When Maria Paula Candelaria was born on 13 April 1836, in Albuquerque, Nuevo México, Mexico, her father, Manuel Vicente de los Dolores Candelaria y Armijo, was 52 and her mother, Ana María de Altagracia Chávez y González, was 35.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Bernalillo, Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Bernalillo, New Mexico Territory, United States 1912: Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Carlos, Luis, Manuel, Juan, Rafael, Miguel, Angel, Enrique, Jesus, Pedro, Roberto.
Spanish:
habitational name from Candelaria in Las Palmas (Canary Islands) or from any other place which has a celebrated sanctuary dedicated to (Maria de la) Candelaria. The Marian epithet refers to the Catholic feast of the Purification of the Virgin, from Latin candela ‘candle’, since on this day candles were blessed by a priest and then lit to invoke the protection of the Virgin Mary.
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