Felice Santo de Franceschi

…Anna dies in his house at Mione, aged forty-four, on the night of 10–11 November 1815; the death act calls her «Anna de Franceschi», but the banns of the previous June give her maiden name. Born at Mione, on the witnesses' own knowledge. Felice Santo de Franceschi (b. about 1792–93), son of Paolo and Anna, and Lucia Santa de' Canova (b. about 1792) Mione; she of Liariis, agenzia d'Ovaro tessitore — a weaver, in the Ovaro act; sartore, a tailor, in the Mione banns eleven days…

…15 June 1815, at five in the afternoon, before the Officer of the Civil State of the Agenzia d'Ovaro. The banns had been read on two Sundays, 28 May and 4 June — the second is the notice this archive found at Mione «Felice Santo de Franceschi, di professione tessitore, d'anni ventidue compiti, nato, e domiciliato in Mione» — a weaver, twenty-two years completed, so born about 1792–93 «figlio di Paolo de Franceschi di professione falegname …, e di Anna nata Brencis di…

…Canova, forty-nine, possidente· Giacomo del fu Nicolò Crisilla, sixty-nine, falegname· Giovanni di Nicolò Sabina, twenty-seven — «tutti quattro domiciliati nella frazione di Liariis … non parenti, né affini degli Sposi» «Felice Santo de Franceschi», in his own hand — «a riserva della Sposa che dichiara essere illetterata». The bride could not write and did not sign Archivio di Stato di Udine· Stato civile napoleonico· Ovaro· Matrimoni· 1815· Antenati ark anua679991, images…

…tailors — Francesco, Antonio, and the cramar argument built on them — and a carpenter, farmers, a landowner, a shoemaker. The road into Istria has been argued from sartori, on the reasoning that the needle trades were the ones that travelled. «Felice Santo de Franceschi, di professione tessitore.» A weaver of this surname, in this village, a hundred and thirty-six years after three men of it walked to Istria as weavers. It proves no descent and it is not offered as one. What it does is put the 1679 trade back in the…