Gio: Batta de Franceschi (1880–1963)
Gio: Batta de Franceschi (1880–1963), 1880–1963. Mione, Ovaro. Every mention of this name in the archive — 7 across 5 pages.
On a De Franceschi stone in the Carnian cemeteries, read from the photograph. > GIO: BATTA DE FRANCESCHI 1880 – 1963 and TERESA COMUZZI 1886 – 1963, «I FIGLI», a carved Madonna and Child between them. Read 29 September 2026 from David's photographs of the Carnian cemeteries — Ovaro, Mione, Muina and Agrons. ⚠ Which of the four cemeteries this stone stands in is not distinguished in the photographs, and is not guessed here. (doc for the inscription.) ⚠ Husband and wife died in the same year, 1963. The stone gives no months. «Gio: Batta» is the Venetian contraction of Giovanni Battista — the same form cut on the lintel of the house at Gologorica two centuries earlier.
1 of the 3 relationships drawn above is written in a register this archive has read with its own eyes. 2 come from a FamilySearch index entry — a transcription, not the page.
This person has no recorded year. The archive estimates a birth about 1782 — somewhere between 1771 and 1791, estimated from a household beginning in 1809 — **not a recorded year**. The households above were tested against that estimate rather than a date, on a deliberately loose window. That is a sanity check, not a verification — it can throw out an absurdity, and it cannot confirm a link.
The households → · Every record naming Gio: Batta de Franceschi (1880–1963) → · The Spine → · How this is decided →
This archive holds 11 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.
Gio Batta De Franceschi · Gio Batta De Franceschi (Ovaro, 1810) · Giovanni Batta Defranceschi · Giovanni Battista Defranceschi · Joannes Baptista Defranceschi · Joannes Baptista Defranceschi (bapt. 1787) · Joannes Baptista de Franceschi · Joannes Baptista de Franceschi (of Svetvinčenat, d. by 1737) · Joannes Baptista de Franceschi (of Svetvinčenat, fl. 1739) · Johann Baptist Defranceschi · Johannes Baptista Defranceschi
Appears on: The Defranceschi Archive · Changes · The Lines · Every Town in Istria · Lives on one scale
Changes
…of the index's four names. What is Zanetta Gravisi is Bortolo's wife, not his mother. The index lists groom, groom's father, bride and bride's father; this archive read four names as two couples. The page reads: «Bortolo figlio del q. Gio: Batta de Franceschi dalla Cargna… ha contratto legitimo Matrimonio coll'Ill.ma Sig.a Zanetta Gravisi figlia dell'Ill.mo Sig.r Marchese Nazario della Villa di Cepich di questa Pieve», 12 November 1777. And there was never a second marriage. The other «record» is…
The Defranceschi Archive
…the strength of the index's four names. Zanetta Gravisi is Bortolo's wife, not his mother. The index lists groom, groom's father, bride and bride's father; this archive read four names as two couples. The page reads: «Bortolo figlio del q. Gio: Batta de Franceschi dalla Cargna… ha contratto legitimo Matrimonio coll'Ill.ma Sig.a Zanetta Gravisi figlia dell'Ill.mo Sig.r Marchese Nazario della Villa di Cepich di questa Pieve», 12 November 1777. And there was never a second marriage. The other «record» is…
…— is a Venetian-state story, and mainland parishes of the Republic are where its ordinary people would be. sterna Šterna Sterna istria 45.4022, 13.7431, «Bortolo figlio del q. Gio: Batta de Franceschi dalla Cargna» — the sentence this archive has been looking for since it began. «Alli 12 9bre 1777. Cepich. Cargna. Bortolo figlio del q. Gio: Batta de Franceschi dalla Cargna, Diocese d'Udine, ha contratto legitimo Matrimonio…
…45.4022, 13.7431, «Bortolo figlio del q. Gio: Batta de Franceschi dalla Cargna» — the sentence this archive has been looking for since it began. «Alli 12 9bre 1777. Cepich. Cargna. Bortolo figlio del q. Gio: Batta de Franceschi dalla Cargna, Diocese d'Udine, ha contratto legitimo Matrimonio coll'Ill.ma Sig.a Zanetta Gravisi figlia dell'Ill.mo Sig.r Marchese Nazario della Villa di Cepich di questa Pieve, e ciò previo il di lui libero stato ottenuto dall'Ill.mo…
…They are not the parents. Zanetta Gravisi is Bortolo's wife. The index lists groom, groom's father, bride, bride's father, and this archive read the four names as two couples. The page says otherwise and the page wins. So the household reads: Gio: Batta de Franceschi, of Carnia, dead before 1777 and never in an Istrian register. His son Bortolo × Zanetta Gravisi, married 12 November 1777 — and their children baptised at Šterna from the following September: Felice Anto 27 September 1778, Mariana February…
…name. Bortolo's own death has not been found.) The reading is confirmed twice. Filmed with the register is an archivist's pencil finding-aid slip listing the book's notable entries, and it independently records: «12/XI 1777 Bortolo figlio del q. Gio: Batta de Franceschi dalla Cargna con Ill.ma Sig.a Zanetta Gravisi figlia dell'Ill.mo Sig. Marchese Nazario — pag 39». FamilySearch's index counted that slip as a second record, which is why this archive expected two marriages and found one. And the parish is older than…
The Lines
…of the two Pieros. Reading a page and finding nothing is a claim like any other, and this one failed. What the film has not given is an origin. (Answered elsewhere on 13 September 2026 — not at Svetvinčenat, but at Šterna: «Bortolo figlio del q. Gio: Batta de Franceschi dalla Cargna, Diocese d'Udine», 12 November 1777. The first entry this archive has found that states where an Istrian De Franceschi came from. It does not speak for this household, and the sentence below still stands for Svetvinčenat.) Not one entry…
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.