Anton Rudolf

…583, Pisino marriages 1842–43 , note: , id: maticne , kind: Archive , title: Matične knjige — Croatian parish registers , where: Ledenice, Klenovica, Crikvenica, Bakar , url: , what: The baptism of Ana Kalanj at Ledenice on 3 January 1864; the baptism of Anton Rudolf at Klenovica on 20 January 1890, which gives the parents' place of origin as Gallignana in Istria; the marriage of Nodburga Defranceschi at Bakar on 27 February 1794. , cites: , note: Held as scans by the family. , id: sandaniele , kind: Archive , title: Comune di San Daniele del Friuli and Comune di Concesio — atti di morte , w…

…the Omiš Ana Grubišić, held apart by a question mark because the compiler suspected they were not the same and joined the families anyway. , lab: The dates make the marriage impossible , text: The Imotski account says Josip Bepo married Ana pl. Grubišić of Omiš in 1892. Our Ana Kalanj had already borne Anton Rudolf at Klenovica in January 1890 and Marija Stjepanka in December 1892. She cannot be a bride of 1892 at Omiš. , lab: The two Antons are two men , text: The Imotski Anton Toni was born in 1893 at Imotski and married Marija Dijaković of Dubrovnik, a schoolteacher, with whom he is photographed at Poljica in 1932. Our Anton Rudolf was born on 20 January 1890 at Klenov…

…ica in January 1890 and Marija Stjepanka in December 1892. She cannot be a bride of 1892 at Omiš. , lab: The two Antons are two men , text: The Imotski Anton Toni was born in 1893 at Imotski and married Marija Dijaković of Dubrovnik, a schoolteacher, with whom he is photographed at Poljica in 1932. Our Anton Rudolf was born on 20 January 1890 at Klenovica house 22, baptised on 9 February, and married Ursula Kovačina. Three years and four hundred kilometres apart. , lab: The registers point the other way entirely , text: The Klenovica baptism of 1890 names the parents' place of origin as «Gallignana u Istriji» — Gračišće in Istria. The 1863 Gračišće baptism gives Josip's f…

…n , died: 28 June 1999, Ipswich, Queensland , what: Born in Germany to Zdravko and Ruža while they were there, and the exact date the Arolsen child-tracing papers were opened on. This is the single most valuable line in the file. , key: true , who: Ursula Kovačina , born: , died: , what: Anton Rudolf's wife and the mother of all of them. The tree gives her no dates, and neither does anything else this archive has found. , zdravko: heading: The 1999 that is not a death date , text: The family's file and the MyHeritage tree both give Zdravko Defranceski's death as 1999 at Horsham. Two memorials in Horsham Cemetery give December 1979 — one read…

…The Antonio at the head of it, born 6 August 1856, is the eldest son of Antonio the stonecutter of house 19 and his wife Maria née Fernasar — and the elder brother of Josip, born 22 March 1863, who took this archive's own line down to Crikvenica. So the eleven children of the chart are the first cousins of this line's Anton Rudolf, and everyone at the Crystal Springs reunion in 2012 was a cousin of the people this site is written for. The two halves of the family last shared a household at Gračišće in the 1860s, and then one went to the Kvarner, Germany, South Africa and Australia, and the other to New York, Buenos Aires and Tuscany. , note_date: One thing to check in the register rather than ass…

…ame, and the maiden name survives only on the American chart and in the registers. , why: Why this matters more than one more grave. Virginija was the niece of Josip Defranceschi — the stonecutter's son who took this archive's own line down to Crikvenica in 1890 — and therefore the first cousin of Anton Rudolf. The two halves of the family parted at Gračišće in the 1860s. One went to the Kvarner, Germany, South Africa and Australia. The other went to New York, Buenos Aires and Tuscany — except this one, who stayed, married a Marfan, and was still receiving her American cousins in the family house in the 1970s. Her son was the last of them in it. He died in 2003, and the archive has…

…t: «vešti klesar sada tvorničar» — a skilled stonemason, now a factory worker. His father Antonius was entered at Gračišće in 1863 as «lapicida», a stonecutter. Josip carried the trade down off the hill to the coast, and then the century took him out of it and into a factory. , children: name: Anton Rudolf , born: 20 January 1890, baptised 9 February , where: Klenovica house 22 , story: The line runs through him. Married Ursula Kovačina. On the Pfullingen list of foreigners in 1947 and certified by that town's mayor in 1950. , plates: anton-1890 , cert-anton-1890 , line: true , name: Marij…

…ory: Dead of pneumonia — «upala pluća» — and buried on 6 February 1906 by Carl Aleksander, parish priest. Her elder sister Marija Stjepanka had died on 29 September 1905. This child was born about three weeks after that and given her name. , plates: , nextGen: father: name: Anton Rudolf Defranceski , born: 20 January 1890 , died: 1943, per the family , mother: name: Ursula, born Kovačina , born: about 1890 , plates: ursula-kovacina , ursula-old , sons: name: Pepe , born: 1911, at Crikvenica , story: Photographed in naval…

