The Defranceschi Archive
43 mentions · 28 pages

Elena

Elena. Omiš. Every mention of this name in the archive — 43 across 28 pages.

PlaceOmiš
ParishOmiš
LineA documented Istrian or Kvarner household this archive will not attach to any line
Found inHousehold
What the archive knows

Named in household h001 on the households list, at Omiš, as the wife of Zuanne De Franceschi, a De Franceschi, and the mother of Margarita Franceschi; Nicolaa De Franceschi; Johan-Antonius; Maria. Evidence class: index only — no register has been read. No birth, death or occupation is printed for this person, so none is claimed. Not of the name's surname — kept because the person married into it; the household list gives the couple and nothing about their origin. Recorded by forename only — no surname is printed, so this is a name and a role and cannot be told apart from another woman of the same forename by anything on the page.

Named in household h051 on the households list, at Omiš, as the wife of Gerolimo Franceschi, a De Franceschi, and the mother of Laura Franceschi; Zorzi Franceschi. Evidence class: index only — no register has been read. No birth, death or occupation is printed for this person, so none is claimed. Not of the name's surname — kept because the person married into it; the household list gives the couple and nothing about their origin. Recorded by forename only — no surname is printed, so this is a name and a role and cannot be told apart from another woman of the same forename by anything on the page.

Elena marriedZuanne De Franceschi
9 children recorded 1639–1867
Margarita Franceschib. 4 Mar 1639a FamilySearch index entryNicolaa De Franceschib. 9 Jan 1644a FamilySearch index entryJohan-Antoniusb. 5 Nov 1858a FamilySearch index entryMariab. 1 Dec 18592 children of their owna FamilySearch index entryRosab. 30 Sep 1861a FamilySearch index entryEuphemiab. 30 Nov 18631 child of their owna FamilySearch index entry Annab. 1 Apr 1865a FamilySearch index entryVictorius-Josephb. 10 Mar 1867a FamilySearch index entry Mandalina De Franceschia FamilySearch index entry
the archive's own line a register read here a FamilySearch index entry the family tree, unverified

This name sits in more than one household. 2 households of his or her own survive the date check. The first is drawn. Joining them on a name alone is the mistake this site keeps having to correct.

Where this comes from

0 of the 10 relationships drawn above are written in a register this archive has read with its own eyes. 10 come from a FamilySearch index entry — a transcription, not the page.

Joined on a name alone. 2 households above could not be date-checked, because this archive holds no year for the person or for the household. Treat that link as a lead.

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The same name, written another way

This archive holds 2 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.

Ellena · Helena di Matteo Defranceschi (1742)

Identity here is by name, not by resolved individual. Where two people of one name appear in this archive they share this page, and it is for the reader to keep them apart — the surrounding text usually makes it obvious. Nothing here is new evidence; it is the same evidence, brought together.

Appears on: The Defranceschi Archive · The Archive · The Register of the Dead · Back to Carnia · Changes · The Omiš Line · Household Explorer · The Lines · Findmypast · Fiume 1626 · Il Giornaletto di Pola, read end to end · Say Your Name · The Gologorica Line · Our line, drawn · The Imotski Franceschi · Every Town in Istria · Carlo's Letter · The Library in Zagreb · Ližnjan · The Marriages · The People · The Plate Room · Open Questions · Register · Lives on one scale · About · The trees · Worklist

The Archive

…Franceschi 6V3F-G3BH Norbert Jos Stanisla Franzeschini 6. Juni 1852 Austria Ignaz Franzeschini Franziska Elena & Ignaz Franzeschini 6V3N-6VN7 Rosina Theresia Genoveva Defranzeschi 1. Januar 1858 Austria Johann…

…Franceschi 6V3F-G3BC Norbert Jos Stanisla Franzeschini 6. Juni 1852 Austria Ignaz Franzeschini Franziska Elena & Ignaz Franzeschini 6V3N-6VN8 Rosina Theresia Genoveva Defranzeschi 1. Januar 1858 Austria Johann…

Back to Carnia

…Fiume in the 1870s, wrote out for Carlo De Franceschi the Defranceschi households of that city — and his second entry reads: «Valentino Defranceschi, venuto dalla Carnia, fu fatto Cittadino nel 1739.» Come from Carnia; made a citizen in 1739. With his wife Elena he had ten sons and four daughters, a house in the Capuchins' quarter and a vineyard at Plase; in 1764 he built the Chapel of St Helen; he made himself a tomb in the cathedral with an epigraph in 1785, and died that year. It connects nobody to…

