When Candelario Medina was born about 1815, in Aguascalientes, Mexico, his father, Jose Miguel de los Santos Medina Sanches, was 43 and his mother, María Serafina Esparza, was 36. He married Ines Maldonado Macias on 14 May 1837, in El Sagrario, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died on 3 January 1847, in Calvillo, Calvillo, Aguascalientes, Mexico, at the age of 33.
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Colonization grant given to Moses Austin to settle Texas. Plan of Iguala proclaims Mexican independence. Augustín de Iturbide and Spanish envoy sign Treaty of Córdoba recognizing Mexico's independence. treaty not honored by Spanish government, however.
Army of the Three Guarantees occupies Mexico City under Iturbide's command. Iturbide becomes emperor of Mexico as Agustín I. Iturbide deposed, and republic proclaimed by Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón.
Federal republican government is established under new constitution. Guerrero becomes president.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Luis, Carlos, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Ramon, Mario, Rafael. Portuguese Lidio, Ligia, Anatolio, Duarte, Joao.
Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of several places, as for example Medina-Sidonia in Cádiz province and Medina del Campo in Valladolid province, so called from Arabic madīna ‘city’.
Jewish (Sephardic): also an 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 Catholic.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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