The Defranceschi Archive
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Joanna Defranceschi (of Svetvinčenat, fl. 1741)

Joanna Defranceschi (of Svetvinčenat, fl. 1741). Svetvinčenat. Every mention of this name in the archive — 11 across 7 pages.

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ParishSvetvinčenat
LineA documented Istrian or Kvarner household this archive will not attach to any line
Found inRead off the register
What the archive knows

Godmother on 30 June 1741 — «Patrini vero fuerunt Jacobus Zanco, et Joanna Defranceschi». She is entered under the surname in her own right, not as somebody's wife, which in this register usually means an unmarried daughter of the house. Which house is not said. (doc for the appearance; nothing else places her.) Film 005497885, images 129–131 — Births 1709–1764 of Svetvinčenat, read on the plate 23 September 2026. In no index anywhere.

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Giovanna De Franceschi · Giovanna Defranceschi (Bortolussi) · Ivana Defranceschi · Joanna Defranceschi (Sestan) · Johanna Defranceschi (Girardi) · Zuana De Franceschi · Zuana Defranceschi · Zuanna Defranceschi

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The Defranceschi Archive

…prose half. The headline was not new. The body largely was. 7 Oct 2026 ⚠⚠ Joanna's Gračišće house 4 was published as a discovery — this archive documented it on 30 September serious /gologorica-line/· Joanna Defranceschi (Sestan)· /worklist/ Yesterday this page announced «⭐⭐ Both brides came from Gračišće — houses 4 and 5 — and the census said so in a column I never read», closed work-list row 184…

…names her ROSA, born the 7th — and gives her death Her page· the Gologorica line· the pedigree Carried from the family tree since this roster was built: «Joanna Defranceschi, born 9 June 1848, Gologorica», daughter of Antonius Defranceschi and Francisca — with no death year. «Junii 8ᵃ· domus 5· ROSA nata heri», of «Antonius Defranceschi» and «Francisca nata Defranceschi», godparents «Giovanni L—…

…March 1743), and the two words are the same two strokes at eleven times magnification. The place-spelling «Golagoriza» stands as published. ⭐ And the child is worth naming: «Joannam filiam legitimam Josephi Grach, et uxoris ejus Mariæ Annæ». So Joanna Defranceschi stands here for a Grach child, beside the Grach priest — and in 1744 a Defranceschi stands for a Martinich child beside a Grach wife. The pairing with that one family is tighter than a count of surnames shows. 5 May…

The Gologorica Line

…the elder birthYear BEF 1767 deathYear Mid-1700s Gologorica Defranceschi. Recorded only indirectly: in Feb 1767 his,, @I52@ Joanna Defranceschi F birthYear deathYear Widow of Joannes Baptista Defranceschi the elder (@I51@); godmother Feb 1767.,, @I53@ Joannes…

…in 1732 and 1733 (/gologorica-line/). A small poor diocese whose bishops were said never to reside in it is nonetheless at this village font repeatedly. AND THE GRACH ARE THE CONSTANT, WHICH THE SURNAME COUNT HIDES. On 26 June 1743 Joanna Defranceschi stands for a Grach child beside the Grach priest: «Baptizavi Joannam filiam legitimam Josephi Grach, et uxoris ejus Mariæ Annæ. Patrini fuerunt R.di D.ni Joannes Grach, et Joanna uxor Suppani Jo: Baptistæ Defranceschi de…

…1780 (/person/joannes-petrus-defranceschi-1780/) to casa 31 in 1785. What it gave instead was the grave of the best-documented woman in this archive's eighteenth century. 46· «Joanna Defranceschi annorum nonaginta circiter, vidua defuncti Supani Joannis Defranceschi, munita Sacramentis … per me Parochum hujus Loci Marcum Bancich, et a me eodem sepulta est 21 in Arca ejusdem existente in hac Parochiali Ecclesia.» (doc — DAPA…

…half· «Grah Ana» (n. 1906)· «Grah Antun», radnik (n. 1908)· «Grah Jelena» (n. 1879)· ⭐ Two of those cross this archive's own ground. ŠESTAN is one of its married-in surnames — Antonius Sestan married Joanna Defranceschi — and a Grah of house 38 married a Rosa Šestan in 1890. And a Grah railwayman's second wife came «e Svetvinčenat» — the castle parish this archive has a whole worklist line for. ⚠ Neither is a kinship claim; both are places where…

…Ant. et Franca» ⚠ (the second word was re-examined on 11 October and the reading stands) at page 10, and «Defranceschi Franc. et Clotildis» at page 15 — together with «Sestan Anton. et Joanna Defranceschi» at page 5, the marriage this archive knows. ⚠ That slip is the fourth loose document found lying on these reels in one day, after the Cerovlje extract of 1793, the…

Register

…M y b. 1851 Natale Defranceschi Domenica Chersin in 6YBR-3LMD Georgius Vidali Surname not indexed y b. 1851 Joanna Defranceschi Rosa Sestan Antonius Sestan Hieronymus Vidali lead 6B47-4XNZ Johannes Maria Surname not indexed F y b. 1 Nov 1851 Veneranda Defranceschi Antonius Demarin…

…7 Mar 1852 Dominica Defranceschi Dominicuš Codacovich lead Vodnjan film 6YBR-3P3G Paulus Sablich Surname not indexed y b. 1852 Joanna Defranceschi Francisca Sestan Antonius Sestan Stephanus Sablich lead 6B47-D6QQ Veneriuš Surname not indexed M y b. 7 Jun 1852 Dominicus Defranceschi Mathaea Del Carro…

Worklist

…or one kind of household. ⚠ Not evidence of what language the village spoke — the surnames are overwhelmingly Slavic and the liturgy here was Glagolitic. It is evidence about the person holding the pen. n ✔ Joanna Defranceschi, b. 25 June 1818 — NOT baptised at Gologorica either; she married in from outside done a session 2026-10-07 The single most valuable pass left in this book, and it is cheap. Read the Nativitatis columns…

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