Anastasia Defranceschi, 1875 – 1875 — The Defranceschi Archive

The family

No family chart is drawn for this person, and that is a statement about the data rather than about them. This archive records kin against a name — the tree on a name page gathers everyone who shares it, so it may hold one person's dates beside another's wife. Rather than hand a reader a family that might not be this person's, the chart is drawn only where the relationship is recorded person by person, which today means the direct line.

What the archive knows

⭐⭐ A TWIN, documented 12 October 2026 — and the archive did not know she was one. She was one of seventeen Ližnjan people resting on the family tree and no document at all, carrying nothing but «1875–1875». Ližnjan «Liber Defunctorum», page 67, entries 5 and 6 of 1875 — and the scribe wrote them as one entry with a brace, the parents and the priest written once across both rows: > «mortua die 22 Febr., sepulta die 23 ejusdem, 1875» — house 61 — «Anastasia» and «Maria», of «Gregorii Defranceschi» and «Mariæ Vojnić», agr. Both rows carry the same two figures: «nat. 20/2 75» — born 20 February 1875 — and an age of «dies 3». Cause for both: «ordin.». Buried by D. Gregorius Smak, parochus. Born on the same day, dead on the same day, buried on the same day, braced together on the page: they were twins. The archive held them as two unrelated children who happened to share a year. ⚠ The arithmetic, left as the register wrote it. Born the 20th and dead the 22nd is two days; the scribe put «dies 3» against each. He may have counted inclusively, or counted to the burial on the 23rd. The register's own figure is recorded rather than quietly corrected to fit. The date format is confirmed on the same page, not assumed: entry 4, two rows above, reads «nat. 2/5 851» against a man whose age is given as «ann. 23, m. 8, d. 26» — born 2 May 1851, which only works as day/month/year. Waypoint 9R2Z-4WG, frame 37. (doc — the burial register of the parish, read at the page.)