Ivan Defranceski

…So the shape is now whole. They tried in 1948 and failed. The son was born at Senj in 1951. They got out about 1954. Six years between the attempt and the crossing, and the child was born into the gap. Two more things follow from the same book. Ivan Defranceski kept a Yugoslav passport long afterwards, which is a fact about how the leaving was done. And his parents divorced when he was eighteen — about 1969 — which is why Ivan Defranceski, 1925–1995, is buried on his own coast at Senj while Hedviga…

…born into the gap. Two more things follow from the same book. Ivan Defranceski kept a Yugoslav passport long afterwards, which is a fact about how the leaving was done. And his parents divorced when he was eighteen — about 1969 — which is why Ivan Defranceski, 1925–1995, is buried on his own coast at Senj while Hedviga died at Johannesburg in 2001. They did not simply drift apart across a sea. They separated, and he went…

…exists to catch — 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…

…Paul Raymond Lerena deceased lore Pat living — named only living Diane living — named only living Married Ivan Defranceski married 1 July 1997 living Her first husband named only as that, at David's instruction doc Her son David living — named only· the compiler of this archive…

…the mother: FNRJ and Croatian — a citizen of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Against the father, in the same hand, on the same sheet, in his own country, six years after the frontier moved: STATELESS, and nationality Italian. Ivan Defranceski was born at Crikvenica in 1925 under the Kingdom of Italy. In 1947 Istria and the Kvarner passed to Yugoslavia, and those who did not or could not resolve their status became apolidi — stateless — in the place they had never left. His brothers'…

…— Petar 15 June 1913 Zdravko 1 April 1921 Ivan 24 or 25 June 1925 line Anka dates unknown n Ivan Defranceski born 24 or 25 June 1925 died Crikvenica → Pfullingen → Senj documented On the Pfullingen list as Iwan, born 24 June 1925 at Crikvenica. His own German sickness-fund card gives 25…

…who lived in them. Primorje-Gorski Kotar holds Crikvenica, where Josip Defranceschi went from Gračišće and where the family kept a house; and Klenovica, house 22, where Anton Rudolf was born in 1890. Lika-Senj holds Senj, where Ivan Defranceski (1925–1995) ended up. Those are generations 4, 5 and 6 of the direct line — David's great-great-grandfather, great-grandfather and grandfather. Ivan's second additional group says it again in different words: «Croatia (Primorje-Gorski Kotar) and…

…by about 1679. If that is, why is there no Italian in the father's DNA? Because there was never going to be. Autosomal DNA halves every generation, and it halves fast: Ivan his father 50% living, named only Ivan Defranceski Crikvenica → Pfullingen → Senj 25% 1925–1995 Anton Rudolf Defranceski Klenovica, house 22 → Pfullingen 12.5% b. 1890 Josip Defranceschi Gračišće → Crikvenica 6.25% 1863–1951 Antonio Defranceschi…

…the bishopric of Zagreb. And John Corvinus, on all three lists, was Ban of Croatia and Dalmatia at the end of the fifteenth century. Three of the fourteen held the crown or the office that governed the shore this family lived on. Senj, where Ivan Defranceski ended up, was a royal free city of that kingdom; the Vinodol coast below it was held from the same crown. That is not descent. It is something quieter and, for an archive that keeps a <a href= /atlas/ sovereignty chart</a, more interesting: the…

…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 in the wrong order, and one of them is a transposition. And the family remembers 1948 as the year she and Ivan Defranceski «went»; a marriage entry that year would explain the memory without contradicting their son's 1951 birth at Senj. A certified copy of the birth entry for Blažević Hedviga, born 1926 at Senj, daughter of Ljubomir Blažević and Milka née Papić;…

…rođenog 25. lipnja 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».…

…list and the 1950 mayoral certificate, since the family records him as dying in 1943. Dear Arolsen Archives, I am researching my own family and have already used your Pfullingen list of foreigners and the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse card for Ivan Defranceski (Brunnenstraße 7, Pfullingen, from 21 October 1941). I should be grateful for a search of the ITS holdings for the years 1948–1951 for DEFRANCESKI / DEFRANCESCHI, Ivan, born 25 June 1925 at Crikvenica, Croatia, and for BLAŽEVIĆ, Hedviga, born…

…or Pauldo, de Franceschi 1901, Crikvenica 1971 An accordion player. Placed by the tree among Josip Bepo's Imotski children, but born and working at 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…

…register gives the pier both names and no explanation. Rijeka renamed a great many Hungarian and Italian things after 1945, and the obvious candidates are all in this archive — Carlo the historian, whose family Kobler traced in the Fiume registers; Ivan Defranceski, political commissar in the Istrian partisans in 1943–45; or one of Kobler's three Fiume households of the name. This archive will not guess. The Rijeka city archive and the municipal street-naming records would settle it in an afternoon, and it is on…

…Centro di ricerche storiche present. He spells the name exactly as this family does — Defranceski, fused, no particle. Nothing connects him to it. The National Union Catalog of pre-1956 imprints has the first edition. ivandf Ivan Defranceski fl. 1943–1945 Istria Arms Political commissar in the Istrian partisans. He was commissar of the II Company of the First Istrian Partisan Battalion, then of the battalion itself under the acting commander Vinko…

…to Germany. Motor mechanic at Reutlingen. Married Ruža of Fužine. Resettled February 1949 — to Australia. Died at Horsham, Victoria, 22 December 1979, aged fifty-eight, buried there as Frank. Auto-mécanicien published Ivan Defranceski 24 or 25 June 1925 Crikvenica Entered work on 21 October 1941 at sixteen, as an unskilled hand at Licht und Kraft, Reutlingen. Returned to Croatia; the line continues through him. Hilfsarbeiter…

…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…

…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 pages, taken at Senj in 2014…

…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 Senj. Milka married twice, and the tobacco factory is in both entries 4 November 1907 Milka Papić marries…