Several Generations of Linens and Lace from Spain

 

Cleaning out a home after a death is a sad and nostalgic task.  When my mother-in-law recently passed away in Spain, we had to sort out everything in her apartment. We had to give away or throw away many item.  My husband brought home only a few items from her apartment.  He was not able to bring much because he could only bring what fit in his suitcases (and he paid for two extra suitcases). Some of those items were fragile (crystal glasses) and some were heavy (books) that needed padding so they wouldn't shift or break, so he wrapped them in the heirloom linens we found in the closet. Several generations of my mother-in-law's family owned this apartment. 

It turns out that these linens were quite beautiful, but a bit dingy from being stored a long time. Some looked brand new as if they were never used. I think the dry climate in Spain helped preserve them from mold or mildew spots.  I researched a bit on how to restore these handmade, delicate items.  We decided that we were probably going to use some of them, but my daughter and I didn't want all of them. Here is what I did to clean and store them:

The advice was to not use anything harsh like bleach or detergent.  I soaked them for several days in a bathtub filled with warm water and Oxy-clean.  This brightened up the linens and was not caustic.  Most of them were not stained, fortunately, just dingy from storage. The water turned yellow from the years of dust, so I changed the water daily that the linens were soaking in.   

To rinse them I used the hand held shower wand in the bathroom with warm water, and then put them through the short rinse only cycle in the washing machine.  This step would be skipped if the items were especially fragile, but most of what we had was in excellent shape and quite sturdy, even though we figured some of them were over 100 years old. 

Some of the items like tablecloths and bedding I ironed on medium heat while they were still damp.  They came out beautiful. This step could be skipped for very delicate items, or lacy doilies. 

An embroidered hanky!

Lace and crocheted items were air dried, some flat, and some on a drying rack

A very delicate hanky!  It was so fine you could see through it! 

An embroidered bedsheet

I spent several days washing, sorting, rinsing, drying and ironing dozens of pillow cases, napkins, bedding, and tablecloths.  I decided to keep only a few.  I really don't want these items to just end up stored in a closet for another 100 years.  I'm keeping just what I will use - a few hankies, some beautiful napkins, and some smaller items.  The rest I will share with my daughter, and then we will give away or sell the rest. I know that linens are not valuable or costly, but it seems a shame to just toss them or continue storing them.  

Here is the mystery. Some of the items are embroidered with "C M", which was my husband's grandmother's monogram - Maria Consuelo Martin (1908 - 2001) she was married in 1933 in Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain, so she probably made a lot of these before her marriage. Her mother was Josefa Rivero (1884 - 1937), married in 1904 also in Villar de Ciervo, and some of these items came from her marriage.  There are also sheets and pillowcases with a mystery monogram (see below).  Maybe this is not a monogram?  Is it just an abstract design? Perhaps it is a design for the letter "G", which was Consuelo's husband (Jose Garcia (1908-1954))?  It could be an "S" for Jose's father Sebastian Garcia (1878-1962)? 

Temporary storage for the clean linens.

For long term storage I would recommend acid free materials. 

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Several Generations of Linens and Lace from Spain", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 24, 2023, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/10/several-generations-of-linens-and-lace.html: accessed [access date]). 

Photo Friday - Casa de Abuelo Manuel Martin

The note on the back of the photo

Another view

When we were in Spain Vincent's cousin was cleaning his parents' apartment and found a stash of old photos.  He kindly let us photograph many of these photos. Fortunately we were able to look them over with my mother-in-law, who was able to identify many family members in the photos.

These photos show Vincent's cousin Chemari (José María) as a young boy with his grandfather, Vincent's tio Joaquín García, in front of the home of Manuel Martin Ventura in the village of Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain. Manuel Martin was Vincent's great grandfather, too!  I don't think Vincent ever met this ancestor, even though he lived during Vincent's lifetime.   We visited Villar de Ciervo over 20 years ago, and I have a painting of this same house hanging on my office wall, but the view is from the rear of the house.  It was painted by the village pharmacist!

