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2019JAN16: I no longer believe the argument below and have deleted the second marriage.
The discovery of Ysac's death in 1900 in which he is still married to Atilana contradicts the assumption of a death in 1870s. The discovery of Atilana's death, in which she is recorded as 84 in 1928, suggests a birth in 1844 instead of 1836. With an 1836 birth she would have been 53 when Juana was born. I now believe the birth was wrong. I also find that her age on several births was always 30, and so probably not reported conscientously. 2017AUG12: As of today I have discovered 6 children of Atilana Jimenez. Of those, the father for the first four is Ysac Sandoval. The father of the last two is listed as Jose Sandoval. Although the full name of Ysac is Jose Maria Ysac Sandoval, I have reason to doubt that he is the father of the last two children. The parents of Atilana are given on all six birth records, and are the same. The parents of the husband are given on all six birth records, and are the same, BUT all the Sandoval boy have Jose as part of their given name. On the birth record of Geneveva, in 1887, it says Atilana is 30 years old and Jose is 35 years old. If Atilana was 30 years in 1887, then she was 8 years old when married to Ysac in 1864 and 9 years old when here first child, Jose Simon, was born. I find both these conditions highly unlikely, especially with no special notes on the records. Ysac does have a younger brother, Jose Santiago, who was 35 in 1887. If Ysac had died in the 1870s, then younger brother Jose Santiago may have taken over the marital duties of his older brother. This would explain the change in name on the later records, and might explain the "adjusting" of Atilana's age on Geneveva's birth. (I have yet to find any records supporting this theory. Several of the books from this period are severely damaged and impractical to search, and a key death volume is missing completely. As I continue to search the records, I hope some evidence will surface.) |