Hedviga Blažević (Defranceski)
Hedviga Blažević (Defranceski), 1926–2001. Senj → Johannesburg. Every mention of this name in the archive — 30 across 15 pages.
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- Hedviga Blažević (Defranceski) — 1926 – 2001, Senj → Johannesburg
A singer at the Hotel Therapia, Crikvenica — family testimony, 10 September 2026, and the likeliest explanation of how a Senj woman met a Crikvenica man. Daughter of Ljubomir «Ljubo» Blažević, 1892–1966, and Milka Lucia Papić, 1886–1971. Born at Senj and died at Johannesburg, 30 October 2001, of cancer. Born 3 August 1926. The archive carried two dates — 8 March and 3 August, a day and month transposed — and preferred neither. David's own tree gives 3 August, so that is what this archive now says, marked as coming from the tree rather than from a register. The Senj birth register of 1926 would settle it for good and is on the errands. And she did not go straight to Johannesburg. The tree gives her immigration in April 1975, from Zimbabwe — Rhodesia as it then was, in the middle of its war. This archive has drawn her route as Senj → Johannesburg and there is a country in the middle of it that nobody had written down. She married again about 1973, and the tree names two later husbands: Santou (Shemtov) Isaac Codron, 1913–1997, and Ladislav Carr. Ivan stayed on his own coast and is buried at Senj; the divorce the family put at about 1969 now has a shape around it. tree — not yet a document.
4 of the 4 relationships drawn above are written in a register this archive has read with its own eyes.
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1948
…and, the same day: «at the Hotel Therapija, which I believe closed down.» lore· venue named This one the archive can only believe, and it explains something it could not explain before — and the hotel is still standing. Hedviga Blažević was a Senj woman — born there, daughter of Ljubomir Blažević and Milka Papić the tobacco-factory cigar-roller, out of a line of Senj carriers reaching back past 1768. Ivan was a Crikvenica man. Twenty-five miles of coast road lie between the two…
Our line, drawn
…is the one Arolsen is being asked about. wall unworked Unworked Her parents are not in this archive. Her own birth record has not been found — «about 1890» is all the certificates give. Hedviga Blažević 1926 – 2001 Senj → Johannesburg doc blazevic Born at Senj, died at Johannesburg on 30 October 2001, six years to the day after Ivan died at Senj. Her birth date stands in this archive as both 8 March and…
Changes
…13 Sept 2026 correction Every mother one generation too deep on the ancestor chart A claim taken back This archive said An ancestor chart published a few hours earlier, in which Hedviga Blažević was drawn as Ivan Defranceski's mother, Uršula Kovačina as Anton Rudolf's mother, Anna Kalanj as Josip's mother, Maria Fernasar as Antonio's, and Francisca Salomon as Giovanni Battista's. What is Each of those women is the wife of the man…
…of those women is the wife of the man she was drawn under, not his mother. The whole maternal side of the chart was shifted by one generation. A wife belongs above her children, not above her husband — Anna Kalanj is Anton Rudolf's mother, not Josip's; Hedviga Blažević is the mother of the living generation, not of the man she married. Rebuilt so that each couple's children sit below them: I. Defranceski ← Ivan (1925–1995) and Hedviga Blažević; Ivan ← Anton Rudolf and Uršula Kovačina; Anton Rudolf ← Josip and…
…above her husband — Anna Kalanj is Anton Rudolf's mother, not Josip's; Hedviga Blažević is the mother of the living generation, not of the man she married. Rebuilt so that each couple's children sit below them: I. Defranceski ← Ivan (1925–1995) and Hedviga Blažević; Ivan ← Anton Rudolf and Uršula Kovačina; Anton Rudolf ← Josip and Anna Kalanj; Josip ← Antonio and Maria Fernasar; Antonio ← Giovanni Battista and Francisca Salomon. Giovanni Battista's own mother is now a wall, because she is genuinely…
