Brief Life History of Edelmira
When Edelmira Miranda Murillo was born on 19 April 1931, in Chimbote, Santa, Áncash, Peru, her father, Felipe Miranda Mejia, was 22 and her mother, Maria Zenaida Murillo Fabian, was 16. She married Claudio Ismael Cuellar Chumbipuma in 1952, in Lima, Lima, Lima, Peru. She died on 7 January 1989, in Lima, Lima, Peru, at the age of 57.
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Sources (2)
- Legacy NFS Source: Edelmira Miranda Murillo - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Edelmira Miranda Murillo
- Edelmira Miranda in entry for Carmen Rosalina Cuellar Miranda, "Peru, Catholic Church Records, 1603-1992"
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World Events (3)
1975
Quechua, the language of the Inca, was made an official language along with Spanish of Peru.
1981
Peru fights border war with Ecuador over Cordillera del Condor, which a 1942 protocol had given to Peru.
1982
"Deaths and ""disappearances"" begin to escalate following army crackdown on guerrillas and drug traffickers."
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Juan, Jorge, Miguel, Jesus, Pedro, Francisco, Mario, Rafael. Portuguese Paulo, Joaquim, Godofredo, Joao, Albano, Amadeu, Anatolio, Lidio, Marcio. Italian Antonio, Angelo, Lorenzo, Marco, Salvatore, Luciano, Carmelo, Dario, Fausto, Federico, Sal, Gilda.
Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian: habitational name from any of numerous places in Spain, Portugal, and Italy named Miranda. The placename is of ultimate Latin origin, a cognate of 2 below. This surname is also found in western India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists. Compare De Miranda .
French (southern): habitational name from Miranda, the name of several minor places in Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the southwestern part of France, or a topographic name from Old Occitan miranda ‘lookout point, watchtower’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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