Joannes Baptista de Franceschi (of Svetvinčenat, d. by 1737), about 1680

Known only from his daughter, and from the word defuncti. On 7 October 1737 a godmother is entered as «Maria filia defuncti Joannis Baptistæ de Franceschi» — so a Giovanni Battista of the name was a householder at Svetvinčenat and was dead by the autumn of 1737. The daughter is probably already on this roster. Maria di Batta Defranceschi, born 1716, was read off a page of this same parish — Batta is Battista — and a woman of twenty-one is exactly who stands godmother in 1737. (inf, on the forename of the father and the parish; nothing else joins them yet.) A man with a grown daughter in 1737 was born about 1680, give or take fifteen years. (inf for the estimate; doc for the death bracket and the daughter.) Film 005497885, images 115–117 — Births 1709–1764 of Svetvinčenat, read on the plate 22 September 2026. --- 22 September, later — and there are two of him. On 19 April 1739 a godfather is entered as «Joannes Baptista de Franceschi, et Clara vidua defuncti Bartholomei Braccato» — alive, standing at the font, eighteen months after the other one was called defuncti. Father and son is the ordinary explanation and this archive does not claim more than that. What it does mean is plain: at Svetvinčenat in the 1730s the forename Joannes Baptista does not identify a man of this surname, any more than Jacobo does. (doc for both appearances; the relation between them is unestablished.)