Antonio de Franceschi (witness 1773)
Antonio de Franceschi (witness 1773), born about 1730 (somewhere 1715–1735) — estimated, not recorded. Svetvinčenat. Every mention of this name in the archive — 38 across 16 pages.
Named on a dozen entries between January 1773 and April 1775, and never as a bridegroom — always as the man the parish asked to stand witness. (This page said «six times in ten months of 1773» until 28 September 2026; the marriage film gives many more, and they run two years past where the count stopped.) On 25 January, twice on 27 January, on 2 May, on 5 August and on 31 October 1773 the Svetvinčenat marriage register closes the entry «testibus Ant.º de Franceschi et Jo: Sain», or the same with Vincentio Vemir or Stephano Petrovich in Sain's place. He has a grown son. On 4 February 1773 the witness is «Victorio de Franceschi filio Antonij» — Vittorio, son of Antonio. That single phrase is what dates him: a son old enough to witness in 1773 puts Antonio's own birth about 1730 at the latest, and possibly a decade earlier. (doc for the appearances and for the son; the birth year is inferred from his son's age.) He is not merged with anyone. The archive already carries an Antonio De Franceschi born 1704 at Svetvinčenat, who would have been sixty-nine in 1773 — possible, and not proven. A name and a decade is not an identification. See Vittorio de Franceschi, son of Antonio. He was the bell-ringer, and that is why he is on so many pages. Three entries of 1774–75 give him an occupation, one of them with the word in front where it cannot be misparsed: «e del Campanaro Antonio Defranceschi» (25 September 1775), «Ant.º Defranceschi Campanaro, ed altri» (27 February 1775), «d'Ant.º Defranceschi Campanaro» (29 October 1775). This archive first read his six 1773 appearances as a mark of standing. The duller explanation is the right one: he worked at the church, and the priest reaching for a witness reached for the man already in the building. (doc.) He does not hold the title alone. «Zne Sain Campanaro» appears in February and July 1776 and January 1777. Either the office changed hands or the parish had more than one bell-ringer. (inf.) Eleven appearances in all, 1773 to 1775, and then nothing: after 1775 the name in the witness line is Domenico. See Domenico Defranceschi, witness 1777. His own marriage is not in the book. The whole volume, 1762–1779, has now been read frame by frame. With a son old enough to witness in February 1773 he married about 1750–1756, before this register opens — inside the gap between 1623 and 1762 that the parish's marriage books do not cover. (doc, for the negative.) He is a grandfather in the record too. His son Vittorio's children are in this archive's burials: Antonia (1804–1808), Giovanni Pietro (1809), Antonio (1811) and Gioanni Maria (d. 1813). The grandson carries his name, which is what the parish's naming habit would predict. (inf.) Three generations of the name at Svetvinčenat now run Antonio → Vittorio → Antonio, on the strength of a witness line, a burial and a naming pattern — no baptism among them. And here he is as a father, which is what eight days of reading were for. The baptism register of 1764–1791, at 9 December 1769, carta 26: «Fran.ca figlia di D.no Ant.o De Franceschi e Donna Mattia … nata li 8 corrente». Magnified and read letter by letter. So Antonio was a householder at Svetvinčenat by 1769 — not a man who arrived about 1770, which is what this archive had been inferring from his absence as a parent in volume one. He is styled D.no, Dominus, a courtesy the register withholds from most of the parish. (doc.) His wife is Mattia — the Matthea who stands godmother in 1780 as «Matthea uxor Antonij Defranceschi». (doc for both entries; the household is inf.) Their children, so far: Vittorio de Franceschi, son of Antonio (b. about 1758) and Franca de Franceschi (b. 1769) (b. 8 December 1769). A second daughter, and she was a twin. On 21 January 1776 the register has «Dom[enic]a filia legit[i]ma et natu[rali]s D[omi]ni Antonij Defranceschi, Matthæque ejus [conjugis], nata gemina hac nocte elapsa» — magnified. Domenica de Franceschi (b. 1776) joins Franca (1769) and Vittorio (c. 1758) as his children. The twin has not been found. (doc.) A fifth