Antonius Defranceschi — 13 people of the name
Antonius Defranceschi, 1671. Svetvinčenat. 13 different people of this name are kept apart here, each with their own page.
13 different people of this name
This page gathers every mention of the name. These are separate individuals — not one life — and each has their own page.
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1671, Svetvinčenat
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1742 – 1802, Gologorica, Istra
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1745
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1806, Sv. Marko (Zagreb)
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1814 – 1893, Gologorica, Pazin, Istria
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1815, Svetvinčenat
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1824 – 1828, Kastelir
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1825 – 1894, Gračišće
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1848, Pula
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1848, Gologorica
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1855 – 1913, Gologorica
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1855 – 1918
- Antonius Defranceschi — 1893 – 1893, Pula
6 October 2026 — he had two years and no document. Now he has a register entry, to the day. Gologorica deaths, image M01069238, page 21, under the year 1802: «Idem · 29. · 17 7mbris · Antonius De=franceschi ex Loco · ann[orum] 60. · Hectica». House 29, dead 17 September 1802, aged sixty, of consumption. (doc.) ⚠ The 1742 is still the tree's year. Sixty years in September 1802 implies about 1742 and the tree says 1742 — but an implied year is not a declared one, so the birth stays as it was and only the death is now documented. ⭐ And the book's index gives him a son. Image M01069301 heads a block «Defranceschi Leonardus N.º 10» with one name under it: «Antonius Leonardi pater · 21» — Antonius, Leonardo's father. ⚠ Not to be confused with Antonio q. Leonardo, who married at Svetvinčenat in 1785 — that man is Leonardo's son. The two descriptions are mirror images and the men are a generation apart. Nothing yet joins them. See the line page. --- ⭐ 9 October 2026 — twenty years earlier than his death entry, and the first time he is seen alive. > 9 November 1782, Gologorica marriages: «...per Parochum Franceschi in facie Ecclesiæ, coram testibus nimirum Antonio Defranceschi, et Dominico Bachialab ex Novaco, et Margare[t]ha de Franceschi ex hac Parochia» (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01069002, the marriage register opened this week.) Everything this row held came from his burial. He is forty here, standing for a neighbour's son. ⚠ The identification is inf: the entry gives «ex hac Parochia» and no age or house, and he is the only Antonius of the name this archive places at Gologorica in that decade. ⚠ And the bride of that marriage is a warning. «Mariana filia Leonardi DEPRATO, annorum 22» — a Leonardus of the other «De—» family, raising children here in the 1760s, while the index gives this man a son Leonardus and a branch is called «detti Leonardi». The surname warning now reaches the forenames. --- ⭐⭐ 9 October, later — a THIRD book, and it gives him a father the register did not. > 17. · Mattio Benula N.º 45 — 1786 · Antonio Defranceschi, N.º 29, q. Leonardo, d'anni 60 — 1802 (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01069216: the Gologorica obit calendar, under 17 September.) Same day, same year, same age, same house 29 as the burial entry on this row — so this entry is a control, and it passes. Which is what licenses the calendar's uncheckable readings elsewhere on this page. ⭐ AND IT ADDS «q. LEONARDO» — son of the late Leonardo, which the Latin burial entry does not say. ⚠ That sits awkwardly with what this row already says, and both are left standing. This row reads the death book's index — «Defranceschi Leonardus N.º 10 … Antonius Leonardi pater» — as making him Leonardo's father. The calendar makes him Leonardo's son. They need not conflict. A man born about 1742 can be the son of one Leonardo and the father of another — and this archive holds a Leonardus Defranceschi born 1766, which is exactly a son for him. Grandfather, father, grandson, with the names alternating, is the commonest shape there is in this village. ⚠ But it is a reading, not a record, and no descent is attached on the strength of it.* ⚠ And it touches the 1774 marriage. That groom is «q.ᵐ Leonardi filius» too. So the archive now has two men described as sons of a late Leonardo, which is a reason to be slower about the 1774 identification rather than faster. ⭐ 11 October 2026 — two dated appearances IN LIFE. This row had only a death. > 14 Januarij 1780 · «patrini fuerunt Antonius Defranceschi ex hac Parochia, et Anna uxor Gregorij Babich» > 27 Maij 1780 · «patrini fuerunt Antonius Defranceschi, et Catharina uxor Matthæi Crosgnich, uterque ex hac Parochia» (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068939, «Liber Baptizatorum II».) He was thirty-seven or thereabouts and standing at fonts in his own parish. ⚠ No parentage, house or trade is attached in either entry, and none is inferred.
