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Evolution of the volume of foundlings and legitimacy in Antequera, Malaga, between 1667 and 1700

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:41 +0000

The parish registers of Antequera, shown in the graph provided by the author, show how the number of foundlings in Antequera at the end of the 17th century only decreased. However, this decrease was directly related to the epidemic crisis of 1679 which altered the demography and life cycles, lowering the nuptiality and, consequently, the birth rate. The research reveals that in the year with the highest number of baptisms, 1676, legitimate children accounted for 89%, while illegitimate children constituted 11%. On the other hand, in the year in which the fewest baptisms took place, 1684, foundlings accounted for 14%, an increase of 3%. Thus, the rate of abandonment was inversely proportional to the number of births. Finally, the fin-de-siècle crisis did not lead to an increase in the abandonment rate as families needed more useful hands to boost their economy.

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Evolution of the volume of foundlings and legitimacy in Antequera, Malaga, between 1701 and 1750

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:41 +0000

The resource shows us the number of abandoned children, foundlings, that took place in Antequera (Malaga) in the first half of the 18th century. The data reveal that the annual average number of foundlings was 60, a figure that remained relatively stable throughout this chronological period. However, the number of abandoned children is inversely related to the number of baptisms: on the one hand, the maximum number of baptisms is found in 1745, when 1,058 children were sacramentalised; in this year, foundlings accounted for 8%. On the other hand, in the year in which the fewest baptisms were recorded, 1738, foundlings accounted for 11%. These dynamics follow the same trends as at the end of the 17th century, unlike the second half of the 18th century when the periods of fewer abandonments coincided with the lowest number of baptisms.

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Evolution of the volume of foundlings and legitimacy in Antequera, Malaga, between 1751 and 1803

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:41 +0000

The author reflects in the resource the evolution of foundlings throughout the second half of the 18th century. In these 50 years, the number of total baptisms showed a decreasing trend compared to the first half of the century, although the rate of foundlings fell to an annual average of 51. It was in this period at the end of the Ancien Régime when the trends of previous decades were reversed. From the 17th century onwards, it could be seen that the rates of foundlings were inversely related to the number of baptised children; from this time onwards, lower birth rates coincided with a low level of abandonments. Thus, in 1751, the year with the lowest baptismal registers, the number of foundlings was 7%, in contrast with other years of higher birth rates (in 1788 the abandonment rate was 10% and in 1802 it was 8%).

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Irish in Bizkaia between 1150-1850 through the sacramental certificates

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000

The good trade relations between Ireland and Biscay, based on fishing activity, meant that Irish immigration to Biscay began to gain importance from 1600 onwards. The connection between the two territories was reinforced decades later when the Hispanic Monarchy supported the Irish cause against England; this dynamic led to the settlement of Irish exiles in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Thus, in the mid-17th century, there was an increase in the number of Irish baptisms registered in Biscay caused, according to the author, by the English army’s occupation of Ireland between 1649 and 1653. Many Irish nobles were stripped of their property and expelled from their lands due to their Catholic religious status and sought to settle in the commercial ports of their usual networks. At the end of the 17th century, the level of births and marriages fell due to the policy of appeasement shown by James II. After the loss of the throne of the last English Catholic monarch, the 18th century saw the great Irish migration to Biscay.

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Vital series of the town of Albacete in the 18th century

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:31 +0000

The demographic structure of the town of Albacete consisted of a high-pressure model where both births and deaths were high. The figures on baptisms show a period of slow growth from 1700 to 1740; from that date onwards, they increased until the 1760s, years in which there were numerous epidemic and food crises. In 1775 the situation stabilised, showing stable growth. Likewise, deaths increased at the turn of the century due to the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the fin-de-siecle crises, on the eve of the French invasion. Finally, due to the social culture of the Ancien Régime, marriage was a constant without temporal disturbances: a legitimate means to survive in the social fabric by bringing families together to concentrate patrimony.

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The evolution of generational demographic parameters in Southern Western Galicia (1584-1670)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:40 +0000

The resource deals with the demographic evolution of four generations, looking at their family composition, number of families, ages of access to marriage and the duration of marriage, among other items, between 1584 and 1670. The geographical area is centred on the south of western Galicia, the Bajo Miño, through the study of the rural parish of San Martín de Caldelas; a North Atlantic demographic model marked by the late age of access to marriage for women (24.5 years), the low level of second marriages (16.7%) and the duration of marriage (25 years) which resulted in a duration of fertility for couples of 13.9 years. The intergenerational synthesis reflected in the resource is reflected in the exponential growth of the parish which, after 100 years, had to be remodelled to increase its capacity to welcome the faithful. The growth, according to the author’s study, was mainly due to the nuptiality; a framework of legitimised fecundity, and the low mortality of those born.

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Number of baptised in the urban area of Bilbao and its distribution by parish (17th century)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:33 +0000

One of the forms of demographic control in the Modern Age was the accounting of people in the parish registers. This resource shows the number of baptisms performed in the parishes of an urban environment, Bilbao, during the 17th century. The importance of the figures for each of them is accompanied by the relevance of their spatial distribution throughout the city. The decrease and increase of baptisms is directly related to the number of parishioners in the tempos and, in turn, to urban demographic changes. Consequently, the author shows us how the growth of the suburbs, reflected in the parish of San Nicolás, contrasted with the decrease in baptisms in the central area, under the jurisdiction of the parishes of Santiago and San Antón. The change in the evolutionary trend of urban demography was parallel to the stagnation of trade, the main economic activity in Bilbao and other cities on the Cantabrian coast with similar trends.

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