child, found in somebody else's baptism. Frame 112, 18 January 1786: «Patrini fuere Matthaeus Doblanovich, et Maria filia Antonii de Franceschi». Magnified. Maria de Franceschi, daughter of Antonio joins Vittorio, Franca, Domenica and Domenico. Her own baptism has not been found, and no birth year is inferred for her. (doc for the daughter; her age is open.) His children now stand at the font in his place. By 1785–86 it is Vittorio, Vittorio's wife Euphemia, and Maria whose names fill the godparent line — the same office Antonio himself held through the 1770s. And he is still alive in 1788. Frame 123, 12 October 1788: «Patrini fuere Antonivs Defranceschi, et Helena uxor Dni Benedicti Fiorencij» — godfather to Martinus, son of Joannes and Catharina Xivolich. Magnified. He was last seen in person on 10 September 1783. This adds five years. If he was born about 1730 — which his son's age in 1773 requires — he is about fifty-eight here. (doc for the entry.) The identification is inference, and narrow inference. The entry says «an Antonio Defranceschi», not «the». But the only other men of that name this archive places at the castle are his own grandson, born 1811 and not yet alive, and an Antonio of 1671 long dead. No other candidate exists in the parish in 1788. (inf.) --- 27 September 2026 — an Antonio with a different wife, sixteen years earlier, and this archive will not say whether he is this man. 14 February 1753: «patrini fuerunt, Vincentius Bergam, et Agnes uxor Antonij Defranceschi» — image 162 of the Births 1709–1764. Agnes is a name new to this parish's Defranceschi, and she appears nowhere else in this archive. Three readings, and the register does not choose between them. · A first wife of this man. He is estimated born about 1730, so twenty-three in 1753; Mattea is not attested as his wife until 1769, sixteen years later. A first marriage ending in the interval is entirely ordinary and would leave exactly this trace. · Another Antonio. The parish held an Antonio born 1704 — twice over in this roster, itself an unresolved pair — and an Antonius of 1671. Either could be «Antonij» in 1753. · The clerk writing the wrong husband, which this register is now proved to do: it gave Pascasia to Caspar twice in fourteen months while she was demonstrably Jacobo's wife. «Agnes uxor Antonij» is a godparent line, which is the exact kind of line that failed. No wife has been added to this man and no household built. The archive spent this week learning that a godparent line is not a marriage, and that a second wife-name is as likely to be a second man — or a slip — as a remarriage. Recorded, and left open. (doc for the entry; whose wife she was is open.) --- 28 September 2026 — a second Antonio, and this page is not him. The marriage register names «Gaspare de Franceschi q.m Ant.º ex hoc Castro» on 13 August 1766 — film 005497886, frame 55. That Antonio was dead by August 1766, seven years before this man begins witnessing. He now has his own page: Antonio de Franceschi of Svetvinčenat (d. by 1766). So the castle held at least two Antonios de Franceschi in the eighteenth century, and this page's six witnessings of 1773 belong to the later one. (doc for the separation — it rests on «q.m» in 1766 against a living witness in 1773, not on an estimate of age.) His 1773 appearances were re-read on the plate the same day, frame 64, at 2.3×: «testibus Ant.º de Franceschi et Jo: Sain» (25 January) and «Jo: Sain, et Victorio de Franceschi filio Antonij» (4 February). Both confirmed as published. --- 28 September 2026 — he does not stop in 1773, and three entries give him a parish office. This page had him «named six times in ten months of 1773». Re-reading frames 65–70 finds him well beyond that: 22 and 27 November 1773, 27 and 29 January, 3 February and 3 July 1774, and four more times between February and April 1775 — including as a witness at Fusca de Franceschi's wedding on 17 November 1773. He is a fixture at this church for at least three years, not ten months. (doc.) ⚠ And three times the clerk writes a trade after his name. «D.n Antonio Defranceschi Campanaro» (29 January 1774), «D.no Antonio Defranceschi Cap.ro» (3 February 1774), and «d'Ant.o Defranceschi Capanaro» (27 February 1775) — campanaro, the