Changes

…found Valentino's own wedding, 28 February 1737 — and the register writes «ex Carnia» in its own hand Fiume marriages, film 005497925 image 168 «Die 28 Februarij 1737. D.num Valentinum de Franceschi ex Carnia, et Elenam Surcho junxit in matrimonium D.nus Petrus Eustachius Sauss Canonicus…» Found by walking the marriage run backwards from 1746 until the years ran out. Three things at once. The date is nine months less two days before the eldest child's…

…things at once. The date is nine months less two days before the eldest child's baptism. «Ex Carnia» becomes primary rather than Kobler's word, written two years before the citizenship of 1739. And Valentino's wife, called only Helena or Elena jugalis Defranceschi in every other entry for twenty years, here has a maiden name: Elena Surcho. (The initial is the looped capital this hand uses for both S and Z; given as read.) 20 Sept 2026 found Giuseppe of…

…«Ex Carnia» becomes primary rather than Kobler's word, written two years before the citizenship of 1739. And Valentino's wife, called only Helena or Elena jugalis Defranceschi in every other entry for twenty years, here has a maiden name: Elena Surcho. (The initial is the looped capital this hand uses for both S and Z; given as read.) 20 Sept 2026 found Giuseppe of the Rijeka chain has a baptism at last, and his father is not Valentino Fiume…

The Omiš Line

…— Gioannis Antonÿ, with the trema the scribe put there. This one has been read on the page. rung ours /fiume-1626/ The 1626 baptisms, read → 1742–1757 Valentino Defranceschi Elena Defranceschi Rijeka n buried 1742 Mattio Defranceschi d. 11 Jul 1742 1742 Nicolo Defranceschi d. 1742 1753 Antonio De Franceschi…

…children, and the godparents standing for them are Nadal, Batta, Andrea and Nardo De Franceschi — men of the same name in the same parish in the same decade. doc Thirty-nine years above this household there is a baptism. Elena di Franceschi, 21 December 1628, read on the page at Svetvinčenat — the earliest of the name anywhere in Istria that this archive has seen with its own eyes. She is not joined to anyone below her. ours href cta…

…index produced them. This is the parish evidence that sits underneath the family's own seventeen-generation chart, gathered independently of it; where the two touch is marked. 1639–1646 Zuanne De Franceschi Elena Omiš n buried 1639 Margarita Franceschi 1644 Nicolaa De Franceschi 1858 Johan-Antonius 1859…

…of brothers, or of an uncle and his nephew. It is the only thread between the two seventeenth-century Omiš households, and it is a forename. ours href cta undated Gerolimo Franceschi Elena Omiš n buried Laura Franceschi Zorzi Franceschi Gerolimo and Elena, two daughters, no year on either. Gerolimo is the name the…

…undated Gerolimo Franceschi Elena Omiš n buried Laura Franceschi Zorzi Franceschi Gerolimo and Elena, two daughters, no year on either. Gerolimo is the name the nineteenth-century households give their first sons. none Two hundred and eight years with nothing in them. Between Franco's children in 1646 and Francesco's…

…De Caralipco Omiš n buried 1854 Giovanni Giuseppe Maria Franceschi 1855 Giovanni Giuseppe Maria Franceschi d. 15 Jan 1855 1856 Elena Anna Maria Franceschi 1857 Giovanni Girolamo Andrea Felice Franceschi 1858 Rados Niccoló Maria Franceschi 1861 Giuseppe Luigi Benedetto Maria Franceschi…

…Andrea Felice. rung ours href cta 1856–1873 Francesco Franceschi Maria De Caralipeo Almissa — the same town n buried 1856 Elena Anna Maria Franceschi 1857 Giovanni Girolamo Andrea Felice Franceschi 1858 Rados Niccoló Maria Franceschi 1861 Giuseppe Luigi Benedetto Maria Franceschi…

…Gasparo 1562–1609 Admirale; wife a contessa Zanon Pietro Antonio detto Perini 1588–1661 posjednik — landholder; wife M. Dešković Francesco 1608–1660 posjednik; wife Lucrezia Girolamo 1622–1695 posjednik; wife Elena Coltroni Giovanni il Zuane 1673–1741 Colonnello Governatore; wife Francesca Cvitanović Antonio 1723–1791 posjednik; wife a contessa M. Cambj Pietro Antonio 1757–1803 Serdar i posjednik; wife Katarina Dorić Antonio…

