Osvaldo De' Franceschi (the elder)

…this archive has been trying to do with letters: it names a man and his father, at Mione, before civil registration existed. Gio: Batta De' Franceschi — dead before 1789, since Osvaldo is already «quondam Gio: Batta» when Giacoma is baptised. Osvaldo De' Franceschi — his son, married to a Cattarina, dead before 1806. Giacoma — born 25 May 1789, married Ignazio di Prato at Mione in 1806. Every word of it is copied out of the Pieve di Gorto's own baptismal register by Don Gio: Batta Dario, the…

…signing his own name through 1810. A man born about 1784. He cannot be Giacoma's father. Giacoma was born in 1789, when he was five, and her father was dead by 1806, when he was twenty-two and had not yet married. So Mione held two men called Osvaldo De' Franceschi, both married to a Cattarina, one dead before 1806 and one alive after 1810. This archive has already published the wrong thing once this week by letting a name do the work of a document, and been caught merging two men called Ivan before that. They are…

…Father of Osvaldo the elder, dead before 1789. The oldest De Franceschi of Mione this archive can name from a record Pieve di Santa Maria di Gorto — baptisms and deaths, roughly 1720–1790. Not digitised anywhere Osvaldo De' Franceschi (the elder) Mione Son of the late Gio: Batta; married a Cattarina; father of Giacoma born 1789; dead before September 1806 Gorto baptisms about 1755–1770 for him, Gorto marriages about 1785 for the wedding, and Mione…

…of trade, and a man can be both. It is recorded because this archive has leaned on trades as evidence — the weaver finding, the tailor argument — and this is the clearest demonstration that a single act's trade word is soft. Are the two Osvaldo De' Franceschi of Mione grandfather and grandson? open Osvaldo the elder — son of the late Gio: Batta, married to a Cattarina, father of Giacoma born 25 May 1789, dead before September 1806. Osvaldo «fa legname» — a carpenter,…

…allegati» — the best shelf in the archive blocked Antenati 2026-09-15 Three read, nineteen to go. Each of the three has given up something the registers alone could not: Mione 1806 — Gio: Batta and Osvaldo De' Franceschi, two generations in one sheet, with the Pieve's seal still on it. Mione 1815 — Pietro De Franceschi, Felice Santo's grandfather. Ovaro 1807 — a file that came up from…