…catch — and it is the third time this project has had to say so, after Francesco de' Franceschi the Venetian printer and Francesco de' Franceschi the painter. /searched/ 10 Sept 2026 pending Ivan Defranceski, Hedviga Blažević, Uršula Kovačina, Anton Rudolf — 1948–1951 Arolsen Archives online collections Not attempted: the service is down. collections.arolsen-archives.org resolves to 62.90.197.110 and times out, while the main Arolsen site answers…
…refuse — after the Venetian printer and the Venetian painter — and the pattern is always the same: a well-known man of the name, and no join but the name. /people/· the MyHeritage tree 10 Sept 2026 correction Hedviga Blažević has two birthdays A claim taken back This archive said Two pages give her birth as 8 March 1926. A third page quotes the certified extract of the Senj birth register, attached to her son's 1951 entry, which gives 3 August…
The Defranceschi Archive
…This is the third famous namesake the project has had to refuse — after the Venetian printer and the Venetian painter — and the pattern is always the same: a well-known man of the name, and no join but the name. 10 Sept 2026 Hedviga Blažević has two birthdays serious /senj-line/· /crikvenica-house/ Two pages give her birth as 8 March 1926. A third page quotes the certified extract of the Senj birth register, attached to her son's 1951 entry, which gives 3…
…is the negative result the Carnia entry predicts. 13 Sept 2026 Every mother one generation too deep on the ancestor chart serious /tree/ An ancestor chart published a few hours earlier, in which Hedviga Blažević was drawn as Ivan Defranceski's mother, Uršula Kovačina as Anton Rudolf's mother, Anna Kalanj as Josip's mother, Maria Fernasar as Antonio's, and Francisca Salomon as Giovanni Battista's. Each of those women is the wife of the man she was…
…of those women is the wife of the man she was drawn under, not his mother. The whole maternal side of the chart was shifted by one generation. A wife belongs above her children, not above her husband — Anna Kalanj is Anton Rudolf's mother, not Josip's; Hedviga Blažević is the mother of the living generation, not of the man she married. Rebuilt so that each couple's children sit below them: I. Defranceski ← Ivan (1925–1995) and Hedviga Blažević; Ivan ← Anton Rudolf and Uršula Kovačina; Anton Rudolf ← Josip and…
…above her husband — Anna Kalanj is Anton Rudolf's mother, not Josip's; Hedviga Blažević is the mother of the living generation, not of the man she married. Rebuilt so that each couple's children sit below them: I. Defranceski ← Ivan (1925–1995) and Hedviga Blažević; Ivan ← Anton Rudolf and Uršula Kovačina; Anton Rudolf ← Josip and Anna Kalanj; Josip ← Antonio and Maria Fernasar; Antonio ← Giovanni Battista and Francisca Salomon. Giovanni Battista's own mother is now a wall, because she is genuinely…
…times over as Iwan, JVAN, IWAN and JWAN, twice under each date. His own German sickness-fund card gives 25 June and puts him at Brunnenstraße 7, Pfullingen, entering work on 21 October 1941 as an unskilled hand. He was sixteen. He went home, married Hedviga Blažević, and is buried on his own coast under polished granite cut with a plain cross and the name in Croatian orthography: IVAN DEFRANČESKI, 1925–1995. kk-ivan Arolsen Archives, ITS Pfullingen list; Allgemeine…
The House at Crikvenica
…fiche-zdravko zdravko-plaque Ivan 25 June 1925, at Crikvenica 30 October 1995, at Senj Entered a Reutlingen factory on 21 October 1941, aged sixteen, as an unskilled hand. He went home. Married Hedviga Blažević of Senj, born 3 August 1926 — she died on 30 October 2001 at Johannesburg, six years to the day after him, which the family holds to be pure coincidence and finds a little eerie. He is buried on his own coast under a plain granite slab cut IVAN…
