The Defranceschi Archive
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Marta

Marta. Croazia, Austria. Every mention of this name in the archive — 33 across 21 pages.

PlaceCroazia, Austria
ParishCroazia
LineA documented Istrian or Kvarner household this archive will not attach to any line
Found inHousehold
What the archive knows

Named in household h004 on the households list, at Croazia, Austria, as the wife of Anto De Franceschi, a De Franceschi, and the mother of Franceschina De Franceschi; Mattia De Franceschi; Anto De Franceschi; Mattio De Franceschi. Evidence class: index only — no register has been read. No birth, death or occupation is printed for this person, so none is claimed. Not of the name's surname — kept because the person married into it; the household list gives the couple and nothing about their origin. Recorded by forename only — no surname is printed, so this is a name and a role and cannot be told apart from another woman of the same forename by anything on the page.

4 children recorded 1667–1674
Franceschina De Franceschib. 6 Oct 1667a FamilySearch index entryMattia De Franceschib. 8 Nov 1669a FamilySearch index entry Anto De Franceschib. 16714 children of their owna FamilySearch index entryMattio De Franceschib. 16742 children of their owna FamilySearch index entry
the archive's own line a register read here a FamilySearch index entry the family tree, unverified
Where this comes from

0 of the 5 relationships drawn above are written in a register this archive has read with its own eyes. 5 come from a FamilySearch index entry — a transcription, not the page.

Joined on a name alone. One household above could not be date-checked, because this archive holds no year for the person or for the household. Treat that link as a lead.

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Identity here is by name, not by resolved individual. Where two people of one name appear in this archive they share this page, and it is for the reader to keep them apart — the surrounding text usually makes it obvious. Nothing here is new evidence; it is the same evidence, brought together.

Appears on: The Eleven · Changes · The Omiš Line · The Defranceschi Archive · Errands · Household Explorer · The Lines · Findmypast · The Archive · Say Your Name · Our line, drawn · Households · Leaving · David's Map · The Plate Room · Register · Lives on one scale · About · The trees · Walk/Carnia · Worklist

The Eleven

…Male· Age 35y· Birth year 1887· Nationality Italy, Slovenian· Residence G. Pedena, Venezia, Italy· Year 1922· Departure port Genoa· Arrival New York· Ship name Conte Rosso.» And in the relations field: «Departure port relation (WIFE): Marta Defranceschi». «Albina De Franceschi· Passenger· Female· Age 22y· Birth year 1900· Nationality Italy, Italian· Residence G. Gallignana, Venezia· Year 1922· Departure port Genoa· Arrival New York· Ship name Conte Rosso.» Brother and…

…the hill; she from Gallignana. The Conte Rosso was a Lloyd Sabaudo liner two years old that year. Three details this archive did not have and would not have guessed. Antonio was living at Pićan, not Gračišće. He left a wife behind him — Marta Defranceschi, named at the departure port, which is why the census of 1930 finds him married but lodging with his sister eight years later. And an American clerk wrote his nationality as «Italy, Slovenian» and hers as «Italy, Italian» — the same…

…32 — immigrated 1922, first papers only. Occupation: fireman, electric company — a stoker, shovelling coal into a generating plant. Married at thirty-two puts Anthony's wedding at about 1919, in Istria, three years before he sailed. His wife Marta was named at the departure port and did not come. In 1930 he is forty-three, married, and lodging in his sister's house. Gerda's declaration of intention, 1939 — with her photograph I, GERDA DE FRANCESCHI, now residing…

…M arried· Calling or occupation: mason· Able to read: yes· Language: Italian· Race or people: Italian· Last permanent residence: N.Y., Brooklyn· Name and complete address of nearest relative or friend in country whence came: wife, Defranceschi Marta, Pedena 10, Istria, Italy· Final destination: N.Y., Brooklyn Read the column headings and the answer falls out. «Last permanent residence: N.Y., Brooklyn» is not what an immigrant writes. It is what a returning resident writes, coming…

…columns of this sheet are permit numbers issued at Washington. So Antonio crossed in September 1922, went home to Istria at some point in the next three and a half years, and came back into New York on 31 May 1926. His wife stayed where she was: Marta Defranceschi, Pedena 10 — house number ten in the village of Pićan. Two more things this line gives that nothing else did. He is a mason. His father, Antonius Defranceschi of Gallignana house 19, is entered in the parish book of souls as a…

