When Francisca Segura Medina was born on 2 December 1867, in Trujillo, Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico, her father, Simon Medina, was 21 and her mother, Maria Damasia Segura, was 19.
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Death of Juárez. Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada inaugurated president.
Reform Laws incorporated into Mexican constitution confirming separation of church and state.
Constitution changed to allow for six-year presidential term.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Luis, Carlos, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Ramon, Mario, Rafael. Portuguese Lidio, Ligia, Anatolio, Duarte, Joao.
Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of several places, as for example Medina-Sidonia in Cádiz province and Medina del Campo in Valladolid province, so called from Arabic madīna ‘city’.
Jewish (Sephardic): also an 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 Catholic.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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