When Martin Zumeta Arrue was born on 14 January 1733, in Berástegui, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain, his father, Jacinto Zumeta Obineta, was 25 and his mother, Maria Magdalena Arrue Azcue, was 23. He married Maria Josefa Saizar Yparraguirre on 11 May 1761, in Berástegui, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters.
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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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