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    José Rizal had diverse ancestry that included Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and indigenous Filipino. His patrilineal ancestor was Domingo Lam-co, a Chinese immigrant to the Philippines in the mid-17th century. Lam-co took the Spanish surname Mercado to avoid anti-Chinese sentiment. Rizal later adopted the surname to travel freely as his family had gained notoriety. Rizal was born the seventh of 11 children to Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos. Recent research found that Rizal's maternal great-great-grandfather was partly Japanese and Rizal may have also descended from the Rajah of Tondo at the time

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    José Rizal had diverse ancestry that included Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and indigenous Filipino. His patrilineal ancestor was Domingo Lam-co, a Chinese immigrant to the Philippines in the mid-17th century. Lam-co took the Spanish surname Mercado to avoid anti-Chinese sentiment. Rizal later adopted the surname to travel freely as his family had gained notoriety. Rizal was born the seventh of 11 children to Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos. Recent research found that Rizal's maternal great-great-grandfather was partly Japanese and Rizal may have also descended from the Rajah of Tondo at the time

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    José Rizal had diverse ancestry that included Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and indigenous Filipino. His patrilineal ancestor was Domingo Lam-co, a Chinese immigrant to the Philippines in the mid-17th century. Lam-co took the Spanish surname Mercado to avoid anti-Chinese sentiment. Rizal later adopted the surname to travel freely as his family had gained notoriety. Rizal was born the seventh of 11 children to Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos. Recent research found that Rizal's maternal great-great-grandfather was partly Japanese and Rizal may have also descended from the Rajah of Tondo at the time

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    Jos Rizal's parents, Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos,Jos Rizal's parents, Francisco Mercado and

    Teodora Alonso Realonda y Quintos, Rizal was the seventh child of their eleven children namely: Saturnina (1850-1913), Paciano (1851-1930), Narcisa (1852-1939), Olympia (1855-1887), Lucia (1857-1919), Maria (1859-1945), Jose Rizal (18611896), Concepcion (1862-1865), Josefa (1865-1945), Trinidad (18681951) and Soledad (1870-1929). Rizal was a 6th-generation patrilineal descendant of Domingo Lam-co (Chinese: ; pinyin: Ke Yinan), a Chinese immigrant entrepreneur who sailed to the Philippines from Jinjiang, Quanzhou in the mid-17th century.[7] Lam-co married Inez de la Rosa, a Sangley native of Luzon. To free his descendants from the anti-Chinese animosity of the Spanish authorities, Lam-co changed the family surname to the Spanish surname "Mercado" (market) to indicate their Chinese merchant roots. Their original application was for the name "Ricial", apropos their main occupation of farming, which was arbitrarily denied. The name "Rizal" (originally Ricial, the green of young growth or green fields), was adopted by Jose to enable him to travel freely as the Mercados had gained notoriety by Paciano's earlier links with Filipino priests who were sentenced to death as subversives. From early childhood, Jose and Paciano were already advancing unheard-of political ideas of freedom and individual rights which infuriated the authorities.[8] Rizal, 11 years old, a student at the Ateneo Municipal.Aside from indigenous Filipino and Chinese ancestry, recent genealogical research has found that Jos had traces of Spanish, and Japanese ancestry. His maternal great-great-grandfather (Teodora's greatgrandfather) was Eugenio Ursua, a descendant of Japanese settlers, who married a Filipina named Benigna (surname unknown). These two gave birth to Regina Ursua who married a Sangley mestizo from Pangasinn named Atty. Manuel de Quintos, Teodora's grandfather. Their daughter Brgida de Quintos married a Spanish mestizo named Lorenzo Alberto Alonzo, the father of Teodora. Austin Craig mentions Lacandula, Rajah of Tondo at the time of the Spanish incursion, also as an ancestor.

    Mapua Institute of Technology Rizal 10 Assignment #2 (Rizals Ancestry)

    Dillena, Katherine C. B7 MWF/4:30-6:00

    July 28,2010 Dr. Samia Score:

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