Maria Valhart

…lbum2012 , kind: Family , title: «The DeFranceschi Family Tree Album» , where: printed for the first family reunion, Crystal Springs Resort, 7–9 September 2012 , url: , what: The American branch's own history and chart, headed «started by Antonio DeFranceschi 8/6/1856 – 10/23/1924 + Maria Valhart 4/6/1867 – 1945». Eleven children, five countries. Also the description of the arms carved on the 1711 house at Moncalvo. , cites: , note: Assembled from Anton Rumac's handwritten notes and a cassette tape made by cousin Bruno. Its compiler says plainly there will be errors; where it can be checked against registers, it holds. , id: mftpkg ,…

…ptember 2012, and its accompanying chart «The Generations of DeFranceschi (2012)». Held by the family; a copy is in this archive's own papers. , head: name: Antonio DeFranceschi , born: 6 August 1856 , died: 23 October 1924 , place: Gallignana — Gračišće , wife: name: Maria Valhart , born: 6 April 1867 , died: 1945 , children: n: Antonio “Tony” , born: 18 February 1887 , where: Italy , story: Married Marta Comisso; five children, four sons and a daughter. , check: FamilySearch has an Anthony de Franceschi born 18 February 1887 at Gallignana, with a wife Marta — the same…

…XII. 1981 — NAZARIJO ✱ 7. 02. 1939 ✝ 11. 12. 2003 , rows: lab: Virginija de Franceschi Marfan, 30 March 1895 – 28 December 1981 , text: The chart printed for the Crystal Springs reunion in 2012 gives «VIRGINIA (3/30/1895)», sixth of the eleven children of Antonio DeFranceschi and Maria Valhart, and the album says she married Giovanni Marfan and had four children. The stone gives 30 March 1895. Same day, same month, same year — one written down in America in 2012, the other cut in Istria in 1981. And it gives what the chart did not: she died on 28 December 1981, aged eighty-six, and she is buried in her own village. , key: true , lab…

…ves , text: A cross-topped obelisk stands between the Salamon and Marfan monuments, and it reads «ANTONIO DEFRANCESCHI 185 5 or 6 – 19 2 4» and «MARIA DEFRANCESCHI 6. IV. 1867 – 3. X. 1945». These are the two names at the head of the American chart — «started by Antonio DeFranceschi 8/6/1856 – 10/23/1924 + Maria Valhart 4/6/1867 – 1945». The chart is in American date order, so its 4/6/1867 is the sixth of April, and the stone says 6.IV.1867. A date written down in California in 2012 and a date cut in Istria after 1945, and they agree exactly. And the stone gives what the chart could not: Maria died on 3 October 1945. The chart had only the year. , key: true ,…

…on every register enters him as their son. , key: true , lab: That son is the man at the head of the chart , text: Antonius, born 6 August 1856, the mason — «Antonio DeFranceschi 8/6/1856» at the top of the chart printed for the Crystal Springs reunion in 2012, husband of Maria Valhart, father of the eleven children. He was born three and a half months before his parents' wedding, to a mother who had herself been born outside marriage twenty-four years earlier. , key: true , lab: And his wife came out of an orphanage , text: Against Maria née Volhardt, whom he married on 23 February 1889, the priest wrote «nata…

…key: true , lab: And one line that stops you , text: Her son Antonius, born 1856, married in 1889 «Maria n. Volhardt, nata 6-4-1867», and against her name the priest wrote where she came from: «nata in Orfanotrofio Tergesti» — born in the orphanage at Trieste. That is the Maria Valhart at the head of the American chart, the mother of the eleven children, whose birth date this archive matched to the day against her gravestone at Gračišće this morning. She began in a foundling hospital in another country. , key: true , scale: Those are two households out of a much larger read. Across the Gologorica and Gračišće books — houses 2, 5…