Brief Life History of Sebastiana
When Sebastiana Araiza Gonzalez was born on 30 January 1916, in La Tinaja, Ocampo, Guanajuato, Mexico, her father, Jose Encarnacion Araiza Galicia, was 19 and her mother, Joaquina Gonzalez Mojica, was 25. She married Jose Leon Guerrero Romo on 16 January 1932, in Ocampo, Guanajuato, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 7 November 1989, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, at the age of 73.
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Family Time Line
Sources (10)
- Sebastiana Araisa in household of Encarnasion Araisa, "Mexico National Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sebastiana Araiza Gonzalez - Memory of Someone: Memory of a relative: birth-name: Sebastiana Araiza Gonzalez
- Sebastiana Araiza, "México, San Luis Potosí, Registro Civil, 1859-2000"
Spouse and Children
Parents and Siblings
World Events (8)
1917
Constitution of 1917 promulgated. Carranza elected president.
1920
Obregón rebels. Carranza dies. Obregón elected president.
1940
Manuel Ávila Camacho presidency. Mexico joins Allies in declaring war on Axis powers. PRM reorganized to provide wider representation and renamed Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional--PRI). Bracero (migrant Mexican worker) agreement established between Mexico and United States.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Jesus, Alicia, Luis, Miguel, Rafael, Raul, Rodolfo, Carlos, Cesar, Francisco.
Hispanic (mainly Mexico): probably an altered form of Basque Araiz, itself a Castilianized form of a topographic name from ara, haran ‘valley’ + -itz, a common topographic suffix, hence meaning ‘place in the valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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