Josip Defranceschi

…is on the Crikvenica page Family photograph collection — the hand-tinted portrait pair The face was wrong, and it was on the direct line's own page. A hand-tinted portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie had been published here as Josip Defranceschi, born at Gračišće 22 March 1863 — David's great-grandfather, and the only likeness the direct line had. David identified it: the photograph is from the Imotski branch, and the sitter is a Josip of that family. Two branches' pictures sit in one…

…a shoemaker. /research-log/ 9 Sept 2026 correction A face on the direct line A claim taken back This archive said A hand-tinted portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie, published as Josip Defranceschi, born at Gračišće 22 March 1863 — David's great-grandfather, and the only likeness the direct line had. What is It is from the Imotski branch, and the sitter is a Josip of that family. No likeness of the Crikvenica Josip is known to this…

…policy changed, rather than left contradicting the pages above it. 9 Sept 2026 A face on the direct line serious /crikvenica-house/ A hand-tinted portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie, published as Josip Defranceschi, born at Gračišće 22 March 1863 — David's great-grandfather, and the only likeness the direct line had. It is from the Imotski branch, and the sitter is a Josip of that family. No likeness of the Crikvenica Josip is known to this…

…household that carried the line down from Istria to the Kvarner coast, reconstructed from four register entries, the family's own MacFamilyTree file, eleven photographs the family holds, and the family's MyHeritage export of July 2018. Josip Defranceschi 22 March 1863, at Gračišće 1951 Ana Kalanj 3 January 1864, at Rijenovica in the Vinodol Named as the mother in all four of their children's register entries; the 1905 burial entry writes her…

…name Ivan enters the family here — and goes out again eighteen months later. Entry 13 of the Crikvenica death register for 1896 records the death of Ivan De Franceschi, «Dvie /2/ godine», son of «Josip De Franceschi klesar i Anica rodjena Kalanj» — Josip Defranceschi, stonemason, and Anica née Kalanj. The cause is entered in one vernacular word, «Dobrac», which this archive has not been able to translate with confidence. No sacraments: he was two. He was buried on 28 March in the local parish cemetery by Carl…

…the man on the Pfullingen list of foreigners in 1947. The face this page used to carry, and why it is gone Until 9 September 2026 this page opened with a hand-tinted portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie, captioned as Josip Defranceschi, born at Gračišće on 22 March 1863 — the stonecutter's son, David's great-grandfather. It was the only likeness the direct line had. It is not him David identified it: the photograph comes from the Imotski…

…in a photograph. (family identification — David holds the originals) How it happened, stated plainly Two branches' pictures sit in one family collection. A card carried the name Josip Defranceski, this line has a Josip Defranceschi, and this archive matched the face to the name without asking which Josip. The register plates on this page were checked against Gračišće and Ledenice; the portrait was never checked against anything at all. It is exactly the failure the portraits…

…status-animarum-ant DAPA ZM34K 217, M01071656 Supplied by the Pazin State Archive, 24 June 2021 MKR Gračišće 1841-1899 Certified copy supplied 26 April 2021 n Josip Defranceschi Josephus born 22 March 1863 died Gračišće → Crikvenica documented Baptised at Gallignana on 23 March 1863, born the day before, son of Antonius the stonecutter. He is…

…born 20 January 1890, baptised 9 February died Klenovica, house 22 → Pfullingen documented 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…

…father, and it is the only one David inherits: «Croatia (Lika-Senj and Primorje-Gorski Kotar)». Those are two named Croatian counties, and this archive can tell you exactly 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 —…

…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 Gračišće, house 19 3.1% 1825–1894 Giovanni Battista Defranceschi Gračišće, house 5 1.6% 1787–1846 Giovanni Defranceschi Gologorica →…

…wife, and every child under them with a birth date beside each name. It is the book that gave this archive the whole of Gračišće house 24 — the midwife, the mason and the eleven children — in one opening. A twentieth-century Crikvenica volume should hold Josip Defranceschi's household on the Kvarner in the same form, and if it does it answers the ZO…, the POLD… and the Ruža of the monument in a single page, without ever needing the missing baptisms. The second Crikvenica, marriages…

…both directions.· De Marchi, De Maria, De Rocchi, Del Carro — the register is full of De surnames in the same hand. Check the photograph against something A hand-tinted portrait was published here for months as Josip Defranceschi of Crikvenica, the direct line's only likeness. It is from the Imotski branch. Every register plate on that same page had been checked against Pazin and Ledenice. The portrait was never checked against anything at all — it carried a name on a…

…d. 29 Feb 1892· bur. 2 Mar 1892 Croazia, Austria Croazia, Austria Franciscae in XQM9-8K2Q Marija Stjepanka Defranceschi Defranceschi y b. 8 Dec 1892 Josip Defranceschi Ana Kalanj in X31B-4ZD1 Radoš Franceschi Franceschi M y b. 1892· d. 2 Dec 1892· bur. 4 Dec 1892 Almissa, Spalato, Dalmazia, Austria Almissa, Spalato, Dalmazia, Austria…

…the registers decides how you spend day two. 1a Župa Crikvenica — the parish office book The registers this archive has read in film form. What is wanted here is the marriage entry for Josip Defranceschi and Ana Kalanj — this archive has their four children and Josip's death entry but has never seen the marriage. A pencil note in the 1890 Klenovica baptism says «vjenčao se na Crikvenici», he married at Crikvenica. That is the note to take with you.…