The Defranceschi Archive

…Valentino had fifteen children, not fourteen — and the fifteenth makes the family's count of ten sons come out exactly /valentino/ This archive has carried fourteen children of Valentino Defranceschi and Helena/Elena since 6 September 2026, and set that against «a family account of ten sons and four» — noting that the register gave only nine sons, one short. There are fifteen, and the missing son is Jacobus Vincentius. Under «Die 21 July 1757»…

…of Valentino's children, was listed as «born and buried 1757» among the five infants. The register gives her age, and it is four. The Fiume burial book for September 1757, entry 14: «Alovisia d’anni 4, figlia di Valentino, ed Elena Defranceschi, sepolta nella Tomba di …» — the entries around it that record infants say «di mesi 3», in months, so the unit here is deliberate. She was therefore born about 1753, not 1757, and she was a child rather than a newborn when she died.…

…site carries a section called «Reading the Svetvinčenat register, page by page» — nineteen openings of DGS 005497884 read band by band, covering 1666–1707, with twenty occurrences of the surname that no index holds. It carries the 1628 baptism of Elena, daughter of Francescho di Franceschi, which moved the whole Istrian sequence. The roster has seventy-five people at Svetvinčenat; the atlas place record says nfilms: 9; the families page says «at least twelve distinct fathers of this surname…

…reasoning ran: the same wife's name appears against two husbands, therefore one of them is a copying slip. That is a perfectly good hypothesis and it was published as a finding. What the leaves actually leave standing is harder. Giacomo's wife is Elena on carta 66 in 1728 (read at magnification), Anzoletta on carta 83 in 1733, and this archive already carried a Maria as his first wife and an Anzola in 1737. Three or four names in ten years is not one man's marriages — it is most likely…

…76 verso names Maria as Gio Battista's wife on 23 November 1731, seven months after the baptism the row is built on — «Battistina Figliola Legitima del S.r Gio: Battista de Franceschi e di Maria jugali». And Giacomo's wife in February 1728 is Elena, on carta 66, read at magnification. She does not disappear from the book. She appears in the other household. Not rewritten, only flagged. The 9 April 1731 baptism has not been read off the leaf here — it came in from an index — and this…

…dispersing Municipal councillors by 1655, then lawyers and officials. Sparse. svetvincenat The Svetvinčenat line — the castle the name never left documented carnia Elena di Franceschi, baptised at Svetvinčenat, 21 December 1628 Carnia (inferred) → Svetvinčenat / San Vincenti, continuously 1628–1791 — with daughters marrying out to Albona, Parenzo and Vodnjan, and sons staying Split out of the…

…Svetvinčenat Poreč-Pula The oldest De Franceschi household in Istria this archive can date: a baptism of 21 December 1628, thirty-eight years before the cluster everyone knew about. «Alì 21 Decembre — Elena fiola di Francescho di Franceschi et di Eufemia sua consorte fu batezata da me piovano sopra deto. Fu compare s.r Zan Piero Quelo. Comare Chiara consorte di Tomaso Ostricich.» Svetvinčenat, Births 1589–1646, image 58, read off the film on 13 September…

…was. svetvincenat var(--r-istria, var(--teal)) Svetvinčenat — the castle the name never left /lines/ The Svetvinčenat line → documented 1628–1791· origin inferred Carnian Elena 1628 The parish's real first page. «Alì 21 Decembre / Elena fiola di Fran.co de Franceschi» — the earliest dated Istrian occurrence this archive holds, and two sweeps had already read past it Nadal & Batta 1666 «M.ro Nadal de Franceschi»…

The Lines

…records from 1666, the second-largest concentration in the Istrian sweep, read opening by opening rather than searched — the first nineteen off DGS 005497884 to 1707, then on into Births 1709–1764 and Births 1764–1791. Six generations stand in it: Elena in 1628, Nadal and Batta in 1666, Vittorio in 1674, Pascasia 1737–1759, Elena and Fusca 1766–1773, and a last leaf in 1791. A castle-parish family that arrives, lasts six generations, and stops. /lines/svetread liznjan…

…read opening by opening rather than searched — the first nineteen off DGS 005497884 to 1707, then on into Births 1709–1764 and Births 1764–1791. Six generations stand in it: Elena in 1628, Nadal and Batta in 1666, Vittorio in 1674, Pascasia 1737–1759, Elena and Fusca 1766–1773, and a last leaf in 1791. A castle-parish family that arrives, lasts six generations, and stops. /lines/svetread liznjan Out of southern Istria — origin unknown doc…

