Brief Life History of Telèsfora
When Telèsfora Castro Silva was born in 1883, in Temastián, Totatiche, Jalisco, Mexico, her father, Natividad Castro Juárez, was 27 and her mother, Ramona Silva de la Torre, was 15. She died before 1980, in her hometown.
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World Events (8)
1884
Mining code reformed. Subsoil ownership given to landowners. Reelection of Díaz.
1888
Constitution changed to allow Díaz to succeed himself.
1908
Díaz states his intention of not seeking reelection in interview. Francisco I. Madero publishes The Presidential Succession of 1910 .
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Jorge, Miguel, Francisco, Mario, Pedro, Raul. Portuguese Joao, Paulo, Ligia, Vasco, Wenceslao, Armanda, Fernandes.
Galician, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): topographic name from castro ‘castle, fortress’ (from Latin castrum ‘fort, Roman walled city’), or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word. See also De Castro .
Italian and Jewish (from Italy): topographic name for someone who lived by a fortification, from castro ‘fortification’ (see 1 above) or a habitational name for someone from the town of Castro, the center of a Duchy in Lazio (destroyed after its occupation by Papal military forces in 1649). Compare Lo Castro .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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