Jacoba / Giacoma de Franceschi (fl. 1738–1743)

The family

No family chart is drawn for this person, and that is a statement about the data rather than about them. This archive records kin against a name — the tree on a name page gathers everyone who shares it, so it may hold one person's dates beside another's wife. Rather than hand a reader a family that might not be this person's, the chart is drawn only where the relationship is recorded person by person, which today means the direct line.

What the archive knows

Wife of Pietro de Franceschi, and the woman whose name untangled a knot. 25 July 1738 she bears a daughter. «baptizavit unam infantulam natam 25 currentis a Petro de Franceschi, et Jacoba ejus legitima uxore ambobus ex hac Parochia, cui positum fuit nomen Anna Euphemia» — Anna Euphemia, baptised 27 July. Film 005497885, images 115–121. (doc.) And she stands at other people's fonts as «uxor Petri Defranceschi» — 16 February 1742 (image 130) and 29 June 1743 (image 134), both read at magnification. ⚠ Why she matters beyond her own household. On 7 September 1738 the register writes «Jacoba uxor Jacobi de Franceschi». Six weeks earlier she is Pietro's wife in a full parental entry. So either the parish held two Jacobas, or — far likelier — a clerk writing «Jacoba uxor Jacobi» was pulled by the echo of her own name. This archive counted her among «the three wives of Jacobo» for a day before the 1742 and 1743 godmother lines put her back where she belongs. One of the three was never his. See the method note. Born about 1715 — estimated from her daughter's baptism.