Manuel Martin was born about 1880 in Barcelona, the son of Mateo Martín, a native of Vitigudino, Salamanca, and Manuela Ventura.  Manuel married on 23 January 1904 in Villar de Ciervo to Josefa Rivero, born 23 October 1884 in Villar Ciervo and died 17 November 1937 in Villar Ciervo.  They had four children - María Joaquina, Nicolás, Luisa Antonia, and María Consuelo (Vincent's maternal grandmother, who grew up in this house).

Manuel Martin was a cattle and sheep trader, and a breeder of "toros bravos" or bulls bred for the sport of bullfighting.  He was a farmer and grew grapes for wine.  Manuel Martin often traveled to Barcelona to trade his bulls, just like his father.  We aren't sure if the Martin family is native to Salamanca or to Barcelona.

Josefa Rivero and Manuel Martin
Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain

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To Cite/Link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Photo Friday - Abuelo Manuel", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 28, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/06/photo-friday-casa-de-abuelo-manuel.html: accessed [access date]).

Josefa Rivero 1884 - 1937 Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain

This photo is of Vincent's great grandmother, Josefa Rivero Gonzalez.

Josefa Rivero was born 23 October 1884 in the little village of Villar de Ciervo in Salamanca, Spain.  This village is directly on the border of Portugal - there is only a tiny stream of water dividing the two countries in this village.  She was the daughter of Manuel Rivero and Orofilia Gonzalez.  Her father was a "molinero" or miller.  They had four children:  Nicolas (b. 1877), Jerman (b. 1879), Juan Mamon (b. 1880) and Josefa was the youngest.

She married Manuel Martin on 23 January 1904 in Villar de Ciervo.  He was the son of Mateo Martin and Manuela Ventura, born about 1880 in Barcelona, Spain.  He was a cattle and sheep trader, and bred "toros bravos" or sporting bulls for bullfighting.  He had a farm in Villar de Ciervo and grew grapes for wine. They had four children Maria Joaquina (b. 1904), Nicolas Martin, Luisa Antonia (b. 1906), and Maria Consuelo (b. 1908) who was the youngest and Vincent's grandmother.

Josefa died on 17 November 1937 in Villar de Ciervo.  Manuel survived his wife by many years and died on 10 September 1971 in Villar de Ciervo.

This is the only photo I have seen of Josefa.  Below is a painting we own of the Martin house in the village of Villar de Ciervo.  It was painted from the rear of the house, not the street view.  About 20 years ago we visited this home, and bought the painting from the village pharmacist. It hangs in my office, right behind my desk as I type up this blog post on my computer.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Josefa Rivero 1884 - 1937 Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 21, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/04/josefa-rivero-1884-1937-villar-de.html: accessed [access date]).

Friday Funny ~ Found in Spain

Here are two old photos my husband found at a cousin's house in Spain.  It seems be of a group of hunters from the village of Villar de Ciervo in the province of Salamanca.  We've identified a few of the men in the photos, but the real treasure seems to be the fun these gentlemen were having.  I don't know the year, or the occasion.  The tall man on the right with the brimmed hat may be Manuel Martin Ventura (1880 - 1971), my husband's great grandfather.  He was born in Barcelona, and was a breeder of "toros bravos", bulls for the sport of bullfighting.  He was a farmer and grew grapes for wine in Villar de Ciervo.  It is too difficult to see the faces of any of the men in this photo.

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Copyright (c) 2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

A 25th Wedding Anniversary in Spain

When we were in Spain last month my mother-in-law brought out a few old photo albums I had never seen before.  This one had lots of wonderful photos, and many of them were taken the day she hosted a 25th wedding anniversary party for her parents.  

José García and María Consuelo Martín were married on 8 September 1933 in the tiny village of Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain.  By the time of their 25th anniversary they were living in Madrid.  The wedding vow renewals were held at the Madrid church of Santa Teresa and Santa Isabel. What is fun is that everyone atttending the lunch signed the book, and the signatures are still legible! 

José and Consuelo

Messages and congratulations from guests at the anniversary.  Most are family members!

My mother-in-law with her parents.
She hosted the festivities on 6 September 1958.
She looks so young here! 

It looks like the guests had a good time!

