Rizal

Pet name: Panggoy

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She died an old maid at the age of 80.I.Trinidad (1868 – 1951)

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Pet name: Trining

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She also died an old maid in 1951 aged 83.I.Soledad (1870 – 1929)

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Pet name: Choleng

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She married Pantaleon Quintero of Calamba.

Rizal’s Ancestry

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Rizal was a product of the

mixture of races

. (Negrito, Indonesian, Malay, Chinese,Japanese and Spanish). Predominantly, he was a

Malayan

and was a

magnificentspecimen of Asian manhood.

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Father Side:

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Mother Side:

The Surname Rizal

Real surname of the Rizal Family was

Mercado

which means

“market”.

It was adoptedin

1731

by

Domingo Lameo

(the paternal great-great grandfather of Jose Rizal), also a full- blooded chinese. Rizal’s family acquired a second surname – 

Rizal

which was given by aspanish alkalde mayor of laguna.

The Rizal Home

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The house of Rizal family was one of the distinguished

stone houses in Calamba

duringSpanish time. It was a

two storey building, rectangular in shape, built of adobe stonesand hand – wood, and roofed with red tiles.

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Behind the house were

the poultry yard

full of turkeys and chickens and a big garden of topical fruit trees – 

atis, alimbing, chico, macopa, papaya, santol,

etc.

A Good Middle-Class Family

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The Rizal family belonged to the

 principalia

, a aristocracy in Spanish Philippines. It wasone of the distinguish families in Calamba.

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Beneath their roof, all guests irrespective of their color, rank, social position, andeconomic status, were welcome.

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Sources of Income:

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Harvested rice, corns and sugarcane

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Raised pigs, chickens and turkeys I their backyard

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Good stores and a small flour-mill and a home-made religious ham presswhich managed by Doña Teodora.

Home Life of Rizal

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The Rizal family had a simple, contented and happy life.

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Don Francisco and Doña Teodora loved their children but, they never spoiled them. Theywere strict parents and they trained their children to love God, to...