When Laila Fontoura de Castro was born on 14 January 1908, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, her father, Felinto Pinto D'Almeida Castro, was 54 and her mother, Innocencia Rodrigues Da Fontoura, was 38. She married Escolastico Fontoura da Rosa on 14 January 1936, in Brazil. She died on 8 October 1986, in São Francisco dos Casais, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, at the age of 78.
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Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Jorge, Miguel, Francisco, Mario, Pedro, Raul. Portuguese Joao, Paulo, Ligia, Vasco, Wenceslao, Armanda, Fernandes.
Galician, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): topographic name from castro ‘castle, fortress’ (from Latin castrum ‘fort, Roman walled city’), or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word. See also De Castro .
Italian and Jewish (from Italy): topographic name for someone who lived by a fortification, from castro ‘fortification’ (see 1 above) or a habitational name for someone from the town of Castro, the center of a Duchy in Lazio (destroyed after its occupation by Papal military forces in 1649). Compare Lo Castro .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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