This is José García  and María Consuelo Martín on their wedding day on 8 September 1933!

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Harvest Time in Spain

My husband's grandparents were born in small villages in Spain.  Sometime after the Spanish Civil War they all moved to Madrid.  When we visit, we stay in Madrid, but sometimes we visit cousins who still live in those small villages.  His paternal side lives near Aranda de Duero in the province of Burgos, in the rich wine region known as "El Duero", near Rioja.  His maternal side lives in Salamanca, in tiny villages along the Portuguese border with names like Villar de Ciervo and Puerto Seguro.

While my mother in law was growing up in Madrid, they would sometimes visit the villages.  The most popular time for visiting would be August, when the harvest fiestas would be taking place.  Often there would be a bullfight and other very Spanish festivities in honor of the village patron saint.  The harvest would be going on, which was described to me as "La trilla", which took some figuring out to translate with out a dictionary.  In English this would be "the threshing" of the wheat.  Of course, grapes and other crops would be harvested at this time, too, but there seemed to be lots of photos of the threshing.

A picnic during the harvest
near Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain, 1940s

Hungry men cooking in the fields

My husband's great aunt during the threshing
at Puerto Seguro, 1950s

My mother-in-law with her family at Puerto Seguro
sometime in the 1940s- four generations!

Puerto Seguro harvest time 1940s

These photos are a great example of family reunions, even though in Spain it was not considered a formal gathering.  It was just an annual event, and in the 20th century folks who had moved to the cities came back to the "pueblo" to reconnect at harvest time.  This reminds me very much of Old Home Day in New Hampshire.  These photos were scattered through my mother-in-laws photo album.  I had to pick through the more formal portraits, weddings, school photos and first communions, to find these precious photographs.  It was great discussing them with my mother-in-law and husband to find out what was going on in the photos, and identifying the family members.

If you have family or ancestry in foreign countries, perhaps you have found similar photos?

And so we continue to visit Spain in August!
This is my daughter in 2002 near Puerto Seguro,
in the tiny town of Villar de la Yegua.

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

With a Bow in her Hair!

This is a photo of my mother-in-law.  She was born in Orbaiceta, Navarra, Spain in 1934, and can't be more than two years old in this photo.  It was the middle of the Spanish Civil War.  Even though she remembers there was great hardship and deprivation during the war, she sure looks cute in this photo!

I often wonder if future generations would find it difficult to find her birth or baptism records in Navarra.  Her father,  José García Rivero (1908 - 1994) was stationed there during the Spanish Civil War as a carabinero and then as a Guardia Civil. The Garcia family had lived for generations in Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain.  It's a good thing that I'm documenting her life! 

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Josefa Ribero Gonzalez Baptism Record 1884- Amanuensis Monday

This document was found at http://www.familysearch.org/ in the baptisms of the village of Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain.  The baptism record we wanted to see is the one in the top right hand page, for Josefa Ribero Gonzalez.

“En Villar de Ciervo, Diocesis de Ciudad Rodrigo y provincia de Sala

manca, hoy dia primero de octubre de mil ocho cientos ochenta y cua-
                                      noviembre
tro, Yo el infrascripto parroco de la unica iglesia de S. Agustin
bautize solemnemente a una nina que nacio a las doce de la noche del
dia veinte y tres del proximo pasado mes de este mismo ano, y se le
puso por nombre Josefa, hija legitima de mis feligreses Manuel
Ribero molinero de oficio y Orofila Gonzalez naturales de esta
poblacion; Abuelos paternos Jose Ribero y Agapita Serradilla esta
natural de Guadapero, y todos los demas de esta poblacion; maternas
Agustin Gonzalez y Ana Maria Garcia ya difuntos; fueron sus
padrinos Josefa y ?? Maurano solteros y de esta naturaleza y
vecindad, a quienes adverti lo que manda el Ritual romano y
testigos Bonifacio Santos y Santicopa? todos de esta naturaleza y
valera? y vecindad en la que para que conste lo firmo pre-
chon ? at supra - vorado octubre, no vale= bajo ?? Noviembre
                     Vicente Barruero”