…below are the second half of that, and they are where this narrative had fallen three weeks behind the work. 21 December 1628 — the parish's real first page, thirty-eight years earlier «Alì 21 Decembre / Elena fiola di Francescho di Franceschi et di Eufemia sua consorte fu batezata da me piovano sopra deto. Fu compare s.r Zan Piero Quelo. Comare Chiara consorte di Tomaso Ostricich.» Svetvinčenat, Births 1589–1646, image 58 — a book this archive had never…

…be written off. On its own, against the Croatian church books, it returns 1,364 records where q.surname returns 3,550 different ones. Why that matters here: in the 1589–1646 book the child has no surname indexed at all. The Name column reads «Elena», «Eufemia», «Fumia», «Tomaso». The only surname in the record is the father's. A search by the person's surname can never see this book — and every early parish register that names children by forename alone is invisible the same way. Nineteen…

…as settled at Sanvincenti beside Defranceschi. The company the family keeps is still the only argument for where it came from, and it is still keeping it in 1861. 20 May 1666 — the first sighting, and it is not a baptism of theirs «Elena fig.la di Giacometta Redol, et di Cate sua mog.e, fu battezata da me D. Vicenzo Sines Can.co. Comp.i furno M.ro Nadal de Franceschi, et Elena mog.e di Sue Milicich.» Five months before his own daughter is christened, Nadal de Franceschi stands as…

…keeping it in 1861. 20 May 1666 — the first sighting, and it is not a baptism of theirs «Elena fig.la di Giacometta Redol, et di Cate sua mog.e, fu battezata da me D. Vicenzo Sines Can.co. Comp.i furno M.ro Nadal de Franceschi, et Elena mog.e di Sue Milicich.» Five months before his own daughter is christened, Nadal de Franceschi stands as godfather at Svetvinčenat. Godparents are almost never indexed, which is exactly why the page had to be opened. And he is styled M.ro —…

Findmypast

…Census 1940 Alfred Defranceschi 1940 Us Census 1940 Yauco, Puerto Rico, United States n Ramona Mato de Franceschi 1920 Us Census 1920 Elena Torres Canobas de Franceschi 1920 Us Census 1920 Rosa Rosado Y Melendez de Franceschi 1920 Us Census 1920 Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States n…

Fiume 1626

…January 1644 — and the index has the sex wrong L'Anno del Sig.re 1644 Adi 12 Genaro — … il Sig.r Don Mateo Berkoveo d'Almissa, Sac erdote Cur a to, ha battezato il figlio nato li 9 instante di Cap.n Zuane de Franceschi et Sig.ra Elena coniugati, al quale fu posto nome Nicolò, di questa Parochia. Compari furono Sig.r Gierolimo Marinovich et Sig.ra Francesca de Franceschi. In the year of the Lord 1644, the 12th of January. Don Matteo Berković of Almissa, priest and…

…sixteen children of Valentino Defranceschi and Helena/Elena, read out of the Liber Baptizatorum and the burial register of Fiume on 6 September 2026, re-checked against the FamilySearch index on 20 September and then read back on the film, page by page, the same day. Every child cites the image it stands on.…

Il Giornaletto di Pola, read end to end

…dai disegnatori Edoardo e Gigi cor. 2; raccolte fra operai nell'officina «battirame» e bandai cor. 36.50. — Raccolte dall'i. r. ispettore delle guardie Pietro Paulovich: Andree Antonio corone 5, Defranceschi Luigi 2, Kruk Michelina 2, Cerkovich Elena 2, Runco Giovanni —.20, Zufich Caterina 1, Klemen Antonia —.40, Jetonich Angela 1, C. R. —.50, Matic Maria 1, Udovic Giuseppina 1, Udovic Gasper 1, Krajcer Anna 1 …» For the Red Cross. We have received: from Signor Giuseppe Tuis 60 crowns,…

Say Your Name

…seen forms elena Helena seen Helenæ seen Elena seen Ellena seen Elenam seen Ellenam seen Jelena…

