Josip Defranceschi

…Taken to work in the Reich at sixteen; went home, married, and is buried on his own coast under «IVAN DEFRANČESKI». Anton Rudolf Defranceski 1890 – 1943 Klenovica h.22 → Pfullingen doc Josip Defranceschi 1863 – 1951 Gračišće → Crikvenica doc Antonio Defranceschi 1825 – 1894 Gračišće h.19 doc lapicida — stonecutter Giovanni Battista Defranceschi 1787 –…

…is on the Crikvenica page Family photograph collection — the hand-tinted portrait pair The face was wrong, and it was on the direct line's own page. A hand-tinted portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie had been published here as Josip Defranceschi, born at Gračišće 22 March 1863 — David's great-grandfather, and the only likeness the direct line had. David identified it: the photograph is from the Imotski branch, and the sitter is a Josip of that family. Two branches' pictures sit in one…

…and a shoemaker. /searched/ 9 Sept 2026 correction A face on the direct line A claim taken back This archive said A hand-tinted portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie, published as Josip Defranceschi, born at Gračišće 22 March 1863 — David's great-grandfather, and the only likeness the direct line had. What is It is from the Imotski branch, and the sitter is a Josip of that family. No likeness of the Crikvenica Josip is known to this…

…right and the obit calendar was wrong; it is a copy made about 1800 and this is the second error found in it about the same woman. ⚠⚠ And it exposes a duplicate. A second, undocumented tree row carries «Guiseppe / Josephus / Josip Defranceschi, 1723–1787» — exactly the register's figures. The archive has very probably hung its findings on the wrong one of two tree rows for one man. No merge is made: ids are frozen, and…

…policy changed, rather than left contradicting the pages above it. 9 Sept 2026 A face on the direct line serious /crikvenica-house/ A hand-tinted portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie, published as Josip Defranceschi, born at Gračišće 22 March 1863 — David's great-grandfather, and the only likeness the direct line had. It is from the Imotski branch, and the sitter is a Josip of that family. No likeness of the Crikvenica Josip is known to this…

…is the generation that leaves Istria for the Kvarner coast: his son is born at Crikvenica in 1890.» Generation five, on the same page, cites the record: «Entry 9 of the Klenovica baptisms for 1890: Anton Rudolf, legitimate, son of «Josip Defranceschi i žena Ana Kalanj rodjena», at house 22.» Klenovica is in the Vinodol below Novi, not at Crikvenica, and the register is the better witness than the summary above it. It is not a quibble about ten kilometres — it decides which parish to search. The…

…should never have had. 20 Sept 2026 modest Marija Stjepanka was baptised at Ledenice, not Crikvenica — and the entry gives the family's address /crikvenica-house/ Marija Stjepanka, the second child of Josip Defranceschi and Ana Kalanj, was recorded as «8 December 1892· Crikvenica», in the list of children born at the Crikvenica house. She was born on 8 December 1892 — that part is right — but she was baptised on 22 December at LEDENICE, and her parents…

…8 December 1892 — that part is right — but she was baptised on 22 December at LEDENICE, and her parents were living at Klenovica. The entry is Ledenice baptisms, page 166, no. 83: «Godine 1892, Prosinca 8 / 22 — Marija Stjepanka — zakonita — Josip Defranceschi, klesar, i žena Ana Kalanj rodjena — R.k. — mjesto obitavanja i kućni broj: Klenovica kbroj 28, na stan». A small note above the child's name reads «u Crkvenici». Three things follow. The father is called klesar — a stonecutter — in…

…Fasana to «Fasana, Pont Canavese, Torino, Piemonte», a village in Piedmont, five hundred kilometres away. Fažana and Pula are four kilometres apart and either may be the parish; what is certain is one household, not two.· h046 / h048 — Josip Defranceschi × Ana Kalanj, Ledenice 1890–92 and Crikvenica 1894–96. One family that moved eight kilometres, and generation 4 of the direct line.· h083 / h090 — Nascovich / Nasković, Maddalena / Magdalena: four children over sixteen years, split in…

