Forging social links through the navy: Elite family connections across the Spanish Atlantic, 1750–1810

Cerro, Pablo Ortega del

doi:10.1080/14788810.2019.1597326

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“…In this instance, brothers played a crucial role in forwarding family strategies, and fraternal relations thus became veritable Atlantic bridges. 71 For instance, Lieutenant Rafael Zequeira Palma came from one of the most prominent Cuban families but remained in Spain for the rest of his life because of his professional duties. 72 In 1802, by which time Rafael was married to an Andalusian woman with whom he had had three children, he declared to be in possession of a power of attorney for the remarkable amount of 20,000 pesos fuertes.…”

Section: Horizontal Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Changing Strength of Siblings

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2018

Journal of Family History

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The present work analyses fraternal relationships among Spanish naval officers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The main aim of the article is to understand the important role played by siblings and the changes undergone by fraternal links over time. In order to do this, the article addresses three objectives: characterizing fraternal ties in the Spanish naval officer corps, analyzing fraternal relationships in relation to other family links and to the officer corps' professional context, and exploring how siblinghood transformed during these two centuries. The main source of information used in this work is the testaments signed by naval officers in Spanish navy bases. The article is divided into two parts, dealing with quantitative and qualitative issues, respectively. The first part examines the proportion of naval officers who had siblings, while the second part studies the kind of relationship that existed between them; three kinds of relationship are proposed: vertical ties, horizontal links, and secondary relationships.

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Section: Horizontal Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%