When Maria Ruedas Pancho was born in 1902, in Tukuran, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, her father, Juan Pancho, was 30 and her mother, Ines Ruedas, was 27. She had at least 1 son with Ceriaco Rivaca Calcupan. She died in 1975, in her hometown, at the age of 73.
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Insurrection ends. Taft improves economic conditions, settles disputes over church ownership of land, establishes "Pensionado"program, allowing Filipinos to study in U.S. , which helped modernize and westernize the country.
Filipino people approve constitution creating the Philippine Commonwealth with Manuel Quezon y Molina as the first president. The Philippines is promised full independence within 10 years.
Japan attacks the Philippines by air and invades two weeks later.
Spanish:
from the personal name Pancho, a pet form of Francisco .
nickname from pancho ‘calm, relaxed’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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