Giovanni Defranceschi (godfather at Pola, 1869)
Giovanni Defranceschi (godfather at Pola, 1869). Pola. Every mention of this name in the archive — 23 across 19 pages.
Named once, as a godfather, at Pola in 1869: «Giovanni De-/franceschi, capo e […]», with «Pietro Monace, testimonio», at the baptism of «Giuseppe Giovanni», born 15 April 1869 at 6 a.m. and baptised on 18 April 1869 by the canon Gramaticopolo (house 306): the son of «Vicenzo Deola di Domenico da Villa de Villa, Provincia di Belluno, giornaliero» and «Teresa Dall[…] fu Antonio dalla Villa de Villa, Provincia di Belluno»; midwife Catterina Calligaris (Pula births 1869–75, Liber VII, p. 31, entry of 18 April 1869, image 430 of waypoint 9R2X-SP8, open; doc). Read at level 13 on 26 October 2026: the surname is written across the line end, «De-» then «franceschi», with the c, e and sch plain; the word after «capo e» (his trade or rank) is a hurried one I could not read — «fovator…/pavator…» is the nearest and I do not claim it. A pencilled note in the left margin of the entry mentions the godparents and «21 luglio 1869» (read at level 12 only, not understood).
Who he is is not settled. The parents are Belluno people; the godfather is a witness, with a second witness, not kin. The archive has one Giovanni Defranceschi at Pola by then: Johann Defranceschi, k.k. Marinediener, born at Gračišće in 1833, who married in the naval parish on 16 January 1871 and is not found in the civil books before that — a navy servant who stood godfather at a civil baptism two years earlier is possible (inf, weak: the page gives no age, birthplace or father, and «capo» may be a foreman of the arsenal, a rank of the navy or something else). The two rows are not merged. Not counted as a find of a new family.
This name sits in more than one household. 2 sets of parents survive the date check. The first is drawn. Joining them on a name alone is the mistake this site keeps having to correct.
| Gen | Father before | This name | Child after |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/8 | — | Giovanni Defranceschi1750 · 1829 · Gologorica → Gračišće | Giovanni Battista Defranceschi |
4 of the 4 relationships drawn above are written in a register this archive has read with its own eyes.
3 households were rejected before this chart was drawn, because the dates do not fit a person of this name: Gio Maria De Franceschi × Lucia Bonassin (1829) · Pietro De Franceschi × Maddalena Francin (1827) · Giacomo de Franceschi × Nicolina Teserati (1778).
Joined on a name alone. One household 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.
The households → · Every record naming Giovanni Defranceschi (godfather at Pola, 1869) → · The Spine → · How this is decided →
This archive holds 18 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.
Giovanni Defranceschi · Giovanni de Franceschi · Giovanni de Franceschi (b. 1756) · Giovanni de Franceschi (b. 1778) · Ivan Defranceschi · Ivan Defranceski · Ivan de Franceschi · Joannem De Franceschi · Joannem Defranceschi · Joannes Defranceschi · Joannes Defranceschi (b. 1890 Pula, d. 1890) · Joannis Defranceschi · Johann Defranceschi (of Gallignana, b. 1833) · Johannes Defranceschi · John Defranceschi · Zuane De Franceschi · Zuanne De Franceschi · Zuanne Defranceschi
Appears on: Our line, drawn · The Defranceschi Archive · The Register of the Dead · Dna · Household Explorer · The Archive · The Gologorica Line · The Map · Every Town in Istria · Register · Ližnjan · The Marriages · David's Map · The Name · Lives on one scale · About · The Imotski Franceschi · ${markTitle[p.g]}: ${p.why} · Worklist
Our line, drawn
…Defranceschi 1825 – 1894 Gračišće h.19 doc lapicida — stonecutter Giovanni Battista Defranceschi 1787 – 1846 Gračišće h.5 doc agricola — farmer Giovanni Defranceschi 1750 – 1829 Gologorica → Gračišće lore wall candidate A candidate, not a proof A Joannes Baptista Defranceschi baptised at Gologorica house 31 on 13 August 1787, son of…
The Defranceschi Archive