Translation from Spanish to English

“In Villar de Ciervo [Village of the Deer], diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo and province of Salamanca, today the first day of October November of one thousand eight hundred eighty four, I, the undersigned priest of the only church of St. Augustine solemnly baptized a girl who was born at twelve at night of the twenty third day of the last month of this same year, and who was given the name Josefa, legitimate daughter of my parishioners Manuel Ribero, miller, and Orofila Gonzalez, natives of this village; paternal grandparents Jose Ribero and Agapita Serradilla, a native of Guadapero, and all the others of this village; maternals Agustin Gonzalez and Ana Maria Garcia now deceased; the godparents were Josefa and ? Maurano batchelors and of this area and village, to whom I advised the directions of the Roman ritual and as witnesses Bonifacio Santos and Santicopa? All of this area and ? and village and which I signed ? I erased October, no good, underwritten as November
                     Vicente Barruero"

A painting of the village of
Villar de Ciervo, Spain
with the steeple of San Agustin church

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Josefa Rivero is my husband’s great grandmother. She was born on 23 October 1884 in Villar de Ciervo and died on 17 November 1937 in the same village. She was married in the same church of her baptism, St. Agustin’s of Villar de Ciervo, on 23 January 1904, to Manuel Martin. She had four children, Maria Joaquina, born 1904, Nicolas, Luisa Antonia, born 1906, and Maria Consuelo, born 1908. The youngest daughter, Consuelo, was my husband’s grandmother.

If you know Spanish, you will see that the spelling is very old fashioned here:  Ribero=Rivero, vorado=borrado

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

¡Gracias Eduardo!

Josefa Rivero and Manuel Martín
photo taken before 1937
(Josefa died 11 November 1937)

Thank you, Eduardo, the mystery cousin for sending this photo of his (and my husband's) great grand parents, Josefa and Manuel, married 23 January 1904 in Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain. Eduardo kindly sent me a nice email with the family links to their common ancestor. The email has been flying back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean these past days, with lots of photos and information changing hands.

It is amazing how technology can inform and unite long lost families, separated by immigration and distance!


Please see my post from 29 January 2011
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/01/eduardo-zato-por-favor.html

Manuel Martín was born about 1880 in Barcelona, and died 10 September 1971 in Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain. He was the son of Mateo Martín and Manuela Ventura.

Josefa Rivero was born 23 October 1884 in Villar de Ciervo, and died 17 November 1937 in Villar de Ciervo. She was the daughter of Manuel Rivero and Orofila Gonzalez. I was able to find her ancestors online at the new familysearch.org via the scanned and transcribed images of the church records from Villar de Ciervo.

                        4. Jose Ribero
              2. Manuel Rivero
                        5. Agapita Serradilla b. about 1800 in Guadapero
1. Josefa Rivero
                                     12. Ramon Gonzalez
                        6. Agustin Gonzalez, d. 1884
                                    13. Ynez Zamorreño
            3. Orofila Gonzalez
                                     14. Francisco Garcia b. abt 1776
                                                   d. 14 September 1852 Villar de Ciervo
                       7. Ana Maria Garcia
                                      15.  Inocencia Bentura d. bef. 1852

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Not So Wordless Wednesday- Found under a Washing Machine in Spain

While we were visiting my in-laws in Madrid, they gave us a list of things to do around the house. "Can you reach this lightbulb?" "Can you help flip the mattress?" etc. Just like my Mom does when we visit, but she's only an hour away. Then the washing machine broke, and when it was pulled away from the wall my mother-in-law found a small plastic envelope full of family photos. It's a good thing it was a plastic envelope! This was a small treasure trove of pictures, going way back in time. She gave the envelope to me, and I took it home to scan the photographs. Each was tiny- the size of passport photos, school pictures or wallet sized snaps. Here are a sampling of some of the photographs....