bell-ringer, and in each the word follows his surname with no other name between. It would explain everything about him — a man who is at the church anyway is the man you ask to witness — and this archive is not going to say it, because the same register calls somebody else the bell-ringer in the same years. «Zvanne Sain campanaro» appears on 11 December 1773 and again in May, June, August and twice in November 1774. Either the collegiate church had more than one, or the office changed hands twice, or the word is doing something in these three entries that is not obvious. (The appearances are doc; the office was left open for a day — see below, where it closes.) --- 28 September 2026, later — the office is settled, by word order. Frame 72, 25 October 1775: «…alla mia presenza del R.do Sig.r D. Giuseppe Crisanaz, e del Campanaro Antonio De Franceschi: Testimonj.» — the title stands before the name, where «del Sig.r» or «del R.do» would stand, and it cannot attach to anyone else. Read at 2.3×. (doc.) That makes five. «Antonio Defranceschi Campanaro» (29 Jan 1774), «Antonio Defranceschi Cap.ro» (3 Feb 1774), «Ant.o Defranceschi Capanaro» (27 Feb 1775), «Ant.o Defranceschi Campanaro» (19 Oct 1775), and this one. He was a bell-ringer of Svetvinčenat, and that is why the parish kept asking him to witness: he was at the church already. ⚠ And he was not the only one. «Zvanne Sain Campanaro» carries the same title on at least a dozen entries across the same years — 1773, four times in 1774, three times in 1776, and January 1777. Two men held it at once. The likeliest reason is on the same pages: this parish is a collegiate church with others around it — the register marries people at S. Vincenzo, S. Rocco, S. Germano and S. Maria Maddalena. A parish with four churches has more than one bell to ring. (inf — the register never says which church either man served.) One more appearance, no title: 19 November 1776, witness with Mattio Bergamo. He runs 1773 to 1776 on this film. And later still. He witnesses again on 22 November 1779 — «alla sua presenza, d'Ant.o Defranceschi, e di D.no Z.ne Volfe Testimonj», frame 85. His run on this film is January 1773 to November 1779, nearly seven years, against the «six times in ten months of 1773» this page began with. --- ⚠ 28 September 2026 — he was styled «Capo», and he was alive in 1783. Twice in six weeks the new archpriest, D. Paolo Cossaich, gives him a title, in a hand with nothing covering it: · 13 March 1783: «Vittorio figlio di Capo Antonio de Franceschi contrasse li primi sponsali con Eufemia figlia di Mattio Bergamo» — film 005497886, frame 93, read at 2.2×. This is also the first document to state outright that Vittorio is his son. · 28 April 1783: «…qual esposero alla mia presenza di Capo Antonio de Franceschi, di Mattio Percich q. Piero, e pur Sime Percich q. Piero» — he is a witness himself, still. (doc for both.) ⚠ «Capo» is recorded, not translated. The same act carries a second one — «Capo Mattio Buzzalovich q. Zuanne da Lisignano» — so it is a title this clerk gives to men, and it took a second construction before this archive would read it at all. What it meant at Svetvinčenat is not established here: head of a contrada, head of a household, master of a boat — the register says none of it. Both weddings touch the coast (one is celebrated at Parenzo, one witness comes from Ližnjan), which is suggestive and is not evidence. (doc for the word; its meaning is open.) ⚠ And it overturned this archive's own reading of the morning. Frame 86 had been published as «Gregorio Defranceschi q.m Ant.o» — of the late Antonio — from a glyph with an ink blot on it. «Capo», twice, in 1783, says otherwise, and the clerk marks his dead in the same sentences with «deff.o» and «q.». The correction is recorded. This page no longer carries a death year, inferred or otherwise. What is still certain is that the bell-rope had moved on. Through 1780, 1781 and 1782 the register names the campanaro five times and every time it is a Bratulich — Gasparo q.m Vittorio and Zorzi q.m Vittorio — and by February 1783 a Pietro Brunetti. That is consistent with this page's long-standing finding that the office moved between men, and it no longer needs a death to explain it. (doc.)
