The Defranceschi Archive
Gallignana

Gračišće

Eight household censuses across 150 years — the richest register series found anywhere in this project.

First recorded in 1199. Held by the Patriarch of Aquileia, then the counts of Gorizia, and from 1374 part of the Duchy of Pazin. Bishop Paskazije of Pićan consecrated the Gothic chapel here in 1486, in his own birthplace.

Glagolitic and Latin graffiti survive scratched into the chapel interior — Croatian, written in Croatian letters, inside a town the maps called Gallignana.

Names
Croatian / local
Gračišće
Italian
Gallignana
Parish
Gračišće
Diocese
Pićan (historic)
In the 1945 census

1 family spelling it Defranceschi

The registers

What survives, where it is kept, and whether you can see it without going there.

Baptisms1667–1988
Marriages1671–1988
Burials1775–2004
Household censuses1775 · 1825 · 1841 · 1865 · 1870 · 1881 · 1897 · 1925
Books catalogued32 — 31 digitised
Held atBA Poreč · DAPA · MU Pazin · ŽU Gračišće
Thirty-one of thirty-two books digitised. The status animarum give house-by-house listings roughly every twenty years.