Nadal Defranceschi — The Defranceschi Archive

The family

Nadal Defranceschi

marriedAntafrom the tree

2 children

Pietro De Franceschinamed here only Bata De Franceschinamed here only

the direct line, argued on the line

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

A third Defranceschi household in the castle, and he is here only as a father. The P page of the Svetvinčenat births index names him twice — «Piero di Nadal Defranceschi» about 1725 and again on 12 February 1734. Nadal is Natale, and he is not the Nardo (Leonardo) who fathered Piero in 1707 and Maria in 1709. So by the 1730s the castle holds at least five men of the name fathering children — Nardo, Piero, Batta, Giacomo and Nadal — which is what the Atti meant by calling this the one surname with a continuity in San Vincenti. (inf — named in records, with none of his own yet.) He steps out of the index and onto a leaf. On 12 July 1732, carta 79 verso, «Padrini al S. Fonte furono D. Nadal Defraneschi» — godfather to Valentin, son of Micò Vitich, with the honorific D. Beware the same leaf: four entries below him a godmother is entered as «Maria mog. di Nadal Venir», a different man and a different family. (doc.)