LIFE OF RIZAL

Authored by Senator Claro M. Recto signed on June 12, 1956. 

Republic Act 1425 the Rizal Law

"A child of a good family" born on June 19, 1861, between 11 and 12 in the evening, a few days before the full moon. 

Jose Protacio Realonda Alonso Mercado Rizal

study of ancestry and family histories by genealogist. 

Genealogy

Rizal's paternal ancestor, native of the Chinchew district in China, baptized in the Parian church of San Gabriel on a Sunday on June 1697. 

 Domingo Lam

wife of Lam-co, half of Lam-co's age. Her parents were Agustin Chinco and Jacinta Rafaela. 

Inez dela Rosa

Rizal's father, a prosperous landowner, sugar and rice planter, of Chinese-Filipino descent. 

 Francisco Mercado y Chinco

• born on April 18, 1818 in Biǹan and lived to be 80 years old the youngest in a family of 13 siblings. A well-educated farmer who studied Latin and philosophy at Colegio de San Jose in Manila. 

• - his parents were Captain Juan Mercado (gobernadorcillo or mayor of Binan) and Cirila Alejandra. 

 Francisco Mercado y Chinco

• Rizal's mother, one of the most-highly educated woman in the Philippines, an Ilocano-Tagalog-Chinese-Spanish descent, possibly even having Japanese blood. 

• - born on November 14, 1827 and lived to be 84 years old. Studied in Colegio de Santa Rosa, gifted woman with insights into literature, art, music and other forms of Filipino culture. - daughter of Brigada de Quintos 

Teodora Alonso

Royal Decree of 1849, a new family name was adopted upon the order of Governor General Narciso Claveria y Zaldua. Issued on November 21, 1849 wherein the list of approved family names can be referred from the Catalogo Alfabetico de Apellidos".

 Claveria List

Jose was the ___ of 11 children and younger of the 2 boys

7th

oldest, married to Manuel Hidalgo and published Pascual H. Poblete's Tagalog translation of the Noli Me Tangere. 

 Saturnina

oldest boy, 10 years older than Jose, a Major General in the revolutionary army and married Severina Decena. 

Paciano

known as Doǹa Sisa and can recite from memory all the poems of Jose Rizal married Antonio Lopez.

Narcisa

married Silvestre Ubaldo, a telegraph operator in Manila.

Olympia

married Mariano Herbosa who died in cholera and was denied a Christian burial.

 Lucia

married Daniel Faustino Cruz, the only sister of Rizal who lived up to 1950's. 

Maria

known as Concha who died at age of  3. 

Concepcion

a spinster

Josefa

also a spinster.

Trinidad

youngest and married Pantaleon Quintero. Studied at La Concordia College where she and Leonor Rivera where classmates

Soledad

also known as Segunda Katigbak, his first love

Miss. K

Jose's cousin from Camiling and also a La Concordian. A daughter of Antonio Rivera, his uncle in whose house Jose lived during his junior year at UST. engaged with Jose but married another man Henry Kipping. Jose's great love.

 Leonor Rivera

blue-blooded Englishwoman who was the oldest daughter of London church organist in whose house Rizal lodged when he went to visit London.

Gertrude Beckett

 a 19 year old lady Rizal met in Dapitan. Jose wanted to marry her but because of church requirements they just simply lived together. 

- Jose called her his "wife" and "dulce estrangera". 

- married to a Filipino named Vicente Abad and died in Hong Kong due to tuberculosis.

Josephine Bracken 

a daughter of a liberal minded Spanish official who once served in Manila during the Spanish era. It was just a casual relationship.

 Consuelo Ortia y Perez 

a Belgian woman Jose met when he stayed with the Jacoby's. One of the contributing factors that led Jose to continue writing El Filibusterismo.

Nelly Boustead