Brief Life History of Maria Cruz
When Maria Cruz Hernandez was born in 1912, in Chiapas, Mexico, her father, Pedro Cruz, was 23 and her mother, Esposa Petrona Hernández Torres, was 30. She died about May 1997, in her hometown, at the age of 85.
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1912
"Pascual Orozco rebels against Madero. Victoriano Huerta's troops crush rebellion. Huerta exiled to France. Zapata and Francisco ""Pancho""Villa enter Mexico City. Venustiano Carranza establishes constitutional government at Veracruz."
1913
Madero overthrown by coup d'état staged by Felix Díaz and Huerta. Madero assassinated. Carranza, Villa, and Álvaro Obregón lead northern rebellion.
1914
United States troops land at Veracruz. Huerta defeated and forced into exile.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Carlos, Manuel, Jesus, Luis, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Mario, Raul, Ramon, Roberto.
Spanish (Hernández): patronymic from the personal name Hernando (see Fernando ). The surname has also been established in southern Italy, mainly in Naples and Palermo, since the period of Spanish dominance there. Hernandez (including in the sense 2 below) is the eleventh most frequent surname in the US. Compare De Hernandez .
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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