…e , others: A sister, Anka, is named in the family's file with no dates. Felix, born 14 January 1908 at Crikvenica, stands on the Pfullingen list beside these men and appears in no register this archive has found and in no family file — he is either a late child of Josip and Ana, or an early one of Anton Rudolf. Poldo, or Pauldo, born 1901 at Crikvenica and dead in 1971, is photographed playing the accordion; the family's MyHeritage file places him instead among the nine children of the Imotski Franceschi, and which coast he belongs to is the one question at that seam still genuinely open. , australia: name: Ruža, born Hreljac , born: 13 February 192…

…rill Park, Willowbank, in the City of Ipswich, Queensland — and it is his death year, carried up a generation, that put 1999 on his father's entry in the family's file. , plates: anton-child , kovacina: heading: Ursula's people: the Kovačina of house 119 , lead: Anton Rudolf married Ursula Kovačina, and until now that was the whole of it — a surname with no family behind it. Two entries in the same Crikvenica death register give the household. , rows: who: Petar Kovačina , what: Died at Crikvenica on 3 November 1904, aged 55, of pulmonary tuberculosis; sacraments administered; buried the next day by Carl Aleks…

…, who: Uršula, called Ursa, née Stojčić , what: His wife, entered as «kućarka» — housekeeper — and, by the time the clerk wrote the entry out, as «žena pokojnog Petra Kovačine Nadstražara», wife of the late Petar Kovačina. The name Uršula is standing in this family a generation before Anton Rudolf's wife carried it. , key: true , who: Josipa Kovačina , what: Entry 49 of 1898: dead at Crikvenica on 10 September, aged one year and six months, of «Tuberculosis pulmonum», buried on the 12th. Her parents are given as Petar Kovačina, son of Petar, «stolar» — a joiner — and Marija née Car, at house 119. The same house number as th…

…trade, a brother, or a son, the register does not say and this archive will not guess. , close: What can be said is that Crikvenica house 119 was a Kovačina house through the 1890s and 1900s, that consumption was in it twice, and that the name Ursula was already there. Ursula Kovačina, who married Anton Rudolf and bore Pepe, Petar, Zdravko, Ivan, Anka and Pero, is very likely a daughter or granddaughter of this household — but the marriage entry that would prove it has not been found, and the link is inference, not record. , next: What to ask for: the Crikvenica marriage register for the 1900s and 1910s, for Anton Rudolf Defranceski and Ursula Kovačina; and the Crikvenica bir…

…n Rudolf and bore Pepe, Petar, Zdravko, Ivan, Anka and Pero, is very likely a daughter or granddaughter of this household — but the marriage entry that would prove it has not been found, and the link is inference, not record. , next: What to ask for: the Crikvenica marriage register for the 1900s and 1910s, for Anton Rudolf Defranceski and Ursula Kovačina; and the Crikvenica birth register around 1890 for a daughter of Petar Kovačina and Uršula Stojčić. Draga in the kotar of Sušak is a new place for this archive — nobody in the family has come from there before. , builtit: heading: One sentence in the family's own file about this house , quote: He built this house himself,…

…en monuments carrying the name were recorded; the transcriptions above are from those photographs, and where a stone is worn or read at an angle that is said. , whotaken: heading: Which of them the Partisans took, and what the papers actually say , lead: The family remembers that it was Anton — Anton Rudolf Defranceski, born 1890, the father — who was taken by the Partisans. The documents this archive holds put it on his son. Both things happened in the same year, in the same household, and it is not hard to see how the two became one memory. Here is what each record says. , rows: lab: The parentage is right , text: Anton Rudolf Defranceski,…

…r — who was taken by the Partisans. The documents this archive holds put it on his son. Both things happened in the same year, in the same household, and it is not hard to see how the two became one memory. Here is what each record says. , rows: lab: The parentage is right , text: Anton Rudolf Defranceski, born 20 January 1890 at Klenovica house 22 and baptised on 9 February, married Ursula Kovačina, and their children were Josip «Pepe» (1911), Petar (1913), Zdravko (1921), Ivan (1925) and Anka. He is the father of the three brothers, exactly as remembered. , key: true , lab: But the seizure is recorded of Zdravko , text…

…three continents, those two things collapsing into one sentence is the most ordinary thing in the world. The archive's job is not to correct the memory out of existence but to say which part of it each document supports. , open: And it leaves a real question, which is worth asking plainly: how did Anton Rudolf die in 1943? This archive has never had a date, a place or a cause for it — the year comes from the family, not from a document, and it is the only fact about him on this site that does. He came home from Germany in June 1942. In 1943 the Kvarner was under German occupation after the Italian collapse in September, with Partisan units in the hills behind Crikvenica. His son was…

