Rosalina Peñaloza

Brief Life History of Rosalina

Rosalina Peñaloza was born on 1 June 1884, in Salazar de las Palmas, Norte de Santander, Colombia as the daughter of Nicolasa Penaloza. She married Lorenzo Barrera Gómez in 1917, in Rafael Urdaneta, Táchira, Venezuela. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 8 November 1996, in San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela, at the age of 112.

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Family Time Line

Isidro Villamizar
1891–
Rosalina Peñaloza
1884–1996
Maria del Carmen Villamizar
1927–
José Natividad Villamizar Peñaloza
María Teresa Villamizar Peñaloza
1938–
Jose Villamizar
1941–1941

Sources (10)

  • Rosa Peñaloza, "Venezuela, Registro Civil, 1873-2003"
  • Rosa lina, "Colombia, registros parroquiales y diocesanos, 1576-2018"
  • Rosalía Peñaloza en el registro de Eleuterio Peñaloza, "Venezuela, Diócesis de San Cristóbal, registros parroquiales y diocesanos, 1601-1962"

Parents and Siblings

World Events (8)

1899

Thousand Days' War. Around 120,000 people die in civil war between Liberals and Conservatives. Panama becomes an independent state.

1899

An international tribunal in Paris ruled on a border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana (Guyana). Britain received most of the claim for the Essequibo region, close to 111,000 square miles. Venezuela was represented by 2 U.S. judges and the chairman of the panel was Russian jurist Frederic de Martens. Venezuela rejected this decision in the 1960s.

1914

Venezuela's 1st oil gusher was drilled near Lake Maracibo.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Francisco, Arturo, Gerardo, Gilberto, Jesus, Jorge, Manuel, Pablo, Roberto, Alfredo.

Spanish (Peñaloza): variant of Peñalosa, a habitational name from either of two places in Córdoba or one in Huesca named Peñalosa.

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

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