Born 3 February 1855, baptised the 5th — where the pedigree had «about 1853» — and the margin gives his death. Gologorica baptisms, folio 116 (M01069130), house 6: «Antonius natus 3ᵃ hujus», of «Antonius Defranceschi» and «Francisca nata Defranceschi»; godparents «Joannes Udovich et Sancta Sestan» — his aunt by marriage, the Defranceschi daughter of house 2, here under her married name. And beneath the entry, in a later hand, «† 17.II.1913». (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214.)*
The pid keeps the year it was minted with. antonius-defranceschi-1853 will read 1853 for ever, because a moved id is a dead URL; the row carries the register's date.
⚠ AND THIS ARCHIVE MAY HOLD HIM TWICE. A second row, antonius-defranceschi-1855 (born 1855, died 1918, line «unknown», no place, off MyHeritage), now matches him on the birth year and contradicts him on the death: 1918 against the register's 1913. They are not merged. A five-year gap in a death year is the serious kind and means one side may be describing a different man. The worklist holds it; the burial register settles it.
⚠ This row may be the same man as Antonius Defranceschi, born 3 February 1855, and may not. On 5 October 2026 the Gologorica baptism register gave a son of Antonius Defranceschi and Francisca born 3 February 1855, with «† 17.II.1913» in the margin. This row — imported from MyHeritage with no place, no parish and line «unknown» — has the same birth year and a death of 1918. A five-year gap in a death year is the serious kind, and usually means one side is describing a different man of the same name in the same parish. Nothing is merged on a matching birth year alone. The worklist holds it; the Gologorica death register — 91 frames on the same reel, barely opened — is what settles it.
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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Appears on: The Eleven · The Defranceschi Archive · The Register of the Dead · Where the Name Went · Dna · Errands · The Lines · The Archive · The Gologorica Line · The Map · Our line, drawn · The Marriages · Leaving · The Name · The Plate Room · Open Questions · Register · Lives on one scale · About · The Story · Walk/Carnia · Worklist
The Eleven
…half years, and came back into New York on 31 May 1926. His wife stayed where she was: Marta Defranceschi, Pedena 10 — house number ten in the village of Pićan. Two more things this line gives that nothing else did. He is a mason. His father, Antonius Defranceschi of Gallignana house 19, is entered in the parish book of souls as a stonecutter — the trade went across the Atlantic with the son. And the clerk who in 1922 wrote his race as «Slovenian» writes it in 1926 as «Italian». Same man, same village, four years…
The Defranceschi Archive
…has now been read, every row. It holds about twenty Defranceschi appearances. WHO IS IN IT, AND THE CONDITIO COLUMN IS THE POINT.· «Theresia Defranceschi»· twelve times, 1792–1806 — by far the most frequent· «Antonius Defranceschi»· four, 1799–1808, usually paired with Theresia· «Joannes Defranceschi»· five, 1794–1802· «Joan: Bapta Defranceschi» and «Vincenca Defranceschi»· 13 May 1796, M01070209· «Anna de Franceschi»· 13 February 1791,…
…already held — and a column recorded as unread, then reasoned from serious /gologorica-line/· /worklist/ Yesterday this archive announced as new that «Francisca uxor n. Defranceschi, b. 3 Februarii 1819» had married «Antonius Defranceschi» — a marriage inside the surname — and that it «has not shown the surname marrying itself at Gologorica before». It then raised two work-list rows to go and find who she was and where the other Defranceschi family lived, and published…
…An infant and an eighty-year-old were reported as the same person disagreeing about a date /live-tree/ The reconciliation published fourteen anchored disagreements this morning, the first of them Antonius Defranceschi — tree 1814–1893, archive 1893–1893. They are two people. Antonius of Gologorica died in 1893 aged seventy-nine. The other Antonius was buried at Pula as an infant in 1893 — born and buried in the same year, which is why his row reads…
