Antonia de Franceschi (b. 1759)

The first Defranceschi child this archive has read out of the Svetvinčenat baptism register for the eighteenth century — and the record that finally gives a wife of the name a forename. > «Die 7 9bris [1759]. Antonia filia legitima Jacobi de Franceschi et Paschasiæ eius legitimæ uxoris, amborum ex hac Parochia, nata die 5 currentis, Baptizata est (de licentia Œconomi) … Patrini fuerunt ad Sacrum Fontem Gregorius Doblanovich, et Boneta Uxor Benedicti Fiorencis.» — carta 162. Born 5 November 1759, baptised on the 7th, to Giacomo de Franceschi and Paschasia — Pasqua — both of the parish. (doc.) Whose Giacomo he is, is open. A Jacobus Defranceschi stands godfather in the same register on 6 August 1758, and a Giacomo who died before November 1771 is known from the marriage register. They may be one man; nothing read so far distinguishes them. (inf.) See Giacomo de Franceschi d. Bef 1771. She is the youngest of four, not an only child. The same couple — Giacomo de Franceschi and Pascasia — appear as parents four times in this register: a child baptised 25 March 1750 whose forename sits in smeared ink and would not resolve; Giacomo Battista de Franceschi (b. 1753), born 19 August 1753; Giovanni de Franceschi (b. 1756), baptised 10 January 1756; and Antonia herself in November 1759. It is the first household of the name at Svetvinčenat this archive can follow across a decade. (doc.)