| Gen | Father before | This name | Child after |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/17 | Giovanni il Zuane | Antonio1723–1791 · posjednik; wife a contessa M. Cambj | Pietro Antonio |
| 15/17 | Pietro Antonio | Antonio1801–1877 · posjednik; wife D. Radmilović | Ivan |
| 17/17 | Ivan | Antonio1874–1948 · posjednik; wife Antica Radišić | — |
| 3/8 | Giovanni Battista Defranceschi | Antonio Defranceschi1825 · 1894 · Gračišće (Gallignana), house 19 | Josip Defranceschi |
A made family chart, not a register.
6 of the 6 relationships drawn above are written in a register this archive has read with its own eyes.
6 households were rejected before this chart was drawn, because the dates do not fit a person of this name: Valentino Defranceschi × Elena Defranceschi (1753) · Antonio De Franceschi × Maria Bergamo (1839) · Giacomo de Franceschi × Anzola (1737) · Antonio De Franceschi × Maria Bergamo (1825–1845) · Antonio Defranceschi × Elena Defranceschi (1830–1830) · Antonio Defranceschi × Maria Schifich (1844–1848).
The households → · Every record naming Antonio de Franceschi (witness 1773) → · The Spine → · How this is decided →
This archive holds 8 other pages under what Say Your Name reconciles as the same given name in another language — a Latin register, a Venetian clerk, a Croatian village, a Hungarian office. They are not merged and none of them is claimed to be this person: a shared name is not a shared identity, and the archive will not join one to the other by machine. It is here so that a reader looking for a man the records called Josephus can see where they wrote him Josip.
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…his son was of age to marry by about 1785», and the son's marriage has now been found, on 14 March 1785 — the year the guess named. Leonardo belongs to a generation born somewhere between about 1710 and 1740. documented n Antonio de Franceschi, son of the late Leonardo, and Maria née Corva — married 14 March 1785 ⚠ THE MARRIAGE IS FOUND, AND IT IS NOT IN CARNIA. IT IS IN ISTRIA, AND HE IS STYLED «OF GOLOGORICA». Svetvinčenat marriages, film 005497886, frame 98, carta 55 — read…
…his mother's father. What was already here, and still stands. Farmers of Muina. Antonio was dead before his son's wedding. His written consent is dated 25 October 1807, but by 28 January 1808 the notary styles his son «Osvaldo del fu Antonio de Franceschi» and takes a second, separate consent from «Donna Maria nata Corva, vedova del fu Antonio de Franceschi» — the widow. Under the Napoleonic Code the mother's consent was required only when the father was dead, so the second act is the procedural proof…
…before his son's wedding. His written consent is dated 25 October 1807, but by 28 January 1808 the notary styles his son «Osvaldo del fu Antonio de Franceschi» and takes a second, separate consent from «Donna Maria nata Corva, vedova del fu Antonio de Franceschi» — the widow. Under the Napoleonic Code the mother's consent was required only when the father was dead, so the second act is the procedural proof of the first fact. Between those two documents lies a death nobody recorded here: Antonio died between 25…
…consent of 25 October 1807. The file does not contain it. What it contains instead is a maternal consent, taken on 28 January 1808 by the notary Giacomo Micoli del fu Francesco in his study at Muina, from «Donna Maria nata Corva, vedova del fu Antonio de Franceschi», «ad istanza fattale da suo figlio Osvaldo» — at the request of her son. A widow's consent is what the Code required when the father had died. Antonio was alive in October and dead in January. The bride's father consents separately The same…
…twelve days old, married Ignazio di Prato, a merchant of Chialina. She signs herself «Giacoma de Franceschi q.m Osualdo» in her own hand. Her father had given written consent on 7 September 1805, so he died between then and the wedding. Antonio de Franceschi, son of the late Leonardo, and Maria née Corva Muina agricoltori — farmers Named in their son's marriage act of 28 January 1808 and again in the banns of 17 January, with Antonio's written consent of 25 October…
