The Rizal Family

Module 2: Lesson 2.2

ScSc 16n Life and Works of Rizal
Learning Objectives
Trace the origins of the Rizal Family

Determine implications of Rizal’s family origin to the context

of Rizal’s life and the Philippines in general.

Identify significant events that happened to Rizal and to his

family especially during his early years ,and their implications
to his development as a man.
 Rizal Ancestry
The Rizals were descendants of Domingo Lam-co,
immigrant from Fukien city of Changchow, who arrived
in Manila about 1690.

Lam-co became a Christian and married a Chinese

Christian girl named Ines de la Rosa.

In 1731, he assumed the surname Mercado which was

appropriate for him because he was a merchant.
 The Surname Rizal
 The real surname of the Rizal family was Mercado which was adapted
in1731 by Domingo Lamco who was a full-blooded Chinese.

Don Franciso adopted the surname Rizal in compliance with governor-
General Naciso Claverias’ decree in1849 to adopt new surnames for taxation
purposes.

 The word Rizal came from the Spanish word “racial” which means “the
young green growth of fields” or simply means “green field.

(Balotol, Jr. et al., 2018 from Zaide and Zaide, 2014 and Adanza, 1995)
 The Birth of Rizal

Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda

Date of Birth- June 19, 1861

June 22, 1961- He was baptized in a Catholic Church in Calamba.
Father Rufino Collantes- The parish priest who baptized Rizal. He told
them “Take good care of this child, for someday he will become a great
man”.
Francisco MercadoTeodora Alonso Jose
Rizal Realonda Rizal
 The Rizal Family
1. Saturnina (1850-1913)
2. Paciano (1851-1930)
3. Narcisa (1852-1939)
4. Olimpia (1855-1887)
5. Lucia ( 1857-1919)
6. Maria (1859-1945)
7. Jose (1861-1896)
8. Conception (1862-1865)
9. Josefa (1865-1954)
10. Trinidad (1868-1951)
11. Soledad (1870-1929)
Rizal’s Stone House in Calamba, Laguna
 Rizal Family’s Sorrow
 Doña Teodora was accused as an accomplice of trying to
poison the wife of his brother Jose Maria Alberto.

 The execution of the three martyrs (Marciano Gomez, Jose

Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora) on February 17, 1872 at
Bagumbayan where thousands of people coming from
provinces of Pampanga, Laguna and Bulacan had witnessed.