When Marta Ygnacia Gallaistegui Arrazola was born on 29 July 1737, in Oñate, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain, her father, Miguel Gallaistegui Villar, was 50 and her mother, Ysidra Arrazola Yarza, was 32.
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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.
Basque: Castilianized form of a habitational name from Arratzola (in Castilian: Arrazola) in Biscay (Basque Country, Spain), a place called from Basque (h)artsu ‘stony place’ + the topographic suffix -ola ‘place of’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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