When Juana Francisca Riega Fernandez was born on 3 June 1844, in Camaná, Arequipa, Peru, her father, Mariano Riega, was 24 and her mother, Eustaquia Fernández Errera, was 22. She married Mariano Atanacio Rivas Herrera on 1 March 1862, in Camaná, Arequipa, Peru. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 21 April 1917, in her hometown, at the age of 72.
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Chinese workers numbering up to 100,000 arrive in Peru as menial laborers.
Peruvian-Spanish war. Peru wins war with Spain.
Peru and Bolivia are defeated by Chile during the Pacific War in which Peru loses territory in the south to Chile.
North German:
topographic name from Middle Low German rige ‘row (of fields or houses)’.
habitational name from any of several places so named in Westphalia, Brandenburg, and former West Prussia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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