When Polidoro Romulo Chaves was born on 12 February 1842, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States, his father, Jose Maria Chaves, was 32 and his mother, María Ysabel Apodaca y Barela, was 21. He married Maria Luisa Gallegos on 29 January 1868, in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Spain. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He was buried in Peralta, Valencia, New Mexico, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Bernalillo, Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Bernalillo, New Mexico Territory, United States 1912: Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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