When Lucia Zumeta Arrue was born on 27 September 1730, in Berástegui, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain, her father, Jacinto Zumeta Obineta, was 23 and her mother, Maria Magdalena Arrue Azcue, was 21.
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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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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