Piero di Franceschi

…standing beside it. /searched/ 9 Sept 2026 hit The Rovinj records, from 1619 Rovinj, Župa Rovinj — DGS 005497871, images 225 and 466 A new earliest. «Adì 27 Mago 1619· morì ser Piero di Franceschi da Pola. Fu portato il suo cadavere … off. L 24» — the oldest dated appearance of this surname in Istria the archive holds, seven years before the Fiume baptisms and a hundred and forty-two before the name is first written at Gologorica. He is styled…

…by dispensation. Styled Dominus, which separates them from the peasants on the same page. Which of the seven they belong to is open. Rovinj the earliest dated Istrian record, and a household to 1736 «morì ser Piero di Franceschi da Pola», 27 May 1619 — the earliest dated Istrian record of the name this archive holds, and it is a burial, which means the man was alive well before it. Ser and da Pola: a styled man, from Pula, dying at Rovinj, offering L 24. Beside him a Rovinj…

…Labin (Albona) — unplaced Aloÿsius Defranceschi, 1615 — the earliest the surname is indexed anywhere in Istria, and forty-six years before Moncalvo. One entry, and it belongs to nobody yet. Rovinj (Rovigno) — unplaced «morì ser Piero di Franceschi da Pola», 27 May 1619 — the earliest dated Istrian record of the name this archive holds — and a Rovinj household across three generations, Giacomo to Piero Anto in 1736. Neither is joined to any line. Carlo was appointed to the court here in 1850, was…

…the earliest thing in the archive. It is not. Seven years earlier, in a book of burial offerings at Rovinj, a clerk wrote three lines that are now the oldest dated appearance of this surname in Istria that this project holds. «morì ser Piero di Franceschi da Pola» Adì 27 Mago 1619 morì ser Piero di Fran- ceschi da Pola. Fu por- tato il suo cad avere … off erta L 24 On the 27th of May 1619 died Ser Piero di Franceschi of Pola. His body was carried here…

…holds. «morì ser Piero di Franceschi da Pola» Adì 27 Mago 1619 morì ser Piero di Fran- ceschi da Pola. Fu por- tato il suo cad avere … off erta L 24 On the 27th of May 1619 died Ser Piero di Franceschi of Pola. His body was carried here … offering, 24 lire. Three things in three lines. He is «ser». Not Dominus, not plain — the Venetian courtesy for a man of standing below the patriciate: a merchant, a notary, a citizen. He is…

…name from 1619 — and the man «da Dignano» buried at Christmas 1728, three weeks after his wife. Rovinj carries the name from 1619, when a Pietro De Franceschi is buried — the entry this archive holds from another direction as «morì ser Piero di Franceschi da Pola», 27 May 1619, and its earliest dated Istrian record until the Svetvinčenat baptism of 1628 was found. It does not carry it from 1569. The 1569, 1583 and 1592 entries that a surname search returns are Fracischetto, Francoscheto and…

…of 1631 — which makes Pula one of the two candidate parents for the southern Istrian clusters, the other being Koper itself. The earliest dated record this archive holds in Istria names a man of this town rather than of the one he was buried in: «ser Piero di Franceschi da Pola», buried at Rovinj on 27 May 1619. Pula is also where the church paperwork of the whole south ran. The marriage dispensations entered in the Vodnjan register are issued by the Ordinariate of Pola — «dell'Ordinariato di Pola» — and that is…

…Gologorica, to Gračišće, or to Kobler's Fiume stocks, and this archive will not join a fourth household to them on the strength of two common Christian names. Rovinj /places/rovinj/ The earliest dated Istrian record this archive holds — «morì ser Piero di Franceschi da Pola», 27 May 1619 — plus a Rovinj household across three generations from Giacomo to Piero Anto in 1736. Neither is joined to any lane. It is also where Carlo De Franceschi was married at his own bedside in 1852. carnia…

…An index is hours, not days, and it decides whether the other 27 volumes are worth opening. ⭐ Rovinj reaches further back than anything else available. Deaths 9R2X-VZ9 covers 1553–1636, and this archive holds Pietro De Franceschi and Piero di Franceschi, both dead 1619 — inside that volume's range. Births 9R28-PTB start 1560. That is the oldest reachable record of the name in Istria. ⚠ Draguć has a hard edge: its registers stop in 1832, so Stella Appolonia b. 1841 is not…