Brief Life History of Elvia
When Elvia Díaz Rojas was born on 17 August 1953, in Chepén, La Libertad, Peru, her father, Jose de la Rosa Diaz Flores, was 47 and her mother, Maximina Rojas Vargas, was 37. She died on 22 August 2012, in Guadalupe, Pacasmayo, La Libertad, Peru, at the age of 59.
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Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Elvia Díaz de Hernández, "Perú, La Libertad, Registro Civil, 1903-1998"
- Elvia Díaz Rojas, "Perú, La Libertad, Registro Civil, 1903-1998"
- Elvia Zavala Diaz, "Perú, La Libertad, Registro Civil, 1903-1998"
World Events (3)
1975
Quechua, the language of the Inca, was made an official language along with Spanish of Peru.
1981
Peru fights border war with Ecuador over Cordillera del Condor, which a 1942 protocol had given to Peru.
1982
"Deaths and ""disappearances"" begin to escalate following army crackdown on guerrillas and drug traffickers."
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Carlos, Luis, Manuel, Jesus, Francisco, Jorge, Rafael, Miguel, Pedro, Roberto.
Spanish (Díaz): patronymic from the medieval personal name Didacus (see Diego ).
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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