When Esther Santiaga Cardozo Liebano was born on 23 May 1943, in Petare, Sucre, Miranda, Venezuela, her father, Manuel Evelio Villegas, was 24 and her mother, Angela Custodia Liebano García, was 22. She married José Manuel Armas Sandoval in 1963. She died on 16 April 1981, in Nuestra Señora de Fátima, Caracas, Libertador, Distrito Capital, Venezuela, at the age of 37.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Carlos, Jose, Luis, Manuel, Pedro, Jaime, Mario, Alberto, Alvaro, Francisco, Juana, Orlando. Portuguese Joaquim, Vasco.
Portuguese and Spanish: variant of Cardoso . This surname is also found in western India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists.
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Iberian 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 Catholics.
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