Reaching Out To Children In Need Part I

Going up to Cabug overlooking the island of Cebu

The green mountains of Cabug

The limestone road to Cabug Primary School

The main room of Cabug Primary School

The happy students, teacher and parents with me

The Familia Sauza-Berenguer de Marquina for more than 2 centuries in the Philippines has proven its family legacy of helping people especially the indigent communities from places far away from the center of trade and communication. Two of the 12 Corporate Values of Familia Sauza-Berenguer de Marquina Corporation or FSBMC are Pro-Media and Pro-Social Services that support the programs of our Bohol Unit in the Philippines.

On 25 June 2012, I take almost 7 kilometers walk to Cabug Primary School, a public school that is halfway from the cool mountain top of Loon to the national road. It is the last elementary school of the place. The road going to this school starts from the cemented one to a rough limeston one. Along the way going to this school is the long stretch of woods rich in flora where a traveler can surely take a cool place to relax. Part of this as well is an open area where a traveler can experience a scorching heat of the sun. Before reaching the school, we can see green mountains and possibly a traveler can recall The Sound of Music of the Von Trapp Family. We can view also the blue mountains of the historical island of Cebu resting on a blue-green blanket of the sea of Bohol. There are also rich species of birds of various colors. Of course, this is also a perfect recommended place of bird watching for such hobbyist.

Upon reaching Cabug Primary School, honestly, my body is overflowing with sweats and tiredness almost tells me to take a nap because of the cool wind touching my face. But, my tiredness is gone because of the warm welcoming smiles of the school children, teachers and parents. They are so happy because someone is visiting them. This school has 34 pupils in call. 12 in Kindergarten, 12 in Grade I and 10 in Grade III. Watching and talking to these school children make me realize the beauty of life and innocence in them. Many of them walk almost 4 kilometers just to attend their school during weekdays from their respective homes almost at the top of the mountain. Their regular travel give them almost 8 kilometers of walking to school a day! They are not tired of walking because for them they have dreams to reach. At their young age, their perseverance is worth saluting for.

The main purpose of going to Cabug Primary School is the feeding program on 06 July 2012 as the program of Familia Sauza-Berenguer de Marquina Corporation - Bohol Unit under the servant leadership of its President Nestor Lasaca y Sausa from the House of Don Miguel Juan Santiago Sauza y Berenguer de Marquina, the 7th child of Don Santiago Sauza and of Doña Ysabel Berenguer de Marquina y Sumulong, the only daughter of Doña Demetria Sumulong y Lindo and of Señor Felix Berenguer de Marquina y FitzGerald, the 55th Governor-General of the Philippines from the Royal House of The FitzGerald of Ireland. The feeding program promotes the importance of good health and nutrition. We promote organic food consumption.

After talking with them, we take pictures! They are so happy to have pictures. Then, I walk almost three kilometers down to talk to their principal in Pig-ot Elementary School about the feeding program. Upon reaching Pig-ot Elementary School, the school principal is so happy about our program. She approves. I walk back to the house of cousin Alex Sausa, where I stay in Bohol, by taking a trail going to the national road. Along the road are native houses worth relaxing for. The tranquil coastal area is so cool. The denizens are so friendly.

Honestly, I don't feel tiredness at all because of the good memories and new friendships from these good people. Believe it or not, almost 14 kilometers of walk I make this day. Finally, thanking God in the 1700's church of Loon is my purpose!

Remembering Bucutan Shore

Asking myself seriously

January 2008 at Bucutan Shore of Southern Philippines, Northern Celebes Sea and South Western Pacific Ocean, it was one of the most challenging and fearless move which I ever done as a journalist. This was investigating the damage done along Bucutan Shore. The beauty of Mother Earth was beyond compare, but once under the water, coral bleaching, quarrying and obvious results of dynamite fishing could be seen. Thanks to my team who shared great time to protect Mother Earth. My heart was broken that under the seen waters were destroyed corals. My tears joined the sea water after surfacing from destroyed beauty of Mother Earth

Before the diving

To your upper right, I was viewing the horizon at Bucutan Shore and I asked myself seriously "Where do I go from here?" and "What will be the face of Mother Earth in next  generations?"

To your middle right, these were my friends who loved protecting Mother Earth. Their selfless contributions were truly inspiring. 

I am planning to go back there in 2013 and do some further research and to organize community based environment organization that will educate the local denizens on how to take good care of Mother Earth. Who would like to join me? If your are interested, kindly message me in my two Facebook Accounts, Prince Heinrich FitzGerald (Official) and Prince Heinrich FitzGerald. You can also visit us at Familia Sauza-Berenguer de Marquina Corporation and like us on Facebook at Familia Sauza-Berenguer de Marquin Corporation.

You can see here rich marine animals

You can see here rich marine animals

The Mother Earth Protectors

Myself

It's high tide and we must leave

 

Educational Needs For Indigenous Children

The donated school materials

With the school children in waiting

Naragsak nga Isasanbay! This is the Ilocano greeting for welcome! Personally, I am very proud of my Cordilleran paternal indigenous bloodline namely Ibaloi, Kankana ey and Bontoc. In short, I am proud to be an Igorot! Igorot ak!

In this blog, you will see the pictures of my fellow Igorots living on the mountains of Mapita, Aguilar of Western Pangasinan, The Philippines. It is almost 20 kilometers from the town proper of Aguilar. There is only one school in Mapita and that is Mapita Elementary School where students wake up early and walk kilometers just to attend formal schooling. The high schools are within the town proper of Aguilar. Almost 20 kilometers away!

