Brief Life History of María Elisa
When María Elisa Frías Morant was born about 1837, in Cochabamba, Cochabamba, Cercado, Cochabamba, Bolivia, her father, Lorenzo Frias Ametller, was 16 and her mother, Laura Morant, was 26. She married Federico Jimenez Gonzalez about 1858, in Cochabamba, Cochabamba, Cercado, Cochabamba, Bolivia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 14 February 1915, at the age of 79.
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- Elisa Frias, "Bolivia Deaths, 1750-1920"
- Eliza Frias in entry for Guillermo Jimenez and Benedicta Galindo, "Bolivia Catholic Church Records, 1566-1996"
- Elisa Frias, "Bolivia, registros parroquiales, 1566-1996"
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World Events (2)
1879
Bolivia becomes landlocked after losing mineral-rich, coastal territory in the Atacama to Chile.
1903
Bolivia loses the rubber-rich province of Acre to Brazil.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Rafael, Manuel, Ramon, Francisco, Pedro, Jesus, Mario, Ana. Portuguese Duarte, Wenceslao.
Spanish (Frías) and Portuguese: habitational name from any of various places, for example in the provinces of Burgos and Teruel, so called from the feminine plural form of the adjective frío ‘cold’ (from Latin frigidus); a noun such as aguas ‘waters’ or fuentes ‘springs’ has been lost.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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