When Nazário Chaves was born on 14 December 1790, in Tauá, Ceará, Brazil, his father, Capitão José de Araújo Chaves, was 37 and his mother, Eleuteria de Matos de Vasconcelos, was 27.
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Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Manuel, Luis, Carlos, Juan, Roberto, Ruben, Cesar, Francisco, Jesus, Jorge, Mario. Portuguese Joao, Paulo, Agostinho, Duarte, Goncalo, Ilidio, Ligia, Vasco.
Portuguese: habitational name from a place in the province of Tras-os-Montes named Chaves, from Latin (aquis) Flaviis ‘(at the) waters of Flavius’. The place was the site of sulfurous springs with supposedly health-giving properties, around which a settlement was founded in the 1st century AD by the Emperor Vespasian.
Portuguese and Galician: habitational name from any of numerous places called Chaves, generally from the plural of chave ‘key’, from Latin clavis.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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