Ursula Kovačina

…e seam. , who: Sretko de Franceschi , dates: , what: , who: Dragica de Franceschi , dates: , what: , seam: heading: Where the two families were joined, and how to see it , lead: The tree makes Anton Toni de Franceschi of Imotski, 1893–1941, the husband of Ursula Kovačina and the father of the Crikvenica children — Pepe, Zdravko, Ivan, Anka and Pero. He was neither. , points: lab: The tree records its own doubt in the names , text: Three of the four people at the seam are entered with question marks inside the name field: «Ursula Kovačina?», «Ana Nana Grubišić?», «Ana Kalaj-Kucarica ? (Kalanj??)». The compiler could not de…

…1893–1941, the husband of Ursula Kovačina and the father of the Crikvenica children — Pepe, Zdravko, Ivan, Anka and Pero. He was neither. , points: lab: The tree records its own doubt in the names , text: Three of the four people at the seam are entered with question marks inside the name field: «Ursula Kovačina?», «Ana Nana Grubišić?», «Ana Kalaj-Kucarica ? (Kalanj??)». The compiler could not decide and wrote the uncertainty down. That is honest work, and it is the thread to pull. , lab: One woman is in the tree twice , text: Josip Bepo is given two wives. Ana Nana Grubišić, born 19 September 1863, died 28 May 1936. And Ana Kalaj-Kucarica ? (Kalanj??), born 1863, died…

…, lab: The two Antons are two men , text: The Imotski Anton Toni was born in 1893 at Imotski and married Marija Dijaković of Dubrovnik, a schoolteacher, with whom he is photographed at Poljica in 1932. Our Anton Rudolf was born on 20 January 1890 at Klenovica house 22, baptised on 9 February, and married Ursula Kovačina. Three years and four hundred kilometres apart. , lab: The registers point the other way entirely , text: The Klenovica baptism of 1890 names the parents' place of origin as «Gallignana u Istriji» — Gračišće in Istria. The 1863 Gračišće baptism gives Josip's father Antonius as a lapicida, a stonecutter, and the 1906 death entry gives Josip himself as a «vešti k…

…on Defranceski , born: 22 August 1944, Reutlingen , died: 28 June 1999, Ipswich, Queensland , what: Born in Germany to Zdravko and Ruža while they were there, and the exact date the Arolsen child-tracing papers were opened on. This is the single most valuable line in the file. , key: true , who: Ursula Kovačina , born: , died: , what: Anton Rudolf's wife and the mother of all of them. The tree gives her no dates, and neither does anything else this archive has found. , zdravko: heading: The 1999 that is not a death date , text: The family's file and the MyHeritage tree both give Zdravko Defranceski's death as 1999 at Horsham. Two memorials i…

…er. Josip carried the trade down off the hill to the coast, and then the century took him out of it and into a factory. , children: name: Anton Rudolf , born: 20 January 1890, baptised 9 February , where: Klenovica house 22 , story: The line runs through him. Married Ursula Kovačina. On the Pfullingen list of foreigners in 1947 and certified by that town's mayor in 1950. , plates: anton-1890 , cert-anton-1890 , line: true , name: Marija Stjepanka , born: 8 December 1892 , died: 29 September 1905, buried at Crikvenica the next day , where: Crikvenica , story:…

…, in the City of Ipswich, Queensland — and it is his death year, carried up a generation, that put 1999 on his father's entry in the family's file. , plates: anton-child , kovacina: heading: Ursula's people: the Kovačina of house 119 , lead: Anton Rudolf married Ursula Kovačina, and until now that was the whole of it — a surname with no family behind it. Two entries in the same Crikvenica death register give the household. , rows: who: Petar Kovačina , what: Died at Crikvenica on 3 November 1904, aged 55, of pulmonary tuberculosis; sacraments administered; buried the next day by Carl Aleksander. The register give…

…s the guard under an earlier trade, a brother, or a son, the register does not say and this archive will not guess. , close: What can be said is that Crikvenica house 119 was a Kovačina house through the 1890s and 1900s, that consumption was in it twice, and that the name Ursula was already there. Ursula Kovačina, who married Anton Rudolf and bore Pepe, Petar, Zdravko, Ivan, Anka and Pero, is very likely a daughter or granddaughter of this household — but the marriage entry that would prove it has not been found, and the link is inference, not record. , next: What to ask for: the Crikvenica marriage register for the 1900s and 1910s, for Anton Rudolf Defranceski and Ursula Kovači…

…, Zdravko, Ivan, Anka and Pero, is very likely a daughter or granddaughter of this household — but the marriage entry that would prove it has not been found, and the link is inference, not record. , next: What to ask for: the Crikvenica marriage register for the 1900s and 1910s, for Anton Rudolf Defranceski and Ursula Kovačina; and the Crikvenica birth register around 1890 for a daughter of Petar Kovačina and Uršula Stojčić. Draga in the kotar of Sušak is a new place for this archive — nobody in the family has come from there before. , builtit: heading: One sentence in the family's own file about this house , quote: He built this house himself, for his family, but was lost du…

…ned in the same year, in the same household, and it is not hard to see how the two became one memory. Here is what each record says. , rows: lab: The parentage is right , text: Anton Rudolf Defranceski, born 20 January 1890 at Klenovica house 22 and baptised on 9 February, married Ursula Kovačina, and their children were Josip «Pepe» (1911), Petar (1913), Zdravko (1921), Ivan (1925) and Anka. He is the father of the three brothers, exactly as remembered. , key: true , lab: But the seizure is recorded of Zdravko , text: It comes from Zdravko's own resettlement file — what he told the International Refugee Organisation when…

…nuary 1864, while the family holds a photograph of a gravestone reading ANA DE. FRANCESCHI for an Ana Grubišić, 19 September 1863 to 28 May 1936. The database shows where the second version comes from and how firmly it is held. , detail: In the file, Anton Rudolf — entered as «Ante de Franceschi», who married Ursula Kovačina and whose children are Pepe, Zdravko, Ivan, Anka and Peter, so certainly the right man — is the son of «Josip Bepo de Franceschi», born 1870, and «Ana Nona-Nana Grubišić», 1863–1936. The registers make his father Josephus, born 22 March 1863, and his mother Ana Kalanj, born 3 January 1864. Two birth years for the father seven years apart, and two maiden names for the mother. ,…

…name: Anton Rudolf Defranceski , dates: 1890–1943 , place: Klenovica → Crikvenica , conf: doc , href: /crikvenica-house/ , note: Born 20 January 1890 at Klenovica house 22, baptised 9 February. The zavičaj entry names Gallignana in Istria. Married Ursula Kovačina. , kids: id: c1 , name: Josip «Pepe» , dates: 1911–1980 , place: Crikvenica , conf: doc , href: /crikvenica-house/ , note: Married Božica Blašković, 1911–1994. Photographed on the pier. , kids: id: c…