Jacoba
Jacoba. Svetvinčenat. Every mention of this name in the archive — 24 across 12 pages.
Named in household h111 on the households list, at Svetvinčenat, as the wife of Pietro de Franceschi, a De Franceschi, and the mother of Anna Euphemia de Franceschi; Euphemia de Franceschi; Valentino Defranceschi; Victoria de Franceschi. Evidence class: read — from registers this archive has read. No birth, death or occupation is printed for this person, so none is claimed. Not of the name's surname — kept because the person married into it; the household list gives the couple and nothing about their origin. Recorded by forename only — no surname is printed, so this is a name and a role and cannot be told apart from another woman of the same forename by anything on the page.
Two children here carry one name — e u p h e m i a. In these parishes that is usually not an error: a child who died was very often replaced by a later child given the same name. It is also exactly how an index invents one person out of two, so both are drawn.
6 of the 6 relationships drawn above are written in a register this archive has read with its own eyes.
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.
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Back to Carnia
…in danger of death the evening she was born The other godparent: Maria, wife of Giuseppe Pellis of Cella Also in this file: the death extracts of Nicolò quondam Antonio Corva of Muina, died 11 August 1808, and of Jacoba his wife, died 6 February 1801 — both styled «de Nave» Filed because a child of 1789 was marrying in 1812 Archivio di Stato di Udine· Stato civile napoleonico· Mione· Matrimoni, allegati· 1812· Antenati ark anua667535, image…
The Defranceschi Archive
…fathering children. The original doubt is restored rather than patched. Either more than one Jacobo was living at the castle at once, or the godparent formula lies about husbands' forenames. The first is now the likelier, and the 1738 Agata and Jacoba lines go back to being unexplained. Nothing was misread. Every entry quoted is quoted correctly, and the 1743 baptism is as good a document as this archive owns. What failed was the step after the reading: a new document was laid against the six…
…by frame. Four households baptising at once in the 1740s — Jacobo × Pascasia, Matteo × Francisca, Pietro × Jacoba, Vittorio × Dominica — with Gasparo × Maria beside…
…earlier than this archive had it, and fifty-six years before Kobler's man leaves for Fiume. «Die 24 huius — Ego qui supra baptizavi Mariam filiam legitimam Francisci de Franceschi et uxoris eius Marinę. Patrini fuerunt Hilarius Celin ? et Jacoba eiusdem…» Pazin, Births 1582, 1614–1624, 1645, 1643–1685, baptism of 24 March 1684, read off the film at full magnification on 13 September 2026. Until then the earliest record of the name at Pazin here was 1791 — two elaborate Latin names,…
…claimed as one; it is the first time the question can be put to a real household rather than to an assumption. The index gets this entry wrong twice. It transcribes the surname as «De Francesch», dropping the -i the page plainly writes, and it puts Jacoba — a godparent — into the mother's field. The mother is Marina. Seven indexed records in all, six of them ours, 1684 to 1859. Six volumes of parish book, the oldest opening in 1582, and only one page of them has been read here.…
…1674 Eight years on the same register calls one of them «il Signor» — the same family, a different word Pascasia 1737–1759 Four households of the name baptising at the castle at once — Jacobo × Pascasia, Matteo × Francisca, Pietro × Jacoba and Vittorio × Dominica, with Gasparo × Maria beside them. Jacobo × Pascasia, Matteo × Francisca, Pietro × Jacoba, Vittorio × Dominica, with Gasparo × Maria beside them. Read frame by frame through the fifteen years no index reaches; none of them is in any…
…Pascasia 1737–1759 Four households of the name baptising at the castle at once — Jacobo × Pascasia, Matteo × Francisca, Pietro × Jacoba and Vittorio × Dominica, with Gasparo × Maria beside them. Jacobo × Pascasia, Matteo × Francisca, Pietro × Jacoba, Vittorio × Dominica, with Gasparo × Maria beside them. Read frame by frame through the fifteen years no index reaches; none of them is in any index anywhere Elena & Fusca 1766–1773 The daughters marry out. Elena to a Santalezza of the Albona…
The Lines
…and the only way through is to open every frame. Film 005497885, images 115–162. It produced a parish, not a list. Four households of the name baptising at the castle at once — Jacobo × Pascasia, Matteo × Francisca, Pietro × Jacoba, Vittorio × Dominica — with Gasparo × Maria beside them, and the children running 1737 to 1759. None of them is in any index anywhere. The frames also killed five lookalikes — Dassanich, Blasan, «Jurca uxor Antonij», Defranzieri and «Del…
Say Your Name
…seen James seen Jacob seen forms giacoma Jacoba seen Giacoma seen Jacobina seen Jakovina seen forms…
Method
…and the difference matters when a surname is common in one village. At Svetvinčenat in ten months of 1737–1739 the register gives «uxor Jacobi de Franceschi» three different wives — Anzola in December 1737, Agata in August 1738, Jacoba in September 1738 — and then Angela, who is Anzola, in March 1739. Angela is alive on both sides of the other two, so one man cannot have had all three. And one of the three belongs to somebody else. Jacoba is named six weeks earlier as the…