…for 1943 would settle it in an afternoon, and it is now the first thing on the list. , source_taken: Zdravko's IRO resettlement record, number 148.901, and Petar's, 148.902; the Pfullingen register of foreigners of 1947 and the town's certifications of 1950; the Klenovica baptismal register for 20 January 1890. Anton Rudolf's death in 1943 is family testimony and is published as such. , zora: heading: Zorica, aged eighteen, in a nurse's apron , lead: Of Josip and Ana's six children, Zorica is the one this archive has known least about. Born at Crikvenica on 14 December 1896, conceived the month her two-year-old brother Ivan died, and then nothing — not a marriage, not a de…

…hat restricts them. The genuinely Bakar records sit in the first few hundred and then stop. What the long tail contains is every Defranceschi in the index, loosely sorted. , reg1943: heading: The Crikvenica death register for 1943, and why it is not simply readable , lead: Everything else about Anton Rudolf is documented and his death is not. The year 1943 comes from the family and from no paper this archive holds. So: where is that book, and can it be read? The answer is that it exists, it is one specific volume in one office twenty minutes from the house, and it is closed — but not to him. , rows: lab: The hundred-year rule , text: Croatian…

…, label: Ledenice baptisms, entry 2 of 1864 , note: Anna Kalanj's own baptismal entry , spouse: name: Anna Kalanj , born: 3 January 1864, at Rijenovica in the Vinodol , children: name: Anton Rudolf , born: 20 January 1890 , line: true , name: Marija Stjepanka , born: 8 Dec 1892 – 29 Sep 1905 , name: Ivan , born: November 1894 , name: Zorica , born: 14 December 1896 , name: Marija…

…rth date and a different maiden name from the Ana Kalanj the registers name in all four children's entries. The registers govern here; the stone is an open question worth a letter. , occupation: vešti klesar sada tvorničar — skilled stonemason, later a factory worker , n: 5, name: Anton Rudolf Defranceski , born: 1890, bornExact: 20 January 1890, baptised 9 February , died: 1943, place: Klenovica, house 22 → Pfullingen , confidence: documented , evidence: Entry 9 of the Klenovica baptisms for 1890: Anton Rudolf, legitimate, son of «Josip Defranceschi i žena Ana Kalanj rodjena», at house 22 — and in the column for t…

…er , n: 5, name: Anton Rudolf Defranceski , born: 1890, bornExact: 20 January 1890, baptised 9 February , died: 1943, place: Klenovica, house 22 → Pfullingen , confidence: documented , evidence: Entry 9 of the Klenovica baptisms for 1890: Anton Rudolf, legitimate, son of «Josip Defranceschi i žena Ana Kalanj rodjena», at house 22 — and in the column for the parents' place of origin, «Gallignana u Istriji». That is the zavičaj, the inherited Austrian commune of legal settlement, and it is the register itself stating that this coastal household's home commune was Gračišće. Fifty-seven years later he is on the Pfullingen list…

…čišće house 19 — the boy the Crikvenica register would enter in 1906 as «vešti klesar sada tvorničar», a skilled stonemason now a factory worker. So the chain is complete and every link has a date: Joannes Baptista, born 1787, farmer; Antonius, born 1825, stonecutter; Josephus, born 1863, stonemason then factory hand; Anton Rudolf, born 1890 at Klenovica; and the four brothers who ended in Australia, Germany and Senj. , key: true , lab: A trade for a woman in the line , text: On the later page for the same family the widow is entered with an occupation of her own: «Maria Defranceschi n. Fernasar, Obstetrix, 17-10-1832 … 10-1-1916». Obstetrix is a midwife. S…

…id: XQM3-P8WW , key: anastasia , up: , down: , id: h047 , father: Josip Defranceschi , mother: Ana Kalanj , place: Ledenice , region: kvarner , from: 1890, to: 1892, n: 2, line: male , children: name: Anton Rudolf Franceschi , sex: , y: 1890, d: null, ours: true, id: XQMS-8XGZ , key: antonio rudolf , name: Marija Stjepanka Defranceschi , sex: , y: 1892, d: null, ours: true, id: XQM9-8K2Q , key: maria stjepanka , up: , down: , id: h048 ,…

…t four baptisms and give her own baptism at Ledenice on 3 January 1864, while the family holds a photograph of a gravestone reading ANA DE. FRANCESCHI for an Ana Grubišić, 19 September 1863 to 28 May 1936. The database shows where the second version comes from and how firmly it is held. , detail: In the file, Anton Rudolf — entered as «Ante de Franceschi», who married Ursula Kovačina and whose children are Pepe, Zdravko, Ivan, Anka and Peter, so certainly the right man — is the son of «Josip Bepo de Franceschi», born 1870, and «Ana Nona-Nana Grubišić», 1863–1936. The registers make his father Josephus, born 22 March 1863, and his mother Ana Kalanj, born 3 January 1864. Two birth years for the f…