Giacomo de Franceschi (d. bef. 1771)

Dead before 23 November 1771, and on the page only as a word: quondam. A marriage witness that day is entered as «Jacobo q. Jacobi de Franceschi» — Giacomo, son of the late Giacomo de Franceschi. Nothing else of him is recorded there: no age, no trade, no widow. He is the tenth man of the name at the castle, and he may not be a tenth man at all — this archive already holds a Giacomo De Franceschi born 1706 and another born 1731 at Svetvinčenat, and the father of a man marrying in 1772 could be either. None of the three is merged here. (doc for the fact of his death; the identification is open.) See Giacomo de Franceschi M 1772. His household is now partly visible. Four baptisms between 1750 and 1759 give a Giacomo de Franceschi and Pascasia as parents at this parish — the children being an unread forename (1750), Giacomo Battista (1753), Giovanni (1756) and Antonia (1759). Whether that Giacomo is this one is open: the register also carries a «Jacobus filius Jacobi Defranceschi» standing godfather in 1754, and godmothers styled «uxor Jacobi Defranceschi» whose forename reads as Veneranda rather than Pascasia in 1754, 1755 and 1756. Either two men of the name were married at once, or those three lines are misread at scan resolution; they have not yet been magnified. (inf, and flagged.) He had a grown son called Gasparo, and that collapses two households into one. Twice in 1762 the baptism register writes «Gasparo figlio di M.o Giacomo de Franceschi» — 1 August and 15 December, both magnified. This archive had been reading Gasparo and Giacomo as two separate households running alongside each other through the 1750s; they are a father and his adult son. (doc.) And the volume's own index dates that son. It carries «Casparg, of Jacobo De Franceschi and Anzola, 26 December 1737» — which makes Gasparo twenty-four in August 1762, exactly the age of an adult godparent. So Giacomo married twice: Anzola, mother of Gasparo, and Pascasia, mother of the four children of 1750–1759. (inf, from two records twenty-five years apart.)