When Maria Ignacia Cano Correa was born in 1773, in Antioquia, Colombia, her father, Alejo Jose Antonio Cano Pelaez, was 34 and her mother, María Josefa Correa Ángel, was 26. She married José Salvador Escobar Arango in 1795, in Antioch, Antioch. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1867, at the age of 94.
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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, 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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