Euphemia di Batta Defranceschi (1739)

«Die 4 8bris 1739 … baptizavit unam infantulam natam die 1ma currentis a Batta Defranceschi et Jacoba ejus legitima uxore ambobus ex hac Parochia, cui positum fuit nomen Euphemia» — born 1 October, baptised 4 October 1739. Godparents D.nus Aloysius Spinotti and Ursula, wife of Francesco Marzoni. Batta is Battista, so her father is a Giovanni Battista Defranceschi — and the same register has one standing godfather five months earlier, on 19 April 1739. This is very probably Joannes Baptista de Franceschi of Svetvincenat (fl. 1739)'s household. (inf for the identification; doc for the baptism.) And she raises a question the archive cannot answer. Fourteen months before her, on 27 July 1738, «Petro de Franceschi et Jacoba ejus legitima uxore» baptise a daughter Anna Euphemia. Same mother's name, same daughter's name, two different fathers' forenames. And the balance has since shifted against Batta. On 29 December 1739, eleven weeks after this baptism, the same register enters a godmother as «Jacoba uxor Petri Defranceschi» — and Jacoba was already Pietro's wife in July 1738. So the register names Jacoba as Pietro's wife twice, on either side of the one entry that gives her to a Batta. The likeliest reading is now that this child belongs to Pietro and Jacoba and that the clerk wrote the wrong husband here — which would make her the second Euphemia of that household, the first having died. The entry still reads Batta under magnification and has not been altered; what has changed is which way the evidence leans. (The identification with Joannes Baptista de Franceschi of Svetvincenat (fl. 1739) is accordingly withdrawn to lore.) Film 005497885, image 123 — Births 1709–1764 of Svetvinčenat, read on the plate 22 September 2026. In no index anywhere.