Households
Not a family tree handed down — a family tree rebuilt. Each of these is a set of siblings who name the same two parents in the index, grouped and de-duplicated across Latin case endings and spelling drift.
The large households
Four or more children recorded. Dashed cards are children who died before their fifth birthday.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
«+ Pietro De Franceschi di Giuseppe — Agricoltore», witness 14 September 1818, signing with a cross. His brothers are Cristoforo the weaver and Don Stefano the priest, all «di Giuseppe» — so this household's father-in-law is a Giuseppe De Franceschi, alive in 1818.
«Pietro, figlio di Dom.co De Franceschi q.m Pietro e di Zacchera Cerlon di Franc.o» — the death of a son names Domenico's own dead father, a Pietro. The baptism index gave this household as a bare pair of names; it now has a generation above it.
«Gio: Maria De Franceschi figlio di Pietro De Franceschi q.m Gio: Maria e della fu Veniera Francin q.m Dom.co de Rondel, giugali, Agricoltori», aged 22, marrying «Lucia figlia di Giovanni Bonassin q.m Giuseppe e della fu Lucia Davanzo q.m Leonardo», aged 27. The household gains a father, a grandfather and a great-grandfather in one line.
15 December 1830, house 456. «Pietro figlio di Pietro De Franceschi q.m Pietro e di Maddalena Francin di Giovanni giugali», aged 11 — born about 1819, three years before the earliest baptism this archive had for the household, so they were married by 1818. Cause: scarlatina. In the sacraments column, «senza assistenza spirituale per la malattia repentina» — the same phrase the register used of Giuseppe De Franceschi q.m Pietro ten months earlier, and the second time this family loses somebody too fast for a priest. The two patronymics are the point. The father is q.m Pietro — his own father was dead by 1830. The mother is di Giovanni — hers was alive. And the house is 456, which is not 324 and not 325.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
«Fran.co figlio delli furono giugali Domenico Vellico q.m Andrea e Martina Biasiol», aged 27, marrying «Michiela figlia di Cristoforo De Franceschi q.m Gio: Maria e di Maria Luigia Manzin q.m Domenico», aged 26. A household reconstructed from baptism entries, now confirmed by the wedding that made it, with both sets of parents named.
On the Rovinj film, Bona Defranceschi, daughter of Dominicus Defranceschi and Oliva Dorligurro, marries Antonius Medelin in the 1840s — this household sending a daughter up the coast.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
The household this archive circled for two days before it opened. Giuseppe De Franceschi q.m Pietro died at house 324 on 14 February 1830, aged 72 — so born about 1758 — of an organic defect of the chest, and «senza assistenza spirituale per morte improvvisa», suddenly and without a priest. His wife Lucia Tromba q.m Cristoforo shares a surname with Giovanni Tromba, the parson who signs every page of these books and who licensed her son Don Stefano to baptise in 1816 and to marry couples in 1833. Four children: a priest, a ploughman, a weaver and a sister. The two who worked with their hands signed the register with a cross.
The eldest son is Pietro, the second Stefano, and the fourth is called Venerius — a boy given the feminine family name Veniera in its masculine form. Naming that hard is a household keeping a line in view. This Domenico is plausibly the Domenico Giovanni Antonio baptised 1819 to Stefano De Franceschi and Bonetta Vellico of house 325, married about 1857 — inf, on the strength of the name, the parish and the arithmetic, and nothing more.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 4 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 5 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 5 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 4 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead. This may be the same household as Franciscus Defranceschi × Catharina Bellinich (1836–1836, 3 children). The surnames match once the indexer's spellings are set aside, and the years all but touch. They are kept apart because the given names differ, and merging two households on a surname is how one family becomes a fiction. The register would settle it in a line.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 7 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 5 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 5 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 5 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 7 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 5 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 8 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 6 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 4 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 6 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead. This may be the same household as Andrina Defranceschi × Gulielmus Lazzer (1859–1862, 2 children). The surnames match once the indexer's spellings are set aside, and the years all but touch. They are kept apart because the given names differ, and merging two households on a surname is how one family becomes a fiction. The register would settle it in a line.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 5 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
The daughters' households
Found by searching the in-law families rather than our own: 8 households where a Defranceschi woman is the mother. This is the half of the family the surname loses.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
«Lucia De Franceschi q.m Pietro», wife of «Alvise Birattan q.m Saba». Her father Pietro was dead before 1821 and too old to be the Pietro who remarried in 1818 — so an older Pietro again. None of these three women appears in any index anywhere.
A De Franceschi daughter married out into the Giachin house and stayed in Vodnjan. Her first child is born in 1817 and her last in 1832, so she was married by 1816 and born around 1795 — which puts her a generation above the Stefano and Gio Maria households, not beside them. Two of her four children are given her own name, Domenica and Michaela. Whose daughter she was, the baptisms do not say.
A second daughter married out, thirty years after the first. Her four children run 1848–1857, so she was born about 1825 — which is the right decade to be the Lucia baptised 25 July 1826 to Gio Maria De Franceschi and Lucia Bonassin, or the Lucia baptised 25 August 1828 to Pietro De Franceschi and Maddalena Francin. inf — two candidates, and nothing yet to choose between them.
