When Maria Josepha Zumeta Arrue was born on 28 February 1740, in Berástegui, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain, her father, Jacinto Zumeta Obineta, was 33 and her mother, Maria Magdalena Arrue Azcue, was 30. She married Joseph Alcortta Ansorena on 11 September 1763, in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain.
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Spain lost Florida to the United Kingdom.
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.
Hispanic (mainly El Salvador): altered form of Basque Zumeta, a topographic name composed of zume ‘willow’ + the collective suffix -eta ‘place or group of’.
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