On 16 July 2011, together with Rodolfo Zuleta and his wife Sheryl Santos-Zuleta, Bhing Rivera-Carpio, three of my fellow Marian alumni of St. Mary's College of Meycauayan, Bulacan, Philippines, with Sylvia Manzano-Holandez, the mother of Fr. Sherwin Manzano Holandez, my fellow Marian alumnus and with cousin Grace Mate Sausa, they donated  boxes of school materials for these intelligent and talented Igorot children for School Year 2011 - 2012. 

The grateful teachers

This is the facade of Mapita Elementary School

We, the educated Igorots of these mountains work hand in hand to increase the literacy of these children and out-of-school-youth and to help their parents in augmenting their income. We organized its first non-stock, non-profit cultural association named SOCIETY OF DYNAMIC CORDILLERANS INC. I was elected as the President / CEO. Part of our programs is to establish a formal private secondary school named NEW CORDILLERANS ACADEMY INC. for the students and out-of-school-youth to continue their studies and to have the best future that awaits them. Sadly but frankly, most of the students in Mapita after their elementary graduation could not finish high school. They would prefer to help their parents / elders in the farm. Their intelligence is ceased from formal education learning.

Through, this blog, we invite you to join us in this philanthropic missions. Your help will be highly and deeply appreciated. We guarantee you a lot of heartwarming experiences from the smiles and gratitude of the these children and people from the mountains. Your help either medical, legal and any other things such as old books, usable school supplies will mean a lot to us. You are also invited to help us build the high school of this place. We are proposing to have classrooms made of native materials. A building will follow later for those who would like to donate.


For further information, feel free to message me in this post or to send me in my private message box in my two Facebook Accounts, Prince Heinrich FitzGerald (Official) and Prince Heinrich FitzGerald. You can also visit us at Familia Sauza-Berenguer de Marquina Corporation and like us on Facebook at Familia Sauza-Berenguer de Marquin Corporation.

The pre-Kinder school children of Mapita also benefited

The pre-Kinder school of Mapita

The pre-Kinder school children of Mapita also benefited

Another pre-Kinder school of Mapita

The pre-Kinder school children of Mapita also benefited

Help Build The First High School In Mapita

Let us join hands together and make this world a better place to live each day.

 

You can make a dramatic difference to help these children

URGENT PROJECT

The Familia Sauza-Berenguer de Marquina does not forget our ethnic ancestries. Our Mexican-Indian ancestries are traced back to Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico, the home of our Sauza ancestors. We are proud and grateful of our Mexican-Indian ancestries. In the Philippines, Doña Ysabel located on Doña Ysabel Berenguer de Marquina y Sumulong, the wife of Don Santiago Sauza of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico, was a Dumagat by her maternal Sumulong ancestry. The Dumagats are one of the Philippine natives who reside in eatern, central and southern parts of the island of Luzon.

Because of our indigenous roots, we have a soft spot in our hearts in caring for our fellow indigenous peoples. We present to you about the present situation of one of the indigenous peoples in the Philippines, the Cordillerans or in generic, the Igorots. We believe you can be of big help.

Mapita is a sitio located on the top of the mountains of Barangay Laoag, of Aguilar, a third class municipality of the province of Pangasinan, a northeastern province of the Republic of the Philippines. Mapita is a community of mixed Cordillerans or Igorots, one of the ethnic groups of the country. The Cordillerans of Mapita are Ibalois, Kankana eys and Bontocs who are all depending on farming in the highlands. 

Since the formation of Mapita in 1960s, there is only one elementary school functioning up to this day and no electricity from the town central has reached the place. Only few can provide seasonal generators to produce electricity at night. This elementary school is called Mapita Elementary School. Since then, there are no public high school or even  a private school located in Mapita.

The nearest public high school and private school from Mapita is almost 20 kilometers. The students after graduating from elementary either help their parents in farming and go to high school. Only few were able to finish high school because many students from Mapita went back to Mapita either in their teenage pregnancy, culture shock from the lowland and preferred to work as a farmer. This kind of set up is still going on in Mapita.

The Mapita students and out-of-school youth are intelligent, talented and most of all willing to study, but their parents are financially hard up in providing the needed daily allowances of them such as food and transportation plus the house or room rent of their stay in the lowland.  The only income of Mapita is a seasonal occupation called farming.

To support and to help these indigenous children and youth to go to and to finish high school not away from their mountainous home, please help us build an indigenous high school for them called NEW CORDILLERANS ACADEMY for the development and honing of their skills. We are now raising funds worth PhP 1,000,000.00 (one million Philippine pesos) or US$ 22, 999.08 for us to purchase the  1 hectare land for the establishment of NEW CORDILLERANS ACADEMY. 

We welcome any individual, corporation, group or even NGO to help us build this school that we target to open for 1st year and 2nd year in 2013.  We also welcome in kind donations such as educational materials, science laboratory apparatus, sports equipment and other materials needed to build this school.  We also welcome volunteer builders of this school. You can be our partner. Rest assured that your donation will be given to the shool and its beneficiaries. Partner With Us Now! Helping these children and youth of Mapita to earn a quality education that they deserve will surely and dramatically change the world through you. Who knows through your help, you will help the world produce the best servant leaders of the future.  (Below are the pictures of Mapita and the children who await your help.)

