Margherita Gortan (de Franceschi)

…is the feminine of Leonardo — the name that stands at the head of the Muina chain. Anna Cecilia Defranceschi Mione 25 January 1810 1 Born 14 January 1810 to Francesco the tailor and Margherita Gortan. She lived eleven days. Sebastiano Defranceschi, chierico Mione 24 July 1810 10 A cleric — chierico, a man in minor orders. The only one of the name in these registers. Maddalena…

…Nati· segnatura 12950· Antenati ark anua667570, image 3 of 3 It is a fifth household, and it has a generation the others do not The four already published are Osvaldo × Appolonia Galante at Muina, Francesco × Margherita Gortan at Mione, Osvaldo × Cattarina Brencis at Mione, and Pasqua married into the Luchin. Paolo di Pietro is none of them — and he carries his father's name with him. Pietro de Franceschi of Mione stands behind this act without appearing in it, which is…

…puts him with the nineteen — born about 1787 — and leaves the «twenty-six» of 1810 as the odd reading. Francesco de Franceschi, aged 25, witness on 21 September 1809 — born about 1784, and almost certainly the Francesco the tailor who married Margherita Gortan. Pasqua née de Franceschi, named as the living mother of a bride: Maddalena Luchini, born 23 January 1789 at Luincis, daughter of Pietro Luchini and Pasqua nata de Franceschi. The archive had Pasqua «married into the Luchin» as a household.…

…were enough De Franceschi households at Mione for two of them to marry each other. A fifth trade, and a second tailor Antonio is a sartore. This archive already has Francesco de Franceschi, tailor, married to Margherita Gortan at Mione — and has made something of it, because the tailor is the cramar trade that walked into Istria. Antonio is a second one. Two tailors of this surname in one village in the same decade, and neither is the other: Francesco's wife is a…

…put her birth in December 1809. Both were wrong: the act is dated «li 25 Venticinque Gennajo», figures and words agreeing, and the birth register has her born on the 14th. It also confirms, from a second act, that Francesco the tailor's wife was Margherita Gortan — and Francesco is one of the two brothers of the act three weeks earlier. Why the death registers are the right place to be looking A marriage act gives ages for two people. A death act gives an age for anyone, at any age,…

…Stato di Udine· Stato civile napoleonico· Mione· Morti· 1809· act N. 1· Antenati ark anua667556, image 3 of 9 Two of the four households are one household This archive has carried Francesco, a tailor, and Margherita Gortan of Mione and Osvaldo, a carpenter, and Cattarina Brencis of Mione as two of the four Mione households, side by side in a table, with nothing joining them. They are brothers. One sentence in a stranger's death act says so, and both men signed…

…volume is thin evidence about a clerk's habits. What is not in doubt is Paolo. Paolo is a fifth household The Mione De Franceschi households this archive can name now stand at five: Francesco the tailor, husband of Margherita Gortan· Osvaldo Antonio the carpenter, husband of Cattarina Brencis — and the 1809 death register says those two are brothers· Antonio the tailor, husband of Giovanna «pure de Franceschi»· Gio: Pietro Erman de Franceschi, the fifty-five-year-old…

…allegati, banns and deaths all do. Only the births stop, and they stop in 1810. So Giovanni Battista, born 15 October 1810, is the last De Franceschi birth the civil registers of this comune can give this archive. Any child born to Francesco and Margherita Gortan, to Osvaldo and Cattarina, or to Paolo and Anna between 1811 and 1815 is invisible here — and can only be in the Pieve di Gorto. mioneerman1808 : Gio: Pietro carries a baby to the office, and his own age wanders doc for…

…civil registers for the Comune di Mione and publishes them on Antenati. The birth index for 1806-1810 opens on three De Franceschi entries, and the acts name three households: Osvaldo and Appolonia Galante, farmers of Muina; Francesco, a tailor, and Margherita Gortan of Mione; and Osvaldo, a carpenter, and Cattarina Brencis, whose son born 15 October 1810 was named Giovanni Battista. A tailor is exactly the cramar trade that walked the road of the Furlans into Istria. NEXT, and this is now the single most valuable thing…