The Gologorica Line

…Gologorica marriages, 1585–1608 Klara Kovač and Anton Kaligarić, 1585. Grgora Matijašić and a Gašparić, 1590. Agata Ilijašić and Šimun Gašparić, 1603. Marina Sergović and Juraj Ančić, 1607. Ivana Križmanić and Ivan Gortan, 1608. Ivan Cinić and an Elena, 1608. Six households of Gologorica, named, dated, and all of them Slavic — Kovač, Kaligarić, Matijašić, Gašparić, Ilijašić, Sergović, Ančić, Križmanić, Gortan, Cinić. And what is not there No De Franceschi. Not in the…

The Imotski Franceschi

…at the beginning of the eighteenth century. See below. n Francesco Franceschi 1608–1660 Married Lukrezia di Venezia de Franceschi. n Girolamo de Franceschi 1632–1695 Married Elena Coltroni. n Zuane de Franceschi 1673–1741 The head of the Dalmatian house. Venetian commander at the taking of Imotski from the Ottomans in 1717, then governor of the town. The Republic rewarded him with large…

…named for him — see the correction. gen Francesco 1608 – 1660 at inf Landholder. Wife Lucrezia. gen Girolamo 1622 – 1695 at inf Landholder. Wife Elena Coltroni. gen Giovanni, il Zuane 1673 – 1741 at doc Venetian commander at the taking of Imotski in 1717, then governor. Rewarded with the estates on the Vrljika. gen Antonio,…

Carlo's Letter

…this archive has built half its Carnia argument on. And Kobler's second entry is a document, not a tradition «Valentino Defranceschi, venuto dalla Carnia, fu fatto Cittadino nel 1739, e colla moglie Elena ebbe 10 figli e 4 figlie, aveva casa in contrada dei Capuccini e vigna in Plase, fabbricò nel 1764 la Capella di S. Elena, fece per se tomba nel Duomo con epigrafe nel 1785 e morì nel 1785.» Valentino Defranceschi, come from Carnia, was made a…

Ližnjan

…opened: Matična knjiga vjenčanih 1762–1815, film 005497885. Twenty-two of its openings have now been read line by line, and they put six households of the name into the very years this page has always called a silence: - 9 February 1766 — «Elena figlia di q. Mattio de Franceschi, nativa di questo Castello» marries Mattio Sandalezza of Albona. Her father is dead, and is known from nothing else. - 23 November 1771 — a witness entered as «Jacobo q. Jacobi de Franceschi»: a Giacomo…

The People

…made a citizen of Fiume in 1739 — the same year he baptised a son there. Fourteen of his children are now recovered from the Rijeka register. Origin Carnia stated, not yet localised Made citizen of Fiume 1739 Wife Elena Children Ten sons and four daughters Property Capuccini district; the Plasè vineyard Built Chapel of S. Elena 1764 Died 1785 The existing family research records him as coming from Carnia —…

Open Questions

…register has to be found in other Pazin or diocesan microfilm, or the marriages were recorded in the brides' home parishes. Where is Giuseppe's baptism? blocked Searched, and it is not in the Rijeka index. Valentino and Elena's fourteen children are now recovered from that register, baptised between 1737 and 1757 — Josepha Catharina, Matheus Franciscus, Nicolaus Francus, Mattio, Nicolo, Francisca Joanna Theresia, Ignatius Francus Mattheus, Vitus Joannes Baptista, Aloysius…

Register

…b. 09 Sep 1632 Gioannis Antonii de Franceschi Lutia in XQMM-L1FZ Nicolaa De Franceschi Franceschi F y b. 9 Jan 1644 Zuanne De Franceschi Elena in XQMM-L1PR Zuanne Franceschi Franceschi y b. 24 May 1646 Franco Franceschi Lucretia in Joined to the person already in this archive: the years…

The trees

…The web, household by household → Fifteen households, 1628–1896 — drawn as a web, because that is what it is web The richest material the archive holds and the emptiest tree, now set out in full: Elena di Franceschi, 21 December 1628, read on the page; then Anto × Marta, Gasparo × Antonia, Piero × Vittoria, Mattio × Elisabetta, Nadal × Anta, and after a ninety-year silence the Austrian households of the 1820s and the two daughters who married Bergamo…

Worklist

…is the only way to reach an Antonio. --- 21 September, second pass: seven of the eight leaves are open, and they pay better than the index did. The reading is on the search register. Three mothers — Vittoria (Piero, 1710), Elena (Giacomo, 1728), Anzoletta (Giacomo, 1733); a sixth man of the name, «il sig.r Marcio de Franceschi», godfather twice in seven weeks in 1709–10 and structurally invisible to an index arranged by the child's forename; and «D. Nadal…

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.

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