Giovanni Battista Defranceschi

…the same name was baptised on 13 August 1787. If that identification holds, the family chart's Giovanni is a Giovanni Battista, and behind him stands the Leonardus who gives the casa-31 branch its byname «detti Leonardi»., n Giovanni Battista Defranceschi Joan. Bapt. Defranceschi born 13 August 1787 died 1 September 1846 1819 agricola — farmer Gračišće (Gallignana), house 5 Francisca…

…unidentified. 8 January 1733, folio 138 — the headman's wife «Patrini fuerunt Judex Gregorius Milcovich et Ioana Uxor Sup.ni Ioanis Bap.tae Defranceschi.» The godparents were Judge Gregorius Milcovich and Joanna, wife of Suppanus Giovanni Battista Defranceschi. Suppanus is the župan, the headman of a village. The child was Josephus, son of Marinus Cincopan and Lucia, baptised by Canon Grah. 19 March 1734, folio 138 — a priest of the name says the words «Presbiter Philippus de…

…about. 26 June 1743, folio 158 — the same couple, ten years on «Patrini fuerunt R.di D.ni Joannes Grach, et Joanna uxor Sup.ni Jo: Baptistae Defranceschi à Golagoriza.» The Reverend Joannes Grach, and Joanna, wife of Giovanni Battista Defranceschi, headman of Gologorica. Word for word the same formula as 1733, the same wife, the same husband, the same office — and this time the scribe adds where they are from. 5 May 1744, folio 160 — Dominus Joannes Petrus «Patrini…

…godmother are the same woman, married to the same man, and he held the headmanship of Gologorica across at least those ten years. What a suppanus was, and why a Belgian bishopric is the reason for it The register calls Giovanni Battista Defranceschi «suppanus» in 1733 and «Suppani … à Golagoriza» in 1743. That is the župan, the headman of the village — the man a lord governs a place through. The Zagreb librarians' account of the family archive, published in 2024, explains what he was headman under, and…

…of Pićan, until defeudalisation, when the place became a municipality. Three accounts, written independently, and they interlock The Gallignana parish register, kept at the time by clergy with no interest in this family, has Giovanni Battista Defranceschi as headman of Gologorica in 1733 and 1743, and a Dominus Joannes Petrus Defranceschi in 1744. Carlo De Franceschi, writing privately to Kobler about 1873 out of family memory, has a Giambattista who built the house in 1711 and two sons, Giampietro and…

…1925–1995 Anton Rudolf Defranceski Klenovica, house 22 → Pfullingen 12.5% b. 1890 Josip Defranceschi Gračišće → Crikvenica 6.25% 1863–1951 Antonio Defranceschi Gračišće, house 19 3.1% 1825–1894 Giovanni Battista Defranceschi Gračišće, house 5 1.6% 1787–1846 Giovanni Defranceschi Gologorica → Gračišće 0.78% 1750–1829 the Mione link Carnia → Istria 0.098% c. 1679 the Fiume household Rijeka 0.049% 1626 the Omiš…

…Carnian weavers and traders were moving into the Venetian and Habsburg Adriatic through exactly this period, so the identification is plausible and unproven in equal measure. What is striking is the timing. Valentino was made a citizen of Fiume in 1739; Giovanni Battista Defranceschi arrived from the County of Pazin around 1740 and was made a citizen in 1746. Two men of the same surname, from the two regions this family claims, in the same port, within eighteen months. The existing research treats them as unrelated. That is an inference…

…in the same year as each other, which in a port city usually means an epidemic rather than a coincidence. FamilySearch, Croatia Church Books 1516–1994, Rijeka (Vitipolis / Fiume) entries giovanni-battista-defranceschi Giovanni Battista Defranceschi born died pazin pazin-fiume Citizen of Fiume inferred Came from the County of Pazin around 1740 and was made a citizen of Fiume in 1746. Origin County…

…territory, because that is what the question asked, and Venetian Istria — where most Gorto emigrants actually went — was left out of the answers entirely. Third, he took a son. The County of Pazin is where Gologorica and Gračišće are. It is the county Giovanni Battista Defranceschi is said to have left for Fiume around 1740, sixty-one years later, and the county in which the De Franceschi house on the Gologorica square was built in 1711, thirty-two years later. This does not prove descent. It does move the Carnia–Istria link from a…

…Zuane Ivan Franceschi shelters 600 Imotski refugees year Imotski taken; the Perinuša estate granted year Valentino Defranceschi, from Carnia, made a citizen of Fiume year Giovanni Battista Defranceschi arrives from the County of Pazin year First Gračišće status animarum year Joseph II dissolves the Pauline order at Crikvenica year Napoleonic decree strips the nobiliary ‘de’ in Dalmatia…