Poor Women, Landowners, Traders and other Professions: Economy and Family Structure among the Widows of the Late Old Regime (Trujillo)

This article analyzes female widowhood in the city of Trujillo, particularly in the twenties of the nineteenth century. As source has been used registers of inhabitants. The nominal analysis as well as the laslettiano method have been used to recompose the structures of families, where women have suffered the loss of a husband. The economic situation varies between some women and others, hence we have chosen to refer to occupations and economic activities they performed, which, usually, will condition the behavior taken by the head of the household in terms domestic organization.