Helena Defranceschi, 1725 – 1809

⚠ The parish death register disagrees with this row at both ends, and it has not been changed yet. > «Idem · [domus] 36 · 26 augusti [1804] · D.na HELLENA, vid[ua] q. JOSEPHI DEFRANCESCHI ex loco · annorum 84 · Maligna» (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01069240, page 25 of the Gologorica death register.) Eighty-four in August 1804 puts her birth about 1720, and her death in 1804. This archive carries 1725–1809 — four years out on the birth and five on the death. ⚠ Nothing is changed here yet, deliberately. The death book is four frames into ninety-one. Five date collisions are now open in this family, and the sensible thing is to finish the book and move them together rather than one at a time. What makes this one different from the other four: they are a family tree against an archive's reasoning; this is a contemporary parish entry against a date this archive has published, and the parish entry is the better-placed of the two. --- ⭐ 7 October 2026 — ALIVE AND NAMED FIFTY-TWO YEARS BEFORE HER BURIAL. > Gračišće baptisms, 6 February 1752 (DAPA ZM34K-215, M01070145): «… quem ad sacrum tenuère fontem D.nus Gregorius Milotich et D.na Elena Uxor D.ni Josephi Defran[ceschi] … Gollagoritia» — godmother to Blasius Ignatius, son of Judge Ignatius Martinich and Lucia. (doc.) This row held her from one line of a death register. She is now a married Domina travelling to another parish to stand for a judge's child. ⭐ And probably again on 8 June 1783 (M01070183): «Joannes Bapta et Helena Defranceschi Gollogoricienses», standing together for Judge Franciscus Martinich's son. If that is her, the companion is her son — Joannes Baptista, «son of the late Josephus», d. 1813 aged 60. ⚠ The entry gives only the two names and the epithet; the identification is an inference and is not treated as proved. The whole sweep is here. --- ⭐ 9 October 2026 — a second, independent entry, and it backs the REGISTER against this row. > 26. · Antonio Crusilla — 1721 · Anna Ved.ª q. Gioanni Selesio — 1732 · Suppano Antonio Zabran — 1766 · Signora Ellena Ved.ª q. Gius.ᵉ Defranceschi, d'anni 84 — 1804 (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01069215: the Gologorica obit calendar, under 26 August.) Same day, same year, same age, same widowhood as the burial entry already on this row — from a different book, in Italian, and it adds the style «Signora» beside the register's «D.na». ⚠ So the tension on this row hardens. Two independent books now say 84 in August 1804 — birth about 1720, death 1804 — against this row's 1725–1809. Nothing on the tree side has been produced to defend 1725 or 1809. ⚠⚠ AND THERE IS A ROW-LEVEL PROBLEM THIS ARCHIVE HAD NOT NOTICED. A separate roster row, ellena-defranceschi-1720, carries exactly 1720–1804 and has no note at all — so the documented death has been written onto the row whose dates disagree with it, while the row whose dates match it sits empty. Not merged and not moved — identity is by record and a moved id is a dead URL — but flagged on both. ⭐ And she gains a probable daughter. Margarita, who died at house 36 on 22 April 1783 — [the calendar says the 20th — is «figlia q. Sig.ʳ Giuseppe Defranceschi»](/person/margarita-defranceschi-1747/); this woman is «vedova q. Gius.ᵉ Defranceschi» at the same house. inf, on the husband's name and the house. --- ✔ 10 October — her motherhood of Margaretta moves from inf to doc. > «Margaretta … filia Josephi et HELLENÆ jugalium de Franceschi» — 22 April 1783 (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068991, «Liber Mortuorum II», 22 April 1783.)* This archive proposed yesterday, as inf, that the Margarita who died in 1783 was her daughter — on the husband's forename and the house. The register names them both in one line. ⚠ It does not resolve the open question of which of this archive's two rows is the real woman. --- ⭐ 10 October, later — she is named as his wife in 1769, thirty-five years before her burial. > 16 March 1769 · «Catharina filia legitima Stanislai et Dominicæ jugalium Crismanich … patrini fuerunt Dominus Josephus Defranceschi, et HELENA UXOR EJUSDEM.» (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068925, «Liber Baptizatorum II» 1764–1788 — a book this archive had never opened.) This archive had her joined to Josephus only by her own burial as his widow in 1804 and their daughter's death entry of 1783. Here they stand together at a font in March 1769. ⚠ An age of 84 in 1804 puts her birth about 1720, so she is forty-nine here — consistent, and it does not resolve which of this archive's two rows is the real woman. ⭐ 11 October 2026 — alive and styled «Domina», May 1784. > 21 Maij 1784 · «patrini fuere Vitus Sherbaz et Domina HELLENA DEFRANCESCHI ex hac Parochia» (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068943, «Liber Baptizatorum II».) Twenty years before the death entry that disagrees with this row at both ends. ⚠⚠ And «UXOR», not «vidua», on 4 October 1787. > «Patrini fuerunt viduus Antonius Bovis ex Petina, et HELLENA UXOR Josephi de Franceschi ex hac Parochia» (M01068946) This scribe uses «viduus» in the same clause where he means it, and the 1804 death register enters her as «vidua q. Josephi». ⚠ Her husband was therefore alive in October 1787 — which cannot be reconciled with the obit calendar's «q. Sig.ʳ Giuseppe» of April 1783. Nothing on this row is changed. It is on the worklist. ✔✔ RESOLVED THE SAME DAY — she was his wife, not his widow, because he was alive. > 36 · «Die 30… anno quo supra [1787] · Obijt Josephus de Franceschj, MERCATOR, ætatis suæ annorum 64» (M01068984) He died seven weeks after she stood at that font. The «uxor» was exact, and the contradiction was never hers — it was the obit calendar's.