…He is most probably the «Osvaldo de Franceschi d'anni ventisette, Servitore» who identifies two bodies at Muina in 1814 and signs his own name: the village fits, and his recorded ages round the same way in 1808 and 1814. Inferred. Osvaldo Antonio de Franceschi (b. about 1786–87) and Cattarina, or Valentina, née Brenci / Prencis / Crencis Mione falegname — a carpenter Married 6 August 1807 (marriage index). Daughter Cattarina born 10 July 1808 at eight in the…
…Maria, about eighteen — recorded as illetterata, and making her mark. Not the Matteo who stands behind Orsola: that one was dead before 1809 and born around the 1710s. The name is being reused a generation and a half later. Antonio de Franceschi and Giovanna, «pure de Franceschi» Mione sartore — a tailor; she economa di casa Named in the death act of their son Francesc'Antonio, aged five, on 30 April 1808 — so the boy was born about 1803, before any…
…1820 — and they were burghers, not peasants The house-owner protocol of the Franciscan cadastre for Svetvinčenat, transcribed by Altić and Kliman Grabar, gives three of the town's seventy-three houses to this surname: «Antonio de Franceschi (14/4)», «Pietro Antonio de Franceschi (29/51)» and «casa Antonio de Franceschi (30)». The authors note that «casa» marks the more important houses of the more prominent families. And the status column: only Grimani is a Ritter, a nobleman; a named group…
…they were burghers, not peasants The house-owner protocol of the Franciscan cadastre for Svetvinčenat, transcribed by Altić and Kliman Grabar, gives three of the town's seventy-three houses to this surname: «Antonio de Franceschi (14/4)», «Pietro Antonio de Franceschi (29/51)» and «casa Antonio de Franceschi (30)». The authors note that «casa» marks the more important houses of the more prominent families. And the status column: only Grimani is a Ritter, a nobleman; a named group including de Franceschi is marked…
…house-owner protocol of the Franciscan cadastre for Svetvinčenat, transcribed by Altić and Kliman Grabar, gives three of the town's seventy-three houses to this surname: «Antonio de Franceschi (14/4)», «Pietro Antonio de Franceschi (29/51)» and «casa Antonio de Franceschi (30)». The authors note that «casa» marks the more important houses of the more prominent families. And the status column: only Grimani is a Ritter, a nobleman; a named group including de Franceschi is marked «Burgeri», citizens; and the majority are…
…did not have — and a fact about how this family married. 30 April 1808, at five in the afternoon, at Mione. Registered the same day by Valentino Lupieri, who went to the house on being notified «il cadavere di Francesc'Antonio de Franceschi … nell'età d'anni cinque» — a boy of five, so born about 1803, before any register that survives His parents, as the witnesses declared them: Antonio de Franceschi, by trade «sartore» — a tailor — and Giovanna, «pure de…
…went to the house on being notified «il cadavere di Francesc'Antonio de Franceschi … nell'età d'anni cinque» — a boy of five, so born about 1803, before any register that survives His parents, as the witnesses declared them: Antonio de Franceschi, by trade «sartore» — a tailor — and Giovanna, «pure de Franceschi», «economa di casa», both living at Mione «pure de Franceschi» — also a de Franceschi. Both parents carry the surname Gio: Pietro Erman de…
…Lupieri, Officer of the Civil State Archivio di Stato di Udine· Stato civile napoleonico· Mione· Morti· 1808· Antenati ark anua667555, image 6 of 11 The family married itself «da Antonio de Franceschi, e da Giovanna pure de Franceschi giugali» — from Antonio de Franceschi and Giovanna, also a de Franceschi, married. This archive has been tracing De Franceschi daughters marrying out — into the Erman, the di Zuato, the Luchin. Here is a…
…di Udine· Stato civile napoleonico· Mione· Morti· 1808· Antenati ark anua667555, image 6 of 11 The family married itself «da Antonio de Franceschi, e da Giovanna pure de Franceschi giugali» — from Antonio de Franceschi and Giovanna, also a de Franceschi, married. This archive has been tracing De Franceschi daughters marrying out — into the Erman, the di Zuato, the Luchin. Here is a couple where both sides are the surname, in the same village, and the…