…Same man, same village, four years apart. And the ship. The Martha Washington of the Austro-Americana, out of Trieste, is the ship Joseph had sailed on in 1910. Sixteen years later his elder brother came back on her. Marta never came Findmypast returns exactly one record for a Marta Defranceschi: «1922, United States, Passenger and Crew Lists». It looks like an arrival. It is not. Its identifier is …016453669/2. Antonio's is…

…of the Austro-Americana, out of Trieste, is the ship Joseph had sailed on in 1910. Sixteen years later his elder brother came back on her. Marta never came Findmypast returns exactly one record for a Marta Defranceschi: «1922, United States, Passenger and Crew Lists». It looks like an arrival. It is not. Its identifier is …016453669/2. Antonio's is …016453669/1. She is not a passenger — she is the relation named in his own manifest line,…

…It looks like an arrival. It is not. Its identifier is …016453669/2. Antonio's is …016453669/1. She is not a passenger — she is the relation named in his own manifest line, indexed as though she were a person because the field held a name. Marta exists in the record of the United States as an address in Istria, and nothing else. And after 1930 he is not there at all The 1930 census is the last time Antonio Defranceschi, born 1887, appears in any American source this sweep…

Changes

…of Giovanni q. Pietro Fabris of Muina, born 12 May 1780, and her father's own signed consent is in the file.· Giovanni Battista Micoli × the daughter of Tomaso, June 1807, with the groom's certificate: son of Giovanni q. Pietro Micoli of Muina and Marta his wife, born December 1777. Corva, Fabris and Micoli are all names this archive already knows from Muina — Osvaldo Corva of Agrons and Teresa Corva of Muina are in the 1807 death index, and Micoli is on Ferigo's list of the families that walked…

…other emigrants: Poldrugovac, Millassich, Lanza, Silich. «Pedena» and «Pisino» then gave the crossing: Antonio and Albina De Franceschi, one index number apart, on the Conte Rosso out of Genoa in 1922 — he aged 35 living at Pićan with a wife Marta left behind, she aged 22 at Gallignana; and Albina's husband under a fourth spelling, Frank Schinkopan of Pisino, born 24 February 1896, naturalising at New York in 1920 and 1926. /searched/ 9 Sept 2026…

…is an index only — no image exists to open. /searched/ 9 Sept 2026 hit Whether Antonio ever went back to the wife he left at Pićan Findmypast — the 1926 Martha Washington manifest, and a search for Marta He did, and he came out again. The manifest of the S.S. Martha Washington sailing from Trieste, stamped New York 31 May 1926, line 6: «DEFRANCESCHI, ANTONIO, 39, married, mason … last permanent residence N.Y., Brooklyn ……

…the S.S. Martha Washington sailing from Trieste, stamped New York 31 May 1926, line 6: «DEFRANCESCHI, ANTONIO, 39, married, mason … last permanent residence N.Y., Brooklyn … nearest relative in country whence came: wife, Defranceschi Marta, Pedena 10, Istria, Italy». «Last permanent residence Brooklyn» is a returning resident on a re-entry permit — so he had gone home to Istria between 1922 and 1926 and come back. He was a mason, the trade his father is given by in the Gračišće book…

…is a returning resident on a re-entry permit — so he had gone home to Istria between 1922 and 1926 and come back. He was a mason, the trade his father is given by in the Gračišće book of souls. And it is the ship Joseph crossed on in 1910. Marta never came: her only «record» carries the identifier one digit along from Antonio's — she is the relation field of his own manifest line. After April 1930 he appears in no American source at all, and never completed naturalisation.…

…the tomb, the house from the lane, the arcaded end with the number 22, a wall niche, a carved ring, the chapel. Carnia (10): SORAVITO DE FRANCESCHI cut in stone at Ovaro with Anna Crosilla his widow; De Franceschi Ugo 1930–2020; Antonio 1877–1962 with Marta Anzola dead at twenty-five; Gio. Batta 1880–1963; Francesco 1887–1945; an 1850s stone; the war memorial carrying Vittorio and Isidoro De Franceschi; the campanile of Santa Maria di Gorto over the graves — the pieve whose parishes drew up the 1679 return.…