6 January 1831, house 24. «Domenica figlia di Andrea Palin q.m Pio. e della fu Michiela De Franceschi fu Pietro giugali.» Two deaths in one line. «della fu» puts the mother in the ground already; «fu Pietro» puts her father there too. So Michiela De Franceschi, daughter of a Pietro, was dead before January 1831 — and this archive would never have heard of her at all if her daughter had not died young enough to need her named. A sixth woman who left the surname and came back only through a child.
Smaller groups
Three recorded children — often a household whose register years are only partly indexed.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
House 325. Their daughter Maria died 11 March 1829; Bonetta Vellico herself died 11 September 1830, aged 57, of pulmonary consumption. Her entry names the husband as «Stefano De Franceschi di Domenico q.m Pietro» — father living, grandfather dead — which gives this household three generations above it where the baptism index gave none.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple stands because the same two parents are named on every one of these baptisms; the spellings are the indexer's, and no register has been read to confirm it.
«Veniera, figlia delli furono giugali Gio. Maria De Franceschi fu Pietro e Michiela Zambaletta fu Cristoforo». Neither parent appears in any baptism register on any film this archive can reach; the household exists only because a widow remarried at forty-nine and the clerk wrote her parents out in full. The dates are inferred from the children's stated ages.
«Bonetta, figlia del fu Pietro De Franceschi q.m Dom.co e Domenica Manzin q.m Dom.co», aged 23. A second Vodnjan line, unconnected to Giuseppe's sons and headed by a Domenico. The two sons are grouped here on the patronymic and the dates: both are «q.m Pietro» and both appear within months of Bonetta's wedding. (inf)
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 3 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead. This may be the same household as Francisci Defranceschi Regii × Carolinæ Bellinich (1849–1849, 4 children). The surnames match once the indexer's spellings are set aside, and the years all but touch. They are kept apart because the given names differ, and merging two households on a surname is how one family becomes a fiction. The register would settle it in a line.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 3 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 3 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Built from index entries only — this archive has not seen the page. The couple is here because the same two parents are named on 3 separate baptisms, which is a real pattern and not a guess; but the spellings are the indexer's, the children may still be duplicates of one another, and no register has been read to confirm any of it. Treat it as a household-shaped lead.
Where they sit
| Place | Households |
|---|---|
| — | 43 |
| Vodnjan | 20 |
| Croazia, Austria | 9 |
| Omiš | 7 |
| Rijeka | 5 |
| Austria | 4 |
| Pula | 3 |
| Postira | 3 |
| Fažana | 3 |
| Promontore | 2 |
| Ližnjan | 2 |
| Vitipolis, Modrus-Fiume, Magyarország | 2 |
| Ližnjan, Istria, Italia | 2 |
| Sterna | 1 |
| Kaštelir | 1 |
| Ledenice | 1 |
| Crikvenica | 1 |
| not localised | 1 |
| Bakar | 1 |
| Almissa, Spalato, Dalmazia, Austria | 1 |
Linked into lineages
A household is the child of another when a recorded child of the first grew up to be the father named in the second. 6 such links survive the tests; 5 candidates were too ambiguous to draw.
Too ambiguous to draw
Where two or more men of the same name could equally be the father. Published because the next person to read the register pages will resolve them in an afternoon.
- could be the son of Pietro De Franceschi & Maria Malusá — through Stefano Matteo De Franceschi, 32y
- could be the son of Gio Maria De Franceschi & Lucia Bonassin — through Stefano De Franceschi, 23y
- could be the son of Gio Maria De Franceschi & Lucia Bonassin — through Giovanni De Franceschi, 29y
- could be the son of Pietro De Franceschi & Maddalena Francin — through Giovanni De Franceschi, 31y
- could be the son of Antonio De Franceschi & Maria Bergamo — through Johannes Defranceschi, 26y
- could be the son of Gio Maria De Franceschi & Lucia Bonassin — through Giovanni De Franceschi, 31y
- could be the son of Pietro De Franceschi & Maddalena Francin — through Giovanni De Franceschi, 33y
- could be the son of Antonio De Franceschi & Maria Bergamo — through Johannes Defranceschi, 28y
- could be the son of Antonio De Franceschi & Maria Bergamo — through Johannes Defranceschi, 41y
- could be the son of Francesco Franceschi & Maria De Caralipco — through Giovanni Giuseppe Maria Franceschi, 19y
- could be the son of Gio Maria De Franceschi & Lucia Bonassin — through Giovanni De Franceschi, 44y
- could be the son of Pietro De Franceschi & Maddalena Francin — through Giovanni De Franceschi, 46y
- could be the son of Francesco Franceschi & Maria De Caralipco — through Giovanni Giuseppe Maria Franceschi, 37y
- could be the son of Francesco Franceschi & Maria De Caralipco — through Giovanni Girolamo Andrea Felice Franceschi, 34y
- could be the son of Josephus Franceschi & Theresia Moser — through Joannes Franceschi, 24y
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