…1925–1995. The camera original the family has now sent is six times the size of the copy this site had, and the dates are legible for the first time. He entered a Reutlingen factory at sixteen in October 1941 as an unskilled hand, went home, married Hedviga Blažević of Senj, and stayed. He died on 30 October 1995; she died on 30 October 2001 at Johannesburg, six years to the day. And where his brother is «IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF ZDRAVKO FRANK DEFRANCESKI — DIED 22ND DECEMBER 1979 AGED 58 —…
Dna
…and finds half a per cent of something in Cheryl. Neither is wrong. One of them simply cannot see the bottom of the glass. And one new line for the other side of the family Ivan's maternal haplogroup is H14a. His mother was Hedviga Blažević of Senj, so H14a is the Blažević matriline — the female line out of Senj, and the first haplogroup this project has for it. Cheryl's is H1, David's is reported as H. H is the commonest maternal lineage in Europe; H1 and H14a are branches of…
…islands — Babin, Hromin, Škopić, Vlakić, Jadrijev — carrying the by-name formations (Ivanov Babin, Hromin Škopić) that belong to Krk and the northern Adriatic islands. Blažević is the name to stop on. David's paternal grandmother was Hedviga Blažević, born at Senj in 1926; her mother was Milka Lucia Papić, born at Senj in 1886. Blažević stands in the trees of two separate Croatian clusters. The registers put this family at Senj and in the Vinodol; the DNA puts it in the middle of the…
…Biondić, Lopac, Katalinić, Rončević, Šojat, Butković, Šolić, Delale. Every one of those is a Senj-hinterland name — the Bunjevci of Krivi Put, Krmpote, Sveti Juraj and the Vinodol, the villages on the slope behind the town Hedviga Blažević was born in. So the next name to chase is Vukelić, not Blažević. Blažević is the one this family carries and therefore the one the eye goes to; Vukelić is the one that recurs across the most trees that have nothing else in common. No living match's…
Errands
…ricerca mirata sul cognome De Franceschi (area della Carnia, fine XVII secolo). err/archivio-di-stato-di-udine-a67aa3 high Matični ured Senj (registry office) / Državni arhiv u Rijeci Senj birth register 1926 — Hedviga Blažević, and the Senj marriage register for 1948 Matična knjiga rođenih Senj 1926; matična knjiga vjenčanih Senj 1948 Two things at once. Hedviga's date of birth stood in this archive as both 8 March 1926 and 3 August 1926 — the same digits…
…je obiteljsko i nekomercijalno. Unaprijed zahvaljujem. n err/mati-ni-ured-senj-registry-o-1042bf high Arolsen Archives (International Tracing Service), Bad Arolsen Any trace of Ivan Defranceski and Hedviga Blažević leaving Yugoslavia, 1948–1951 ITS Digital Collections; the family is already in the Pfullingen list of foreigners and the AOK sickness-fund cards· Use the inquiry form, not the contact form —…
…2.1.3.1 — Iwan, 24.06.1925, birthplace written «Gricivenica» — person/70823303· 2.2.2.1 War Time Card File — JVAN, 25.06.1925 — person/71930658· 2.3.3.1 — IWAN, 25.06.1925 — person/77422349· 2.3.3.1 — JWAN, 24.06.1925 — person/77422350 Hedviga Blažević is in it by name but not as a listed person — she is named as his wife and the request for 1948–1951 asks for her IRO file in the same breath. Uršula Kovačina, Anton Rudolf, and Petar's CM/1 file are not in this case at all. They are the next inquiry,…
…Car s Uršulom Kovačina, rođenom oko 1890., tijekom 1940-ih. Riječ je o obiteljskom istraživanju. n err/mati-ni-ured-crikvenica-upni-25f0ae medium Muzej Grada Crikvenice / Novi list archive, Rijeka Hedviga Blažević, a singer at the Hotel Therapia, Crikvenica, 1940s Hotel Therapia (1895 Nadvojvoda Josip; Therapia from c.1899; latterly Falkensteiner, now Kvarner Palace) — programmes, posters, season photographs The family names the venue: Hedviga…