The long road going to Mapita

This is Mapita

The children of Mapita Elementary School

The children of Mapita Elementary School

The pre-Kinder school children of Mapita

The children of Mapita Elementary School

My Batangan Ancestry

Myself of top of 
my father's tomb

My niece Happy and nephew AG

With my sisters Rinah and Hannah

OUR PATERNAL LINE

My paternal ancestor was Li Zhan (c. 1570, Fujian Province of China - 1680, San Nicolas, Taal, Batangas) . He was a lantern maker who eventually baptized in the Roman Catholic Rite as Santiago Mauban because of his long white hair. His wife was Carmen Liwanag (c. 1580, San Nicolas, Taal, Batangas - 1680, San Nicolas, Taal, Batangas) who according to our verification was a native of San Nicolas where the first Taal church was built before the explosion in 1754.

Their son was Fortunato Marasigan (c. 1610 San Nicolas, Taal, Batangas - 1701, San Nicolas, Taal, Batangas) known in Paombong, Bulacan as the proto-ancestor of the Marasigan clan. The Marasigan surname was the shortened word for the words "Maraming Sigang Nagliliwanag sa San Nicolas ng Taal" as written in the Marasigan bloodline of Paombong, Bulacan in 1821 by Luis Marasigan y Mangondayao. Fortunato was married to Maria Dimaandal (c. 1612, Kansayahan (Rosario), Batangas - c. 1715, San Nicolas, Taal, Batangas). 

One of their sons was Diego Marasigan y Dimaandal (15

Don Sebastian Hurtado
De Corcuerra

December 1633, San Nicolas, Taal, Batangas - 02 June 1730, Intramuros, Manila, Las Yslas Filipinas) who married Rosa Estefania De Corcuerra y De Entenza (12 February 1642, Intramuros, Manila - 19 February 1725, Intramuros, Manila), the sister of Don Sebastian Segundo De Corcuera y De Entenza and the daughter of Doña Estefania De Entenza y De Silva and of Don Sebastian Hurtado De Corcuerra, the 22nd Governor - General of the Philippines (1635 - 1644).


Don Sebastian Segundo De Corcuera y De Entenza's wife was Doña Pilar Marcelina De Vera y Tandoc of Lingayen, Pangasinan. Don Sebastian Hurtado De Corcuerra (25 March 1587, Berguenda, Alava, Basque, Spain - 12 August 1660, Tenerife, Sta. Cruz, Canary Island, Spain) was the son of Don Pedro Hurtado de Corcuera y Montoya and of Doña Maria Gaviria. and his siblings were Pedro Hurtado de Corcuera (b. April 1575, Berguenda, Alava, Basque, Spain), Luisa Hurtado de Corcuera (b. November 1591, Berguenda, Alava, Basque, Spain) and Maria Hurtado de Corcuera (b. 19 September 1584, Berguenda, Alava, Basque, Spain).

One of Diego Marasigan y Dimaandal and Rosa Estefania De Corcuerra y De Entenza's son was Graciano Marasigan y De Corcuera (04 July 1677, Lagnas now San Pascual, Batangas - 31 October 1790, Lagnas now San Pascual, Batangas) who was married to Buenaventurada Maramot y Humarang (04 September 1680, Calumpang now Mabini, Batangas - 22 June 1785, Calumpang now Mabini, Batangas) who were the parents of Melecio Marasigan y Maramot (13 November 1710, Ibaan, Batangas - 03 April 1805, Ibaan, Batangas), the husband of Perpetua Matundan y Calingcod (03 March 1712, Lagnas now San Pascual, Batangas - 03 December 1805, Calumpang now Mabini, Batangas).

One of Melecio and Perpetua's sons was Angelo Marasigan y Matundan (03 February 1735, Ibaan, Batangas - 03 February 1790, Ibaan, Batangas), a calligrapher of St. James Church in Paombong, Bulacan from 1750 - 1782), the first recorded Marasigan who worked in Paombong, Bulacan and the husband of Fidela Mangondayao y Dalawangbayan (25 April 1741 San Jose de Malaquing Tubig, Batangas - 12 July 1845, San Jose de Malaquing Tubig, Batangas).

One of Angelo and Fidela's sons was Luis Marasigan y Mangondayao (21 August 1767, Ibaan, Batangas - 28 August 1850, Paombong, Bulacan) who married Crisologa Margarita Agoncillo y Jalandoni (25 July 1768, Taal, Batangas - 21 September 1870, Paombong, Bulacan) also know as Andang Crising.

Luis and Andang Crising's children were Cathalina Crisologa Marasigan y Agoncillo who married Luis Ramon Diokno y Hontiveros and Teodoro Luis Marasigan y Agoncillo (28 July 1790, Taal, Batangas - 26 January 1888, Paombong, Bulacan) who married Fortunata Macatangay y Ylagan (25 December 1791, Taal, Batangas - 23 June 1868, Taal, Batangas). The parents of the first Philippine diplomat Don Felipe Agoncillo y Encarnacion were Ramon Agoncillo y Apacible and Doña Maria Gregoria Encarnacion y Campugan. Ramon Agoncillo y Apacible was the nephew of Teodoro Luis Marasigan y Agoncillo.

The children of Teodoro Luis and Fortunata were Gregorio Marasigan y Macatangay (03 February 1820, Paombong, Bulacan - 14 February 1885, Paombong, Bulacan) and Miguela Marasigan y Macatangay (b. 30 October 1824, Paombong, Bulacan), the wife of Teodoro Clemente of Malolos, Bulacan.

Gregorio Marasigan y Macatangay was married to Magdalena Galvez y Leonor (22 July 1818, Old Jacinto, Ticao Island, Masbate - 07 June 1920, Paombong, Bulacan), the daughter of Ignacio Galvez and Margarita Leonor. One of their children was Sebastian Marasigan y Galvez (b. 26 December 1842, Paombong, Bulacan) who married Señora Casimira De los Santos y Solio who was the daughter of Doña Beatriz Margarita Solio y Bermingham and of Don Juan Gabriel De los Santos y Larena.  Señora Casimira Delos Santos y Solio (b. 1845, San Juan, Puerto Rico) went here in the Philippines with her parents, relatives and uncle Don Rafael de Echague y Bermingham, the 84th Governor General of the Philippines during the Spanish Colonial period.

