1783 - 1833 (50 years)
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Name |
ZUNIGA, Maria Anastacia Michaela |
Birth |
27 Aug 1783 |
San Diego, Alta California |
Christening |
29 Aug 1783 |
Mission San Diego, Alta California [1] |
Gender |
Female |
Census |
1790 |
San Diego, Alta California [2] |
With parents and siblings |
Death |
Dec 1833 |
Los Angeles, Alta California |
Burial |
30 Dec 1833 |
Plaza Church, Los Angeles, Alta California [3] |
Person ID |
I12518 |
1. Schwald - WA-NY-OR-TX |
Last Modified |
25 Nov 2012 |
Father |
ZUNIGA, Jose Pio Quinto, b. Abt. 1746, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico d. Jun 1805, Los Angeles, Alta California (Age ~ 59 years) |
Mother |
INDIA, Maria Rufina Ailam, b. Abt. 1760, San Juan Capistrano, Alta California d. Aft. 1815, Alta California (Age ~ 56 years) |
Family ID |
F3605 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 1 |
MONTALVAN, Laureano, b. Abt. 1773, Granada, Guatemala d. Mar 1811, Los Angeles, Alta California (Age ~ 38 years) |
Marriage |
30 Nov 1797 |
Mission San Gabriel, Alta California [4] |
- ANASTACIA ZUNIGA requests divorce
23 Feb 1800 - Msn. Priest, Father Lausen, presents her case before the Bishop to grant her a divorce. (Which she did not obtain)
www.sbmal.org/docs/catalog/SBMAL-Cal_Mission-Docs.pdf
California Mission Documents - Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library
CMD 480 San Luis Obispo. 2/23/1800.
Lasuen to Bishop Rouset concerning request for divorce by Maria Anastasia Zuniga from Laureano Montalban.
Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library. Spanish. 1 p.
Geiger 356
Zephyrin 375
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Children |
| 1. MONTALVAN, Maria Concepcion, b. Abt. Oct 1804, Alta California d. Jun 1805, Alta California (Age ~ 0 years) |
| 2. MONTALVAN, Sebastiana, b. Feb 1806, Alta California d. Feb 1806, Alta California (Age ~ 0 years) |
+ | 3. MONTALVAN, Josefa Antonia, b. 19 Jul 1807, Alta California |
| 4. MONTALVAN, Jose Maria, b. Mar 1810, Santa Barbara, Alta California |
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Family ID |
F4193 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
2 Nov 2012 |
Family 3 |
RAMIREZ, Jose Antonio, b. Abt. 1763, Zapotlan el Grande, Jalisco, Mexico d. Sep 1827, Los Angeles, Alta California (Age ~ 64 years) |
Marriage |
Los Angeles, Alta California [5] |
Type: not married |
Children |
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Family ID |
F4199 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
25 Nov 2012 |
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Sources |
- [S023] Mission San Diego de Alcala or Presidio Church, Alta Cal Msn Bk #10_1776-1822_Sn Dgo Bap, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
BAPTISM
#966) Apr. 29th (1783)- Ygla. MiSan - MARIA ANASTACIA MICHAELA ZUNIGA, 2 dias nacida, h.l. de Pio Quinto Zuniga, Soldado del Presidio de S.D. y de Rufina India de la MiSan de San Juan Capistrano. Fueron sus Padrinos Lorenzo Esparza Maestro Carpintero del Presidio y su Muger Juana Alvarado. &. Figuer.
- [S162] CENSUS 1790 - Alta California, (sfgenealogy.com/sf/ca1790.htm).
1790 CENSUS - SAN DIEGO
Pio Quinto Zuniga, mulato, from Guadalajara, 44; wife Maria Rufina, india, [from San Juan Capistrano] 30; four children: [Ventura] 11; [Maria Anastacia] 6; [Serapio] 5; [Ignacio] a baby {unable to verify}.
- [S028] Nuestra Senora Reina de Los Angeles Church, Alta Cal Msn Bk #15_1826-1852_LA Pl Ch_Bur, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
BURIAL
#195) Dec. 30th (1833)- MARIA ANASTACIA ZUNIGA, viuda de J. Maria [Laureano] Montalvan.
- [S068] Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, Alta Cal Msn Bk #35_1774-1855_Sn Gab_Marr, (Thomas Workman Temple III).
MARRIAGE
#596) 30 November 1797 - LAURENZO MONTALVAN, 24, soldado de cuera de Santa Barbara, natural de Granada en el Reyno de Guatemala, de Antonio de la Cruz y Maria Josefa Martinez, con MARIA ANASTACIA ZUNIGA, 14, de Pio Quinto, 50, y Maria Rufina, 37, vecinos del Pueblo de Santa Maria de los Angeles. Testigos: Jose Polanco, 44, y su muger Maria Josefa de Leon, 44, vecinos de dicho Pueblo. Prior testigos: Jose Maria Verdugo, Cabo de esta escolta, y Jose Feliz, soldado de escolta. Fr. Pedro de San Joseph Esteban.
- [S207] Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, BK-Negotiating Conquest: Gender & Power in CA 1770s-1780s, (University of Arizona Press, Sep 15, 2006), pp. 45-46.
RAMIREZ--ZUNIGA
RELATIONSHIP AND PUNISHMENT
In the Spanish era, authorities sometimes publicly shamed such women by shaving their heads and one eyebrow and forcing them to stand outside the church after mass on Sundays.
One widow who experienced such humilation was Anastacia Zuniga, an angeleno, who had an extramarital relationship with a carpenter from Mision San Gabriel, Jose Antonio Ramirez. The liaison resulted in the birth of a daughter in 1818.
After appearing in church with her head and eyebrow shaved, the governor ordered the Comandante Militar Jose de la Guerra y Noriega, Los Angeles's comisionade (a military official with authority over local affairs), to remove her to the presidio of Santa Barbara and place her in seclusion in a casa de honor for six months. She was obliged to serve in the household and "lead a religious life as a Christian woman."
Ramirez, in contrast, only had to labor for one month on public works. The governor encouraged him to marry Zuniga and, if he refused, to pay for the child's support.
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