When Onofre Davila Rodríguez was born in 1898, in San Lucas, Madriz, Nicaragua, his father, Davila, was 23 and his mother, Rodriguez, was 20. He married Leandra Baez Muñoz in Nicaragua. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He died in 1980, in Nicaragua, at the age of 82.
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U.S. war ships take possession of the Fonseca Gulf.
U.S. troops impose a puppet government in Nicaragua. Liberal President, José Santos Zelaya is forced out of office and Adolfo Díaz is made provisional president.
When U.S. forces withdraw from Nicaragua, rebellions ensue. and the marines return to quell the disturbances.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Carlos, Luis, Manuel, Jesus, Mario, Raul, Angel, Javier, Jorge, Pedro. Portuguese Ligia, Afonso, Calixtro, Catarina.
Spanish (Dávila): habitational name for someone from Ávila (see Avila ), with fused preposition d(e) ‘of, from’.
Galician and Portuguese (rarely Da Vila): topographic name for someone ‘from the village’, from vila ‘village, small town’ (see Vila ), with the addition of da, a shortened form of the preposition de ‘from’ and the feminine definite article a ‘the’. Compare Davilla .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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