…that agrees with what it already believed. Read on the stone, both ends fall a year or more short of it. And the withdrawal exposes something the archive was already carrying without noticing. This same page quotes the parish Status Animarum: «Antonius Defranceschi q. Antonii, murator, 6-8-1856, m. 23-2-1885, † 23-10-1929». The American chart says 23 October 1924. Both documents give the same birth, 6 August 1856, and the same death day, 23 October — and differ by five years in the year alone, which is…
…Antonius of house 6 was not Leonardus's son. He was his NEPHEW, and the register says so three times on one page The Gologorica line — the pedigree, and every descendant drawn under it «Antonius Defranceschi, b. 14 April 1814 — Son of Leonardus (house 6); married Francisca and became head of the house.» — and the pedigree drew him as the only child of Leonardus × Matthea. The 1826 status animarum of Gologorica names his parents, and they…
…child of Leonardus × Matthea. The 1826 status animarum of Gologorica names his parents, and they are not Leonardus and Matthea. Three independent statements, all on image M01069328, all in the same hand: 1. The name column — «Antonius Defranceschi filius Usualdi et Apoloniæ». 2. The adnotatio — «hunc in filium adoptivum accepit patruus Leonardus, et locatus hic sub N.º 6» — his father's brother Leonardus took him as an adopted son and settled him here under number 6. Patruus…
…page· the Gologorica line· the pedigree Carried from the family tree since this roster was built: «Joanna Defranceschi, born 9 June 1848, Gologorica», daughter of Antonius Defranceschi and Francisca — with no death year. «Junii 8ᵃ· domus 5· ROSA nata heri», of «Antonius Defranceschi» and «Francisca nata Defranceschi», godparents «Giovanni L— et Adelina Defranceschi», entered cives. Born 7 June 1848,…
…from the family tree since this roster was built: «Joanna Defranceschi, born 9 June 1848, Gologorica», daughter of Antonius Defranceschi and Francisca — with no death year. «Junii 8ᵃ· domus 5· ROSA nata heri», of «Antonius Defranceschi» and «Francisca nata Defranceschi», godparents «Giovanni L— et Adelina Defranceschi», entered cives. Born 7 June 1848, baptised the 8th. (doc — Gologorica baptisms 1784–1880, DAPA microfilm ZM34K-214, M01069123, folio 109.)…
…line. status-animarum-gb DAPA ZM34K 217, M01072071 Supplied by the Pazin State Archive, 24 June 2021 giovanni-battista-defranceschi n Antonio Defranceschi Antonius Defranceschi q. Joannis born 20 September 1825 died 4 August 1894 25 November 1856 lapicida — stonecutter Gračišće (Gallignana), house 19 Maria née…
…1829, Regina Theresia 1830. Seven names, and the head of them born in 1787 — which is the exact date the research log has been carrying as an open question about the Gologorica boy of house 31. House 19 — and the trade «Antonius Defranceschi, lapidarius, natus 20. Sept. 1825, matr. 25. Nov. 1856» — the same birth date to the day, so this is the son of the house-5 household, and he is entered as a stonecutter. His wife «Maria n. Fernasar, nata 17. Oct. 1832». Their children: Antonius 6 Aug 1856,…
Where the Name Went
…twenty-five Defranceschi families counted in Istria on 1 October 1945, this is where some of them went. Joined, September 2026. The Gračišće Status Animarum for house 24 — the household this archive calls the Eleven — lists the children of Antonius Defranceschi murator and Maria née Volhardt, and the last of them is Basilius, born 29-9-1909, married 28-2-1936. The American record gives Basilio's birth as 29 September 1909 and his son Dario's as 26 September 1937 at Gallignana. Same day, same month, same…
Dna
…Gračišće) → Antonius (1825, Gračišće) Gary → Joseph Jordan (1929, Clifton) → Giuseppe (1892, Gračišće) → Antonius (1856, Gračišće) → Antonius (1825, Gračišće) Josephus of 1863 and Antonius of 1856 are brothers. Their father is Antonius Defranceschi, born 1825 at Gračišće, whose own father is Giovanni Battista of Gologorica, born 1787, of house 5 — which is the spine of this archive, steps two and three. So Ivan and Gary are third cousins, and the arithmetic of…
