The Defranceschi Archive
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Hedviga Blažević (Defranceski)

Everything this archive holds under this name, gathered from every page of the site.

Years1926–2001
ParishSenj
LineOut of Carnia
Relationship to Davidgrandmother
Found inDirect line
What the archive knows

A singer at the Hotel Therapia, Crikvenica — family testimony, 10 September 2026, and the likeliest explanation of how a Senj woman met a Crikvenica man. Daughter of Ljubomir Blažević and Milka Papić. Died at Johannesburg, 30 October 2001. Her date of birth stands in this archive as both 8 March and 3 August 1926; the two are a transposition and neither has been preferred.

No family is drawn for this name, and no record stands behind it. This archive has not placed it in a household and holds no indexed entry for it — the name reached this project through a chart, a narrative source or the family tree, and everything it does hold is below. The Register is where a record would appear if one turned up.
Identity here is by name, not by resolved individual. Where two people of one name appear in this archive they share this page, and it is for the reader to keep them apart — the surrounding text usually makes it obvious. Nothing here is new evidence; it is the same evidence, brought together.

Appears on: The Atlas · Changes · Corrections · The House at Crikvenica · The Spine · Errands · The Lines · The Imotski Franceschi · Everyone · The Search Register · The Senj Line · Sources · The Story · The Tree · 1948

1948

…and, the same day: «at the Hotel Therapija, which I believe closed down.» lore· venue named This one the archive can only believe, and it explains something it could not explain before — and the hotel is still standing. Hedviga Blažević was a Senj woman — born there, daughter of Ljubomir Blažević and Milka Papić the tobacco-factory cigar-roller, out of a line of Senj carriers reaching back past 1768. Ivan was a Crikvenica man. Twenty-five miles of coast road lie between the two…

Changes

…— and it is the third time this project has had to say so, after Francesco de' Franceschi the Venetian printer and Francesco de' Franceschi the painter. /research-log/ 10 Sept 2026 pending Ivan Defranceski, Hedviga Blažević, Uršula Kovačina, Anton Rudolf — 1948–1951 Arolsen Archives online collections Not attempted: the service is down. collections.arolsen-archives.org resolves to 62.90.197.110 and times out, while the main Arolsen site answers…

…refuse — after the Venetian printer and the Venetian painter — and the pattern is always the same: a well-known man of the name, and no join but the name. /people/· the MyHeritage tree 10 Sept 2026 correction Hedviga Blažević has two birthdays A claim taken back This archive said Two pages give her birth as 8 March 1926. A third page quotes the certified extract of the Senj birth register, attached to her son's 1951 entry, which gives 3 August…

Corrections

…This is the third famous namesake the project has had to refuse — after the Venetian printer and the Venetian painter — and the pattern is always the same: a well-known man of the name, and no join but the name. 10 Sept 2026 Hedviga Blažević has two birthdays serious /senj-line/· /crikvenica-house/ Two pages give her birth as 8 March 1926. A third page quotes the certified extract of the Senj birth register, attached to her son's 1951 entry, which gives 3…

The House at Crikvenica

…fiche-zdravko zdravko-plaque Ivan 25 June 1925, at Crikvenica 30 October 1995, at Senj Entered a Reutlingen factory on 21 October 1941, aged sixteen, as an unskilled hand. He went home. Married Hedviga Blažević of Senj, born 8 March 1926 — she died on 30 October 2001 at Johannesburg, six years to the day after him. He is buried on his own coast under a plain granite slab cut IVAN DEFRANČESKI. kk-ivan ivan-grave line A…

…1925–1995. The camera original the family has now sent is six times the size of the copy this site had, and the dates are legible for the first time. He entered a Reutlingen factory at sixteen in October 1941 as an unskilled hand, went home, married Hedviga Blažević of Senj, and stayed. He died on 30 October 1995; she died on 30 October 2001 at Johannesburg, six years to the day. And where his brother is «IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF ZDRAVKO FRANK DEFRANCESKI — DIED 22ND DECEMBER 1979 AGED 58 —…

The Spine

…the Pfullingen list as Iwan, born 24 June 1925 at Crikvenica. His own German sickness-fund card gives 25 June and puts him at Brunnenstraße 7, Pfullingen, entering work on 21 October 1941 as an unskilled hand. He was sixteen. He went home, married Hedviga Blažević, and is buried on his own coast under polished granite cut with a plain cross and the name in Croatian orthography: IVAN DEFRANČESKI, 1925–1995. kk-ivan Arolsen Archives, ITS Pfullingen list; Allgemeine…

Errands

…sia consultabile e se sia possibile una ricerca mirata sul cognome De Franceschi (area della Carnia, fine XVII secolo). high Matični ured Senj (registry office) / Državni arhiv u Rijeci Senj birth register 1926 — Hedviga Blažević, and the Senj marriage register for 1948 Matična knjiga rođenih Senj 1926; matična knjiga vjenčanih Senj 1948 Two things at once. Hedviga's date of birth exists in this archive as both 8 March 1926 and 3 August 1926 — the same digits…

