When Domingo Medina was born in 1899, in Michoacan, Mexico, his father, José Romualdo Juan Medina Gutiérrez., was 55 and his mother, Catarina Piñón, was 49. He married Macaria Gonzalez Perez in 1922, in San Nicolás Tumbastatiro (Cañada de Abajo), Morelos, Michoacan, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 31 July 1942, in Santiago Undameo, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico, at the age of 43, and was buried in Santiago Undameo, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico.
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1899–1942 Male
1898–1990 Female
1923–1952 Female
about 1925–1955 Male
1927–2012 Male
1928– Female
1930–1930 Female
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1844–1917 Male
1850–1944 Female
1886–1916 Female
1889–2000 Female
1892–2000 Male
1897–1911 Female
1899–1942 Male
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Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Luis, Carlos, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Ramon, Mario, Rafael. Portuguese Lidio, Ligia, Anatolio, Duarte, Joao.
Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of several places, as for example Medina-Sidonia in Cádiz province and Medina del Campo in Valladolid province, so called from Arabic madīna ‘city’.
Jewish (Sephardic): also an adoption of the Spanish 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 Catholic.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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