When Pascual Mariano Cama Sisa was born on 16 May 1726, in Macarí, Melgar, Puno, Peru, his father, Francisco Cama Poco, was 24 and his mother, Micaela Flora Sisa, was 23.
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General Jose de San Martin captures Lima from Spanish and proclaims Peru independent.
Simon Bolivar led an army from Venezuela and Colombia into Peru to help fight the Spanish.
Antonio Jose de Sucre defeated the Spanish at Ayacucho. Peru becomes the last colony in Latin America to gain its independence.
Italian (mainly Calabria and Sicily): probably from the dialect word cama ‘mud’.
Catalan: nickname based on cama ‘leg’.
Albanian: from the old personal name or nickname Camë (definite form Cama), based on a shortened form of the vocabulary word camërdhok ‘little boy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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