…1925. u Crikvenici, i Hedvigu Blažević. Istraživanje je obiteljsko i nekomercijalno. Unaprijed zahvaljujem. n high Arolsen Archives (International Tracing Service), Bad Arolsen Any trace of Ivan Defranceski and Hedviga Blažević leaving Yugoslavia, 1948–1951 ITS Digital Collections; the family is already in the Pfullingen list of foreigners and the AOK sickness-fund cards· Form: arolsen-archives.org/en/archive/inquiry/ → «Go to the inquiry form». Required: first name,…

…broj 22. Molim i svaki upis koji povezuje prezime Car s Uršulom Kovačina, rođenom oko 1890., tijekom 1940-ih. Riječ je o obiteljskom istraživanju. n medium Muzej Grada Crikvenice / Novi list archive, Rijeka Hedviga Blažević, a singer at the Hotel Therapia, Crikvenica, 1940s Hotel Therapia (1895 Nadvojvoda Josip; Therapia from c.1899; latterly Falkensteiner, now Kvarner Palace) — programmes, posters, season photographs The family names the venue: Hedviga…

…this archive has ever had for how the two towns met. It would also give a woman recorded here only as a wife, a mother and a date of death a profession and a workplace. Any programme, poster, photograph or press notice naming a singer Hedviga Blažević at the Hotel Therapia, Crikvenica, between about 1944 and 1952 — including the hotel's own season programmes for those years. Poštovani, tražim bilo kakav program, plakat, fotografiju ili novinsku vijest u kojoj se spominje pjevačica…

…at the Hotel Therapia, Crikvenica, between about 1944 and 1952 — including the hotel's own season programmes for those years. Poštovani, tražim bilo kakav program, plakat, fotografiju ili novinsku vijest u kojoj se spominje pjevačica Hedviga Blažević u hotelu Therapia u Crikvenici, otprilike između 1944. i 1952. godine — uključujući i sezonske programe samoga hotela za te godine. Riječ je o obiteljskom istraživanju, nekomercijalnom. Unaprijed zahvaljujem. n When one of these…

The Lines

…Australia — Horsham, Ipswich Carnia doc «Emigré Australie le 8.3.49» on Anton's index card. Zdravko's bronze at Horsham. South Africa· Zimbabwe Carnia doc Hedviga Blažević died at Johannesburg in 2001; the keeper of this archive was born there. Senj Carnia doc Not a line — a station. Ivan went home to Senj and is buried there, 1925–1995. New York Carnia…

The Imotski Franceschi

…Crikvenica — the second individual sitting across the seam. Ivan Defranceski 25 June 1925, Crikvenica 30 October 1995, Senj Worked at Senj. Buried there — the family holds the gravestone photograph. Hedviga Blažević 8 March 1926, Senj 30 October 2001, Johannesburg Ivan's wife, of the Blažević of Senj and Krmpote. She died in South Africa, six years to the day after her husband died in Senj. Zdravko, called…

The Senj Line

…archive's other half. Ivan Defranceski of Crikvenica married Hedviga Blažević of Senj, and everything on this page stands behind her — a line of Senj carriers, tobacco-factory workers and Karlobag seafaring families that is, in the end, better documented and older than the Defranceschi spine itself. This archive was built…

…tobacco-factory workers and Karlobag seafaring families that is, in the end, better documented and older than the Defranceschi spine itself. This archive was built around one surname and kept finding that the surname was the shallower half. Hedviga Blažević, who married Ivan Defranceski and died at Johannesburg in 2001, came from a Senj family whose registers run back without a break to the middle of the eighteenth century, and whose Karlobag branch reaches people born around 1690. Six photographs of register…

…carried loads for a living. Eighty-five years later somebody came back to this page and wrote her death across the remarks column — 7 September 1971, from the Sveti Križ death register, entered by the registrar on the 30th. n Hedviga Blažević Senj· Johannesburg Born at Senj on 8 March 1926, the daughter of Milka's second marriage. She married Ivan Defranceski of Crikvenica and died at Johannesburg on 30 October 2001 — six years to the day after he died at…

…people. This archive had been into it once already, for the photographs: every portrait on the Crikvenica house page comes out of it. What had not been taken out of it is the written half. Most of that is the living, who are omitted here, but under Hedviga Blažević it holds two ancestral lines that appear nowhere else in this project, and one of them is deeper than anything on the Senj side. The Blažević Anton Blažević No dates. The earliest of the name in the file. Toma…

…Blažević No dates. Married Tereza Žubrinić, born 29 November 1867 — the join to the other line below. Ljubomir Blažević 1 March 1892 – 1966. Married Milka Papić, 9 October 1886 – 7 September 1971, who is generation 4 of the Senj line above. Hedviga Blažević Their daughter, and the woman this line runs through. The file also carries a second Blažević strand it does not connect to the first: Mateša Blažević, then Grgica, then Ilija, then Anton and Luka, and Luka's son Pavao Blažević, 31 December…

The Story

…Senj· Johannesburg· Brisbane And Ivan went home The third brother did not stay in Germany and did not sail for Australia. Ivan was born at Crikvenica on 25 June 1925, went back to his own coast, worked at Senj and married Hedviga Blažević — whose people were Senj packhorse carriers and tobacco-factory workers, and whose Karlobag ancestry reaches people born about 1690. He died at Senj on 30 October 1995 under a plain granite slab cut IVAN DEFRANČESKI. Hedviga died at Johannesburg six years…

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