Sebastian Marasigan y Galvez and Señora Casimira De los Santos y Solio's children were Ambrosio Marasigan y De los Santos (25 June 1860, Paombong, Bulacan - 23 July 1923, Paombong, Bulacan), Roman Marasigan y De los Santos who married Simona Magtira, Melecio Marasigan y De los Santos who married Silveria Garcia, Agustin Marasigan y De los Santos who married Margarita Reyes, Marcos Marasigan y De los Santos who married Manuela Valencia and Benito Marasigan y De los Santos (b. 1867, Paombong, Bulacan), a medico who married the Korean-Kapampangan Doña Agatona Ramos y Cruz (born 1869 in Paombong, Bulacan) who bravely and regularly climbed coconut trees.

One of the children of Agatona Ramos y Cruz and of Benito Marasigan y Delos Santos was our paternal great grandmother Susana Marasigan y Ramos (b. 31 August 1887 in Paombong, Bulacan) who married Alipio Jumaquio y de Villanueba (b. 1885 in Paombong, Bulacan - 15 August 1950 in Paombong, Bulacan), a Japanese by ancestry and one of the children of Don Catalino Jumaquio y Gutierrez (b. 1865 in Paombong, Bulacan) also known as Capitan Lino, the son of Doña Urzula Gutierrez y Cunanan of Sexmoan, Pampanga.

Basically, Susana and Alipio had 24 children that included already six pairs of twins.

One of Susana and Alipio's children was my paternal grandmother Juliana Jumaquio y Marasigan, a teacher and the wife of my paternal grandfather Reynaldo Salamat Sr. y Jumaquio, a master carpenter. My paternal grandparents were both natives of Paombong, Bulacan.

The eldest child of Julian and Reynaldo Sr. was our late father Reynaldo Salamat Jr. y Jumaquio (22 September 1952 - 08 January 1985), the personnel plant manager of the American company Franklin Baker in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur.


Reynaldo Salamat Jr. y Jumaquio married our mother Estela Socorro  Dela Cruz y Sauza (09 January 1956 - present) of Kidapawan City, North Cotabato, Philippines and now a resident of Winlock, Washington State, USA.

Genealogically, Capitan Lino was the cabeza de barangay of Calizon, Paombong, Bulacan. He married Doña Lucia de Villanueva y Valencia (b, 1867 in Paombong, Bulacan) also known as Inang Lusing, the daughter of Don Santiago Villanueva y Saquing and of Doña Andrea Encarnacion Valencia y Padilla. Capitan Lino and Inang Lusing  both lived at Paombong, Bulacan.

Furthermore, Don Santiago Villanueva y Saquing was a Gad'dang. His parents were Don Enrique Federico Villanueva of Ilocos and Doña Maria Ynez Saquing y Tamani of the present Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, The Philippines. Doña Maria Ynez Saquing y Tamani was the daughter of Don Pablo Saquing y Dumelod, the 1789 gobernadorcillo of Lungabang (present Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, The Philippines) and of Doña Dominga Tamani y Dayag.

Don Pablo Saquing's parents were Don Santiago Saquing y Buseg, the son of Don Filemon Saquing and Doña Francisca Buseg, the daughter of Don Doming Buseg, the 1770 Capitan del Pueblo of Lungabang and of Doña Eustaquia Buseg.

Doña Dominga Tamani's parents were Don Jorge Tamani and Doña Ximena Dayag, the sister of Don Antonio Dayag, the 1779 gobernadorcillo of Lungabang (present Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, The Philippines)

Back to our Jumaquio ancestry, Don Catalino's father was Don Tiburcio Jumaquio y Tiongson (born 1838 in Paombong, Bulacan and died in 1990 in Paombong, Bulacan), the haciendero of Kapitangan, Paombong, Bulacan, the son of Doña Bella Estrella Tiongson of Malolos, Bulacan.


For verification: Don Tiburcio was the uncle of Doña Valentina or Doña Valeriana Valenzuela y Jumaquio who was also a Marasigan by ancestry, the mother of Doña Tecla Chichioco y Valenzuela (born in Malolos, Bulacan), the wife of Don Melecio Cojuangco y Estrella (born in Malolos, Bulacan), the father of Don Jose Cojuangco y Chichioco, the father of former Philippine President Ma. Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino y Sumulong, the mother of the Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino III y Cojuangco.



Our Agoncillo-Jalandoni-Magbanua-Ytuc Bloodlines

Crisologa Margarita Agoncillo y Jalandoni also known Andang Crising was born in Taal, Batangas. She was educated at Colegio de Santa Rose in Intramuros, Manila. Throughout her life, she did not want to be treated as special above the native Filipinos. She did not want to be called “Doña”.

Against, the will of her parents and with support from her maternal grandmother Margarita Susana Jalandoni y Magbanua, she accepted the love of Luis Marasigan y Mangondayao, the son of their tenants in Taal.

From Batangas, she was brought by her maternal grandmother to San Jose de Buenavista in Antique. Without the knowledge of her parents, Luis went first at the boat and stayed at the lower deck. She and Luis eloped at to San Jose de Buenavista in Antique. Their elopement caused a big issue of insult in the Agoncillo – Jalandoni household back in Taal.

