Leonardus Defranceschi, 1697 – 1773 — The Defranceschi Archive

The family

Leonardus Defranceschi1697 – 1773

the direct line, argued on the line

4 names in the record are not drawn above: fatherAntonius Defranceschi, filius Usualdi et Apoloniæ— the dates do not fit a record of 1847 · motherFrancisca née Defranceschi— the dates do not fit a record of 1847 · fatherAntonius Defranceschi— the dates do not fit a record of 1847 · motherFrancisca Defranceschi— the dates do not fit a record of 1847

This chart is the direct line and nothing else. Brothers and sisters are not drawn here: this archive records kin against a NAME rather than against a person, so the family on a name page may belong to several different people of that name. Where it is drawn it is read from the direct line, person by person.

What the archive knows

--- ⚠⚠ 10 October 2026 — «THE 1773 DEATH REGISTER HAS BEEN READ, AND HE IS NOT IN IT» — AND THAT WAS WRONG WITHIN THE HOUR. See below. This row's 1773 comes from a family tree and nothing else, and the marriage of 9 June 1774 says the groom's father Leonardus was already dead. So the parish death register — kept by the same priest through both years — is where he should be. The 1773 deaths, in full: 7 March · 12 March · 4 May · 3 July · 1 August · 12 September · 13 October · 27 November. (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068988–M01068991, «Liber Mortuorum II».)* > Eight deaths. Not one of them a Defranceschi. ⚠ So this row's year has no support in the parish's own register, and the other death book gives a Leonardo Defranceschi dying 2 November 1751. That makes the 1751 man the stronger candidate for the 1774 groom's father, where yesterday the two stood level. ⚠ The year is NOT changed and nothing is withdrawn. A man can die outside his parish, a register can drop an entry, and eight deaths in a year is a low count for a village of a hundred and thirty houses — which is a reason to doubt the book's completeness before doubting the tree. What is recorded is that the register was asked and did not answer. --- # ⭐⭐⭐ HE IS IN IT — and he is «TEXTOR EX CARNIA» The eight 1773 deaths read above were eight women. This volume is split by sex and he is in the male sequence, forty frames earlier. > «45 · Die 14 Martij obijt · Leonardus Defranceschi annorum septuaginta sex, provisus Sacramento Pœnitentiæ per me Marcum Bancich Parochum, sepultus vero est 15 in Arca D.ⁿⁱ Petri Defranceschi in hoc Parrochiali Ecclesia existente. ( : professionis suæ TEXTOR EX CARNIA : )» (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068977, «Liber Mortuorum II», male sequence, 14 March 1773.)*


died	14 March 1773, buried the 15th
age	seventy-six → born about 1697. *This row's two tree years are confirmed by one entry.*
house	45 — the Defranceschi house on the 1770 list
trade	«professionis suæ TEXTOR» — a weaver
origin	«EX CARNIA»
grave	in «Arca D.ⁿⁱ Petri Defranceschi», inside the parish church

⭐⭐ «EX CARNIA» is the first time a Gologorica register places any Defranceschi outside Istria. Every other Carnian document this archive holds comes from somewhere else. ⚠ It does not reach Mione by itself — Carnia is a region, and ninety-four years separate this from the 1679 return. No join to that household is made. ⭐⭐ And it makes the marriage of 9 June 1774 doc. That groom is «q.ᵐ Leonardi filius, professionis suæ Textor» — his father dead fifteen months before, at the same house, of the same trade. Father and son are both weavers. ⚠ The Leonardo who died in 1751 remains a documented man; what is withdrawn is yesterday's conclusion that he was the better candidate.