…There are two honest readings and this archive is not going to pick one without a second document. The first is that she was born a de Franceschi. That is not a strange thing to propose here: the 1808 death act says in as many words that Antonio de Franceschi's wife was «Giovanna, pure de Franceschi» — also a de Franceschi — and the registrar wrote pure precisely so nobody would read it as a slip of the pen. Two De Franceschi couples in seven years, in a village of a few dozen houses, is what endogamy…
…a servant, and at Muina — so is this the same man? This is the part this archive will not smooth over, because smoothing it over is exactly the mistake that had to be retracted from the DNA page this month. In January 1809 Osvaldo Antonio de Franceschi is «falegname» — a carpenter — and «di Mione». In September and November 1814 Osvaldo de Franceschi is «Servitore» — a servant — and a neighbour of two dead people at Muina. For one man: the ages line up exactly (22 in January 1809 → 27…
…«nel luogo ove si pubblicano gli ordini Governativi» and posted there the same hour «la promessa di matrimonio di Osvaldo de Franceschi, d'anni venti, domiciliato nel villaggio di Muina, di professione agricoltore» «figlio di Antonio de Franceschi, di professione pure agricoltore, e di Maria nata Corva, economa di casa, domiciliati in Muina» «con Appolonia Galante dell'età d'anni venticinque e mezzo … figlia di Antonio Galante e di Speranza Micoli, dimoranti in Muina, rustici di…
…3 images The series opens thin: a title leaf, a blank, and a single notice. No De Franceschi. 1808 anua667545· 13 images Act N. 1, Sunday 17 January. Osvaldo de Franceschi, twenty, of Muina, agricoltore, son of Antonio de Franceschi and Maria nata Corva, with Appolonia Galante, twenty-five and a half, daughter of Antonio Galante and Speranza Micoli. The notice names the wedding day in advance — 28 January, at Muina — and spells Galante twice in a clear looped G.…
The Defranceschi Archive
…the whole set. The fix is the obvious one — page to the end before saying «all». Caught the same evening, going back for the remaining village files and finding the count did not match. 14 Sept 2026 «Both alive in 1808» — Antonio de Franceschi of Muina was dead before his son's wedding moderate /carnia/muina The Muina chain said of Antonio de Franceschi and Maria née Corva: «Farmers of Muina. Both alive in 1808: Antonio gave his written consent to his son's…
…village files and finding the count did not match. 14 Sept 2026 «Both alive in 1808» — Antonio de Franceschi of Muina was dead before his son's wedding moderate /carnia/muina The Muina chain said of Antonio de Franceschi and Maria née Corva: «Farmers of Muina. Both alive in 1808: Antonio gave his written consent to his son's marriage on 25 October 1807, three months before the wedding.» Antonio was dead by the wedding day. The marriage allegati of Mione…
…to his son's marriage on 25 October 1807, three months before the wedding.» Antonio was dead by the wedding day. The marriage allegati of Mione 1808 — the loose documents the couple actually produced — style the groom «Osvaldo del fu Antonio de Franceschi» and take a separate consent from «Donna Maria nata Corva, vedova del fu Antonio de Franceschi». Under the Napoleonic Code a mother's consent was required only where the father had died, so the existence of that second act is itself the proof. The…
…was dead by the wedding day. The marriage allegati of Mione 1808 — the loose documents the couple actually produced — style the groom «Osvaldo del fu Antonio de Franceschi» and take a separate consent from «Donna Maria nata Corva, vedova del fu Antonio de Franceschi». Under the Napoleonic Code a mother's consent was required only where the father had died, so the existence of that second act is itself the proof. The error came from the marriage act's phrase «figlio di Antonio de Franceschi, e di Maria nata…
