Show Spanish Names The Tho In nal 11 Magazine lne In addition to three or four Christian names n mes nombres s de pila the Spanish child bears bean the combined family names of his hI father and mother Our readers have probably noticed that Spanish sur surnames Surnames names are otten double or connected by bythe bythe the particle y meaning m and For ex example example example ample Castro y Serrano Pi y Margan y Pelayo Rius Rivera Perez Galdos Gidos The first is the more Important one and the only one that may be taken It often happens in the United L States however that the last is l erroneously I used Tomas TomeS Estrada Palma Palms the th i Cuban delegate was always alluded to tc toby 1 by the press as Mr Palma whereas his lil lilI I countrymen n know him as Mr Estrada I Palma Is his mothers name which h need not be given at all although it is de cle ri rl rigueur rigueur In official documents to Both surnames The author of Don Dor Doni i j Quixote Is universally known as Oer er ervantes ervantes 1 of his im imi Immortal but on the title page i mortal book may be seen Miguel de Ceri Cervantes Cervantes i Saavedra the last being his him mothers surname Likewise the full ful name of the great dramatist is Lone Ione de deVega deVega dEVega Vega Carpio the last name being omitted omi l I in the he abbreviated form j I The penultimate surname therefore and anc 1 not the fins Is the important one ne me and an that which goes to posterity Father and andson andson an anson son bearing the same dubbing are not f distinguished by b senior and junior nor pero et file but bat each takes his Ills own owr i mothers name n me as a distinctive the i father being for instance Pedro Diaz y P PI I I Castille and the son Pedro edro Diaz y Blanco |