The Defranceschi Archive
1951 – 2026

Ivan Defranceski

One person. Senj → Johannesburg → Brisbane. Everything this archive holds for this individual, kept apart from everyone else who shares the name.

Photographs the family holds Ivan Defranceski, born Senj 17 December 1951, died 2026 — generation 7 of the direct line, and the compiler's father. Three photographs across sixty years: the shore at about a year old, a studio sitting as a young man, and a portrait made on 12 April 2012. Only the last is dated by anything better than a face — its date is the camera's own. Each caption says what its date rests on, and one of the three has a file date this archive rejects outright.

Name
Ivan Defranceski
Years
1951 – 2026
Place
Senj → Johannesburg → Brisbane
Spouse
Cheryl Anne Defranceski, née Lerena
named as the spouse on this archive's own direct-line chart
Line
carnia
Found in
Direct line

The family

The generation above
Ivan Defranceski1925 – 1995the direct lineHedviga Blažević (Defranceski)1926 – 2001the direct line
Ivan Defranceski1951 – 2026generation 7 of the direct line
marriedCheryl Lerena (Defranceski)the direct line
Child
David Defranceskinamed here only
2 siblings
Ladislava “Ada” Defranceski (Apker)Robert “Robbie” Defranceskib. 1953
the direct line, argued on the line

6 names in the record are not drawn above: fatherJosip De Franceschi— the dates do not fit a record of 1894 · motherAna Kalanj— the dates do not fit a record of 1894 · fatherAnton Rudolf Defranceski— the dates do not fit a record of 1925 · motherUrsula Kovačina(Defranceschi)— the dates do not fit a record of 1925 · fatherIvan Defranceski— the dates do not fit a record of 1948–1953 · motherHedviga Blažević (Defranceski)— the dates do not fit a record of 1948–1953

This chart is the direct line and nothing else. Brothers and sisters are not drawn here: this archive records kin against a NAME rather than against a person, so the family on a name page may belong to several different people of that name. Where it is drawn it is read from the direct line, person by person.

One relationship on this chart was never date-tested. This archive refuses a relative whose years do not fit — more than six out for a child, outside twelve to sixty for a parent. Where one side has no year at all that test cannot run, and the link is drawn on the name. It is shown because most people in the early registers carry no year, and refusing them would empty the chart of the centuries this archive exists to show. It is counted here because a line nothing tested is a weaker claim than a line that passed, and the chart cannot tell them apart.

What the archive knows

Generation 7 of the direct line — David's father. Died in 2026. He was absent from this list until then for two reasons, and only one of them was the rule about living people: the roster is filtered to the surname, and the direct line recorded him as «Ivan» with no surname at all, so he was dropped as somebody else's. Born at Senj on 17 December 1951 — the month from Cheryl's memoir, the day from David, 14 September 2026.

2 other people in this archive carry this name. They are different individuals and are not this person. See the name index →