When Miguel Gomez was born in 1699, in Casas-Ibáñez, Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, his father, Juan Gómez Martínez, was 35 and his mother, Isabel García, was 30. He married Juliana Carrión Soriano on 18 April 1731, in Casas-Ibáñez, Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters.
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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, Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Francisco, Miguel, Pedro, Jorge, Ramon, Rafael.
Spanish (Gómez): from a medieval personal name, probably of Visigothic origin, from guma ‘man’. Compare De Gomez .
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the name in 1 above at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some Jewish descendants retained the surname that their families had adopted as Roman Catholics.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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