José Rizal's parents were Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonzo, prosperous farmers who were granted lease of a hacienda and an accompanying rice farm by the Dominicans. He was the seventh child of their eleven children (namely, Saturnina, Paciano, Narcisa, Olympia, Lucia, Maria, Jose, Concepcion, Josephina, Trinidad and Soledad.)
Rizal was a 5th-generation patrilineal descendant of Domingo Lam-co (Chinese: 柯仪å—; Pinyin: Ke Yinan), a Chinese immigrant entrepreneur who sailed to the Philippines from Jinjiang, Quanzhou in the mid-17th century.[7] Lam-co married Inez de la Rosa, a Sangley native of Luzon. To free his descendants from the anti-Chinese animosity of the Spanish authorities, Lam-co changed the family surname to the Spanish surname "Mercado" (market) to indicate their Chinese merchant roots. Their original application was for the name "Ricial", apropos their main occupation of farming, which was arbitrarily denied. The name "Rizal" (originally Ricial, the green of young growth or green fields), was adopted by Jose to enable him to travel freely as the Mercados had gained notoriety by their son's intellectual prominence. From early childhood Rizal was already advancing unheard-of political ideas of freedom and individual rights which infuriated the authorities.[8]
Rizal, 11 years old
Aside from indigenous Filipino and Chinese ancestry, recent genealogical research has found that José had traces of Spanish, and Japanese ancestry. His maternal great-great-grandfather (Teodora's great-grandfather) was Eugenio Ursua, a descendant of Japanese settlers, who married a Filipina named Benigna (surname unknown). These two gave birth to Regina Ursua who married a Sangley mestizo from Pangasinán named Atty. Manuel de Quintos, Teodora's grandfather. Their daughter BrÃgida de Quintos married a Spanish mestizo named Lorenzo Alberto Alonzo, the father of Teodora. Austin Craig mentions Lacandula, Rajah of Tondo at the time of the Spanish incursion, also as an ancestor.
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Also called ‘Concha’ by her siblings, Concepcion Rizal was the eighth child of the Rizal family. She was born in 1862 and died at age 3.
Of_course_not!">Of course not!Rizal's son died three months after birth. His name is Francisco in honor of Jose's father. -----rizal's son died, after josephine bracken give birth to it, rizal buried him at dapitan.
Dr. Jose Rizal, the Philippines' national hero was born during the Spanish colonization. Before Rizal's birth, the country was trading with its neighboring Asian countries.
Rizal belonged to one of the affluent families in calamba..
Samuel Rizal's birth name is Samuel Jose Rizal.
Jose Rizal was born on June 19, 1861, in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines. He was the seventh of 11 children in a wealthy family. Rizal grew up to become a renowned Filipino nationalist, writer, and advocate for reforms in the Spanish colonial government.
Jose Rizal was born in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines.
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Below are the siblings of Jose Rizal in order of birth: Saturnina Rizal Paciano Rizal Narcisa Rizal Olimpia Rizal Lucia Rizal Maria Rizal Jose Rizal Concepcion Rizal Josefa Rizal Trinidad Rizal Soledad Rizal
Rizal's Family belonged in a affluent family. Jose Rizal's blood is a mixture of negrito, indonesian, chinese, japanese, and SPANISH genes.
Jose Rizal and his family got the surname 'Rizal' from his Chinese ancestor Domingo Lameo. Rizal means "Ricial or grains", and they started using it 1731. His true surname is Mercado, but to keep his family safe he used the surname Rizal.
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the godfather of jose rizal and close family riend of the rizal family which is a native batangueno
The surname Rizal was acquired by the family of the people of long ago from their Chinese ancestor. The family dropped their three surnames to have Rizal as their main family name. This gave them more of a legitimate family name.
Also called ‘Concha’ by her siblings, Concepcion Rizal was the eighth child of the Rizal family. She was born in 1862 and died at age 3.
Of_course_not!">Of course not!Rizal's son died three months after birth. His name is Francisco in honor of Jose's father. -----rizal's son died, after josephine bracken give birth to it, rizal buried him at dapitan.