The Omiš Line

…more than a pedigree drawn hopefully. The place reads «Croazia, Austria» in the index on all of these; the parish is Svetvinčenat, resolved from the film, not from the place field. 1667–1674 Anto De Franceschi Marta Svetvinčenat n buried 1667 Franceschina De Franceschi 1669 Mattia De Franceschi 1671 Anto De Franceschi…

The Defranceschi Archive

…both kinds and says which is which — 419 of 645 cells attested in a record, 226 marked as lookup aids — across seven columns and 73 names, twelve of them new (Giorgio, Giulio, Elisabetta, Angela, Sebastiano, Bernardo, Leonardo, Pasquale, Mario, Marta, Mattea, Oliva), every one of which occurs in these records and had no row. Two wrong equivalences went with it: Marta is Martha, not a form of Margarita, and it has its own row now; Agneza is Agnes, not Agata, and it is gone, because this…

…columns and 73 names, twelve of them new (Giorgio, Giulio, Elisabetta, Angela, Sebastiano, Bernardo, Leonardo, Pasquale, Mario, Marta, Mattea, Oliva), every one of which occurs in these records and had no row. Two wrong equivalences went with it: Marta is Martha, not a form of Margarita, and it has its own row now; Agneza is Agnes, not Agata, and it is gone, because this archive has never met it. scripts/name-forms-audit.py, wired into npm run build as check:names. It looks every…

Errands

…Pićan parish registers — baptisms and deaths, 1880s–1910s MKR / MKU Pićan (Pedena) — diocese of Trieste–Capodistria for the years wanted; Poreč–Pula only from 17 October 1977 To settle Antonio's return and to find Marta. The Eleven page has Antonio going back to Istria and a Marta whose parentage this archive cannot close. Pićan is the parish; the registers are not on any film this archive can reach. Update 14 September 2026. Received and forwarded by DAPA, and…

…MKR / MKU Pićan (Pedena) — diocese of Trieste–Capodistria for the years wanted; Poreč–Pula only from 17 October 1977 To settle Antonio's return and to find Marta. The Eleven page has Antonio going back to Istria and a Marta whose parentage this archive cannot close. Pićan is the parish; the registers are not on any film this archive can reach. Update 14 September 2026. Received and forwarded by DAPA, and Jasna Vlahović asks for the same completed request form as for…

…with the dates legible end to end. Walk the Gologorica line /walk/gologorica/ day Gračišće → Pićan → Lindar → Beram → Sveti Petar u Šumi· 40 km· a full day Pedena house number 10, if it still stands — Marta's address. Walk the Gologorica line /walk/gologorica/ day Gračišće → Pićan → Lindar → Beram → Sveti Petar u Šumi· 40 km· a full day The bishop's cathedral and any surviving episcopal arms at Pićan.…

The Lines

…1667 — Anto De Franceschi, with children entered in October 1667 and November 1669 — the earliest of the cluster.» Those are Franceschina, baptised 23 October 1667, and Mattia, born 8 November 1669 — both children of Anto De Franceschi and Marta. They are not Pula entries. They are Svetvinčenat entries, forty kilometres north, in a different parish and a different world. The southern-Istrian line's earliest evidence has been standing on a place-name the index never gave…

…gives a continuous presence: 1657 Francesco, son of Zuanne and Orsola· 1666 Colotta, daughter of Nadal and Fiora· 1666 Fioretta, daughter of M.ro Batta and Domenica· 1667 Franceschina and 1674 Mattio, of Anto and Marta· 1670 Luca, of Francesco and Giacoma· 1671 Giacomo, of Andrea and Zuana· 1673 Giovanna and 1688 Zuana, of Gaspero, with Marietta then Anta· 1701 Veneranda, of Gasparo and Antonia· 1703 Domenica, of Piero and…

…sua leg.ma consorte… fu battezzata da me P. Fran.co Andreis Pievano. Comp.ri furono il Sig.r Ant.o di Franceschi e la Sig.ra Franceschetta Marchesi.» And twelve days later, his own son: «Mattio figlio del Sig.r Ant.o di Franceschi e della Sig.ra Marta sua leg.ma consorte, nato li 13 del sud.o mese, fu battezzato da me Pievano… Comp.ri furono il Sig.r Conte Luciani … et la Sig.ra Cattarina Pinco.» M.ro in 1666. Sig.r in 1674, with a Count for compare. That is a household changing class inside…

