When Manuela Epifania Correa Tabeira was born on 7 April 1838, in Villa de la Concepción de las Minas, Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata, her father, Josef Francisco Correa Pereyra, was 38 and her mother, María Gregoria Tabeira Silbeira, was 38. She had at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Nico Pérez, Florida, Uruguay in 1901. She died on 25 August 1921, in Santa Lucía, Lavalleja, Uruguay, at the age of 83.
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Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Manuel, Jorge, Pedro, Miguel, Jesus, Ramon, Raul, Francisco.
Spanish: from correa ‘leather strap, belt, rein, shoelace’ (from Latin corrigia ‘fastening’, from corrigere ‘to straighten, to correct’), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of such articles.
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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