rizal

1. Rizal's Ancestry
Jose Rizal was a product of the
mixture of races.
✔ Negrito
✔ Indonesian
✔ Malay
✔ Chinese
✔ Japanese
✔ Spanish
 He was called “The Great Malayan”

3. Paternal Side
Domingo Lamco
✔ great-great grandfather
✔ a chinese immigrant from the Fukien
city of Changchow
✔ arrived in Manila about 1690
✔ became a Christian
✔ married to a well-to-do Chinese
Christian girl of Manila named Ines de
la Rosa
✔ took the surname “Mercado” in 1731

4. Francisco Mercado
✔ son of Domingo Mercado
and Ines de la Rosa
✔ great grandfather
✔ resided in Biñan, Laguna
✔ married to a Chinese-Filipino
mestiza, Cirila Bernacha
✔ elected as gobernadorcillo
of the town.
Juan Mercado
✔ one of the sons of Francisco
Mercado and Cirila Bernacha
✔ grandfather
✔ married to Cirila Alejandro, a
Chinese-Filipino mestiza
✔ elected as gobernadorcillo of
Biñan
✔ 13 children, the youngest being
Francisco Mercado (Rizal's
father)

5. Francisco Mercado
✔ youngest son of Juan and Cirila
✔ Rizal's father
✔ Lost his fatherat the age of 8
✔ studied Latin and Philosophy in the
College of San Jose in Manila
✔ met and fell in love with Teodora Alonso
Realonda, a student in the College of
Santa Rosa
✔ they married on June 28, 1848
✔ settled in Calamba
✔ they engaged in farming and business
and reared a big family

7. Maternal Side
✔ Lakan-Dula - last native king of Tondo
Eugenio Ursua
✔ great-great grandfather
✔ Japanese ancestry
✔ married a Filipina named Benigna
(unknown surname)

8. Regina
✔ daughter of Eugenio and Benigna
✔ married Manuel de Quintos, a Filipino-Chinese lawyer from Pangasinan
Brigida
✔ one of the daughters of Atty. Quintos and Regina
✔ married Lorenzo Alberto Alonso, a prominent Spanish-Filipino mestizo
of Biñan
✔ 5 children named Narcisa, Teodora (Rizal's mother), Gregorio, Manuel,
and Jose.

9. The Surname Rizal
In 1731, Domingo Lamco adopted the
surname“Mercado” which means “market”
In 1849, Gov. Gen. Narciso Claveria ordered all
Filipinos to adopt Spanish surnames.
Their second surname (Rizal) was given by a
Spanish alcalde mayor of Laguna, who was a family
friend

10. Originally “Ricial” in Spanish
means “green fields”
It was prophetic according to
Ambassador Leon Ma. Guerrero: “a
field where wheat, cut while still
green, sprouts again.
Only Jose used the surname
Rizal until 1891.

11. The Rizal Home
✔ a two-storey building
(rectangular in shape)
✔ built of adobe stones and hard-
woods
✔ roofted with red tiles

22. A Good and Middle-Class Family
✔ they belonged to the principalia
✔ honest and hard work and frugal living, Rizal's parents
were able to live well.
✔ they harvestede, corn and sugarcane
✔ they raised pigs, chickens and turkeys in their
backyard
✔ Dona Teodora managed a general goods store and
operated a small-mill and a home-made ham press
✔ they were able to build a large stone house.

23. ✔ owned a carjuahe (carriage)
✔ had a private library with more than 1,000 books and
considered as the largest library in Calamba
✔ Francisco and Teodora sen their children to the colleges in
Manila
✔ they participated prominently in all social and religious
affairs in the community.
✔ they were gracious hosts to all visitors ang guests (friars,
Spanish officials and Filipino friends) during town fiestas
and holidays.

24. Home Life of the Rizals
✔ simple, contented and happy family life
✔ believed in the maxim: “Spare the rod and spoil the child
✔ they heard mass every day most especially when
Sundays and Christians holidays
✔ they prayed together daily at home (Angelus at sunset
and the Rosary before retiring to bed at night)
✔ every after the family prayer, all the children kissed the
hands of their parents.