Vicenta Alba Cruz

Brief Life History of Vicenta

When Vicenta Alba Cruz was born on 22 August 1916, in San Carlos, Jiménez, Coahuila, Mexico, her father, Jose Eduardo Alba Bustos, was 35 and her mother, Mariana Cruz Guzmán, was 30. She married Roberto Loera on 22 January 1949, in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. She died on 7 January 1966, in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, at the age of 49, and was buried in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico.

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Family Time Line

Roberto Loera
1913–1980
Vicenta Alba Cruz
1916–1966
Marriage: 22 January 1949

Sources (10)

  • Vicenta Alba in household of Mariana Cruz, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Vicenta Alba in the Coahuila, Mexico, Civil Registration Births, 1861-1930, nacio 22 Agosto 1916 en San Carlos, Coahuila
  • Vicenta Alba de Loera, "Mexico, Coahuila, Civil Registration, 1861-1998"

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World Events (8)

1917

Constitution of 1917 promulgated. Carranza elected president.

1920

Obregón rebels. Carranza dies. Obregón elected president.

1930

Portes Gil succeeded by Ortiz Rubio as president.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Mario, Francisco, Carlos, Ramon, Andres, Jesus, Jorge, Manuel, Pedro. Italian Antonio, Angelo, Lorenzo, Salvatore, Alfonse, Bartolo, Biagio, Carlo, Carmelo, Eligio, Elio, Eliseo.

Spanish, Italian, and Romanian: habitational name from any of several places called Alba, derived either from a pre-Roman word meaning ‘hill fort, fortified settlement’ or named with Latin alba, feminine of albus ‘white’. Compare De Alba .

Romanian: from the old female personal name Alba, from albă ‘white’ (from Latin alba).

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

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