Brief Life History of João Felix da
João Felix da Silva was born on 24 June 1917, in Pernambuco, Brazil. He married Amara Fellix da Silva in 1936. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 19 August 1979, in his hometown, at the age of 62, and was buried in Pernambuco, Brazil.
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1917–1979 Male
1922–1979 Female
Children (1)
1938–1998 Male
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Manuel, Carlos, Juan, Luis, Jesus, Mario, Fernando, Francisco, Pedro, Roberto, Miguel. Portuguese Joao, Paulo, Joaquim, Agostinho, Duarte, Henrique, Serafim, Vasco, Ilidio, Adao, Afonso, Altair.
Portuguese, Galician, and Italian: habitational name from any of the many places called Silva in Portugal, Galicia (Spain), and Italy, or a topographic name from (Old) Portuguese and (Old) Galician silva ‘wood’, later ‘bramble’. Compare Da Silva and Silba .
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Iberian 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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