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Elena Surcho (Defranceschi)
Elena Surcho (Defranceschi), Rijeka. Valentino the Carnian's wife, under her own name. She married D.num Valentinum de Franceschi ex. Every record this archive holds for this one person, with the document behind each.
Name
Elena Surcho (Defranceschi)
Years
dates unknown
Place
Vitipolis, Modrus-Fiume, Magyarország
Line
carnia
Found in
Read off the register
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
Valentino the Carnian's wife, under her own name. She married «D.num Valentinum de Franceschi ex Carnia» at St Vitus, Fiume on 28 February 1737 (film 005497925, image 168), nine months before their first child, and bore sixteen children to 1757. Every other entry in twenty years calls her only Helena or Elena jugalis Defranceschi; this is the one document that gives her a maiden name. (The surname is underlined in the register; its initial is the looped capital this hand uses for both S and Z, so Surcho, Zurcho or Turcho — probably an Italianised Žurko/Zurco. Given as read.) She stands godmother across the parish at least nine times between 1745 and 1747, and again at the font of Giuseppe × Francesca's first son in 1772.
(22 Sept 2026 — magnified. The body of the word is plainly -urcho; only the capital is in doubt. Turcho was added to the list because Turco/Turcho is a common Adriatic surname and Surcho is not. None of the three is preferred.)
No one else in this archive carries this name. See the name index →