Manuel Martin (abt 1880 - 1971) My husband's great-grandfather

Probably photographed in the village of Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain

Josefa Rivero (1884-1937) Manuel's wife

Orofila Gonzalez - Josefa's Mother

(I have no dates for her, even though I have her parents and grandparent's names,

she was born in Villar de Ciervo)

Jose Garcia (1908-1994) Sargent in the Guardia Civil

my husband's grandfather, born in Bouza, Salamanca, Spain

Maria Josefa Garcia (my mother-in-law) in a school uniform

She was born in Orbaiceta, Navarra, Spain during the Spanish Civil War

Maria Josefa Garcia - as a young woman in Madrid

Maria Josefa Garcia- in her Iberia Airlines uniform in New York City

where she moved to after marriage in Madrid

(probably a photo from an ID badge)

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Copyright 2010, Heather Wilkinson Rojo



Not So Wordless Wednesday- Martín Sisters, 1920's Spain

The three daughters of Manuel Martín (abt 1880 - 1971) and Josefa Rivero (1884-1937) lived in Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain. Long ago, someone wrote on the photograph and labeled the girls 1, 2, and 3.

1. The youngest daughter, María Consuelo Martín, was born 11 November 1908 and died on 29 April 2001 in Madrid. She married Jose Garcia on 8 September 1933 in Villar de Ciervo. Consuelo is my husband's maternal grandmother.

2. María Joaquína Martín, the eldest child, was born on 21 December 1904 and died on 25 October 1989 in Barcelona. She married Nicanor Zato on 29 September 1928 in Villar de Ciervo.

3. Luisa Antonia Martín, born 13 June 1906 and died on 4 March 2004 in Madrid. She married Joaquín García, brother to Jose (her sister's husband) on 18 September 1930 in Villar de Ciervo. Both García brothers were officers in the Guardia Civil.

There was also a brother, Nicolás, not in this photograph. It appears to have been taken some time before 1920. Joaquina is holding an umbrella, and Consuelo and Luisa appear to be holding closed Spanish fans. When we were first married I met both Consuelo and Tia Luisa in Madrid. The nice thing is that my daughter also met her great grandmother and "Tia Luisa" in Spain, which is a memory I hope she will always treasure.

For a photo of Villar de Ciervo, see my post from March 3, 2010 http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/03/not-so-wordless-wednesday-villar-de.html

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Copyright 2010, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

More Spanish Records on Family Search

In the past we have reserved one or two days out of our vacations to Spain to do some genealogy research. We go to Spain every other year or so, and spend time with Hubby’s parents and various cousins in Madrid, Salamanca and Burgos. The first two times I did extensive oral histories on this family, and had everyone fill out charts. Then one year we went to the church in Sinovas, Burgos to look at the baptism and marriage records. Sinovas is where my father-in-law was raised. A few years later we went to the archdiocese archives at the cathedral in Burgos.

On visits to Salamanca province we never had time to go to the local church at Villar de Ciervo, but I ordered lots of church records on microfilm at our local Family History library. We spent hours looking at these on microfilm readers, and expanded my mother-in-law’s family tree back about five generations. This was pretty good considering we didn’t order all of the available films for Villar de Ciervo.

It seems to me that once you find the ancestral village in Spain, it is possible to go back to the 1600s or 1700s with the catholic church records. Families stayed put in these villages for long periods of time. This seemed remarkable to me, since my ancestors wandered all over New England, and some up to Nova Scotia and back. It seems even more remarkable when I recognize that most Americans have ancestors who wandered all over the US from coast to coast. I have only a few lineages that arrived in one place in Massachusetts and stayed two hundred years or more. Most Americans don’t have any ancestors who stayed in one place for even two generations.

Of course, the records in Sinovas only go back to the Napoleonic era. Earlier books were destroyed or lost. And the records in Sinovas have never been microfilmed. And there are the occasional brides from neighboring villages, but never from very far away.

However, it is not easy to read microfilm. Overexposed film, fuzzy pages, creases, etc. make seeing the names impossible some of the time. We noticed that many of the baptism books we previously viewed on microfilm yielded new information when we saw them online at the new pilot.FamilySearch.org website. And, of course, books we had seen at the Family History Center on film yielded many more relatives when we saw them in person in Spain.

