Hey, there is nothing wrong with our old Spanish
names.  My great-----grandaunt's name was Maria
Guadalupe Leogarda De La Cruz Pena Morales, 1797,
Valle De Allende, Chihuahua,Mexico. 

They were long but beautiful.

Alberto Duarte Prieto
Santa Maria, California

--- Alicia Carrillo <alliecar@...> wrote:

> Marge and Emilie,
>    
>   Alicia must be a very new name because in all my
> research I have not once found this name either in
> my ancestors or any other records. I guess we are
> modern women hence the new variant of a name. I
> guess that's also why I am not saintly, no
> precedents in my namesake.
>    
>   Alicia, a saint in waiting or in the
> making............hope is everlasting, (sigh, sigh).
> 
> Margarita Vallazza <TeaCozyGran@...> wrote:
>   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:Â  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. 
> > Â 
> > Marge, most of the names you mention sound like
> they came from the 
> > classic Greek or Roman---pagan?
> > Â 
> > Emilie Garcia
> > Port Orchard, WA ---
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Alicia Carrillo
> >> To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:15 PM
> >> Subject: [ranchos] Re: Odd names WAS
> >>
> >> Marge,
> >> Â 
> >> My dad was named Restituto and he went to court
> to legally change his 
> >> name to Jose. Many people called him ''Tuto'' for
> short but he hated 
> >> it.
> >> Â 
> >> Â And yes I am glad my mom named me Alicia and
> not Juana because Juana 
> >> was my saint day and that's the name the priest
> told my mother she 
> >> should name me. He told her Alicia was a pagan
> name and it had to be 
> >> a saint's name. Three cheers for mom who stuck to
> her guns.
> >> Â 
> >> Alicia Avelar de Carrillo
> >> San Jose, Ca
> >>
> >> Margarita Vallazza wrote:
> >>> 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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