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File on José Juan de Cadalso Vázquez

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:58 +0000

Record of José de Cadalso Vázquez to enter as a student at the Real Seminario de Nobles de Madrid. Known as a man of letters for writing works such as Cartas Marruecas and Noches Lúgubres, he was a career military man who began his training in the classrooms of the Real Seminario de Nobles de Madrid.

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File on Tomás López Pacheco

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:58 +0000

File on Tomás Lezo Pacheco, son of the sailor Blas de Lezo and Josefa Mónica Pacheco y Solís, mistress of El Cañal and the Palace of Obieco; to enter as a student at the Royal Seminary of Nobles in Madrid. Born in El Puerto de Santa María on 6 August 1733, Tomás began his service as a marine guard in 1748, being appointed ensign of frigates in 1753, ensign of the Spanish Guards Rifles in 1755, ensign of Grenadiers in 1761, 2nd lieutenant of Rifles in 1763, 2nd lieutenant of Grenadiers in 1768 and 1st lieutenant of Rifles in 1769. In 1775 he applied for the government of Tucumán, vacant due to the death of the previous incumbent. In 1776 he was appointed governor of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, where he died in 1782.

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Genealogy of a family of bureaucrats: the Asenjo de Alcaraz family (1688-1814)

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

Enrichment and social advancement were the leitmotiv of many families. Although social mobility was very controlled in the Ancien Régime, it did exist. An example of this is the Asenjo family of Alcaraz (Albacete). The genealogy of this family shows us how marriage strategies, social networks and kinship helped to achieve patrimony. Beginning with the union of Isabel Galdón, a native of Alcaraz, with Pedro Asenjo, a native of Las Navas del Marqués (Ávila) in 1688, the family created parallel branches that intertwined throughout the 18th century. Pedro Asenjo was notary public of Alcaraz in 1703; his first son Juan was also a notary public, while the second, Pedro, was a clergyman of minors. It was Juan who married into the well-positioned Vargas Machuca family, and by 1753 he had accumulated a large amount of wealth that made him one of the leading cattle ranchers and farmers in the region. Based on their good social and economic status, the Asenjo family’s marriage policies were oriented in three directions: to get closer to public offices and positions; to reinforce those already established within the family; and to place some of their children in the clergy. This last route had a twofold objective: to ensure that the children would pursue a career within a privileged estate and that, with celibacy, the assets of the same would return to the family nucleus, thus concentrating the patrimony once again and avoiding its atomisation.

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Typology and sex of relatives over 50 years old in central-southern Spain, 1753

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:27 +0000

In the mid-18th century in the interior of Spain, the nuclear family model (parents and children) predominated, with sporadic extended models (parents, children and close relatives). In terms of age, 20% of all resident relatives were over 50 years old. If we add sex to this variable, 85.2% were women and 14.7% were men. Among the women, the mother figure stood out considerably, followed by the mother-in-law. From the distance between the two, it can be deduced that their presence was oriented towards care and household tasks. For their part, the presence of cousins, aunts or sisters-in-law was testimonial; the same was true of the men. Thus, the profile of the relatives according to sex, age and kinship denotes a tendency towards temporariness in the household, a temporariness that in no way reflects structural behavioural patterns.

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