Joannes Petrus Defranceschi — 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

⭐ 7 October 2026 — two dated appearances, and a child named after him. This row carried no note at all. > 12 March 1747, Gračišće baptisms (M01070137): «Patrini fuerunt Joannes Petrus de Franceschi nec non Joanna uxor Judicis Joannis Salamon» — at the baptism of Franciscus Gregorius, son of Judge Ignatius Martinich and Lucia. (doc.) This archive already held him standing for the same couple's daughter on 5 May 1744, folio 160 of the previous book, beside «Mattia uxor Suppani Joannis Grach». ⭐⭐ And on 2 April 1750 that couple christened a son «Joannes Petrus» — with «Josephus de Franceschi Gollagoriciensis» standing. They named the child after him. ⚠ No parents, age or house are attached to him on any of the three entries, and none is inferred here. The story is told in full on the line page. ⭐ 7 October, later — and the sweep of the whole book puts him in company. Six Defranceschi appear in sixty-two years of Gračišće baptisms and every one is a godparent; five are labelled «of Gologorica». Four of the six stand for the same family of village judges — Ignatius Martinich in 1744, 1747, 1750 and 1752, and Franciscus Martinich in 1783. --- ⭐⭐ 9 October 2026 — this row said «no parents, age or house are attached to him on any of the three entries». A fourth entry gives two of the three. > 8. · Sig.ʳ Giovanni Pietro Defranceschi, N.º 36, d'anni 86½ — 1781 (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01069216: the Gologorica obit calendar, under 8 September.) «Giovanni Pietro» is «Joannes Petrus», in the Italian the Gologorica books use for their index. An age of 86½ in September 1781 puts his birth about March 1695 — so he was 49, 52 and 55 at the three Gračišće fonts, which is exactly the age of a man asked to stand for a village judge's children. And it gives him a house: N.º 36, the senior Defranceschi door at Gologorica. ⚠ inf, and not merged with the tree row that carries 1695–1781. Nothing in this entry names the godparent of Gračišće; the join rests on a distinctive double forename, one parish and an age that fits. A moved or merged id is a dead URL, and both rows carry the argument. --- ⭐ 10 October — the contemporary death entry, and it names his tomb. > «36. · Die 8 Septembris obijt · Dominus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi annorum 86, mensium 4, provisus in sua infirmitate Sacramentis Pœnitentiæ, Eucharistiæ et Extremæ Unctionis per me Marcum Bancich Parochum hujus Loci; sepultus est 9 in propria Arca ejusdem, per D.ⁿᵘᵐ Carolum Covas, Canonicum» (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068980, «Liber Mortuorum II», male sequence, 8 September 1781.)* Yesterday's join of this row to the tree row was made from the obit calendar, a copy of 1800. The register itself gives the same day, the same house 36, and an age of «86, mensium 4». ⭐⭐ And he owned the family tomb. «sepultus est 9 in propria Arca ejusdem» — and Leonardus the weaver was buried in 1773 «in Arca D.ⁿⁱ Petri Defranceschi», eight years before its owner. ⚠ How the two men were related is not stated and is not guessed. The join of this row to the tree row remains inf.* ⭐ 11 October 2026 — a fourth appearance, seventeen years after the third, and this time in his own parish. > 11 Martij 1767 · «patrini fuerunt D.ⁿᵘˢ Joannes Petrus Defranceschi et Helena uxor D.ⁿⁱ Josephi Defranceschi» (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068922, Gologorica «Liber Baptizatorum II».) The three entries this row already held are 1744, 1747 and 1750, all at Gračišće. This is Gologorica, and it is 1767. ⚠ It is consistent with this row and «Sig.ʳ Giovanni Pietro Defranceschi, d'anni 86½», dead 1781, being one man — he would be seventy-two here, and «Dominus» is the Latin of «Sig.ʳ». It does not prove it, and the rows are still not joined.