…Corva, vedova del fu Antonio de Franceschi». Under the Napoleonic Code a mother's consent was required only where the father had died, so the existence of that second act is itself the proof. The error came from the marriage act's phrase «figlio di Antonio de Franceschi, e di Maria nata Corva, pure agricoltori» — «also farmers». That names a trade, not a living man, and it was read as though the present tense covered both parents. The correction yields a fact the archive did not have. Antonio's written consent…
…Never interpolate a date from a neighbour, and never infer one from a frame number. 21 Sept 2026 quiet Antonio was not being honoured. He was at work. /searched/ Published earlier today, on finding Antonio de Franceschi witnessing six weddings at Svetvinčenat between January and October 1773: «A man asked for six times in one year is a man the parish trusts and, more to the point, a man who lives there.» He was the parish bell-ringer. Sixteen frames…
…every other entry in seventy-five years of this register, which is a parish book of farmers, and it should be weighed as such before anybody connects it to a Carnian weaver. And the year 1720 is the year Nicolò and Marc'Antonio de Franceschi, sons of Giorgio, bought Catarina Bernardo Venier's Istrian possessions and took the Seget estate. A titled De Franceschi having a son christened in the Habsburg county in the same year the Candia branch buys into Venetian Istria is a coincidence this…
…out of Crete. Venice granted the land in 1604 to families fleeing Greece and Montenegro. Captain Vincenzo Cuchich of Šibenik sold it in 1623 to the Venier of Venice, who held it a century and made it a working estate. In 1720 Nicolò and Marc'Antonio de Franceschi, sons of Giorgio, bought all of Catarina Bernardo Venier's Istrian property; in 1730 Umag made them citizens, them and their heirs. They had reached Istria fleeing Crete after the Candian War of 1669. A monograph on the estate records that the family had…
Where the Name Went
…Cachoeira do Sul· Sobradinho· Candelária and Botucaraí· Júlio de Castilhos· Santa Cruz· Ibarama· Paraíso do Sul· Porto Alegre — and beyond the state, Concórdia in Santa Catarina and Campinas and São Miguel Paulista in São Paulo Antonio de Franceschi and Verônica Loch Antonio, and Francisco, de Franceschi with Josephina Marcato Maximiliano de Franceschi and Luiza Catteri — and a second Maximiliano with Amalia Negri Isidoro de Franceschi and Maria Barbiero, whose son Maximilhano was born in…
The Lines
…quick. The man who was always there: a bell-ringer, and why he is on every page One name appears on more Svetvinčenat marriages than any other of the family, and for two years this archive could not say why. «Antonio de Franceschi» witnesses at least a dozen weddings between January 1773 and April 1775 — never a bridegroom, never a father, always the man standing beside the couple. Frame 72 explains him in three words. «…alla mia presenza del R.do Sig.r D. Giuseppe…
…to join them to one another. One — Valentino, «venuto dalla Carnia», a citizen in 1739 — is almost certainly ours. The other two are not placed. And in September 2026 the parish register itself produced a fourth, a century earlier still: Giovanni Antonio de Franceschi and Lucia, baptising children in the city in 1626, 1628 and 1632, with the imperial Captain of Fiume as godfather. Read on the film. Fiume, 1626 Bakar (Buccari) — unplaced Twelve people, one household across three…
Fiume 1626
…Anth.m, natum ex eius matre legitima nomine Lucia. Compatres autem fuerunt D. Anthonius Jacobus Cursius et D. Margarita v.q.D. Anthonij Jachomin. On the sixth day of September. Father Giovanni Sardić baptised the son of Giovanni Antonio de Franceschi, by name Giovanni Antonio, born of his lawful mother named Lucia. The godparents were Antonio Giacomo Cursio and Margarita, widow of the late Antonio Giacomino. The father is Giovanni Antonio de Franceschi; the mother is Lucia; the son…
Open Questions
