Luigi De Franceschi

…gave her only as «beloved husband of Rosa». She outlived him by sixteen years. Twenty obituary notices and twenty-two Social Security death records give death dates for people this archive had only birth years for — Duilio 1921–2003 (son of Luigi De Franceschi and Libera Chimčić), Basilio 1909–1994, Tobias 1911–1972, and Connecticut deaths at Torrington and Waterbury. Two clusters that were invisible from the passenger lists. The 1910 census puts a household of six in Tennessee — Antonio…

…Joseph, born at Trieste on 12 March 1892, son of Anthony Defranceschi and Makia Valhart; Nella Bacchia, born at Pola on 4 February 1921, who married into the name; Lucio Degiorgi, born at Pola in 1927 to a Maria Defranceschi; and Duilio, born 1921 to Luigi De Franceschi and Libera Chimčić — a Croatian mother's name. A small Istrian group in New York, and the only one of the three with any bearing on this archive. Torrington and Waterbury, Connecticut — the Friulians Twenty-one entries at Torrington alone.…

…soldiers came into Gologorica with three officers — the Compania mitraglieri Fiat — on eight carts drawn by sixteen mules, two to a cart. Tenente Giacomo Sechio was billeted in the house of Giulio De Franceschi; sottotenente Antonio Defassio in the house of Luigi De Franceschi; tenente Emilio Galizzi in the guest room of the parish house. The military command asked Žváček to tell the congregation that after the ten-thirty mass the soldiers would raise the Italian flag on the church tower. After mass, with all three…

…1918. Twenty-three years of a career, and the Peschle page said under it: «Nothing joins him to Lambertina.» «1864 Octobris 9· domus 4· REMIGIUS CÆSAR natus 1 Oct.· Albertus Peschle, Doctor medicinæ· Victoria nata Calligarich· Luigi De Franceschi, Celestina V.da Calligarich· industriante» midwife «Joanna Crismanich». (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01069140, folio 126.) ⭐ A Caesar Peschle, born at Gologorica on 1 October 1864, to a doctor of medicine. Four things agree with the man…

…But a coincidence between two strangers is worth less than a coincidence between a man and his mother's family's village, and this entry is what moves it from the first kind to the second. ⭐ And the godfather is a Defranceschi, in Italian. «Luigi De Franceschi» — Luigi is Aloysius. Aloysius Defranceschi, born 8 May 1832 at Volosca and dead in 1870 — the brother whose birthplace this archive corrected from «Polonia» to «Volosca» — was thirty-two in 1864.…

…Tignale, Brescia, Lombardia, Italy Italy lat.53558, lon.21472, stone stones register n Cimitero di Tignale first last Luigi De Franceschi y Cimitero di Tignale https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/226818337 stone torringtonlitchfieldcountyconnecticutusa Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA USA…

…not in the village that day, which is what a proxy means. Remigius Cæsar Peschle, born 1 October 1864 at Gologorica house 4, baptised the 9th — son of Dr Albertus Peschle, Doctor medicinæ, and Victoria née Calligarich; godparents «Luigi De Franceschi» and «Celestina V.da Calligarich». (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01069140, folio 126.) Dr Albertus Peschle stands godfather to a Defranceschi child, 5 December 1869 — Robertus Franciscus Josephus…