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Juan Antonio Muñoz

Tarancón, 24 Oct 1779 – Tarancón, 7 Apr 1849

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Facts and their sources

  • Born24 Oct 1779, Tarancónnot verified1 source
  • Died7 Apr 1849, Tarancónnot verified1 source

A life in time

  1. 24 Oct 1779

    Born in Tarancón

  2. 4 May 1808

    A son is born

  3. 7 Apr 1849

    Dies in Tarancón, aged 69

Family

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Children · 1

During his lifetime

He lived through 8 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Tarancón.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1770s · Juan is born in Tarancón

In the news1771

New Mail Coach Service Established in 1771

In 1771, a mail coach service was established between Madrid, Barcelona, and Cádiz, charging four to five reales per league and promising travel in twenty-one days. This was considered a remarkable speed and comfort for passengers at the time.

Getting around

Primary transport modes in Bourbon Spain

Between 1750 and 1774, most travel relied on mules, horses, or oxen, as railways and steamships did not yet exist in Spain. People traveled by coach, carriage, or on horseback, with the posta system providing the fastest travel for those who could afford it.

In Europe1772–1795

Poland is partitioned

Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland among themselves in three steps until, in 1795, it vanished from the map for 123 years.

Daily life

Difficult access to water supplies

Water was a daily constraint for ordinary people who lacked piped access and often fetched it from public fountains or bought it from water carriers. To supplement supplies, households collected rainwater in cisterns or relied on local wells, requiring significant manual labor to provision for drinking, cooking, and cleaning.

What people wore

The High Value of Footwear and Clothing

Rope or wooden shoes were common among poorer individuals, and it was not unusual to find records of people owning only a single shoe or a single stocking. Clothes were so valuable that they were rarely discarded, often being repurposed, auctioned to pay for burial expenses, or given as part of a domestic servant's wages.

Music

Popular instruments and castanets

The guitar was the most popular domestic instrument, often used to accompany dances like the seguidilla and tirana. Dancers frequently played simple castanets, which were held in the palm by a bead tied to their fingers.

At the table

Diet of the Laboring Poor

Poor laborers often ate soup with oil or cornmeal porridge in the morning and legumes or salted sardines at midday. Wine was considered expensive, so these families typically drank it only on feast days, sometimes to excess.