Errands
…DEATH-YEAR COLLISION. Worklist 177 carried four; three are now closed — the burial register took two and a census took the third. The fourth cannot be closed by any book on these reels: «Antonius Defranceschi», born 3 February 1855, is given 1913 by a baptism-register margin and 1918 by the family tree. A death in 1913 or 1918 is in Vol. IV and nowhere else. ⭐⭐ AND IT WOULD TURN A DOZEN CENSUS DATES INTO…
…reel the family could buy as it bought ZM34K-214 and ZM34K-215. If a whole reel is not available, the entries wanted are the deaths of the surname Defranceschi / De Franceschi at Gologorica from January 1880 onward, and specifically a Antonius Defranceschi, born 3 February 1855, who died about 1913 or 1918. Poštovani, obitelj već posjeduje preslike Vaših mikrofilmova ZM34K-214 i ZM34K-215 (matične knjige župa Gologorica, Gračišće i Cerovlje). Matična knjiga umrlih župe…
The Lines
…That article says the Defranceschi surname was the only one with continuity in the castle of San Vincenti, and that «guidati da Antonio Defranceschi, nel 1780 avevano ottenuto l'esonero dal partecipare alla difesa armata». The register has an Antonius Defranceschi there in 1780, with a wife and a place in the parish's godparent circuit. The article's leader stops being a footnote and becomes a man in a book. Both are godparent appearances, not baptisms of their own children — which is, as this section keeps…
The Gologorica Line
…Antonia Defranceschi F birthYear deathYear Daughter of Joannes Baptista (casa 36) and Mariana.,, @I10@ Josephus Antonius Defranceschi M 6 JAN 1785 birthYear deathYear Gologorica, Pazin, Istria Baptised 6 January 1785 at house 36 — «Josephi Anton Defranceschi ex Loco», entered as catholic, male…
…Matthaeus Orlich, of Pisino — so the same line of the same entry writes both «Ortis» and «Orlich», which is why neither spelling is preferred on the married-in page.,, @I13@ Franciscus Antonius Defranceschi M 13 APR 1785 birthYear deathYear Gologorica, Pazin, Istria Baptised 13 April 1785 at house 31 — «Franciscus Antonius Defranceschi ex Loco», by Defranceschi,…
…Franciscus Antonius Defranceschi M 13 APR 1785 birthYear deathYear Gologorica, Pazin, Istria Baptised 13 April 1785 at house 31 — «Franciscus Antonius Defranceschi ex Loco», by Defranceschi, plebanus. Son of Joannes Baptista and Theresia née Grach. He had no dates in this archive. (doc.) Gologorica baptisms 1784–1880 — DAPA microfilm ZM34K-214, image M01069015, folio 3. His godfather is…
…«Archipresbiter Grach» of Cherbune; the godmother Catharina Defranceschi, Cives ex Gollogorica; the midwife Maria Chrismanich. An archpriest in the Grach family is new to this archive.,, @I14@ Antonius Defranceschi M birthYear deathYear Son of Joannes Baptista Leonardi (casa 31); listed in the name index,, @I20@ Leonardus…
…F birthYear deathYear Listed in house 6 as Mariana ex fratre nepos - i.e. a niece, daughter of,, @I22@ Antonius Defranceschi M 14 APR 1814 birthYear deathYear Gologorica, Pazin, Istria Son of Usualdus and Apollonia, not of Leonardus — corrected 30 September 2026 from the 1826 status…
…APR 1814 birthYear deathYear Gologorica, Pazin, Istria Son of Usualdus and Apollonia, not of Leonardus — corrected 30 September 2026 from the 1826 status animarum, M01069328, which names him «Antonius Defranceschi filius Usualdi et Apoloniæ». Adopted by his paternal uncle Leonardus (patruus) into house 6, which he later headed. He entered the household from the parish of Lindar on his marriage of 29 January 1840; his wife Francisca came from the parish…
…deathYear Gologorica, Pazin, Istria Son of Antonius & Francisca (house 5). His baptism, found 5 October 2026 — «Joannes Baptista n. 19 huj.», baptised 21 June 1842, house 5, of «Antonius Defranceschi» and «Francisca nata Defranceschi»; godparents «Antonius Sestan ac Joanna Ivich». (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01069116, folio 103.) The pedigree's 19 June 1842 is confirmed to the day.,, @I26@…