…remainder was announced as 113, and that was wrong too. The join compared the whole set of given names, and the live tree stacks every variant it has ever seen into one string: «Johannes Giovanni Gian Battista de Franceschi» against this archive's «Giovanni Defranceschi» is four names against one, so the top of David's own male line was reported as a stranger — and this page said of him, in as many words, «that is not a namesake to be tested, it is a hole». He is in the roster and in the spine, born…
…to every join on this site, and the page reconciling them said it was already fixed. 327 of the 1,122 person pages are in a group of this kind — 98 groups. Ivan Defranceski, Ivan de Franceschi, Joannem Defranceschi, Joannes Defranceschi, Giovanni Defranceschi, Giovanni de Franceschi and Zuane De Franceschi are seven pages. The fix is a cross-reference, not a merge. Identity here is by name on purpose, and collapsing Ivan into Giovanni by machine is the join this archive spends its time refusing. Each…
…Ivan Defranceski and share one page; generation 3 sits inside a page whose headline belongs to an Antonio of Svetvinčenat born in 1704. Where a slug is shared or its headline is somebody else, a dossierNote says so. n Giovanni Defranceschi Joannes born died Gologorica → Gračišće family Carried on the family's own descent chart. The Status Animarum entry for his son calls that son Joan. Bapt. Defranceschi, and the next…
Dna
…12.5% b. 1890 Josip Defranceschi Gračišće → Crikvenica 6.25% 1863–1951 Antonio Defranceschi Gračišće, house 19 3.1% 1825–1894 Giovanni Battista Defranceschi Gračišće, house 5 1.6% 1787–1846 Giovanni Defranceschi Gologorica → Gračišće 0.78% 1750–1829 the Mione link Carnia → Istria 0.098% c. 1679 the Fiume household Rijeka 0.049% 1626 the Omiš chart's first man Dalmatia 0.00005% 1318 The…
The Gologorica Line
…side — which is the first evidence this archive has of what happened after that wedding. (doc — ZM34K-214, M01069326.) No link to the direct line is established, and none should be assumed. This archive's generation 1 is a Giovanni Defranceschi who moved from Gologorica to Gračišće; Piero is a different given name, and the article calls him a member of «una conosciuta famiglia di Gologorizza», a well-known family of the village, which is a household, not a proof of descent. What the entry does is…
The Map
…last Cattarina Franceschin y parish burial register register Antonio Defranceschi y parish burial register register Giovanni Defranceschi y parish burial register register Maria Defranceschi y parish burial register register Maddalena Defranceschi y parish burial register…
Register
…films Giacomo Giachin y Domenica Defranceschi Sebastiano Defranceschi XQMQ-Q9TL Split n films Antonio Gazzoni y Anna Defranceschi Giovanni Defranceschi X7N5-XGWF One hundred and forty-five rows carry both the parents and the parish, which is everything needed to open a book and look. That is the worklist. Forty-five of them are at Vodnjan — a parish with no film at all, so…
…Surname not indexed F y b. 1821· d. 17 Aug 1888· bur. 19 Aug 1888 Ližnjan, Istria, Italia Ližnjan, Istria, Italia Antonii Defranceschi Or Lazarić lead 6BKV-PMZ8 Matteo Giovanni Defranceschi Defranceschi M y b. 7 Apr 1821 Vitorio Stella in 6BKV-GBT7 Matteo Giovanni Defranceschi Defranceschi M y b. 7 Apr…
…Defranceschi Or Lazarić lead 6BKV-PMZ8 Matteo Giovanni Defranceschi Defranceschi M y b. 7 Apr 1821 Vitorio Stella in 6BKV-GBT7 Matteo Giovanni Defranceschi Defranceschi M y b. 7 Apr 1821 Vittorio Defranceschi Stella Tamborin in Joined to the person already in this archive: the years agree to within 0. XQM3-B2X7…
…Franceschi F y b. 10 Feb 1832 Antonio Franceschi Maria Glavinich in Joined to the person already in this archive: the years agree to within 0. 6B47-4J6C Giovanni Defranceschi Defranceschi y b. Mar 1832 Anto Defranceschi Maria Bergoino Giovanna Cleva Filippo Cleva in 6B47-QSP4 Giuseppe Giachin Surname not indexed…
…Antonius Crosilla Surname not indexed y b. 1845 Jacoba Defranceschi Joan-Bapta Crosilla Maria-Magdalena Vernier Philippus Vernier lead XQM3-G5QW Giovanni Defranceschi Defranceschi M y b. 1845 Gregorio Defranceschi Agata Schiffich in XQMQ-99X1 Giovanni Defranceschi Defranceschi M y b. 1845· d.…
