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OPENING/GALIGAO
To appreciate Dr. Jose Rizal's life and work, we must first grasp his ancestral
background in order to comprehend his position and point of view in a time when many
things had occurred. He is renowned to be bright in both thought and action, thus
researching his ancestors is vital.

GALIGAO ------
Dr. Jose Rizal is a genius in his own right. He is noted for being a polyglot, poet, doctor,
scientist, painter, ethnologist, engineer, educator, and more, but he is most
remembered for his Political Martyrdom in the battle for independence and nationalism.
Jose was born on June 19, 1861, on a moonbeam of Wednesday in Calamba, Laguna
Province, Philippines. Her mother was said to have been in a near-death condition
during the delivery due of his large head. On the 21st of that month, he was baptized
after a few days. At the very least three days following the delivery.
Fr. Rufino Collantes the parish priest of Calamba baptized him with the given name of
“Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado Y Alonso Realonda.” His godfather was Fr. Pedro
Casanas.
Why Jose? Because chosen by his mother who was a devotee of Christian Saint San
Jose. During the christening during the ceremony.

LASTIMADO –
Dr. Jose Rizal’s Paternal Ancestry started a Chinese immigrant named Lameo, was his
father's great-great-grandfather. He arrived in Manila around 1690 from Fukien City,
China. In 1731, he converted to Christianity, married Ines de la Rosa, and took the
surname Mercado. It was said that he was given this surname because of his diligence
and honesty as a merchant in Manila.
Francisco was born in Binan, Laguna, and later became a Gobernadorcillo. He married
a Chinese mestiza named Cirila Bernacha and had three children. Juan (Pepe's
grandfather) married Cirila Alejandro, who was also a Binan gobernadorcillo. Juan and
Cirila were also blessed with 13 sons and a daughter, the youngest of whom was
Francisco Mercado (Pepe's Father). While studying, he met and fell in love with
Teodora Alonso Realonda, a student at College of Sta. Rosa. They decided to marry on
June 28, 1848, and settle in Calamba, where they engaged in farming and business as
their family grew.
LEGASAN
Dr. Jose Rizal’s maternal also started on the bravery that the traits of Dr. Rizal and his
Brother Paciano we known as Dona Teodora was a descendant of Lakandula, the last
native king of Tondo and providing a Filipino ancestry to the family of Rizal and her
great-grandfather was a Japanese named Eugenio Ursua, who married a Filipina
named Benigna and gave birth to Regina. Regina married Manuel de Quintos, a
Pangasinan lawyer, and had a daughter, Brigida, who married Lorenzo Alberto Alonso,
a Spanish-Filipino mestizo, and had Narcisa, Teodora (Pepe's Mother), Gregorio,
Manuel, and Jose. Dona Teodora Morales Alonso Realonda Mercado Rizal Y Quintos
married Don Francisco Engracio Alejandro Rizal Mercado later in life. Furthermore, the
real surname of the Rizal is Mercado, which was adopted by Domingo Lamco in 1731. It
was known to be their second surname, which was given by a Spanish alcalde mayor
who was a family friend in Laguna.

LUNA
Francisco Mercado a father of Jose Rizal who was the youngest of 13 offsprings
of Juan and Cirila Mercado. Born in Binan, Laguna on April 18, 1818 and his mother
Teodora Alonso who was the second child of Lorenzo Alonso and Brijida de Quintos.
She studied at the colegio de Santa Rosa. She was a business-minded woman,
courteous, religious, hard-working, and well-read and a first teacher of Jose and thought
him teaching the basic means of learning the 4R’s (Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic and
Religion) but Dona Teodora’s memoirs to Jose is focusing on teaching him to how to
read and pray humbly to God. In the process, Dona Teodora Discovered the talent of
Jose in poetry. According to her she encourages Jose on making poems to break the
monotonous process of memorization and to develop his creativity and imagination.

LEGASAN
Dr. Jose Rizal’s seven siblings and Rizal is 7 th among the eleven children of
Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso. Saturnina is the oldest of the Rizal children
next in line with Paciano the older and confidant and joined the Philippine Revolution
and became a combat general. Next is Narcisa also known as “Sisa” married to Antonio
Lopez school teacer at Morong and the next is Olympia married to Silvestre Ubaldo a
telegraph operator from Manila. The fifth one is Lucia married to Mariano Herbosa of
Calamba and next is Maria also known as “Biang” she married to Daniel Faustino Cruz
of Binan and the 7th son of Francisco and Dona Teodora is no other than Dr. Jose Rizal
a one of the national hero and the greatest filipino and peerless genius and married to
an Irish girl from Hongkong named Josephine Bracken and lately had a son but
unfortunately died in a few hours after birth and Dr. Jose “Pepe” Rizal name him
“Franciso” after his father and buried him in Dapitan. His next siblings is Concepcion
and died of sickness at the age of three next is Josefa, Trinidad and Soledad the
youngest of the Rizal children and married to Pantaleon Quintero of Calamba.

GALIGAO
Dr. Jose Rizal was a product of many ancestries and a mixture of blood and races in his
veins that flowed the blood of both east and west especially, Negrito, Indonesian,
Malay, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish and Predominantly, He was a Malayan and
magnificent specimen of Asian manhood. Moreover, this topic is technically referring to
the tracing of the line of descent in the context of basis and basically referring to the
ancestry of Dr. Rizal and to identify the social origin and be enabled to understand the
historical concept of his family backgrounds.