Brief Life History of Jose De Los Santos
When Jose De Los Santos Lopez Davila was born in 1938, in San José, Mérida, Venezuela, his father, Ramon Antonio Lopez Sanchez, was 43 and his mother, Estefania Davila Sanchez, was 38. He died in May 1944, in Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela, at the age of 6, and was buried in San José, Mérida, Venezuela.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Jose De Los Santos Lopez Davila, "Venezuela, Archdiocese of Mérida, Catholic Church Records, 1654-2013"
Parents and Siblings
1896–1994 Male
1900–1994 Female
Siblings (5)
1920–1990 Male
1924–1993 Female
1934–1939 Female
1938–1944 Male
1939–1942 Female
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Raul, Ramon, Mario.
Spanish (López): patronymic from the medieval personal name Lope ‘wolf’. This is one of the commonest of all Spanish surnames. In the US, it is the twelfth most frequent surname. Compare De Lopez .
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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