Joannes Petrus Defranceschi (bapt. 1780)
Joannes Petrus Defranceschi (bapt. 1780), 1780. Gologorica. Every mention of this name in the archive — 17 across 6 pages.
⭐⭐ A son of the weaver's marriage of 1774, and this archive did not have him. > 45 · «Joannes Petrus Defranceschi, filius legitimus Joannis Bapt[istæ] Defranceschi et ejus uxoris Theresiæ, baptizatus est a me Marco Bancich, Parocho hujus Loci; patrini fuerunt Rev.ᵈᵒ D. Mathias Baxa, Canonicus Titularis Cathedralis Eccl. Petinensis, et Marianna filia Domini Josephi Defranceschi. Omnes Catholicæ Religionis.» (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068965, Gologorica baptisms, 2 July 1780.)* Joannes Baptista and Theresia are the couple married on 9 June 1774 — he «q.ᵐ Leonardi filius» and a weaver, she «filia Antonij Grah ex Parochia Cherbune». This is their eldest recorded child, six years into the marriage. ⭐ And he is at HOUSE 45 — the number the house list gives the Defranceschi. ⚠ The same couple's later children are at «casa 31» in 1785 and 1787. One household, two numbers, five years apart — which is the renumbering and is recorded as a question, not an answer. ⚠ No birth date, no death, nothing after this entry. He is named for the Giovanni Pietro who died at eighty-six the following year, on the archive's reading — inf, on the forename pair and the parish.
This archive holds 3 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 Pietro Defranceschi · Giovanni Pietro de Franceschi · Joannes Petrus Defranceschi
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The Defranceschi Archive
…ordinary /direct-line/· /gologorica-line/· /person/· /worklist/ The 5 May 1744 entry — the fifth and last of this archive's Defranceschi occurrences in the 1667–1745 book — was published as «D.nus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi et Mattia uxor supradicti Joannis Grach». ⚠ The word is «Sup.ⁿⁱ» — Suppani, of the headman. doc, M01070111, folio 160, read at six times. ⭐⭐ And the difference is not pedantry — the published reading contained an…
…is that a hand is only legible against itself (/method/); here it did not have to look further than the facing column. ⭐⭐ What it gives back is better than what it takes away. The entry now reads as an exact pair: «Patrini fuerunt D.nus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi et Mattia uxor Suppani Joannis Grach» — set beside 26 June 1743, «Joanna uxor Suppani Jo: Baptistæ Defranceschi de Golagoriza». Two headmen's households at one font, one from each village, standing for the children…
…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 1744, folio 160 — Dominus Joannes Petrus «Patrini fuerunt D.nus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi et Mattia uxor Suppani Joannis Grach», at the baptism of a daughter of Dominus Ignatius Martinich and Donna Lucia. The reader called this the clearest writing in the range and the reading unambiguous. ✔ Verified on the page, 9 October 2026 —…
…accounts, written independently, and they interlock The Gallignana parish register, kept at the time by clergy with no interest in this family, has Giovanni Battista Defranceschi as headman of Gologorica in 1733 and 1743, and a Dominus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi in 1744. Carlo De Franceschi, writing privately to Kobler about 1873 out of family memory, has a Giambattista who built the house in 1711 and two sons, Giampietro and Giovanni Battista. The Zagreb article, written in 2024 out of the family's own archive,…
The Gologorica Line
…F birthYear deathYear Widow of Joannes Baptista Defranceschi the elder (@I51@); godmother Feb 1767.,, @I53@ Joannes Petrus Defranceschi M birthYear deathYear Titled Dominus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi; godfather at a Gologorica,, @I54@ Leonardus…
…the elder (@I51@); godmother Feb 1767.,, @I53@ Joannes Petrus Defranceschi M birthYear deathYear Titled Dominus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi; godfather at a Gologorica,, @I54@ Leonardus Defranceschi the elder M birthYear deathYear Eponym of the casa-31…
…believed. It was not, and that is published as a correction. (/corrections/) ⭐⭐ AND THE SAME HOUSEHOLD ASKED THEM TWICE — THEN NAMED A CHILD AFTER ONE OF THEM.· 5 May 1744 (folio 160, the previous book)· «D.nus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi et Mattia uxor Suppani Joannis Grach», at the baptism of a daughter of «Dominus Ignatius Martinich et Donna Lucia» — already in this archive· 12 March 1747· the same couple's son — and «Joannes…
