By MADERA_32 |

I am still trying to find the defunto record of my great great great great granfather Francisco Madera whose wife is Maria Leocadia De Huizar.

So I am trying to look in the matrimonios and my estimate of when they got married would be sometime before the year 1762 when then had a son name Juan Venancio (Benancio) Madera, Espanol.

I started in the year 1752 and my curiousity is the drawing of a bird the author of matimonios book made. Trying to go into the mind of the author? Did he draw it based on a bird he has seen and where did he see it.

http://oi58.tinypic.com/1zqxcoi.jpg

Source:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18449-46024-19?cc=1874591&wc…

That one I've seen somewhere else, I just can't recall where, I even remember a discussion about it. I think in this case is a symbol, the glyph, the three "birds" over horizontal lines, and in the bottom the hand pointing at the year.

RJ Quiralte

Those drawings are based on calligraphy exercises, you may come across many more, dragons, griffins, lions, etc. They used it to decorate the books, but they learned them at their writing lessons.

RJ Quiralte

Thanks RJ, They are so artistic that I wish they could have made a sketch of the village back in those days.

Thanks RJ, They are so artistic that I wish they could have made a sketch of the village back in those days.

They were in deed good at their writing, but I doubt they could actually draw other than the calligraphy ornamentation, in either case ink and paper was a bit of a luxury still, therefore those (like the bird) are nice findings among the records.

RJ Quiralte

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