When Josepha Arco Llosa was christened on 7 March 1729, in Las Carreras, Abanto Zierbena, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain, her father, Simon Arco Monasterio, was 40 and her mother, Lucia Llosa Revilla, was 36.
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Spain lost Florida to the United Kingdom.
French forces led by Napoleon conquered Spain but the Spanish regained control in 1814.
War against Napolean was met with great resistance by Spanish nationalists, with help from British troops, Spain force French out of the peninsula.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Emilio, Alberto, Carlos, Celestino, Juanita, Manuel, Miguel. Italian Angelo, Nino.
Spanish and Portuguese: habitational name from any of the places called Arco in Spain and Portugal, or a topographic name from arco ‘archway’.
Italian: metonymic occupational name for a bow maker or bowman, from arco ‘bow’, or a habitational name from a place called with this word, as for example Arco Felice in Naples province.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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