…and over, that these people came from the other village. ⭐⭐ AND FOUR OF THE SIX ARE FOR THE SAME FAMILY OF VILLAGE JUDGES, ACROSS FORTY YEARS. This archive already held a fifth, from the previous book: 5 May 1744, «D.nus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi et Mattia uxor … Joannis Grach», at the baptism of Ignatius Martinich and Lucia's daughter. 1744 — their daughter. 1747 — their son. 1750 — their next son is christened «Joannes Petrus». 1752 — another son. 1783 — the next…
…Gregorius Millotich· Helena his wife· 18 Mar 1742· Lucia· Can. Mathias Milotich· Sup. Gregorius Millotich· Joanna ux. Judicis Joannis Salamon· 5 May 1744· Joanna· Presbiter Joannes Grach· D.nus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi· Mattia ux. Suppani Joannis Grach· 1747· Franciscus Gregorius· —· Joannes Petrus de Franceschi· 1750· Joannes Petrus· —· Josephus de Franceschi Gollagoriciensis· (The 1734, 1740 and 1742 rows are new to…
…Set the two Defranceschi entries of these years side by side as the register actually writes them: 26 June 1743 — «R.di D.ni Joannes Grach, et Joanna uxor Suppani Jo: Baptistæ Defranceschi de Golagoriza» 5 May 1744 — «D.nus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi et Mattia uxor Suppani Joannis Grach» Two headmen's households, one from each village, standing within eleven months at the same font. Gračišće's headman's wife and Gologorica's headman's wife; Gologorica's headman's son and Gračišće's…
…a daughter· Leonardus the elder· a name, no dates· died 2 November 1751, and a son· ⭐⭐ AND IT JOINS TWO ROWS THAT HAVE NEVER MET. The archive holds a Joannes Petrus Defranceschi who stands godparent at Gračišće in 1744, 1747 and 1750 and whose row says in terms «no parents, age or house are attached to him on any of the three entries». «Sig.ʳ Giovanni Pietro Defranceschi,…
…Worklist 220 set the job: sweep the «Ex Domo sub Numero» column of the 1770–1781 baptisms for 45 and 46. The register turns out to be only eight frames — M01068959–M01068966 — and it was swept. 45· «Joannes Petrus Defranceschi, filius legitimus Joannis Bapt istæ Defranceschi et ejus uxoris Theresiæ, baptizatus est a me Marco Bancich, Parocho hujus Loci; patrini fuerunt Rev.ᵈᵒ D. Mathias Baxa, Canonicus Titularis Cathedralis Eccl. Petinensis, et Marianna filia…
…--- ⭐⭐ And whose tomb it was The weaver was buried «in Arca D.ⁿⁱ Petri Defranceschi in hoc Parrochiali Ecclesia existente». Eight years later the same book buries its owner. «36.· Die 8 Septembris obijt· Dominus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi annorum 86, mensium 4, provisus in sua infirmitate Sacramentis Pœnitentiæ, Eucharistiæ et Extremæ Unctionis per me Marcum Bancich Parochum hujus Loci; sepultus est 9 in propria Arca ejusdem, per D.ⁿᵘᵐ Carolum Covas,…
…— not «rustici». --- ⭐⭐ The godparent clause of the year before, and a name twenty years absent 11 Martij 1767· «baptizavi Josephum filium legitimum Leonardi, et Catharinæ jugalium DEPRATTO; patrini fuerunt D.ⁿᵘˢ Joannes Petrus Defranceschi et Helena uxor D.ⁿⁱ Josephi Defranceschi.» (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068922.) ⭐ Helena is named as Josephus's wife two years earlier than the archive had her — the 1769 entries call her only «Helena uxor ejusdem»…
…named as Josephus's wife two years earlier than the archive had her — the 1769 entries call her only «Helena uxor ejusdem» — and she is a godmother in her own right the year before her son is born. ⭐⭐ And «Dominus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi» is back. His row holds three dated appearances — 1744, 1747, 1750, all as a godfather at Gračišće, and then nothing. This is a fourth, seventeen years after the third, in his own parish. ⚠…
…Neither book alone gives this child's baptism in full, and anyone working 1784–1788 at Gologorica who reads one of them has read half. ⭐ And the officiant is a man this archive already knows. «Carolus Covaz, Canonicus» buried Joannes Petrus Defranceschi in September 1781. Here he is christening the next generation four years later, and the entry gives his seat — Antignana, Tinjan. --- ⭐ And the second 1785 child, with the wives told apart…
Worklist
…Nov 1743 – Sept 1744). ✔ OCCURRENCE 5 OF 5, M01070111, folio 160: «Die 5 Maij 1744. Præsbiter Joañes Grach Baptizavit Joannam Filiam legitimam D.ni Ignatij Martinich et D.næ Luciæ uxoris eius. Patrini fuerunt D.nus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi et Mattia uxor Sup.ⁿⁱ Joañis Grach, et hoc cum facultate R.mi D.ni Archip.ri Francisci Martinich.» ⚠ Two things the archive did not have, both from one word. It published «uxor supradicti Joannis Grach». The word is «Suppani» —…
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