Madalena Percovich (wife of Mattio Defranceschi, Ližnjan)
Madalena Percovich (wife of Mattio Defranceschi, Ližnjan), 1788–1849. Ližnjan. Every mention of this name in the archive — 9 across 9 pages.
Madalena (Mandalena, Maddalena) née Percovich — wife of Mattio Defranceschi di Antonio, mother of Antonio (1819), Maria (1821) and Gregorio (1822), at Ližnjan house 17. doc — baptisms of 1819 and 1821 (image 6 of waypoint 9R2Z-44D, open); the Percovich are godparents to both (Luca Percovich fu Luca and Maria his wife). Her own birth and death are not found with certainty. Not of the name's surname; kept because she married into it. Born about 1788 — 27 at her marriage to «Mario de Franceschi deto Marulin di Antonio» (21) on 12 November 1815 (Ližnjan marriages, page 1, entry 2; read by the 12 October session, doc). Named «Maddalena Perkovich» as the mother in the marriages of her daughters Maria (23 February 1848) and Madalena (23 July 1849) (page 15, image 11 of waypoint 9R2Z-44C); the parents column does not mark a mother's death. Probably buried 6 January 1849, aged 61 — «Maddalena fu Matteo Defranceschi», house 17 (deaths page 27, image 18 of waypoint 9R2Z-4WG): inf, and the age is the proof — 61 in 1849 is 1788 exactly, as 27 in 1815 is — with the house and the «fu Matteo» (the relict of the Matteo who died on 20 December 1839). The alternative, a daughter of some other Matteo born in the same year at the same house, needs a coincidence. I first withdrew this reading on the births book's use of «fu X» for a woman's father and restore it on the age. Joined to the index row of that burial.
Two children here carry one name — m a r 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.
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…was likelier a daughter of a late Matteo — and said Mattio's own death was «not found». Both were wrong in the same way: I had not checked what the archive already held. Mattio died on 20 December 1839 (deaths page 93, read on 12 October), and his wife Madalena Percovich was 27 in 1815 — so born about 1788, and 61 in 1849 is exactly that. The widow reading is back, as inf, on the age. The FamilySearch index row for her (XQM3-1DS4) is right on the year and wrong on the month («Jun 1849» for 6 January 1849, probably from…
Ližnjan
…read at full resolution. So the Antonio of the 1843 marriage was born in 1819 (the marriage says «23»; the baptism puts him a year older), and his father is Mattio — and Mattio is himself «di Antonio». Mattio's wife is Madalena Percovich; the same couple, at the same house, have Maria, born 6 January 1821 (page 5, image 6), and Gregorio, baptised 23 May 1822 — read on the page (image 7, page 6): «Gregorio, figlio di Mattio di Franceschi, detto Matulin, di Antonio», mother «Madalena…
…the index's «Madalena Peuc…» was this Percovich. That settles the family: Antonio (1819), Maria (1821) and Gregorio (1822) are three children of Mattio Defranceschi di Antonio, detto Matulin, and Madalena Percovich, at house 17 — and Antonio and Gregorio are brothers. doc — three baptisms read, one couple. And «detto Matulin»: the old Pomer deaths index carries a line «Antonio Defranceschi d.º Mattulia — 22» which this archive has called the earliest…
…Antonio»), who is the generation that reaches back toward 1780. Not established; the Pomer index line gives no date, and the Ližnjan book gives Mattio's father no dates either. The chain, in full: Antonio «Matulin» (Defranceschi) → Mattio, who married Madalena Percovich → Antonio (b. 1819) and his brother Gregorio (b. 1822) → Antonius (b. 1848) → Mathias (b. 1886) — five generations in one house at Ližnjan and its descendants at Pomer and Pula. Only the last three links are read in the registers; the first is inference…
…fu Matteo Defranceschi», aged 61, buried at house 17 on 6 January 1849 (deaths page 27, image 18 of waypoint 9R2Z-4WG, open) is, after all, probably Mattio's widow Madalena Percovich (inf): the marriage of 12 November 1815 (page 1 of the marriages) has her at 27, born about 1788, and 61 in 1849 is 1788 exactly — as the house is — and Mattio had died on 20 December 1839 (deaths page 93, read on 12 October). I withdrew this reading…
Register
…1818· d. 30 Aug 1855· of Regnum Croatiae Regnum Croatiae, in XQM3-PRHC Antonio De Franceschi Franceschi M y b. 15 Sep 1819 Mattio De Franceschi Madalena Percovich in X9DG-TLHH Bartolo De Franceschi Franceschi M y bur. Jul 1819 Croazia, Austria Croazia, Austria Gio Batta De Franceschi Maria in X31Y-VGM5…
Worklist
…baptism (about 1820, Ližnjan births 1816–1821), and who Matteo Defranceschi was. 16 Oct 2026, the baptisms: Antonio b. 15 Sept 1819 and Maria b. 6 Jan 1821 read (Ližnjan births, image 6) — parents «Mattio di Franceschi di Antonio, detto Matulin» and Madalena Percovich, house 17; Gregorio (1822) is the third child (index). The byname «Matulin» is the Pomer deaths index's «d.º Mattulia». Next: Gregorio's own baptism re-read; Mattio's origin/death; the Pomer deaths index leaf 22. 16 Oct 2026: Gregorio's own…
…the Pomer deaths index's «d.º Mattulia». Next: Gregorio's own baptism re-read; Mattio's origin/death; the Pomer deaths index leaf 22. 16 Oct 2026: Gregorio's own baptism re-read (23 May 1822, house 17, «Mattio di Franceschi detto Matulin» and Madalena Percovich): Antonio and Gregorio are brothers, documented. (And a correction: images 7–8 of that volume are 1822–25, not a stray 1802–05 book.) Next: the Pomer deaths index leaf 22 («d.º Mattulia»); Mattio di Antonio's own origin. 16 October 2026 (Ližnjan…
…of Matteo Defranceschi and Maddalena Perkovich of house 17, married in 1848 and 1849 — Mattio had at least five children. Open: the baptism of Madalena (about 1830), the witness Giorgio Defranceschi. (Mattio's death — 20 Dec 1839 — was already read; Madalena Percovich is probably the burial of 6 Jan 1849.) n done Claude 2026-10-12 Every person gets a page — 76 added, two swapped households corrected, and the decisions left for David David, 12 October:…
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