When Julia Mendez Sosa was born in 1903, her father, Braulio Mendez y Bonilla, was 22 and her mother, Ana Maria Sosa Mendez, was 20. She married Pedro Lopez Rosa on 5 July 1924, in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 15 April 1933, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the age of 30.
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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.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Raul, Jorge, Rafael. Portuguese Ligia, Godofredo, Ilidio, Paulo, Serafim.
Galician (Méndez): patronymic from the personal name Mendo (see Mendes , of which this is the Galician equivalent).
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Iberian 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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