When Antonio Jose Correa Ramirez was born in 1886, in El Peñol, Antioquia, Colombia, his father, Casimiro Maria Correa muñoz, was 36 and his mother, Francisca Ramirez franco, was 31. He married Emiliana Lopez Rodriguez on 25 May 1908, in Nuestra Señora de las Victorias, Santa Rosa de Cabal, Risaralda, Colombia. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 7 May 1956, in Santa Rosa de Cabal, Risaralda, Colombia, at the age of 70, and was buried in Santa Rosa de Cabal, Risaralda, Colombia.
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Thousand Days' War. Around 120,000 people die in civil war between Liberals and Conservatives. Panama becomes an independent state.
Panama seceded from Colombia with U.S. backing and allows U.S. control over the strip of land now known as the Panama Canal zone.
The United States pay Colombia $25 million for the loss of Panama.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Manuel, Jorge, Pedro, Miguel, Jesus, Ramon, Raul, Francisco.
Spanish: from correa ‘leather strap, belt, rein, shoelace’ (from Latin corrigia ‘fastening’, from corrigere ‘to straighten, to correct’), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of such articles.
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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