Her maternal grandmother, as the widow of Francisco Javier Jaladoni, a pharmacist from Iloilo, helped Luis to be an educated man by sending him to school at San Jose de Buenavista.

Margarita Susana Jalandoni y Magbanua was also a victim of discrimination before and after she married Francisco Javier Jaladoni because she was an yndia.

After two years of staying in Iloilo, Andang Crising and her husband Andang Luis went back to Luzon as a couple with their first born daughter Sofia Catalina. They did not go back home to Batangas. They headed to Bulacan through the help of Juliana Gatmaitan who married Teofisto Magbanua, the nephew of Margarita Susana Jalandoni y Magbanua. Juliana Gatmaitan was her classmate at Colegio de Santa Rosa.

In Bulacan, Andang Luis and Andang Crising and their daughter stayed at the house of Juliana and Teofisto. Eventually, they bought the Gatmaitan land beside the Parish of San Santiago Apostol in Paombong where they had their first home in Bulacan. Up to now, this ancestral land is still found where the ancestral house of the Fr. Vicente Marasigan y Del Pilar, SJ is located. This ancestral house became the guest house as well of those visiting Spanish and Filipino officials, priests, students and yndios were welcomed too. No discrimination in this ancestral house.

Because of Andang Luis and Andang Crising, the Marasigan kin from Ibaan, Batangas went to and settled at Paombong, Bulacan. Presently, the Marasigan clan is one of the Top 10 biggest clans of Paombong that produced priests, public servants, doctors, researchers, teachers, engineers, nurses, religious, lawyers, businesspersons, artists and a lot more.

Andang Luis and Andang Crising were known as a wealthy business couple and generous philanthropists in their lifetime. They supported financially the Filipinos studied in Manila and even those illustrados who studied in Europe. For them, education would be of big help for emancipation from Spain.

One their close friend in Bulacan was Andang Blasa Gatmaitan – Del Pilar, the mother Marcelo H. Del Pilar. Because of the closeness of their families, Vicente Marasigan and Ana Del Pilar got married. They eventually became relatives.

Before Andang Luis and Andang Crising died, they bequeathed a huge amount of money for Filipinos to liberate the Philippines from the slavery of Span through studying in Europe and in Manila.

In the book Los Antepasados de Las Familias Marasigan y Agoncillo en Las Pueblos de Paombong y Malolos that is kept by the Marasigan kin in Paombong,

The abuelos paternos of Andang Crising were Severo Lucresio Agoncillo, a European jepe de paz and Maria Crisologa Ytuc, a mestiza sangley of Bacolor, Pampanga and an interna at Colegio de Santa Ysabel in Intramuros.

Her abuelos maternos were Francisco Javier Jalandoni, a mestizo Spanish pharmacist from Iloilo who was supported in school by the Jesuits before 1768 and Margarita Susana Magbanua, an yndia from San Jose de Buenavista, Antique.

Her parents were Ramon Teodoro Agoncillo y Ytuc, a teacher who was a student of Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Intramuros, Manila who married Sofia Catalina Jaladoni y Magbanua, an interna at Colegio de Santa Rosa in Intramuros, Manila.

Below are the Agoncillo – Jalandoni siblings:

1. Crisologa Margarita Agoncillo y Jalandoni married Luis Marasigan y Mangondayao
2. Severo Francisco Agoncillo y Jalandoni married Patricia Mauricia Maala y Maquiling of Ilocos, the first cousin of Cayetena Fausta Maala - Agoncillo
3. Maria Susana Agoncillo y Jalandoni, a beata
4. Lucresio Javier Agoncillo y Jalandoni, a bachelor who fathered the child of Maria Magdalena Ylagan of Taal.
5. Vicente Lorenzo Agoncillo y Jalandoni married Maria Paz Hontiveros of Aklan, Capiz
6. Ramon Flaviano Agoncillo y Jalandoni married Soledad Encarnacion Macadaeg, the aunt of Cayetena Fausta Maala – Agoncillo and of Patricia Mauricia Maala - Agoncillo
7. Elias Teodoro Agoncillo y Jalandoni married Cayetena Fausta Maala y Agas of Ilocos, the first cousin of Patricia Mauricia Maala - Agoncillo
8. Catallina Andresa Agoncillo y Jalandoni had relationship to Padre Pedro Galan, OP
9. Visitacion Marcela Agoncillo y Jalandoni, a beata

Andang Luis became the calligrapher of St. James the Apostle Parish in Paombong.

OUR MATERNAL LINE

One of my maternal ancestors was Don Melchor Cristobal Mariño y Orosa also known as Papa Meling by his Mariño descendants. He was from his native La Cruna, Galicia, Spain. He married the Sant Nicolas of Taal, Batangas damsel Señora Marcela Del Carmen Macabulos y Maningkad also known as Mama Maring. Their youngest son Don Cristobal Mariño y Macabulos also known as Apo Crising among his kin who was born on 15 December 1771 in Taal, Batangas married the Ilocana beauty Doña Catalina Fariñas y Albano also known as Apo Tale among her kin.

Apo Crising and Apo Tale's eldest daughter was Doña Vicenta Encarnacion Mariño y Fariñas also known as Entang who was born on 10 December 1788 in Taal, Batangas. Entang while on their family vacation in Vigan in Ilocos met the seafarer Franisco Cielo y Cabal, an Ivatan of Sabtang, Batanes. She and Franciso Cielo got married in Taal, Batangas. Their first born son was Vicente Cielo y Mariño who was born in Sabtang, Batanes.