…of Antonius & Francisca (house 6 in 1826, house 5 by 1843). Her baptism, found 5 October 2026 — and it turns «about 1843» into a day. «9bris 15 1843· domus 5· TERESIA nata 14 hujus», of «Antonius Defranceschi» and «Francisca»; godparents «Antonio Salamon et Maria soror», entered cives. Born 14 November 1843, baptised on the 15th. (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01069118, folio 104.) ⚠ The godfather's surname reads «Salamon» and is not…
…23 March 1863 Gračišće Born 22 March 1863 the register says «n. heri» — born yesterday Name Josephus Josip Sex, status male, legitimate Baptising priest Matthias Zimmermann, cooperator Father Antonius Defranceschi his condition is given as «lapidarius» — a stonemason Mother Maria surname not confidently read from this reproduction Godparents two named, one a Domenico Later annotation a marginal note added in 1951 by the civil…
The Map
…burial register register Joannes Defranceschi y parish burial register register Josephus Defranceschi y parish burial register register Antonius Defranceschi y parish burial register register Antonio Defranceschi y parish burial register register Nella Bacchia Defranceschi y parish burial register…
Leaving
…Giovanni (b.1883, 1915), Olivo and Ulivo (b.1896, 1915). Vermont in those years means one thing: the granite sheds of Barre, which drew stonecutters out of northern Italy and the Adriatic by the thousand. And this archive's own man at Gračišće — Antonius Defranceschi q. Joannis, house 19 — is entered in the Status Animarum as a stonecutter. That is a resonance, not a link. None of the Vermont rows carries a birthplace in the index, and the transcripts were not bought. It is written down here so that whoever…
Open Questions
…and posted it to Queensland for 117 kuna. The refusal is of open-ended research, not of a named request. Is there a Gračišće record in hand? Yes. Josephus Defranceschi, born 22 March 1863 and baptised the next day at Gračišće, son of Antonius Defranceschi, «lapidarius» — a stonemason — and Maria. Certified from MKR Gračišće 1841–1899, folio 108, entry 23. A marginal note was added by the civil registry in 1951, so the same person is traceable forward. Are the Gologorica registers reachable at…
Register
…lead 6YBR-7HR7 Antonium Mariam Disman Francetich Francetich M y b. 12 Jun 1806 Matthæi Francetich Matthææ Francetich lead X7NG-RW7W Antonius Defranceschi Defranceschi y b. 1806 Valentinus Ursula Natalia Ivancić Albertus in XQMM-12NZ Carlo Franceschi Franceschi y b.…
The Story
…Spine /direct-line/ Households /households/ status-animarum-gb 1825 IV Gračišće, house 19 Lapicida — the man who cut stone Three Latin words weld house 5 to house 19. Antonius Defranceschi q. Joannis — son of the late Giovanni — born 20 September 1825, married 25 November 1856, dead 4 August 1894. Against his name the clerk wrote his trade, and it is the trade that comes down the hill with the family: lapicida, a stonecutter. His wife Maria…
Walk/Carnia
…and the three houses open House 5 — «Joan. Bapt. Defranceschi, agricola, natus 13. Augusti 1787 … obiit 14. Sept. 1846», with Francisca Salomon, born 17 March 1797, and seven children. House 19 — Antonius Defranceschi q. Joannis, scalpellino — stonecutter — and Maria née Fernasar, and their children, the eldest of them Antonius born 6 August 1856, who is the head of the chart the American cousins printed in 2012. House 24 — the household of the Status…
Worklist
…David, 1 October 2026: «So Cherbune for the grah family? Would it be worth adding to your worklist the records to search from here». Yes — and the place is identifiable. ⭐ Where it came from. The Gologorica baptism of Franciscus Antonius Defranceschi, 13 April 1785, house 31 — son of Joannes Baptista and Theresia née Grach — has as godfather «Archipresbiter GRACH» of «Cherbune». The mother's own kin, and a churchman: an archpriest in the Grach family was not known here. (doc —…
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