When Pedro Anastasius Jose Horta Costas was born in 1818, in Pineda de Mar, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, his father, Jose Horta Mas, was 33 and his mother, Maura Costas, was 21. He married Isabella Antoinette Drago on 16 January 1851, in Mobile, Alabama, United States. He lived in Alabama, United States in 1870. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 13 April 1880, in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Catholic Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States.
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Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Carlos, Roberto, Jesus, Manuel, Miguel, Armando, Arturo, Orlando, Pablo, Ricardo.
Catalan and Portuguese: from horta ‘garden’ (from Latin hortus), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosed garden or a metonymic occupational name for a gardener.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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