…Its headline facts — Svetvinčenat, b. 1704 — belong to a different Antonio Defranceschi; this generation is inside the same page because the archive keys dossiers by name, not by resolved individual. Do not read the page's dates as his. n Josip Defranceschi Josephus born 22 March 1863 died Gračišće → Crikvenica documented Baptised at Gallignana on 23 March 1863, born the day before, son of Antonius the stonecutter. He is…

…born 20 January 1890, baptised 9 February died Klenovica, house 22 → Pfullingen documented Entry 9 of the Klenovica baptisms for 1890: Anton Rudolf, legitimate, son of «Josip Defranceschi i žena Ana Kalanj rodjena», at house 22 — and in the column for the parents' place of origin, «Gallignana u Istriji». That is the zavičaj, the inherited Austrian commune of legal settlement, and it is the register itself stating that this coastal…

…household that carried the line down from Istria to the Kvarner coast, reconstructed from four register entries, the family's own MacFamilyTree file, eleven photographs the family holds, and the family's MyHeritage export of July 2018. Josip Defranceschi 22 March 1863, at Gračišće 1951 Ana Kalanj 3 January 1864, at Klenovica in the Vinodol Named as the mother in all four of their children's register entries; the 1905 burial entry writes her Ana…

…name Ivan enters the family here — and goes out again eighteen months later. Entry 13 of the Crikvenica death register for 1896 records the death of Ivan De Franceschi, «Dvie /2/ godine», son of «Josip De Franceschi klesar i Anica rodjena Kalanj» — Josip Defranceschi, stonemason, and Anica née Kalanj. The cause is entered in one vernacular word, «Dobrac», which this archive has not been able to translate with confidence. No sacraments: he was two. He was buried on 28 March in the local parish cemetery by Carl…

…the man on the Pfullingen list of foreigners in 1947. The face this page used to carry, and why it is gone Until 9 September 2026 this page opened with a hand-tinted portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie, captioned as Josip Defranceschi, born at Gračišće on 22 March 1863 — the stonecutter's son, David's great-grandfather. It was the only likeness the direct line had. It is not him David identified it: the photograph comes from the Imotski…

…in a photograph. (family identification — David holds the originals) How it happened, stated plainly Two branches' pictures sit in one family collection. A card carried the name Josip Defranceski, this line has a Josip Defranceschi, and this archive matched the face to the name without asking which Josip. The register plates on this page were checked against Gračišće and Ledenice; the portrait was never checked against anything at all. It is exactly the failure the portraits…

…father, and it is the only one David inherits: «Croatia (Lika-Senj and Primorje-Gorski Kotar)». Those are two named Croatian counties, and this archive can tell you exactly who lived in them. Primorje-Gorski Kotar holds Crikvenica, where Josip Defranceschi went from Gračišće and where the family kept a house; and Klenovica, house 22, where Anton Rudolf was born in 1890. Lika-Senj holds Senj, where Ivan Defranceski (1925–1995) ended up. Those are generations 4, 5 and 6 of the direct line —…

…and it halves fast: Ivan his father 50% living, named only Ivan Defranceski Crikvenica → Pfullingen → Senj 25% 1925–1995 Anton Rudolf Defranceski Klenovica, house 22 → Pfullingen 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 →…

…The calendar is a copy made about 1800 and this is the second thing it has got wrong about the same woman. ⚠⚠ And the two numbers belong to the archive's OTHER Josephus row. A tree row carries «Guiseppe / Josephus / Josip Defranceschi, 1723–1787, Gologorica» with no note and no document on it. Those are exactly the years this entry gives. So the archive has, in all likelihood, hung a decade of findings on the wrong one…