Vicente Cielo y Mariño also known as Apo Vicing, a seafarer and businessman married Buenaventurada Ledesma y Arnaiz also known as Apo Buena, an interna in Real Colegio de Santa Isabel in Intramuros, the daughter of Don Juan Ledesma and Doña Margarita Arnaiz of Negros.

Apo Vicing and Apo Buena's first born was Ciriaco Cielo y Ledesma also known as Acong who was born in Sabtang.

The teenage Acong was playful with girls. He eventually had relationship to the Boholana-Cebuana sangley Gregoria Rangcajo y Talip in Parian, Cebu whom he had a daughter named Ynocenta Vicenta Rangcajo y Cielo also known as Mama Entang who eventually married Don Juan Evangelista Aleson y Campugan (27 December 1848, Cogon, Carcar, Cebu, Las Yslas Filipinas - 24 November 1886, Cogon, Carcar, Cebu, Las Yslas Filipinas) also known as Papa Angel, the lawyer and Customs Chief of Cebu back in 1800s. Papa Angel was shot to death by his brother-in-law Don Jorge Camomot y Barazon over land matters in Aleson Estate in Carcar.

One of Papa Angel and Mama Entang's daughters was maternal great great Doña Dolores Consuelo Aleson y Ras de Rangcajo.

My Dumagat Ancestry

The Dumagat by Jacob Maentz

The Dumagats by Kadengat BoyM

Our Sumulong bloodline

Historically, the Spanish explorer Juan de Salcedo became the first Europena to visit the region that would be known as Aurora while he was exploring the northern coast of Luzon. He reportedly visited the towns of Casiguran, Baler and Infanta. In the early days of the Spanish colonial period, Aurora was ecclesiastically connected to Infanta which is today located further south in southern Quezon province. The earliest missionaries in the province were the Franciscans who had established missions in Baler and Casiguran back in 1609. These Franciscan friars were the ones who Christianized the Casiguran Dumagat ancestors of the Sumulong down to the Sauza clans in the Philippines. Due to lack of available personnel, the region was given to the jurisdiction of the Agustinians and Recollects in 1658, but was returned to the Francsican Friar Minors in 1703. The other early missions were Dipaculao that was established in 1719 and Casiguran that was established in 1753. Furthermore, the early history of Aurora is associated to Quezon province and Nueva Ecija where it was once governed as the District of El Principe under the Spanish colonialism.

Genealogically, one of these Christianized Dumagat-blooded couples was Simon Sumulong whose ancestry belonged to the Casiguran Dumagats tribe of Aurora Province of north eastern part of the Philippines. His original name was Sabud which meant mountain in early Tagalog dialect. Upon the arrival of the Franciscans in Casiguran, Aurora, he was baptized in the Roman Catholic rite as Simon after the Franciscan friar whose name was also Friar Simon de Medina who stood as his baptismal godfather. His Casiguran Dumagat parents were baptized as well by the Franciscan Friars in Casiguran with Roman Catholic names as Francisco Sumulong named after St. Francis of Assisi and Antonia Sumulong named after St. Anthony of Padua.

In Filipino, sumulong means moving forward. Their surname Sumulong originated from the family’s act of moving forward in welcoming the arrival of the Franciscan Friars, the first Catholic missionaries in Baler and Casiguran. Eventually, most of their clan and tribe members were baptized into Roman Catholicism by the Franciscan friars because of Francisco’s father who was the tribe leader then. Francisco’s father was baptized as Didacus after St. Didacus of Alcala. Didacus wife was baptized as Clara after St. Clare of Assisi. This is the main reason why under this chapter, the words THE HOUSE OF DIDACUS AND CLARA SUMULONG are specified ahead.

Didacus and his tribe accommodated and helped the Franciscan friars in their missions to propagate the Roman Catholic faith in Baler and Casiguran. It was not a difficult mission for these Franciscan friars who showed kindness to the ethnic group of the province.These patient and loving Franciscan friars taught the Catholic Dumagats to have birthdays aside from other Catholic prayers and traditions. Basically, our Casuguran Dumagat ancestors did not know how to have birthdays such as ours. In the family records of the Sumulongs, Didacus Sumulong and wife Clara Sumulong down to the brothers Simon and Bernardino Sumulong, they did not know their exact birthday. Thanks to their baptizing Franciscan Friars who gave them birthdays in connection to feast day of their name saints such as Didacus Sumulong (13 November), Clara Sumulong (11 August), Francisco Sumulong (04 October), Antonia Sumulong (13 June) and Bernardino Sumulong (20 May) except for Simon Sumulong whose created birthday was 18 February, the feast day of St. Simon from the Gospel of St. Matthew and the birthsaint of his godfather Friar Simon de Medina.

Our Casiguran Dumagat ancestors taught the Franciscan Friars about fishing, hunting and their traditional cultures. Because the Franciscan Friars were nature lovers, they lived a happy, peaceful, prayerful and united life with their Roman Catholic baptized Casiguran Dumagats. From our Casiguran Dumagat ancestors who lived, worked and prayed with these Franciscan Friars, you will know eventually why their descendants have strong relations with the Franciscans down to the early 20th century to the present time.

