Pierre Defranceschi

…page carries two Frenchmen of the name. They are recorded because they exist, not because they are relatives, and that has not changed. Switzerland and Savoie, still untouched Four DeFranceschi graves at Giubiasco in Ticino, and one Pierre Defranceschi at Gaillard in Haute-Savoie, which is effectively a suburb of Geneva. Both look like modern Italian labour migration and neither has been searched. They are two more separate stories, not part of this one. People from the family's…

…are not the same movement and, so far as anything here shows, not the same family. France and Corsica small and old from the fourteenth century Levie, Corse-du-Sud· Marseille· Saint-Étienne Pierre Defranceschi, born 1818, died 1853, son of Joseph Defranceschi and Françoise Guillellemont. Pierre Defranceschi, born at Levie in Corsica on 4 March 1921, died at Marseille in 1990. Isacco Francesco de Franceschi, born 1927 at Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds, died 2004 at…

…and Corsica small and old from the fourteenth century Levie, Corse-du-Sud· Marseille· Saint-Étienne Pierre Defranceschi, born 1818, died 1853, son of Joseph Defranceschi and Françoise Guillellemont. Pierre Defranceschi, born at Levie in Corsica on 4 March 1921, died at Marseille in 1990. Isacco Francesco de Franceschi, born 1927 at Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds, died 2004 at Saint-Étienne. The Corsican De Franceschi are of Florentine origin — a Taddeo Franceschi…

…and Rosa (1885–1956), and two children, Remo (1919–1975) and Margherita (1921–1991). Italian-speaking Switzerland, over the border from Lombardy. A whole family, fully dated, and not one document read. Gaillard, Haute-Savoie Pierre Defranceschi, 1818–1853. One man, thirty-five years old, on the French side of the Geneva border. He is the entire French holding of this archive outside Corsica. Neither is joined to anything. Both are recorded so that they are not «discovered» again in…