Lucky us - to be able to go to Spain and see the actual books. Not everyone has this luxury. And so, for records in the USA, it certainly helps if you can see the books in person, not on line. Get out of the house and go to the courthouses and town clerk’s offices. If it’s possible for you to see the records in person, make the effort to go. Suddenly you will find things you never dreamed of finding online. Even if you lose a day of vacation!

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Copyright 2010, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Not so Wordless Wednesday, Villar de Ciervo

Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain, 1915
click on photos to enlarge

My husband’s maternal grandmother, María Consuelo Martín Rivero was born in the village of Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain in 1908, just a few years before this photograph. She is probably in the photograph with her parents, but we are not able to identify any of the townspeople. The church is the parish of San Agustín. Even today, the village is tiny, and has only about 350 inhabitants. It is located on the Portuguese border.

The pharmacist in Villar de Ciervo, María Ángela Sanchez Sevillano, was a noted artist. She was born in Villar de Ciervo in 1944 and she died in 1997. We have several of her paintings, but I cherish her portraits of the village the most. These paintings hang directly over my computer as I am typing this. The first painting is the San Agustín church, and the second painting is the house where Consuelo was born.





Maria Consuelo Martín Rivero’s Family Tree:

1. María Consuelo Martín, born 11 November 1908 in Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain, died on 29 April 2001 in the Hospital del Aire, Madrid, Spain; married on 8 September 1933 in Villar de Ciervo, to José Garcia, son of Sebastian García Muñoz and Maria Ribero Montero. He was born 28 Nov 1908 in Bouza, Salamanca, Spain, and died on 3 December 1994 in Madrid. He was a carbinero and a Captain in the Guardia Civil.
2. Manuel Martín Ventura, son of Mateo Martín and Manuela Ventura, born about 1880 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, died on 10 September 1971 in Villar de Ciervo; married on 23 January 1904 in Villar de Ciervo to
3. Josefa Rivero, daughter of Manuel Rivero Serradilla and Orofila Gonzalez Garcia, born on 23 October 1884 in Villar de Ciervo, died on 17 November 1937 in Villar de Ciervo. Four Children.

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  i.) María Joaquina b. 21 December 1904, Villar de Ciervo, d. 25 Oct 1989 in Barcelona; married on 29 September 1928 in Villar de Ciervo to Nicanor Zato.
  ii.) Nicolás d. 11 January 1966 in Tejares, Salamanca, Spain
  iii.) Luisa Antonia b. 13 June 1906 in Villar de Ciervo, d. 4 March 2004 in Madrid; married on 18 September 1930 to Joaquin Garcia Ribero.
  iv.) María Consuelo b. 1908

4. Mateo Martín, born in Vitigundino Salamanca, Spain, married to
5. Manuela Ventura, born in Barcelona?

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  i.) Manuel Martín b. about 1880
  ii.) Jose Martín

6. Manuel Rivero, son of José Ribero and Agapita Serradilla, born in Villar de Ciervo; married to
7. Orofila Gonzalez Garcia, daughter of Agustín Gonzalez and Ana María García, born in Villar de Ciervo.

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  i.) Josefa b. 23 October 1884, in Villar de Ciervo, d. 17 November 1937 in Villar de Ciervo; married Manuel Martin on 23 January 1904 in Villar de Ciervo.
  ii.) Jerman b. 22 May 1879 in Villar de Ciervo
  iii.) Nicolás b. 1877
  iv.) Juan Mamon b. 1 April 1880 in Villar de Ciervo, died 29 April 1891 in Villar de Ciervo.

12. José Ribero; married to
13. Agapita Serradilla, born 1800 in Guadaperro, Salamanca, Spain
14. Agustín Gonzalez, son of Ramon Gonzalez and Ynez Zamorreño; married to
15. Ana María García, daughter of Francisco García, (1776-1852) and Inocencia Bentura.

From the Baptism Records of Villard de Ciervo, LDS microfilm #1109489, and the Death Records of Villar de Ciervo San Agustín church.

For more information please visit http://www.elmolinero.com/fr1.htmThe website for the village of Villar de Ciervo, Salamanca, Spain, run by “El Molinero”, the local pub! There are photographs and some history, all in Spanish.

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Copyright 2010, Heather Wilkinson Rojo