The Story

1 Domenico de Franceschi, it was not known from where he came. He married in 1614 to Lucia Grossich. They had 3 sons; Giovanni Paolo and Marco Antonio, who were municipal councilors in 1655 and are registered De Franceschi . The first married Margareta Vedova di Michele Andracca and had his son Giovanni Antonio, who was Doctor of Law and Municipal Chancellor. Francesca Piergiovanni and with her sons Giovanni and Marzio and daughter Margarita, who in 1697 married Ascanio Giacomini. The children then moved on elsewhere, I don't know where. - Are you perhaps a Descendant?

2. Valentino Defranceschi, who came from Carnia, was made Citizen in 1739, and with his wife Elena had 10 sons and 4 daughters, had a house in the Capuccini district and a vineyard in Plasè. He built, in 1764, the Chapel of S. Elena, he made a tomb for himself in the Cathedral with epigraph in 1785. Hi died in 1785. His son Ignazio had wife Giuseppa Danezello, was Civic Representative in 1783 and in 1785 at the age of 40 he died. - Where the others went , it does not appear

Giovanni Battista Defranceschi came from the County of Pazin around 1740. He was made a citizen in 1746, and with his wife Maria Maddalena had sons Giuseppe, Vincenzo and Giovanni. Giuseppe married Francesca Tomassich. Valentino, in 1793 married Orsola de Benzoni, and then had 4 children, one of whom, Francesco, retired Captain of Porto. He is now the only one in Rijeka. Giovanni married Catterina and a small house in Fiume, and was from Castellano di Bribir, where he died in 1807. I don't know anything about Vincenzo.