When Rosalia Tapia Arenas was born in 1894, in Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru, her father, Tomás Tapia Chavez, was 55 and her mother, Manuela Petronila Arenas Nuñez, was 21. She married Pedro Alvarez Bustinza on 11 October 1917, in Sagrario, Arequipa, Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 15 April 1981, in her hometown, at the age of 87.
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Chile returned Tacna to Peru.
Quechua, the language of the Inca, was made an official language along with Spanish of Peru.
Peru fights border war with Ecuador over Cordillera del Condor, which a 1942 protocol had given to Peru.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Jorge, Manuel, Carlos, Miguel, Francisco, Jesus, Luis, Mario, Ramon, Ruben.
Galician, Asturian-Leonese, and Spanish: habitational name from any of the places in Galicia, Asturias, and Burgos so named with tapia ‘mud wall’.
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Iberian 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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