When Maria Dolores Mestas was born on 13 March 1847, in Taos, Taos, New Mexico, United States, her father, Jose Felipe Mestas, was 63 and her mother, Maria Soledad Tafoya, was 31. She died on 11 April 1848, at the age of 1, and was buried in Rancho, Roosevelt, New Mexico, United States.
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Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Conrado, Manuel, Eduardo, Juan, Roberto, Abelardo, Alfonso, Alfonzo, Alonzo, Aniceto, Armondo, Carlos.
Asturian-Leonese: habitational name from a Castilianized form of Les Mestes, the name of a town and several villages in Asturias (Spain), all named with the plural of mesta ‘common (sheep) pasture’ (from Latin mixtas, plural past participle of miscere ‘to mix, to mingle’).
Spanish: habitational name from Las Mestas in Cáceres province, of the same etymology as in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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