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Head of the Fiume household of 1626–1632; his children's godfather was the imperial Captain of Fiume

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«la vivente Antonia Maria De Franceschi», widow of Damiano Storcovich, alive 30 June 1819; her daughter Martina Antonia was 40, so born about 1779

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

«Pietro De Franceschi q.m Gio. Maria», aged 42 in March 1818; widower of Veniera Franzin, remarried Lorenza Tesser 30 March 1818, house 312; his son Gio: Maria married Lucia Bonassin on 9 June 1821

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

«Gio. Maria De Franceschi fu Pietro», husband of Michiela Zambaletta fu Cristoforo; both dead by 1830. Three children named in this register — Pietro (b. c.1776), Cristoforo the agricoltore, Veniera (b. c.1781). None of the three has a surviving baptism

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

«+ Cristoforo De Franceschi di Giuseppe — Tessitore», a weaver, witness 30 March 1818; signs with a cross; brother of Don Stefano the priest; witnessed again 25 November 1828, house 344, with the patronymic written out in full

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

«D.n Stefano De Franceschi di Giuseppe, Sacerdote» — priest of the chapter of Vodnjan under the parroco Giovanni Tromba. Witnessed nineteen marriages 1819–1832, and on 26 January 1833 married a couple himself, «De Parochi lic.» — by the parish priest's licence — and again on 12 February 1833 in the church of the B. V. del Carmine. The licence formula is the register's standard wording for any deputising priest, not a personal privilege. Brother of Pietro the ploughman and Cristoforo the weaver, who signed the same book with a cross

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

«la fu Veniera Francin q.m Dom.co de Rondel» — first wife of Pietro De Franceschi, mother of the Gio: Maria who married in 1821, and dead before March 1818

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«Pietro De Franceschi di Gio., da Dignano — Tessitore», a weaver, witness at a marriage held in Šišan on 30 January 1824; named as of Vodnjan because he was standing outside it; witnessed again at Vodnjan itself on 23 September 1828, where the clerk drops the town-name — so a resident, not a visitor; and a third time on 22 February 1830

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

«il fu Pietro De Franceschi q.m Dom.co», husband of Domenica Manzin q.m Domenico; dead by November 1823, when his daughter Bonetta married at twenty-three

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

Named only as the dead father of Pietro De Franceschi q.m Domenico — the head of a second Vodnjan line, distinct from Giuseppe's

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Daughter of the late Pietro De Franceschi q.m Domenico and Domenica Manzin; married Nicolò Giacomo Marich 19 November 1823, house 684, aged 23

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«Pietro De Franceschi q.m Pietro, agricoltore» — witness 28 February 1824, house 764; on the dates, very likely Bonetta's brother. Now also: on 15 December 1830 a «Pietro De Franceschi q.m Pietro» buries an eleven-year-old son at house 456, by Maddalena Francin di Giovanni — the same styling, the same parish, six years on. inf, not doc: the house differs (764 in 1824, 456 in 1830), and the register uses «q.m Pietro» of more than one man

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths **after** December 1830 · film 005497894, images 562–575, then film 005497895

«Cristoforo De Franceschi q.m Gio: Maria», husband of Maria Luigia Manzin q.m Domenico — brother of the Pietro who remarried in 1818; not to be confused with Cristoforo di Giuseppe the weaver; recorded as agricoltore when he witnessed his niece's wedding in February 1828

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Daughter of Cristoforo De Franceschi q.m Gio: Maria and Maria Luigia Manzin; married 25 January 1826, house 224, aged 26

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«Ant.o De Franceschi fu Vittorio», witness on 10 July 1826 at a marriage celebrated by the archpriest at Svetvinčenat — a Rovinj given-name in his patronymic, and a Svetvinčenat venue

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

Named only as the dead father of the Antonio who witnessed at Svetvinčenat in 1826; the name Vittorio otherwise belongs to the Rovinj household

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Daughter of Gio. Maria De Franceschi fu Pietro and Michiela Zambaletta fu Cristoforo; married Domenico Pastrovicchio, widowed, married Domenico Fioranti 25 June 1830 aged 49. Her remarriage entry is what names her grandfather and her mother

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Named only in his son's patronymic — «Gio. Maria De Franceschi fu Pietro», 1830 — and so the earliest man in the Vodnjan line, standing behind a marriage of the 1770s

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«Michiela Zambaletta fu Cristoforo», wife of Gio. Maria De Franceschi; dead by 1830 — the first woman named as a mother anywhere in this line

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«Sig.ra Maria Michelcich di Luca e di Maria», aged 26, who married the historian Carlo De Franceschi at his sickbed in Rovinj on 1 March 1852

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«la q.m Luigetta De Franceschi», wife of Francesco Gorlato q.m Biaggio; dead by November 1831, when her son Ant.o Gio. married at twenty-three — the fifth woman of the name recoverable only through a child's wedding

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«Giovanni De Franceschi q.m Pietro, Calzolajo» — a shoemaker, witness 18 February 1832; on the patronymic, very likely a brother of Bonetta and of Pietro the ploughman, in the line descending from a Domenico

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

Son of the late Pietro De Franceschi and Martina Civico q.m Domenico; widower of Veniera De Rocchi fu Onorato, remarried 17 July 1832, house 325, aged 46

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«Martina Civico q.m Domenico», wife of a Pietro De Franceschi; both dead by 1832, when their son Domenico remarried at forty-six

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Son of Pietro De Franceschi q.m Gio: Maria and Veniera Francin q.m Domenico; married Antonia Del Carro, a widow, on 1 December 1832 aged 29 — younger brother of the Gio: Maria who married Lucia Bonassin in 1821

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

«Lucia Tromba q.m Cristoforo», wife of Giuseppe De Franceschi — mother of the priest, the ploughman and the weaver. A Tromba, the surname of the parroco Giovanni Tromba who licensed her son Don Stefano

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Daughter of the late Giuseppe De Franceschi q.m Pietro and Lucia Tromba; married 27 July 1833, house 324, aged 28 — sister of Don Stefano, Pietro and Cristoforo

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

Named only in his children's patronymics — «Giuseppe De Franceschi q.m Pietro» and «Lucia De Franceschi q.m Pietro», both dead in 1830 at 72 and 70. On their ages he was born around 1730 and is the earliest man in Giuseppe's line

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

«Stefano De Franceschi di Domenico q.m Pietro», of house 325; husband of Bonetta Vellico q.m Antonio, who died there in 1830. His father Domenico was living in September 1830 and his grandfather Pietro was not

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575

Father of the Stefano De Franceschi of house 325, and himself a son of a Pietro. Alive in September 1830, when his daughter-in-law's death entry names him «di Domenico q.m Pietro»

Where the death should be Vodnjan deaths 1815–1833 · film 005497894, images 471–575