When Antonio Morillos Quiroz was born on 10 May 1886, in San Antonio de Cortés, Cortés, Honduras, his father, Leocadio Murillo, was 41 and his mother, Ignacia Quiroz, was 40. He died in his hometown.
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Brief but costly war with El Salvador over heavy immigration and disputed border.
Colonel Juan Alberto Melgar Castro take power.
Melgar ousted in coup led by General Policarpo Paz Garcia.
Hispanic (Mexico; Morillón): possibly of French origin (see below). Alternatively, perhaps a variant of Morillo .
French: from a diminutive of an old personal name Morille, ultimately from Latin Maurus ‘Mauritanian, Moor’.
French: nickname from morillon, a word meaning ‘black duck’, ‘black grapes’, and ‘black fabric’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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