FAMILY WAS THOUGHT TO REACH SILESIA. IT DOES NOT. The 1822 entry was read as «Amalia Peschle ex Silesia» and the word is «ex Volosca». Volosca, Fiume, Gologorica, Pazin — and Volosca again. The paragraph that stood here claimed a direction this archive had no reason to look in.

⚠ And the name is written four ways: Peschle, Pesle (twice in the baptism register), and Peste at page scale, which was a misreading. No form is preferred.

⚠ A HARDER QUESTION WAS RAISED HERE, AND IT IS WITHDRAWN. The paragraph that stood here asked whether the Peschle were German-Silesian in origin, so that «Volosca and Fiume are where they arrived, not where they came from», and whether Carlo De Franceschi's mother was therefore half German. It rested on a single word, and the word reads «ex Volosca». Nothing else ever supported it: «Peschle» not looking Kvarner is an impression, and Peschel, Peschke and Pöschl being German names is a fact about Germany, not about this family. ✔ The register puts the Peschle at Volosca, which is where this page had them.

⭐ 5 OCTOBER 2026 — TWO MORE SIGHTINGS, AND THEY BOTH POINT THE SAME WAY.

The doctor's own child, 28 July 1853. Dr Albertus Peschle, D.r Medicinæ, of Gologorica house 2, and Victoria née Calligarich had a son Conradus Josephus Victorius — a household this archive already held from the census. What it did not have is who stood for him: «Cost. SCHROTT» and «Carolina WALSER», entered cives. Two unmistakably German surnames at an Istrian font, chosen by a Peschle for his own son. (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01069128, folio 114.)

And a fourth Peschle, summoned in absentia. At the baptism of Anna Maria Francisca Defranceschi, 4 November 1860, the godfather is «ANSELMUS PESCHLE … per procuratorem» — by proxy, the formula for a godparent who cannot come and has a stand-in hold the child. Franciscus Xaverius Defranceschi wanted a Peschle at his daughter's font badly enough to have one in absentia. (doc — M01069135, folio 121.)

So the Peschle of this archive now number four across fifty years at one small village: Lambertina who married in; Amalia «ex Volosca»; Dr Albertus, physician, who kept the house at Gologorica and lived at Pazin; and Anselmus, who had to be represented. A dispersed, literate household with reach — which is a description, not an origin.

⚠ AND THE CAUTION THAT GOES WITH IT. Schrott and Walser are German or Austrian; neither is Silesian in particular, and neither is tied here to a place. A doctor of medicine in Habsburg Istria moved among German speakers as a matter of course, and a proxy godfather tells you he was away without telling you where. ⚠ There is no Silesia question to answer. It was withdrawn on 11 October 2026 when the word it rested on was magnified. Schrott and Walser remain two German surnames in a Peschle household's company, and that is all they ever were.

⭐ AND THE TWO HOUSES ARE STILL JOINED IN 1869. On 5 December 1869 Dr Albertus Peschle himself stands godfather to Robertus Defranceschi at house 7, with «Maria Defranceschi», both cives. A Peschle married into this house in 1807; sixty-two years later a Peschle physician is still at its font. That is not a lead about origins — it is the shape of a relationship, and it is the reason the Peschle keep appearing in a Defranceschi archive at all.

Volosca's registers are at Pazin or Rijeka; the Peschle at Fiume belong in Hungarian paperwork. The name is Germanic and the forename is Germanic — Lambertina, for St Lambert of Maastricht, is a Rhineland and Low Countries name, not an Istrian or a Venetian one. A German-named family on the Kvarner in the eighteenth century is most likely an immigrant administrative or mercantile household, which is exactly the kind that leaves imperial rather than parish traces. ⭐ And there is a route to the Peschle that never depended on Silesia. The Gologorica register carries a certificate — «Quae copiae collationatae anni 1835 concordant cum hoc originali libro» — showing that the parish made a certified copy of each year's register and the dean collated it. If the duplicates survive, the Peschle entries exist twice; and worklist 178 is now the item that would find them. ⚠ The instruction that stood here — to carry Schrott, Walser and Anselmus into «any Acta Publica sweep» of the Silesian parishes — is withdrawn with the reading that prompted it. The place to look for the Peschle is Volosca and Fiume, where the register puts them.

The Hungarian Littoral

Fiume (Rijeka) · Bakar (Buccari) · the Vinodol — Klenovica, Crikvenica, Ledenice, Novi · Senj
Who held it
Hungarian crown land, not Austrian — a separate legal world with its own ministries, budgets and civil service.
The registers
Državni arhiv u Rijeci and the parish books.
Beyond the registers
Hungaricana — free, full-text, and the single most under-used source this archive has. State final accounts naming pensioners and their orphans; parliamentary pension schedules with years of service; the National Archives of Hungary plan collection. This is where the office-holders are, and they are in none of the Austrian or Croatian portals.
Where this archive stands
Barely begun. Opened for the first time on 13 September 2026.
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