When Consuelo Zabala y Matheus was born on 22 March 1901, in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, her father, Gabriel Zabala y Medina, was 34 and her mother, Francisca Soto y Matheus, was 29. She married Agustine Rivera on 18 December 1920, in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in San Sebastián, Santa Rosa de Lima, La Unión, El Salvador in 1935 and Piedras Blancas, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico in 1940.
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Jones Act grants U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans.
Partial self-government granted. The Congress of United States approved a law to change back the name of the island Porto Rico, to its original name, Puerto Rico.
Women given full suffrage.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Luis, Carlos, Jaime, Jose, Juan, Manuel, Angel, Efrain, Julio, Pedro, Salvador, Alba.
Basque: habitational name from any of various places called Zabala, in Biscay and Araba/Álava provinces (Basque Country, Spain), named with Basque zabal ‘large, broad’ + the definite article -a. In some cases the surname may have arisen as a nickname from the same word. Compare Sabala , Savala , and Zavala .
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