Moreover, Simon’s bachelor brother was baptized as Bernardino after St. Bernardine of Sienna. Eventually, Bernardino, who was in his adulthood, was married to a 13 year-old sangley from Binondo who was baptized as Brigida Quimpo y Bato ( 01 February 1745 – 1830) after St. Bridget of Sweden. Bernardino and Brigida’s children were Cirilia (27 June 1758), Pedro ( 29 June 1759), (Bonifacio (05 June 1761), Dario (19 December 1763 - , Dionisio (26 December 1765), Cornelio (02 February 1767), Lorenzo (10 August 1769), Exuperantia (26 April 1770), Quiteria (22 May 1772), Verano (19 October 1773, Agatha (05 February 1775 -, Zoe (05 July 1777), Edburga (12 December 1778), Aquilina (13 June 1780), Alfredo (28 October 1781 - ), Martha (29 July 1783), Primitvo (27 November 1784), Lucrecia (23 November 1785), Tigridia (22 November 1786), Demetrio (21 Novemer 1787, Emerentiana (23 January 1789), Placida (05 October 1791, Victoria ( 11 February 1793), Thecla (23 September 1794, Rufo (12 November 1795 – 17 September 1901), Porfirio (10 February 1797 – 23 April 1903), Clotilda (03 June 1799 – 03 August 1893) and the youngest Walburga (25 February 1801 – 26 December 1912).

(SOURCES: Fr. Verano Quimpo Sumulong & Fr. Alfredo Quimpo Sumulong (1865), Los Hermanos y Las Hermanas y Los Parientes de Familia Sumulong. (The writings of these priest brothers were kept by their younger sister Clotilde Quimpo Sumulong – Chavez (03 June 1799 – 03 August 1893) who eventually entrusted the writings to her great grandson Cristobal Guinto Chavez (25 July 1870 – 24 May 1943) who eventually entrusted the writings to his teacher writer relative Juan Anastacio Santiago Delos Reyes (1915 - ?) in 1936 in Manila. The original writings of these priest brothers were burned by the Japanese in 1944 in Sta. Cruz, Manila. Only the copy of the Sumulong family tree and other writings by Juan Anastacio Santiago Delos Reyes copied and taken from the writings of the priest brothers were saved. On 07 October 1999 at Adamson University in Manila, Juan Anastacio Santiago Delos Reyes entrusted the family information to the author of this book.) 

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My Japanese Ancestry

With cousins, Russel, Jet, Czarina and Alissa

From Japan with love and Jumaquiouish by character...

My family from Dinalupihan, Bataan, The Philippines

Grandaunt Francisca Jumaquio Salamat-Domingo

The House of Vicente Jumaquio Bele

The famed Jo Ma Kyo was a Japanese missionary merchant who came into the Philippine shores circa 16th century. Interestingly, it was believed and passed generations to generations by the early elder Jumaquios of Paombong, Bulacan, Philippines that the ancestors of the Jumaquio bloodline was Jo Ma Kyo, a native of Nagasaki, Japan who came into the Philippine shores and first settled in Old San Miguel, Manila then in Paco Dilao in Manila circa 1600’s together with fellow Japanese until he married a native named Digna Veneracion where they settled and lived in Kapitangan, Paombong.

Old San Miguel, Manila was near Pasig River and adjacent to the famous Malacañan Palace. It was the first settlement area of Japanese traders during Spanish time in Old Manila. These early Jumaquios also settled in Old Manila shores particularly in the present area where the Malate Catholic Church is located.

Genealogically speaking, after Jo Ma Kyo’s marriage, the first Jumaquio family settlers were originally based at old Kapitangan, Paombong, Bulacan, Philippines. It was researched that when Jo Ma Kyo married a native named Digna Veneracion, because the time then was of Spanish colonialism, instead of writing "Jo Ma Kyo" into baptismal and marriage records, the name Jomaquio was written.

Because of the Spanish way of recording followers of faith, Jo Ma Kyo eventually became Jomaquio until the early years of 1900’s. During the nearness of World War II, Jomaquio became Jumaquio. Mostly the descendants then of Jo Ma Kyo family were males. They were also into marketing particularly as well-known merchants of the famed Sukang Paombong. It is believed as well that the all Jumaquio descendants in the Philippines were and are belonged to the great Jo Ma Kyo.

According to the many Jumaquios of Hagonoy, Malolos and Paombong, Bulacan who were knowledgeable of their blood relatives and bloodline, one of the blood relatives who was Jomaquio by blood was Don José C. Cojuangco, the good father of former Philippine President Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino. Don José's father was Don Melecio who married Doña Tecla Chichioco of Malolos, Bulacan who was a Jumaquio was ancestry because of her mother Doña Maria Valenzuela Chichioco whose mother was Doña Valeriana or Doña Valentina also known as "Doña Bale" Jumaquio of Kapitangan, Paombong, Bulacan.

Doña Tecla was the great grandniece of Don Tiburcio Jumaquio and Doña Urzula Gutierrez, hacienderos and merchants of Kapitangan, Paombong, Bulacan.

The Jumaquios of Paombong remembered the pleasant old stories told by their ancestors and even by some of themselves who witnessed during their younger days the humane and remarkable relationships of Don José Cojuangco and his ancestors and parents to their relatives, friends and even to common people during the golden days at the Cojuangco’s ancestral home in Malolos, Bulacan almost front of the historical Barasoain Church and even after Don José Cojuangco eventually lived at Hacienda Luisita in the province of Tarlac, Philippines.

Today, because of vast and rapid increase of human population and influxes of immigration around the world, the Jumaquio clan grows bigger. Many of relatives are of no identity. Moreover, my paternal grandparents were both Jumaquios. Have a great day!

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My Salamat Ancestry

HOW DID THE SALAMAT ANCESTORS ARRIVE IN PAOMBONG, BULACAN? The book Los Hijos de Señor Magat Salamat was written by Datu Magat Salamat's grandson Antonio Federico Salamat y Sy (1610– 1711) in 1628 as a student then of Colegio de Niños Huerfanos de San Juan de Letran in Intramuros, Manila, The Philippines. It stated in the book after the death of Datu Magat Salamat, his widow Maningning and his children were taken good care and were given refuge by the pious Roman Catholic women of Tondo before sailing north for safety where they first settled at the coast of the present barangay of Sta. Cruz, Paombong, Bulacan.

