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Where did the Spanish Cabrera family come from? What is the Spanish Cabrera family crest and coat of arms? When did the Cabrera family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Cabrera family history?
The original bearer of the name Cabrera, which is a local surname, once lived, held land, or was born in the beautiful region of Spain. In Spain, hereditary surnames were adopted according to fairly general rules. Local names originally denoted the proprietorship of the village or estate. The Cabrera family originally lived in one of the many minor places named Cabrera in Spain. This habitation name, which is a type of local surname that was originally derived from a place-name of towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads, was originally derived from the late Latin word "capraria", which means "place of goats".
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Please remember that this page is only a small extract of our complete history that includes: - Ancient origin of the name (usually pre-1100)
- Known spelling variations
- Early movement of the family name during the Middle Ages
- Noteworthy bearers from the 1500-1600s
- First settlers to North America
- Notable contemporary bearers of the name
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Spelling variations of this family name include: Cabrera, Cabrero, Cabrerizo and others.First found in Galicia, in the northwestern region of the Iberian peninsula.
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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Cabrera research. Another 464 words(33 lines of text) covering the years 1130, 1353, 1480, and 1492 are included under the topic Early Cabrera History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Cabrera. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
- Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera of Seville, who voyaged first to Peru and later to Argentina, where he founded the city of Cordoba
- Juan de Cabrera, aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of Peru Núñez de Vela
- Luis de Cabrera to America in 1512
- Alonso Cabrera, who voyaged to Santo Domingo in 1536, he subsequently journeyed to Buenos Aires to join Pedro de Mendoza, and from there to Asuncion, Paraguay
- Pedro de Cabrera to Florida in 1538
Cabrera Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Gregoria Cabrera, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1802
- Petronila Clara Cabrera, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1810
- Luis De Cabrera, who arrived in America in 1812
- Francisca Cabrera, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1823
- Gabriel Cabrera, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1823
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- Angelina Cabrera, American association executive
- Nestor L Cabrera, American fashion designer
- Rosa María Cabrera, American professor emeritus
- Blas Cabrera, Spanish physicist
- Don Ramón Cabrera (1810-1877), Carlist leader
- Pablo Cabrera, Argentine historian
- Luis Cabrera, Mexican politician and writer
- Alfonso Cabrera, Guatemalan politician
- Manuel Estrada Cabrera, former Guatemalan head of state
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- Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
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The Cabrera Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Cabrera Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
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