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Francisca Cardona Oliveros (b. 1628, d. date unknown)
Notes for Francisca Cardona Oliveros:
The death certificate ofwidow FRANCISCA CARDONA OLIVAR ANDREU (Oliveros) read: On the 7th day of October, 1703, Francisca Andreu died having received the sacraments with assistance. She disposed of charitable work before Fry Juan Gil. She chose for executors Cosme Sans, son of Domingo, and Juan Oliver (Oliveros?). She was sepulchered in the convent of Saint Diego in the Chapel of Saint Jose. She left to defray her charity work one trough for kneading bread, one sheet, one silver spoon, and one paella. She wanted all these remainders to be sold by her executors, and with what was left after paying the funeral expenses, other masses for her soul be celebrated in the church of the aforesaid convent. She left five stipends to the Most Reverend Rector for his parochial right. Curiously there is mentioned one silver spoon among the poor household objects that the deceased ordered to be sold for the expenses of her obsequies (funeral rites or ceremonies). In that time poor families didn’t own jewelry of value, nor precious metals. But even the most poor, had a silver spoon for this reason: in the horse races and equestrian games, popular festivities of Menorca, even at the present time there remains the old practice of giving the winners a silver spoon pendant from a green cane. This was the only object of luxury that used to exist in the houses of the Menorcans of poor working classes. Only the cavaliers and nobles used to possess adornments of gold and silver.
More About Francisca Cardona Oliveros and Jaime Andreu III:
Marriage: September 08, 1646, Mercadel, Minorca, Spain.
Children of Francisca Cardona Oliveros and Jaime Andreu III are:
- +Marcos Andreu II, b. January 15, 1652/53, Alayor, Minorca, Baleares, Spain, d. date unknown.
- Agueda Andreu, b. 1650, d. date unknown.
- Antonia Andreu, b. 1655, d. date unknown.
- Francesca Andreu, b. 1658, d. date unknown.