That's what I thought, too, Em! BTW, my middle name is Alicia...my folks said it was after a family friend but I don't remember ever meeting her. My first name is after my Scots mother's sister but in Spanish. I've since discovered that my aunt was named after her grandmother, who was named after her own grandmother. Had I known that I would have named one of my own daughters a variant of it. Marge, who is Shinju in Japanese.:)



On Dec 21, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Emilie Garcia wrote:

Well, Alicia, I have a sister, my only sibling, who is named Alicia Emma.  I will have to tell her she should have a saint's name since she has a pagan name.  Our parents had saint's names:  Luisa and Guadalupe.  I wonder where they got the name Alicia.  There is no one in the family with that name.  I know that I was named after my mother's mother, Emilia.  My middle name is Christina---can't get any saintlier than that.  I was born almost on Easter, maybe that is why the name Christina. 

Or even my dads name is Augapito.



              ~~glo~~







From: Margarita Vallazza 
Reply-To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Odd names WAS Re: [ranchos] Re: Godina Family
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:57:34 -0600

Aren't you glad to not be named Reducindo or Reducinda?  One of my
ancestors is named Narciso, another Prudencio, another Petronilo, and
another Zenobio...what names!!!!  Marge:)





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Aren't you glad to not be named Reducindo or Reducinda?  One of my
ancestors is named Narciso, another Prudencio, another Petronilo, and
another Zenobio...what names!!!!  Marge:)

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I'm baaack 
We finally got our internet connection back - have been w/o internet 
since Oct 29, and had been checking email @library a few days each 
week, but really had very little time to read many of the digests as I 
could only use library computer for about 30 min (not near enough time 
to read the Ranchos messages). I have spent the past 1-1/2 hrs reading 
past messages and have read up to Digest #678/Nov 29. It has been 
wonderful and interesting; can't wait to read more - but will have to 
wait until tomorrow (it is past my bedtime ;) ). Thank you all for your 
contributions of knowledge & experiences. Y'all take care.
Merry Christmas blessings to you all.
Natalie Coleman in VA

They sound like Cubanos or Puertoriquenos to me.:) Marge

On Dec 20, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Emilie Garcia wrote:

These people were known as "manitos" (the priests had told them they were Hermanitos), and their nasally speech was unique, an ancient 16th century Spanish, where they dropped the first and last parts of words as in 'equia for acequia, and 'manito for hermanito, and colorao for colorado, and they had beliefs and practices unique to them.  Due to more mobility nowadays, that is all gone.

 

Aren't you glad to not be named Reducindo or Reducinda? One of my
ancestors is named Narciso, another Prudencio, another Petronilo, and
another Zenobio...what names!!!! Marge:)

Correction.. my father is not 185 years old... he visited Jerez in 
1936.... he's only 85....
Linda

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Erlinda Castanon-Long" 
 wrote:
>
> Hi Alberto,
> In my family in Jerez Zacatecas the Mulato's were assimillated and 
> through the years by marrying into Espanol and Mestizo families 
they 
> eventually thought they were Espanol and Mestizo only.
> 
> My Alcala family records show them as Alcalan and Mulato Libre or 
> Indio depending on which brothers marriage record you read in late 
> 1700's. They come to Jerez by way of Valparaiso and Fresnillo to 
> live in Labor de Marquez by 1780. By 1815 my direct ancestor 
Marcial 
> Alcala had married an Espanol woman and therafter they thought of 
> themselves as Espanol! 
> Abt. 1865 my ancestor Maria Marcos Alcala married Ambrocio Caldera 
> and the Caldera family always said they were Espanol. If I 
remember 
> correctly you and I share the Caldera line.  I have found 1 record 
> that