Guadalupe Family History
- Guadalupe Name Meaning
- Spanish: from the female personal name Guadalupe, a Marian name derived from the place so named in Cáceres province. The place name is named as ‘the valley of the wolves’, from Arabic wadi ‘valley’, ‘riverbed’ + Latin lupi ‘wolves’. Guadalupe is the site of a Hieronymite convent founded in the 14th century, which possesses a famous image of the Virgin Mary. In some cases, the surname may have arisen as a habitational name from the same place
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 197,521 Historical Documents with Guadalupe on Ancestry
- 171,539 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 15,209 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,277 Military Records
- 2,521 Immigration Records
- 6,975 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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