Petrus Defranceschi, 1768 – 1829 — The Defranceschi Archive

The family

Petrus Defranceschi1768 – 1829

the direct line, argued on the line

2 names in the record are not drawn above: fatherLeonardus Defranceschi— the dates do not fit a record of 1889 · motherMaria Udovicic (Defranceschi)— the dates do not fit a record of 1889

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

Documented 30 September 2026; he had been carried on the family tree alone. The 1826 status animarum of Gologorica enters him as «Petrus Defranceschi», condition civilitas — of the civil class, not rusticus — born 17 April 1768, in a household struck through. His death is given as the bare year 1829 with the age 61, and no day or month. The arithmetic holds: he turned 61 in the April of that year. ⚠ This is NOT the Petrus Defranceschi of Rovinj. The roster carries a second man of the name also dying in 1829 — petrus-defranceschi-1765, born 1765, from a Rovinj burial record. The two are kept apart deliberately: different birth years, different parishes, and a shared death year is not evidence of identity. The 1765 reading was mine and was wrong on first sight — at magnification the register says 1768, which is also what the age at death requires. (doc.) Gologorica Status Animarum 1826, DAPA microfilm ZM34K-214, image M01069325. His household, from the page after his own entry (M01069326): he married 21 January 1795, and the book gives his wife as «Anna Mater nata Bembo», born 5 July 1779, with one son, Hermenegildus, born 4 October 1803. A brace in the margin against the wife and son reads «In partibus Venetias … habitant» — they live in the Venetian parts, not at Gologorica. --- ⭐⭐⭐ 11 October 2026 — HIS BAPTISM, and the day matches the day. > 17 Aprilis 1768 · «Archipresbyter et Parochus Cerovglienensis Dominicus Clinzich baptizavit PETRUM ANTONIUM filium legitimum D.ⁿⁱ Josephi, et Helenæ jugalium DEFRANCESCHI; patrini fuerunt Josephus Belch, et Matthia uxor Jacobi Rovis q.ᵐ Matthæi, ambo Pisinenses.» (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068923, «Liber Baptizatorum II».) The 1826 census and the 1768 register are fifty-eight years apart and give the same date. This row had one sentence of evidence behind it; it now has a baptism written at the time.


full name	*Petrus Antonius* — a second forename nothing else on this row records
father	D.ⁿᵘˢ Josephus Defranceschi
mother	«Helena»
sister	Rosalia, who stands with their father in February 1769
officiant	*the archpriest of Cerovlje, not the parish priest*
godparents	both of Pazin

⭐ And the 1826 entry's «civilitas» was already true at the font. An outside archpriest, two townspeople from the district capital, a father styled «Dominus». That is the same conditio the Gračišće register gives these people — not «rusticus». ✔ And his officiant is confirmed from another parish's book. A loose slip lying inside this same register — a Cerovlje extract certified in 1793 — has «a me Archipræsbitero et Parocho Dominico Clinzich» signing at Cerovlje on 5 January 1767, fifteen months before he came to Gologorica for this baptism. Two documents, two parishes, one man.