When María de la Merced Correa Ángel was born on 26 September 1791, in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, her father, Lorenzo Domingo Correa Ángel, was 32 and her mother, Ana Maria Angel Arango, was 31. She married Esteban Velasquez Tamayo on 4 July 1812, in San Jerónimo, Antioquia, Colombia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died in her hometown.
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The King of Spain is overthrown by Napoleon.
Spain sends troops to South America to quell an uprising of colonists.
Slavery is abolished.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Manuel, Jorge, Pedro, Miguel, Jesus, Ramon, Raul, Francisco.
Spanish: from correa ‘leather strap, belt, rein, shoelace’ (from Latin corrigia ‘fastening’, from corrigere ‘to straighten, to correct’), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of such articles.
Jewish (Sephardic): 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 Catholics.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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