Brief Life History of Juan Antonio
When Juan Antonio Torres Fuentes was born on 26 June 1903, in Puchuncaví, Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile, his father, Felipe Torres Y Castro, was 46 and his mother, Juana Fuentes Perez de Torres, was 40.
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- Juan Antonio, "Chile, registros parroquiales y diocesanos, 1633-2015"
- Juan Antonio Torres Fuentes, "Chile, bautismos, 1585-1932"
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Manuel, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Raul, Rafael. Portuguese Ligia, Anatolio, Catarina, Paulo, Albeiro, Gonsalo, Joaquim, Lidio, Omero, Wenceslao.
Galician, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of numerous places called Torres, all named with the plural of torre ‘tower’ (see Torre ). As a Jewish name, it was often adopted 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. Compare De Torres .
Italian: habitational name from Torres in Belluno or Porto Torres in Sassari. In southern Italy the surname is sometimes of Spanish origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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