Felipa López Morales was born on 31 December 1902, in Aguas Buenas, Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico as the daughter of Joaquín López and María Morales de López. She married Lorenzo Pedro Morales Díaz on 19 January 1950, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. She lived in Santa Olaya, Bayamón, Puerto Rico in 1930 and Distrito Senatorial de Bayamón, Puerto Rico in 1950. She died on 5 July 1985, in Dajaos, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, at the age of 82.
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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 Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Raul, Ramon, Mario.
Spanish (López): patronymic from the medieval personal name Lope ‘wolf’. This is one of the commonest of all Spanish surnames. In the US, it is the twelfth most frequent surname. Compare De Lopez .
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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