…is the single most useful line read so far, and no index carries it, because indexes do not transcribe godparents. 23 October 1667 — Franceschina, and the company again «Franceschina fig.la leg.ma di M.ro Anto de Franceschi, et di Marta sua cons.te, nata li 6 del sud.o, et batt.a da me D. Vic.o Pineo Can.co. Comp.ri furono il Sig.r Angelo Ferri, et la Sig.ra Anna fig.la dell'Ill.mo s.r Nicolò Vieli, moglie di Gieppo Cacheda.» He is still M.ro here — but the godmother is…

…not a courtesy in a small Istrian town; it was a working relationship, and the register shows him in five of them in four years. 11 November 1669 — Mattia, and she is a girl «Mattia fig.a del M.ro Ant.o de Franceschi e della S.ra Marta sua cons.te, nata li 8 del sud.o mese, fu battezzata da me P. Fran.co Andreis Pievano. Comp.ri furono il Sig.r Vicenzo Quelis, e la Sig.ra Cattarina Piero.» The index gives «Mattia De Franceschi, born 8 November 1669» without a sex. The register…

Findmypast

…— 1921 United States, Passenger And Crew Lists Americas Giovanni Defranceschi 1877 — 1922 United States, Passenger And Crew Lists Americas Marta Defranceschi — — 1922 United States, Passenger And Crew Lists Americas Albina de Franceschi 1900 — 1922 United States, Passenger And Crew Lists…

Say Your Name

…seen Margaret seen forms marta Martha seen Marta seen Marta seen Martha seen Márta…

Leaving

…States New York, U.S. District and Circuit Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1991 Naturalization 10 Apr 1929 @ Brooklyn, New York, United States Of America· Birth 18 Feb 1887 @ Gallignana, Italy Marta Anthony De Franceschi United States New York, U.S. District and Circuit Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1991 Naturalization 18 Sep 1922 @ Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States Of America· Birth 18 Feb…

David's Map

…45.173583, 14.691505, Josip Moves to Crikvenica 45.219424, 14.008976, 45.173583, 14.691505, Gologorica to Gracisce (Convergence of Lines) 45.262452, 14.037604, 45.219424, 14.008976, Ante and Marta Move to USA 40.697348, -73.961474, 45.219424, 14.008976, Petar Moves to Germany 48.539138, 9.282002, 45.173583, 14.691505, Bakar to Gologorica 45.259037, 14.03633, 45.306805, 14.534246,…

Register

…b. 18 Nov 1666 McO Batta De Franceschi Domca in X9DG-TK98 Franceschina De Franceschi Franceschi F y b. 6 Oct 1667 Anto De Franceschi Marta in X9DP-MZG6 Mattia De Franceschi Franceschi F y b. 8 Nov 1669 Anto De Franceschi Marta in X9DG-BT6G Anto De Franceschi…

The trees

…households, 1628–1896 — drawn as a web, because that is what it is web The richest material the archive holds and the emptiest tree, now set out in full: Elena di Franceschi, 21 December 1628, read on the page; then Anto × Marta, Gasparo × Antonia, Piero × Vittoria, Mattio × Elisabetta, Nadal × Anta, and after a ninety-year silence the Austrian households of the 1820s and the two daughters who married Bergamo and Crosilla. And since 21 September 2026 the marriage register of…

Walk/Carnia

…a sworn report on the state of the diocese, and Ivan Grah published the whole series in 1980. The see was suppressed in 1788. And Pićan is where Antonio Defranceschi was living in 1922 when he sailed for New York — «G. Pedena, Venezia», his wife Marta Defranceschi at Pedena 10 left behind him. Ask for house number 10. And ask the parish whether its registers after 1918 are at the church or at Pazin — they would carry Marta, and whether Antonio came home. /the-eleven/…

Worklist

…notices, divorce indexes. Two names in the unplaced list are worth somebody's eye. Bosiljka and Josip Defranceski, born 1918 and 1915, crossing in 1954 — Croatian given names under this family's own fused spelling, and a post-war date. And a Marta Defranceschi, 1922, which is the given name the Pićan errand has been trying to settle for a fortnight. n The living rule, audited against the built site — no violations in 1,280 pages done a…

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