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href="mailto:auntyemfaustus@...">Emilie Garcia


Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:27
AM

Subject: Re: [ranchos] Re: Odd names
WAS



No, Alberto, our ancestor's names were not unusual in their time and
place, but a name like Gorgonia [Garcia],

 

---------------------------I do not see why it
would sound awful: It is from St. Gorgonia, one of the early Christian
saints.   

 

 my father's mother, sounds so awful to us now, especially those of
us raised here in the US. 

 

--------------------------that's because they
lack  the knowledge of  early Christian Greek saints.

 

 Refugio sounds ugly also,

 

-------------------------Since when has refuge
from anything been ugly??

 


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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
12:50 PM

Subject: Re: [ranchos] Re: Odd names
WAS


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 <
title=mailto:alliecar@...
href="mailto:alliecar@...">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:  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
> > 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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