The Defranceschi Archive
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Joseph De Franceschi

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PlaceEast Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York, USA
Years1940
LineOut of Carnia
Found inHeadstone
What the archive knows

Long Island National Cemetery

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Appears on: The Eleven · Changes · Where the Name Is Cut in Stone · Everyone · The Search Register

Headstone
– 26 Apr 1940 · Long Island National Cemetery · East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York, USA · F, 2918

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Headstone
26 Mar 1929 – 15 Jan 2013 · Saint John Neumann Cemetery · Chalfont, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA · Section 3, Range 4, #22

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The Eleven

…in 1935. With him his wife Mary, 36, born New Jersey — Maria Duda — and two children, a daughter born 1927 and a son born 1929, both born in New Jersey. This archive had not known he had children. 26 April 1940· U.S. Veteran's Gravesites. «Joseph De Franceschi· died 26 Apr 1940· Rank Sergeant· US Army· World War I· Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale, New York· Section F, Site 2918.» Twenty-five days after the census taker wrote him down. The grave record carries no birth year, so…

Changes

…children, three clerks, one woman, and the parish book's Volhardt behind all of them. Gerda's surname is Seedorf, of Hanover. Joseph's 1917 draft card gives 12 March 1892 and «Frieste»; the 1940 census gives him a wife and two children; and a Sergeant Joseph De Franceschi of the First World War lies at Long Island National Cemetery, dead 26 April 1940, twenty-five days after that census. Basilio died 15 June 1994. And the fused spelling Defranceski returns thirty-six of its own — a family of five off the Slovenija…

…this archive reads as oiler. And the Horsham headstone is legible: «IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF ZDRAVKO FRANK DEFRANCESKI· DIED 22ND DECEMBER 1979 AGED 58· BELOVED HUSBAND OF ROSA», photographed 8 May 2018. The war-grave record for Sergeant Joseph De Franceschi is an index only — no image exists to open. /research-log/ 9 Sept 2026 hit Whether Antonio ever went back to the wife he left at Pićan Findmypast — the 1926 Martha Washington manifest, and a search for…

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