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Early Origins of the Adrada family

The surname Adrada was first found in Catalonia, in northeastern Spain.

Early History of the Adrada family

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Adrada Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Adrados, Adradas, Adrada and others.

Early Notables of the Adrada family

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Adrada migration to the United States +



Adrada Settlers in United States in the 16th Century
  • Francisco de Adrada, who settled in Florida in 1563
  • Lorenzo De Adrada, who settled in Peru in 1577
  • Diego de Adrada, who arrived in Peru in 1578

Adrada migration to West Indies +

The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 1
Adrada Settlers in West Indies in the 16th Century
  • Pedro De Adrada, who was recorded in Cuba in 1533
Adrada Settlers in West Indies in the 19th Century
  • Pedro De Adrada, who arrived in Cuba in 1833 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Adrada (post 1700) +

  • Francisco Rodriguez Adrada (b. 1922), Spanish academic, philologist and linguist


  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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