When Josepha Rafaela Fajardo García was born about 1780, in Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica, her father, Joseph Manuel Benito Faxardo Sarmiento, was 34 and her mother, Phelipa Josepha de Jesus Garcia de Arqueta, was 26. She married Lorenzo Arnesto Troya Alvarado on 30 November 1804, in Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters.
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Costa Rica ousts William Walker. He wants to extend slavery to Central American countries in an expression of Manifest Destiny. He invades and names himself president of Nicaragua. Costa Rica, with the help of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, defeated Walker and his supporters with 9,000 soldiers.
President Juan Rafael Mora is ousted from power. After a failed attempt at a counter-coup, he is executed.
American businessman Minor Cooper Keith brings the United Fruit Company and banana cultivation to Cost Rica. Keith originally arrived to oversee construction of the Atlantic Railroad, which would connect the coffee producing central plateau with the Caribbean coast.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Miguel, Rafael, Jorge, Alfonso, Alfredo, Fernando, Mario.
Galician: topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or in a beech wood, from Late Latin fagea (arbor) ‘beech (tree)’, a derivative of classical Latin fagus ‘beech’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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