Huérfanos - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 14:20:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Huérfanos - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Family and servants of a merchant from Villarrobledo in 1753 https://historylab.es/family-and-servants-of-a-merchant-from-villarrobledo-in-1753/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-and-servants-of-a-merchant-from-villarrobledo-in-1753 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:16 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/familia-y-criados-de-un-mercader-de-villarrobledo-en-1753/ Family and servants of a merchant, highlighting the geographical mobility of the merchant

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]]> The section chosen is the declaration of the merchant Antonio Carbonel, a native of Villarrobledo. The Cadastre of the Marquis de la Ensenada gives us a glimpse of his family structure. He is 60 years old, and in his charge there are 3 nephews: Antonio Forat, aged 26, Antonio Calier, aged 23, and María Luisona, aged 36. The male nephews are in charge of taking the necessary goods to Carbonel to be sold: cloth, linen and silk mainly. Outside the family, the merchant has several servants at his service. The first of these is Juan Serat, a 28-year-old baker’s servant whose job is to bake bread. Juan is from Alicante. The second servant is a woman, Josefa Corbera, 18 years old, single and a resident of Vara del Rey. The associated gender roles stand out; while the man is dedicated to productive tasks, the woman obeys to service and assistance tasks. Likewise, the master, being a merchant and not subject to a land to till, has to travel to do business, extending his network of relationships spatially: consequently, the servants are from different geographical locations, in contrast to the servants subject to a day labourer master.

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]]> Family and servants of a young farmer from Villarrobledo in 1753 https://historylab.es/family-and-servants-of-a-young-farmer-from-villarrobledo-in-1753/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-and-servants-of-a-young-farmer-from-villarrobledo-in-1753 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:16 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/familia-y-criados-de-un-joven-labrador-de-villarrobledo-en-1753/ Young farmer's family with dependent servants

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]]> In many occasions during the Modern Age servants were young and orphans. These situations made them completely dependent on their masters. Moreover, the work of the servants was often oriented according to their gender. The document shown here is an example of both. Juan Tomás Morcillo y Argumanes, of the general state and farmer, aged 36, married, has Francisca Gómez, single, aged 17 and an orphan, as his servant. He also has a labour servant: Juan Montejano, single, 20 years old. Gender roles are clearly shown by the fact that the woman is dedicated to service and care work and the man to farm work. Gender roles were not only reproduced by farmers, as in this case, but other social groups also showed the same behaviour towards servants.

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