Agulurco ??? in Zacatecas?
I have found a death record of a Pilar Lopez who died in DeRidder, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana on 24 Aug 1953.
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Emilie,
There is "Ahualulco" in San Luis Potosí and an "Ahualulco de Mercado" in Jalisco. Never heard of one in Zacatecas Incidentally, this is the first time I hear the name Pilar given to a male, as Pilar is usually a name given to a female.
Bill Figueroa
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Bill and Emily,
I have seen the name Pilar for both male and female.
Alicia
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Emilie,
There is "Ahualulco" in San Luis Potosí and an "Ahualulco de Mercado" in Jalisco. Never heard of one in Zacatecas Incidentally, this is the first time I hear the name Pilar given to a male, as Pilar is usually a name given to a female.
Bill Figueroa
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Yes, I just remembered that one of my great-grandmothers had a brother named Pilar. I guess back before 1900 Pilar was used interchangeably for both boys and girls.
Emilie
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> Bill and Emily,
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> I have seen the name Pilar for both male and female.
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> Alicia
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> Emilie,
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> There is "Ahualulco" in San Luis Potosí and an "Ahualulco de Mercado" in Jalisco. Never heard of one in Zacatecas Incidentally, this is the first time I hear the name Pilar given to a male, as Pilar is usually a name given to a female.
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> Bill Figueroa
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I have an uncle named pilar. I believe that it is used equally to name males and females in my families hometown in Jalisco.
R A Ricci
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Emilie,
There is "Ahualulco" in San Luis Potosí and an "Ahualulco de Mercado" in Jalisco. Never heard of one in Zacatecas Incidentally, this is the first time I hear the name Pilar given to a male, as Pilar is usually a name given to a female.
Bill Figueroa
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Bill,
Thank you for your response. I will try different spellings and see what I can find.
Yes, I had a very hard time finding out what his real name was. His daughter's death record listed him as "Velar" and I finally found the family in the US census records with him as Pilar and in 1920 he was listed as "Pete". He immigrated from Mexico in 1900 and settled in Louisiana where his children grew up speaking French instead of English or Spanish. Go figure.
Emilie
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> Emilie,
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> There is "Ahualulco" in San Luis Potosí and an "Ahualulco de Mercado" in Jalisco. Never heard of one in Zacatecas Incidentally, this is the first time I hear the name Pilar given to a male, as Pilar is usually a name given to a female.
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> Bill Figueroa
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Emilie,
I found it interesting that Pilar's (or Pete's) children grew up speaking
French in Louisiana. That is not unusual considering that Luisiana was
under French and Spanish rule before the independence of the U.S. However,
nearly all French speaking creoles living in the southwestern parishes of
Louisiana are descendants of French Canadians that resisted the British
occupation of Acadia early in the 18th century, and who were later expulsed
by the British beginning in 1755. After their homes were burned and their
land confiscated, many Acadians sailed South and settled in the bayous of
Louisiana. The descendants of those who settled in Louisiana after 1764 are
better known as Cajuns. They speak French and keep their culture and
traditions alive.
Bill Figueroa
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Bill,
I googled "Ahualulco, Zacatecas", and this link came up:
http://www.nuestro-mexico.com/Zacatecas/Juchipila/Areas-de-menos-de-10-…
It is in the municipio of Juchipila! Currently only 10 people live there.
My cousin who I am helping with his research told me that his maternal grandmother was born in Louisiana and spoke only French. After researching, she was really born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, and was brought to Louisiana as a very small child by her father Pilar Lopez. I wondered why she didn't speak English or Spanish. I was unaware of any migration from Mexico to LA in the late 1800s and early 1900s, at least not like I have seen to Texas and the rest of the Southwest.
Yes, I knew about Cajuns in Louisiana though not where they came from. In fact, my brother-in-law (African-American) had a relative from Louisiana, and when he spoke English I couldn't understand a word he said, his southern accent was so thick. He told me and my sister that we
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Agulurco ??? in Zacatecas?