The Tree
The documented descent, generation by generation. Click a name to open or close its children; every branch that goes anywhere carries a link down to the page that proves it.
Giovanni Defranceschi1750–1829 · Gologorica → Gračišće
On the family's own chart, and implied by the «q. Joannis» of the next generation but one. No register page yet.More →
Giovanni Battista Defranceschi1787–1846 · Gračišće, house 5
Agricola. Born 13 August 1787, married 1819. Wife Francisca Salomon, b. 17 March 1797.More →
Eldest of four sons.
Antonio Defranceschi1825–1894 · Gračišće, house 19
Lapicida — a stonecutter. «q. Joannis», son of the late Giovanni: the three words that weld house 5 to house 19. Wife Maria née Fernasar, b. 17 October 1832.More →
Josip's elder brother by six and a half years, and head of the American reunion album. Eleven children, in five countries.More →
Josip Defranceschi1863–1951 · Gračišće → Crikvenica
Baptised 22 March 1863, entry 23. «Vešti klesar sada tvorničar» — a skilled stonemason, later a factory worker. Married Ana Kalanj, b. 3 January 1864.More →
Anton Rudolf Defranceski1890–1943 · Klenovica → Crikvenica
Born 20 January 1890 at Klenovica house 22, baptised 9 February. The zavičaj entry names Gallignana in Istria. Married Ursula Kovačina.More →
Josip «Pepe»1911–1980 · Crikvenica
Married Božica Blašković, 1911–1994. Photographed on the pier.More →
Their son.
Ship's engineer, later Auto-Mechaniker. Left for Germany April 1939 and stayed. IRO 148.902. Married Luise Salzer, b. Neuhausen 5 October 1919, entered on the index cards as apatride. Two daughters, born 1940 and 1945, omitted here as possibly living.More →
Zdravko «Frank»1921–1979 · Crikvenica → Horsham
Taken by the Partisans in 1943; motor mechanic at Reutlingen. IRO 148.901. Sailed for Australia 8 March 1949. Married Ruža Hreljac, 1922–1996, of Fužine.More →
The child written «enfant» in red across a French camp card. Buried at Warrill Park, Willowbank.More →
Ivan Defranceski1925–1995 · Crikvenica → Senj
Born 25 June 1925. Entered a Reutlingen factory in October 1941, aged sixteen — and went home. Married Hedviga Blažević of Senj, 1926–2001. Buried under a slab cut IVAN DEFRANČESKI.More →
Omitted by standing rule. Two further generations descend from here, including the keeper of this archive.
Named in the family's file with no dates at all.
Dead at twelve. Her burial entry gives her mother's full style, Ana Kalaj-Kučarica.More →
Dead at two, of «dobrac», buried 28 March 1896.More →
Born 14 December 1896 — conceived the month her brother Ivan died.
Three months and fifteen days. Pneumonia.More →
Third son.
Fourth son.
The documented descent, openable generation by generation. Living people are omitted entirely — where a generation is missing from the bottom of a branch, that is why. Colour on the left edge is confidence: solid for documented, dashed for inferred, dotted for family lore.
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