When Juana Josefa Maria Jeronima Vargas Cartagena was born on 7 July 1703, in Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia, her father, Miguel Jerónimo de Vargas Machuca y Ruíz Feria, was 30 and her mother, María Gertrudis Cartagena Valencia, was 27. She married Ignacio Hilario Arias Bueno y Osorio about 1728, in Marinilla, Antioquia, Colombia. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She died about 1780, in Antioquia, Colombia, at the age of 78.
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Bogota becomes the capital of the Spanish vice-royalty of Nueva Granada. Nueva Granada also rules Ecuador and Venezuela.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Manuel, Pedro, Francisco, Jorge, Jesus, Rafael, Miguel, Roberto. Portuguese Paulo, Ligia, Vasco, Catarina, Conceicao, Joao, Omero, Serafim, Wenceslao.
Spanish and Portuguese: habitational name, probably from Vargas in Cantabria, or a topographic name from vargas, plural of varga, a dialect term meaning ‘(thatched) hut, steep slope’ or ‘fenced pastureland which becomes waterlogged in winter’. Compare Bargas and De Vargas .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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