…1737, Agata in August 1738, Jacoba in September 1738 — and then Angela, who is Anzola, in March 1739. Angela is alive on both sides of the other two, so one man cannot have had all three. And one of the three belongs to somebody else. Jacoba is named six weeks earlier as the lawful wife of Pietro de Franceschi, in an entry where she is a parent and the clerk had every reason to be exact. When the same woman turns up as a godmother he writes «Jacoba uxor Jacobi» — a forename…
…three belongs to somebody else. Jacoba is named six weeks earlier as the lawful wife of Pietro de Franceschi, in an entry where she is a parent and the clerk had every reason to be exact. When the same woman turns up as a godmother he writes «Jacoba uxor Jacobi» — a forename pulled, most likely, by her own. The working rule. Parents in a baptism are evidence; «wife of X» in a godparent line is a label, and a weak one. Use it to show that a household existed, never to decide which…
…but only where the truth is known another way This archive has said since September that the Svetvinčenat godparent formula is unreliable about husbands' forenames. It was inferred in 1738 from «Agata uxor Jacobi» and «Jacoba uxor Jacobi» appearing inside the years Anzola was alive — three wives in ten months, at least one of them wrong. But which one was wrong could not be said, because there was nothing independent to check any of them against. The doubt was the whole…
Open Questions
…two men called Osvaldo at Liariis, or the «non parenti» formula is boilerplate. The Pieve di Gorto baptisms for the 1760s would say whose son Daniele was. The de Caneva of Liariis are well recorded — a Gio: Batta De Caneva stood godfather in 1793 and a Jacoba, widow of Nicolaus de Caneva, in 1769. Was Paolo de Franceschi a carpenter or a landowner? open Two documents eleven days apart give different answers. The consent act of 14 June 1815 calls him «il vivente Paolo de…
Register
…Aug 1810 Croazia, Austria Croazia, Austria Antonio De Franceschi lead X9DG-BW5D Annaeuphemia Surname not indexed y b. 26 Jul 1738 Petro De Franceschi Jacoba lead 6YB2-SLFD Bortolo Francetich Francetich y b. 1738· bur. 17 Aug 1768 Croazia, Austria Croazia, Austria, lead 6YB2-NWX3 Margarita…
…bur. 25 Aug 1812 Krk, Küstenland, Austria Krk, Küstenland, Austria, lead X9DG-TZ4L Euphemia Surname not indexed y b. 1 Oct 1739 Petro Defranceschi Jacoba lead X9D5-9RZM Sebastiano Francetich Francetich y bur. 13 Mar 1741 Fiume, Modrus-Fiume, Ungheria Fiume, Modrus-Fiume, Ungheria, lead Rijeka…
…Joannes Bergamo Francisca Suevich Hermagora Suevich lead Svetvinčenat film 6B47-SK6K Johannes Crosilla Surname not indexed y b. 1831 Jacoba Defranceschi Johannes Bapt Crosilla Antonia Matica Maria Matica lead XQMQ-9SKD Martinus Rakich Surname not indexed y b. 1831 Maria Defranceschi Catharina…
…b. 24 Mar 1832 Petro Defranceschi Maria Theresia Mertecchini lead X9DG-T9T2 Benedictus Surname not indexed M y b. 15 Apr 1833 Jacoba Defranceschi Joan Baptista Crosilla lead 6B47-43X8 Cristoforo Vellico Surname not indexed M y b. 11 Dec 1833 Michiela De Franceschi Francesco Vellico…
…1835 Francesco Franchini Barbara Luić Giuseppina Maria Bauch Simeone Bauch lead 6B47-9JZZ Joannes Vernier Surname not indexed y b. 1835 Jacoba Defranceschi Maria Crosilla Joanna-Bapta Crosilla Philippus Vernier lead 6B47-4BQS Marianna Surname not indexed F y b. 1835· d. 24 Jun 1837· of Kraljevina Hrvatska…
…y b. 21 Mar 1845 Giacoma Defranceschi Giov Batta Crosilla lead 6B47-7HDD 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…
…Zuanne De Franceschi lead X9DG-1KLM Victoria Surname not indexed F y Gaspari De Franceschi Margherita lead X9DG-BQJB Victoria Jacoba Surname not indexed F y Gaspari De Franceschi Marię lead 6YB5-XMX9 Vido Francetich Francetich M y Michel…
Worklist
…Euphemia, daughter of Pietro de Franceschi and Giacoma, born 25 July 1738, in no index. And a caution that governs the rest of this sweep: in ten months the register gives «uxor Jacobi de Franceschi» three different wives — Anzola, Agata, Jacoba — with Angela (= Anzola) alive on both sides of the other two. Either there are two Jacobos in the parish, or a godparent line cannot be trusted about husbands. Filed as method. Read so far: 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 161. Still to…
…by October 1737, one standing godfather on 19 April 1739. Read: 115–122 and 161. Still to read: 123–160 and 162. 22 September, fifth pass — images 123 and 125 (June 1739 – October 1740). A fourth household: Batta (Battista) Defranceschi and Jacoba, daughter Euphemia born 1 October 1739, godfather D.nus Aloysius Spinotti — almost certainly the Joannes Baptista standing godfather that April. Angela is Jacobo's wife in 1737 and twice in 1739, which makes the Agata and Jacoba of 1738 the anomalies…
…Defranceschi and Jacoba, daughter Euphemia born 1 October 1739, godfather D.nus Aloysius Spinotti — almost certainly the Joannes Baptista standing godfather that April. Angela is Jacobo's wife in 1737 and twice in 1739, which makes the Agata and Jacoba of 1738 the anomalies rather than her. And a warning filed as method: the year headings on 123 and 126 read 1759 and the entries beneath them are 1739. Read: 115–123, 125, 126, 161. Still: 124, 127–160, 162. 22 September — and an entry this…
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.