When Esteban Garay Ocarança was born on 27 May 1664, in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain, his father, Francisco Garay Uridarraga, was 37 and his mother, Josepha De Ocaranza, was 35.
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Bourbon dynasty takes Spanish throne. The Bourbons came from France, settling and modernize Spain's government and military.
The War of the Spanish Succession ended when Spain lost all of its European empire.
Spain lost Florida to the United Kingdom.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Carlos, Juan, Luis, Javier, Manuel, Jesus, Francisco, Julio, Raul, Ana, Cesar.
Basque: Castilianized form of Garai, a habitational name from any of several places in Biscay named Garai, from Basque garai ‘high’, a derivative of gara ‘height, peak’.
Hungarian: habitational name for someone from a place called Gara.
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