Married at Svetvinčenat on 10 June 1772 — the first wedding of the name found in the parish's marriage register, which no one had opened before this archive did.
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«Anno Domini 1772, 10 Junij. Giacobus filius Giacobi de Franceschi, et Nicolina filia Nicolai Teserati, juncti sunt per verba de presenti per me D. Martinum Luciani ex comissione Parochi, tribus premissis denunciationibus, testibus D.no Michaele Luciani et Vicentio Vemir alijsque pluribus, addita benedictione.»
He appears seven months earlier as a witness, on 23 November 1771, where the clerk is more careful and writes
«Jacobo q. Jacobi de Franceschi» — so his father was already dead. A man marrying in 1772 was most likely born in the 1740s, which is exactly the stretch the parish's baptism index does not reach.
No baptism of his has been found and he is merged with nobody. (doc for the marriage; the birth is inferred and the identification open.) The bride's surname is the one word on the page this reading will not guarantee —
Teserati, possibly
Teseveti.
A candidate for who he was. The baptism register has a
Giacomo Battista, son of Giacomo Defranceschi and Pascasia, born 19 August 1753 — eighteen at the time of this wedding, and eighteen when his father died.
The fit is good and it is not claimed, because the same register shows a second, older
«Jacobus filius Jacobi Defranceschi» as a godfather in May 1754, so there were already two men of the forename in the same generation.
(inf.) See Giacomo Battista de Franceschi (b. 1753).
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28 September 2026 — a second witnessing, two days after the first, and the bride now has a page.
This page records him as a witness on 23 November 1771. He witnesses again on 25 November 1771, at the marriage of Michael son of Mattia Bulcich and Elena Milovan: «addita Benedictione. Testibus Jacobo q. Jacobi de Fran-/ceschi, et Vincentio Vemir». Film 005497886, frame 62, both entries read at 2.2×.
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Twice in one week the parish asked the same young man to stand. He marries seven months later.
The marriage act was re-read at 2.2× on the same day and the transcription above holds, with one caveat sharpened: the bride's surname reads closest to
Tes[s]ereti.
She now has a page — Nicolina Teserati (m. 1772) — which carries the doubt rather than hiding it.