…Philippus Vernier lead XQM3-G5QW Giovanni Defranceschi Defranceschi M y b. 1845 Gregorio Defranceschi Agata Schiffich in XQMQ-99X1 Giovanni Defranceschi Defranceschi M y b. 1845· d. 11 Nov 1846· of Ližnjan, Istria, Italia Ližnjan, Istria, Italia, in Joined to the person already in this archive: the years agree to within…
…Luccia Michiela Defrančeschi Giuseppe Forlani lead X311-MTY8 Angelo Eustode Pietra Giovanni Nepomuceno Defranceschi Defranceschi M y b. 2 Oct 1847 Giovanni Defranceschi Maria Zenardi in 6B47-8QQY Augustinus Surname not indexed M y b. 11 Jul 1847 Dominicuš Defranceschi Maria Dorliguzzo lead X31Y-GBCV…
…film 6YB5-NWH2 Vincentia Elisabetha Surname not indexed F y b. 17 Sep 1849 Matthæus Defranceschi Dominica Frezzer lead 6BKK-SDN6 Vittorio Giovanni Defranceschi Defranceschi M y b. 1849 Natale Defranceschi Domenica Chersin in Joined to the person already in this archive: the years agree to within 0. 6B47-DDST…
…Defranceschi Joannes Defranceschi Joanna Cleva Andreas Pliscovich lead X7N5-XGWF Antonio Gazzoni Surname not indexed y b. 1857 Anna Defranceschi Giovanni Defranceschi Gaetano Gazzoni Catterina Andfel lead Split film 6B47-QQ4H Blasius Surname not indexed M y b. 5 Jul 1857 Maria De Franceschi Laurentius…
…1869 Luigi Franceschina Catharina Scherboni lead 6YBR-SXGJ Gilda Franceschina Franceschina y b. 5 Nov 1869, lead 6YB5-KGZC Giovanni Defranceschi Defranceschi y b. 15 Dec 1869, in X31Y-V2VV Girolamo Marco Camillo Franceschi Franceschi M y b. 15 Nov 1869…
Ližnjan
…artefact and is said so here rather than counted as a gap. The rest are genuinely untaken, and most are children of Defranceschi daughters who married out — Ruman, Perković, Jelčić, Našković — plus «Mattio Franceschi, 1799 – 20 Dec 1839» and «Giovanni Defranceschi, 1845 – 11 Nov 1846», who are of the name outright. ⚠ The lesson is not that the index is good. It is that this archive kept finding things it already had. The register settles what the index garbles — «Antonii Defranceschi Or Lazarić»…
…The first Antonio lived less than two weeks, and the name was given again to the son of 1848. A house with two Defranceschi families, and now the marriages say they are one. The facing page of the burial book records, from house 17, «Giovanni Defranceschi di Gregorio» (11 November 1846) and «Maria figlia di Gregorio Defranceschi» (8 December 1846) — children of Gregorio Defranceschi (b. 1822) and Agata Schiffich. And the marriage book has both couples, fourteen months apart, at house 17: 15…
David's Map
…16.371309,, Istra Lines of Defranceschi Fažana 44.92804, 13.80424, on Croatia, Church Books, 1516-1994, FamilySearch ( : Tue Oct 01 01:05:12 UTC 2024), Entry for Vittorio Giovanni Defranceschi and Natale Defranceschi, 1849. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6BKV-L5P2 www.familysearch.org Metropolitan City of Rome 41.9027, 12.49624, on Heraklion 35.33873,…
The Imotski Franceschi
…under IVAN DEFRANČESKI stop Johannesburg from 1960s the second leaving move Brisbane to 2026 end gen Giovanni Defranceschi 1750 – 1829 at gen Giovanni Battista Defranceschi b. 13 Aug 1787 – 1846 at ⚠ <strongHis birth of 13 August 1787 is on the Gallignana <emStatus Animarum</em of house 5, not in a baptism…
${markTitle[p.g]}: ${p.why}
…rests on, and what the paper cannot say. 1 weaver The family chart's Giovanni, born at Gologorica by the family's tree; the weaver's son who married Theresia Grah of Krbune in 1774 is him by inference Giovanni Defranceschi giovanni-defranceschi-1750 1750–1829 Gologorica lore Theresia née Grah theresia-defranceschi-nee-grach-gologorica of Krbune inf 2…
Worklist
…in the collection, only Pazin, Stari Pazin and Lupoglav are, and this archive's own atlas has carried nfilms: 0 for it all along. The sentence that said otherwise has been corrected. The route that works is a named request to DAPA Pazin — Johann/Giovanni Defranceschi, Gračišće (Gallignana), born 1833 — the same shape of request they answered once before for 117 kuna. That can go in the same envelope as the ÖStA order for MGBBl 2651, and between them a Marinegrundbuchblatt and a baptism would give the man two…
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