Ante / Antun Defrančeski of Ližnjan (fl. 1919–1920)

Found only because somebody finally searched the Croatian spelling of the name. «Pučki prijatelj» (Krk), 19 December 1919 — a subscription list «sabrao među radnicima u arsenalu», collected among the workers of the Pula arsenal: among those giving one lira, «Defrančeski Antun». (doc.) «Pučki prijatelj», 27 February 1920 — another list, this one «Sabrano u Ližnjanu kod Pule», collected at Ližnjan near Pula: among those giving two lire, «Defrančeski Ante». (doc.) Ante is Antun, and fourteen months apart he is an arsenal worker and a subscriber at Ližnjan. (inf that the two entries are one man — the forename, the spelling and the district all agree, and nothing else does the work.) ⚠ Why he matters out of proportion to two lire. He stands on the Ližnjan line's own ground, in the years it runs through, and no sweep had found him — because the archive had searched «Defranceschi» and «Defranceski» and never «Defrančeski», the form a Croatian paper would actually print. One diacritic, and a working man at Ližnjan was invisible for a year. Born about 1885 — estimated from a man donating out of wages in 1919, and nothing narrower is claimed.