She and her remaining children were eventually converted and baptized into Roman Catholic by Fray Domingo de Salazar, OP, a Dominican priest and the first Archbishop of Manila in 1591. Their baptism to the Roman Catholic Church was not forced, but of free will by Maningning. One of her sons was Enrique Ygnacio Salamat, the seventh and youngest son of Datu Magat Salamat. Maninging’s Roman Catholic Christian name was Maria Potenciana who was a weaver. Her eldest child was known only as Putri who was married to a Moslem man in Sulu known as Datu Faizal. The second child was known only as Ibrahim Salamat who sailed to Sulu with his male kin where he eventually lived and married. Ibrahim Salamat was believed as the proto-ancestor of the Salamat clan in Moslem Mindanao.

They eventually went back to Manila as Roman Catholics. Because of their residence in Tondo, Maria Potenciana, her daughter Maria Soledad (3rd child) and her sons Martin Luis (4th son), Rafael Andres Salamat (5th son), Protacio Miguel Salamat (6th son) and Enrique Ygnacio Salamat served as sacristans of the Sto. Niño Church of Tondo. These Salamat brothers together with the young male children of Tondo were eventually educated by the Augustinian priests because of the request of Fray Martin Lacandula, an Augustinian priest brother of Datu Magat Salamat.

Maria Potenciana eventually had a customer of mats from Paombong, Bulacan, The Philippines. His customer was Catalino Sebastian Bagtas who eventually married her. They became the proto-ancestors of the Bagtas clan of Paombong.

Enrique Ygnacio Salamat became a good writer knowledgeable in Spanish, Tagalog, Capampangan, Chinese and Sulu dialects. Many of his books Los Yndios de Paombong y Malolos, La Bulaqueña Cristiana and Las Casas de las Augustinos were kept by his Paombong-born descendants who were also teachers, writers, poets, priests, cantors, politicians and businesspersons. In 1619, he was the first escritor of St. James the Apostle Parish in Paombong, Bulacan, The Philippines where he eventually settled a family with his Han Chinese wife Sy Zhe also known as Yeuji Chuntian of Amoy, China. Sy Zhe was baptized as Maria Regina.

The place of foundation of the house of Enrique Ygnacio Salamat and his wife Maria Regina and their children was in Malumot, Paombong, Bulacan, The Philippines.

In 1621, Enrique Ygnacio Salamat together with the Augustinian Friars left for Ilocos. He did not come back to his family in Paombong with the Augustinian priests because he was captured by the mountain natives in Bangued. The news came that he was beheaded. Maria Regina grieved for years and left Paombong for Tondo.

In Tondo, Maria Regina honestly raised her seven children as a noodle maker and peddler in the town of Binondo. She did not accept marriage proposals even from Enrique Ygnacio's widower brother Protacio Miguel.

In 1622, the news came in town about the enrollment of orphan children to the Colegio de Niños

Our Salamat Family Tree

Huerfanos de San Juan de Letran in Intramuros. Don Juan Geromino Guerrero, the school founder helped her male children Antonio Federico (1st child) , Anastacio Facundo (2nd child), Aquilino Faustino (3rd child) to get enrolled. Soon after the youngest Amado Felipe (7th child) followed his brothers in 1631. The daughters Maria Potenciana (4th child), Maria Zosima (5th child) and Maria Regina (6th child) were educated about embroidery in the Church of Binondo by the Spanish mestiza philanthropist Doña Maria Soledad del Carmen de Macarena.

Antonio Federico loved music, arts and writing. In 1629, the Augustinians of Bulacan requested him to teach music in Paombong. He eagerly granted the requests. He became the cantor oficial of St. James the Apostle Parish in Paombong, Bulacan, The Philippines. In 1630, he was brought by the Augustinians to Betis, Pampanga to teach music and arts. In Betis, he caught the attention of Maria Adela Pagtalunan y Nuqui, a Bulaqueña-Capampangan from San Miguel, Bulacan and Betis, Pampanga, The Philippines. Maria Adela was the brother of Ysidro Nicolas Pagtalunan y Nuqui, one of the sculpture students in Betis. Maria Adela before marriage lived at Arayat, Pampanga with her family.

Antonio Federico and Maria Adela got married in Paombong, Bulacan where they eventually had their home at Tabing Sapa (the present site of the Municipal Gym of Paombong, Bulacan, The Philippines).

In 1637, the whole town of Paombong were in celebration upon the return of Enrique Ygnacio who was alive. He was about to be beheaded by the natives, but upon seeing his bag with the image of the Holy Child Jesus Christ inside shining in great radiance the natives were in awe and ceased the the beheading. Enrique Ygnacio took out from his bag the Holy Child Jesus Christ. The natives believed their anitos told them to cease the beheading. He was brought to the chieftain of the natives of Bangued in Abra. The chieftain told him not to go down to the lowland from the mountains or else his life would end. Out of prayers and faith in God, Enrique Ygnacio was welcomed to the tribal community and became accustomed to the Tingguian cultures and traditions. When the Augustinians arrived in Bangued for the baptism of the Tingguian natives, he introduced himself and asked these Augustinians to bring him home to Paombong. Enrique Ygnacio did not marry or even had a wife in Bangued because he stood firm for his fidelity to his wife Maria Regina.

(Thanks to Sr. Paula Pahati Salamat, DC for the additional information way back in 2000.)