…are not. Most of these are findable. They died in a book this archive has open — the Vodnjan Liber Defunctorum, film 005497894, images 471 to 575 — and about a third of it has been read. The rest is time, not luck. Giovanni Antonio de Franceschi Rijeka Head of the Fiume household of 1626–1632; his children's godfather was the imperial Captain of Fiume not yet located Antonia Maria De Franceschi Vodnjan «la vivente Antonia…
Ližnjan
…Giacomo whose father Giacomo was already dead. - 10 June 1772 — that same man marries: «Giacobus filius Giacobi de Franceschi, et Nicolina filia Nicolai Teserati». The first wedding of the name in the book. - 25 January – 31 October 1773 — Antonio de Franceschi stands witness six times, usually beside Joannes Sain. - 4 February 1773 — «Victorio de Franceschi filio Antonij». A father and a son of the name, named together, in one line. It is the first such line this archive has for…
Method
…the volume — the tell is the first word of the entry, not the heading, and a volume that was catalogued as one thing is routinely two. A name that keeps recurring is a job before it is an honour recurrence-is-usually-a-job Antonio de Franceschi witnesses six weddings at Svetvinčenat in ten months of 1773. Written up the same afternoon, that read as standing: the parish keeps asking for him. Sixteen frames later the register calls him «Campanaro» — the bell-ringer — and the pattern collapses into…
The Omiš Line
…before there is a date They are cittadini originari — the hereditary civil class of the Republic, below the patriciate and above everyone else, from which the permanent chancery was staffed. In the middle of the fifteenth century Marco Antonio de Franceschi is secretary of the ducal chancery and a member of the consiglio nobile. The family is allowed Venetian and foreign titles, the county among them. <span class= chip inf style= padding:2px 7px;font-size:10px Inferred</span — from the nobiliary…
Seget, and Crete
…Šibenik, paying him six ducats a month for life and promising thirty ducats a family for livestock. Seghetto and neighbouring Giubba are part of that grant. 1623 Chiucchel sells the estate to the Valier of Venice. 22 Nov 1720 Nicolò and Marc'Antonio de Franceschi, sons of Giorgio, buy Seghetto with everything the noblewoman Caterina Bernardo, widow of Pietro Valier, held in Istria. 1730 Umago grants them citizenship, for themselves and their descendants. after 1720 Marc'Antonio de Franceschi…
…Vincenzo Cuchich of Šibenik sells the land to the Venier, a noble house of Venice. The contract mentions only a pasture — nothing is built yet. 1669, The de Franceschi flee Crete after the Candian War and reach Istria. 1720, Nicolò and Marc'Antonio de Franceschi, sons of Giorgio, buy all of Catarina Bernardo Venier's possessions in Venetian Istria, Seget among them. 1724, The year cut into a portal on the estate. 1730, Umag grants them citizenship, and all their heirs with them. 1732, The year and…
The Imotski Franceschi
…family settles here end gen Zorzi de Franceschi fl. 1669 – 1674 at doc Candia to Zante to Šibenik, on a Venetian pension for the War of Candia. gen Marc'Antonio de Franceschi 1671 – 1758 at inf Physician, civil and military. Bought Seget with his brother in 1720. Cut his initials into the well-head in 1732. gen Nicolò de Franceschi fl. 1720 at doc…
Worklist
…Giacomo de Franceschi (m. 1772), read from frame 63; Giacomo de Franceschi, d. before 1771, from frame 62; and six 1773 witnessings by Antonio de Franceschi with his son Vittorio, from frame 64. Three of the eight frames in this batch were already published. The sweep confirmed all three at magnification and changed none of them, which is worth…
A dossier is every mention of a name anywhere in this archive's data, gathered automatically and linked back to the page it appears on, with what the archive knows about the person set out at the top. Identity here is by NAME, not by resolved individual: where two people share a name they share a dossier, and the archive says so rather than guessing. Rebuilt from the roster, so every person the archive can name has a page — including the ones read straight off a register that no index anywhere contains.