The Defranceschi Archive
Castellier

Kaštelir

A hilltop village under Vižinada, and the reason a wrong answer about Vodnjan looked convincing for an hour.

The one death this archive found on film 005497893 — **Mathaeus De Franceschi, son of Antonius, house 32, died 7 August 1819** — sits in the *Liber Defunctorum of Castellier*, that is Kaštelir, which is kept under **Vižinada**.

That is precisely why the film's catalogue entry answers «Župa Vižinada» and why this archive briefly concluded that all seventy-eight Vodnjan records were really Vižinada's. **A reel can carry more than one parish**, and this one carries Vižinada's deaths and Vodnjan's baptisms. The correction is on the Vodnjan page; the village that caused it deserves its own.

Names
Croatian / local
Kaštelir
Italian
Castellier
Parish
Kaštelir, under Vižinada
Diocese
Poreč-Pula