Maria Martina Lopez -Vela- Chumillas was born on 12 November 1775, in Nerpio, Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain as the daughter of Juan López Vela Ródenas and Catalina Gerónima Chumillas Alpharo. She married Eugenio Josef Fernandez Rincon on 12 July 1794, in Nerpio, Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 4 November 1844, in La Purísima Concepción, Nerpio, Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, at the age of 68, and was buried in La Purísima Concepción, Nerpio, Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
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French forces led by Napoleon conquered Spain but the Spanish regained control in 1814.
War against Napolean was met with great resistance by Spanish nationalists, with help from British troops, Spain force French out of the peninsula.
Courts in Cadiz establish a new constitution, replacing the previous one with a liberally leaning one.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Raul, Ramon, Mario.
Spanish (López): patronymic from the medieval personal name Lope ‘wolf’. This is one of the commonest of all Spanish surnames. In the US, it is the twelfth most frequent surname. Compare De Lopez .
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.
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