TORIBIO HERRERA SAAVEDRA

Brief Life History of TORIBIO

When TORIBIO HERRERA SAAVEDRA was born on 1 May 1891, in Chillepin, Salamanca, Choapa, Chile, his father, Jesus Herrera Astudillo, was 33 and his mother, Juana Saavedra Escorza, was 27. He died on 23 September 1978, in Cunlagua, Salamanca, Choapa, Chile, at the age of 87.

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Family Time Line

Jesus Herrera Astudillo
1859–1927
Juana Saavedra Escorza
1864–1935
EUFRACIA DEL ROSARIO HERRERA SAAVEDRA
1889–1945
TORIBIO HERRERA SAAVEDRA
1891–1978
MERCEDES HERRERA SAAVEDRA
1893–1961
Maria Veronica Herrera
1895–1986
MARGARITA HERRERA SAAVEDRA
1901–1939
ROSA ALBERTA HERRERA SAAVEDRA
1903–1903

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  • Toribio del Carmen Herrera I Saavedra, "Chile, Registro Civil, 1885-1932"

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Jesus, Luis, Jorge, Francisco, Raul, Rafael, Mario, Roberto.

Spanish: habitational name from any of various places in the provinces of Seville and Badajoz named Herrera, from a word meaning ‘iron smithy, blacksmith's forge’ (a derivative of hierro ‘iron’, Latin ferrum). In the US, it is also found among Native Americans (Pueblos) in NM. Compare De Herrera and Errera .

Jewish (Sephardic): 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 Catholics.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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