When Lourdes San Diego Austria was born on 11 February 1906, in La Loma, Rizal, Philippines, her father, Rufino San Juan Austria, was 36 and her mother, Isabel San Diego, was 30. She married Eladio Poliquet Legaspi on 8 March 1925, in Tondo, Manila, Philippines. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She died on 14 May 1957, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, at the age of 51.
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Filipino people approve constitution creating the Philippine Commonwealth with Manuel Quezon y Molina as the first president. The Philippines is promised full independence within 10 years.
Japan attacks the Philippines by air and invades two weeks later.
The islands are granted full independence and renamed the Republic of the Philippines.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Virgilio, Ramon, Roberto, Alfredo, Eduardo, Jaime, Jesus, Almario, Amado, Anastacio, Angelito, Arsenio.
Hispanic (mainly Philippines): from the name of the European country, either as an ethnic name or with a reference to the Austrian Habsburg dynasty which ruled Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Österreich ‘Austria’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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