…wife, and every child under them with a birth date beside each name. It is the book that gave this archive the whole of Gračišće house 24 — the midwife, the mason and the eleven children — in one opening. A twentieth-century Crikvenica volume should hold Josip Defranceschi's household on the Kvarner in the same form, and if it does it answers the ZO…, the POLD… and the Ruža of the monument in a single page, without ever needing the missing baptisms. The second Crikvenica, marriages…

…— at «Kljenovica N° 22». Godparents Josephus Ban and his wife Anna; baptised by Vincentius Segulja, parish priest. The register of Ledenice, the Vinodol parish above Crikvenica. (doc — the plate is held here and was read at 6×.) She married Josip Defranceschi, the stonecutter's son who brought this archive's line down from Gračišće to the coast, and she is generation four of the direct line. Five children are recorded to the couple. Anton Rudolf's baptism is entry 9 of the Klenovica…

…parish above Crikvenica: «Anna, legitima — Josephus Kalanj et Rosalia nata Perković ejus uxor, Brinjensis Parochiæ ruricolæ» — at «Kljenovica N° 22». Godparents Josephus Ban and his wife Anna; baptised by Vincentius Segulja, parish priest. She married Josip Defranceschi, the stonecutter's son who brought this archive's line down from Gračišće to the coast, and she is generation four of the direct line. (doc — the plate is held here.) ⚠ «Rijenovica» does not exist, and the mistake hid a…

…Gračišće register image for Maria's own entry, which would settle the letter the priest actually formed. Klenovica, in the Vinodol hungarian-littoral ours Anna Kalanj, born 3 January 1864, married Josip Defranceschi — the generation that left Istria. She came from the valley directly above Crikvenica and did not move far. Four marriages of the name into this family in the index. Two households: Josip × Ana Kalanj at Ledenice 1890–92, and at…

…both directions.· De Marchi, De Maria, De Rocchi, Del Carro — the register is full of De surnames in the same hand. Check the photograph against something A hand-tinted portrait was published here for months as Josip Defranceschi of Crikvenica, the direct line's only likeness. It is from the Imotski branch. Every register plate on that same page had been checked against Pazin and Ledenice. The portrait was never checked against anything at all — it carried a name on a…

…d. 29 Feb 1892· bur. 2 Mar 1892 Croazia, Austria Croazia, Austria Franciscae in XQM9-8K2Q Marija Stjepanka Defranceschi Defranceschi y b. 8 Dec 1892 Josip Defranceschi Ana Kalanj in X31B-4ZD1 Radoš Franceschi Franceschi M y b. 1892· d. 2 Dec 1892· bur. 4 Dec 1892 Almissa, Spalato, Dalmazia, Austria Almissa, Spalato, Dalmazia, Austria…

…there are all as godparents, five labelled <emof Gologorica</em. <strongHis descent is not in doubt; his birthplace is not established.</strong gen Antonio Defranceschi b. 20 Sep 1825 – 1894 at gen Josip Defranceschi b. 22 Mar 1863 – 1951 at gen Anton Rudolf Defranceski b. 20 Jan 1890 – 1943 at gen Ivan Defranceski b. 1925 – 1995 at gen Ivan Defranceski d. 2026…

…the registers decides how you spend day two. 1a Župa Crikvenica — the parish office book The registers this archive has read in film form. What is wanted here is the marriage entry for Josip Defranceschi and Ana Kalanj — this archive has their four children and Josip's death entry but has never seen the marriage. A pencil note in the 1890 Klenovica baptism says «vjenčao se na Crikvenici», he married at Crikvenica. That is the note to take with you.…

…own children filed for him after the war, and a tracing enquiry usually states the death it was answering. n Why the family left Gračišće for the Kvarner coast next this archive 2026-09-15 Josip Defranceschi, generation 4 — Gračišće to Crikvenica. The archive draws the move and has never explained it. It is the second unexplained jump in the line, after Mione to Gologorica, and unlike the first one it happens inside the nineteenth century with registers on…