When Carmen Christina Torres was born on 15 November 1908, in Illinois, United States, her father, Edward Torres, was 25 and her mother, Lena Benson, was 21. She married William Whitmore Gothard Sr. on 14 May 1930, in Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Brookfield, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 5 years and La Grange, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 19 January 2000, in Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Clarendon Hills Cemetery, Darien, DuPage, Illinois, United States.
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Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Manuel, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Raul, Rafael. Portuguese Ligia, Anatolio, Catarina, Paulo, Albeiro, Gonsalo, Joaquim, Lidio, Omero, Wenceslao.
Galician, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of numerous places called Torres, all named with the plural of torre ‘tower’ (see Torre ). As a Jewish name, it was often adopted 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. Compare De Torres .
Italian: habitational name from Torres in Belluno or Porto Torres in Sassari. In southern Italy the surname is sometimes of Spanish origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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