When Jose Antonio Cano Correa was born in 1769, in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, his father, Alejo Jose Antonio Cano Pelaez, was 30 and his mother, María Josefa Correa Ángel, was 22. He married Juana Velasquez Alvarez in 1807, in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia. He died in 1865, at the age of 96.
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The King of Spain is overthrown by Napoleon.
Spain sends troops to South America to quell an uprising of colonists.
Battle of Boyaca. General Simon Bolivar defeats royalist forces. The Republic of Colombia (also known as Gran Colombia) is proclaimed, consisting of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Luis, Carlos, Jesus, Miguel, Francisco, Jorge, Alberto, Raul, Javier. Portuguese Adauto, Wenceslao.
Spanish: nickname for an old man or someone with prematurely white hair, from cano ‘white or gray haired, old, worthy’ (from Latin canus).
Portuguese or Spanish (Caño): topographic name from any of numerous brooks and paths in Portugal (Cano) and Spain (Caño), named with a derivative of Latin canna ‘reed’, also as ‘sewer, drain’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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