Brief Life History of Dolores del Carmen
When Dolores del Carmen Torres Godoy was born about 1834, in San Felix, Juan Fernández, Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile, her father, Juan José Torres, was 62 and her mother, Mercedes Godoi, was 11832.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Dolores del Carmen Torres Godoy - Church record: birth-name: Dolores del Carmen Torres Godoy
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1891
Period of Parliamentary Republic.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Manuel, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Raul, Rafael. Portuguese Ligia, Anatolio, Catarina, Paulo, Albeiro, Gonsalo, Joaquim, Lidio, Omero, Wenceslao.
Galician, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of numerous places called Torres, all named with the plural of torre ‘tower’ (see Torre ). As a Jewish name, it was often adopted at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics. Compare De Torres .
Italian: habitational name from Torres in Belluno or Porto Torres in Sassari. In southern Italy the surname is sometimes of Spanish origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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