…this archive has ever had for how the two towns met. It would also give a woman recorded here only as a wife, a mother and a date of death a profession and a workplace. Any programme, poster, photograph or press notice naming a singer Hedviga Blažević at the Hotel Therapia, Crikvenica, between about 1944 and 1952 — including the hotel's own season programmes for those years. Answered 12 September 2026 by the hotel itself. Almost nothing survives from the Therapia years — no guest books, no…
…they took the hotel over. They do not know where it went. The hotel is eliminated; the museum and the Novi list archive are not. Poštovani, tražim bilo kakav program, plakat, fotografiju ili novinsku vijest u kojoj se spominje pjevačica Hedviga Blažević u hotelu Therapia u Crikvenici, otprilike između 1944. i 1952. godine — uključujući i sezonske programe samoga hotela za te godine. Riječ je o obiteljskom istraživanju, nekomercijalnom. Unaprijed zahvaljujem. n sent…
…have already looked. This is the lead they offered instead: a private family collection at Rijeka whose keeper is said to have exceptional knowledge of the region and contacts among its historians, archives, museums and collectors. The question is Hedviga Blažević at the Hotel Therapia between about 1944 and 1952 — the one place the family story says she met Ivan Defranceski. Ask whether the collection or his contacts hold anything on the Therapia in the post-war years — programmes, photographs, staff, the…
The Lines
…Australia — Horsham, Ipswich Carnia doc «Emigré Australie le 8.3.49» on Anton's index card. Zdravko's bronze at Horsham. South Africa· Zimbabwe Carnia doc Hedviga Blažević died at Johannesburg in 2001; the keeper of this archive was born there. Senj Carnia doc Not a line — a station. Ivan went home to Senj and is buried there, 1925–1995. New York Carnia…
The Imotski Franceschi
…Crikvenica — the second individual sitting across the seam. Ivan Defranceski 25 June 1925, Crikvenica 30 October 1995, Senj Worked at Senj. Buried there — the family holds the gravestone photograph. Hedviga Blažević 3 August 1926, Senj 30 October 2001, Johannesburg Ivan's wife, of the Blažević of Senj and Krmpote. She died in South Africa, six years to the day after her husband died in Senj. Zdravko, called…
…Crikvenica — she did not move far Kovačina Uršula Kovačina b. about 1890 gen at not known her own birth record has not been found open Blažević Hedviga Blažević 1926 – 2001 gen at Senj out of a line of Senj carriers reaching back past 1768 blazevic Lerena C. A. Defranceski living — named only gen at…
The Senj Line
…archive's other half. Ivan Defranceski of Crikvenica married Hedviga Blažević of Senj, and everything on this page stands behind her — a line of Senj carriers, tobacco-factory workers and Karlobag seafaring families that is, in the end, better documented and older than the Defranceschi spine itself. This archive was built…
The Story
…Senj· Johannesburg· Brisbane And Ivan went home The third brother did not stay in Germany and did not sail for Australia. Ivan was born at Crikvenica on 25 June 1925, went back to his own coast, worked at Senj and married Hedviga Blažević — whose people were Senj packhorse carriers and tobacco-factory workers, and whose Karlobag ancestry reaches people born about 1690. He died at Senj on 30 October 1995 under a plain granite slab cut IVAN DEFRANČESKI. Hedviga died at Johannesburg six years…
Worklist
…catalogued only by a provider that works one region cannot be outside it, and a place whose own name carries a country cannot be in another one. It found six. Senja, Sv. Juraj — the Senj deanery's coastal parish, eight kilometres from the town Hedviga Blažević was born in — was outside Belgrade. Sv. Jakov-Šiljevica, the old name of Jadranovo four kilometres from Crikvenica, was in Šumadija, and so was Klasnić of the Banovina. Krug was in Lower Austria. Grad and Tišina, both Prekmurje…
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