Rizal's History

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RIZAL FAMILY TREE ✍🏻

The Rizal’s is considered one of the biggest families during their time. Domingo Lam-co, the family’s
paternal ascendant was a full-blooded Chinese who came to the Philippines from Amoy, China in the
closing years of the 17th century and married a Chinese half-breed by the name of Ines de la Rosa.

Jose Rizal came from a 13-member family consisting of his parents, Francisco Mercado II and Teodora
Alonso Realonda, and nine sisters and one brother.

▪️FRANCISCO MERCADO (1818-1898)

Father of Jose Rizal who was the youngest of 13 off-springs of Juan and Cirila Mercado. Born in Biñan,
Laguna on April 18, 1818; studied in San Jose College, Manila; and died in Manila.

▪️TEODORA ALONSO (1827-1913)

Mother of Jose Rizal who was the second child of Lorenzo Alonso and Brijida de Quintos. She studied at
the Colegio de Santa Rosa. She was a business-minded woman, courteous, religious, hard-working and
well-read. She was born in Santa Cruz, Manila on November 14, 1827 and died in 1913 in Manila.

▪️SATURNINA RIZAL (1850-1913)

Eldest child of the Rizal-Alonzo marriage. Married Manuel Timoteo Hidalgo of Tanauan, Batangas, and
published Pascual H. Poblete’s Tagalog translation of the Noli Me Tangere.

▪️PACIANO RIZAL (1851-1930)

Only brother of Jose Rizal and the second child. Studied at San Jose College in Manila; became a farmer
and later a general of the Philippine Revolution and married Severina Decena.

▪️NARCISA RIZAL (1852-1939)

The third child. Married Antonio Lopez at Morong, Rizal; a teacher and musician. Also, known as Dona
Sisa and can recite from memory all the poems of Jose Rizal and married to Antonio Lopez.

▪️OLYMPIA RIZAL (1855-1887)

The fourth child. Married Silvestre Ubaldo; a telegraph operator in Manila died in 1887 from childbirth.
▪️LUCIA RIZAL (1857-1919)

The fifth child. Married Matriano Herbosa who died in cholera and was denied a Chirstian burial.

▪️MARIA RIZAL (1859-1945)

The sixth child. Married Daniel Faustino Cruz of Biñan, Laguna. The only sister of Rizal who lived up to
1950’s.

▪️JOSE RIZAL (1861-1896)

The second son and the seventh child. He was executed by the Spaniards on December 30, 1896.

▪️CONCEPCION RIZAL (1862-1865)

The eight child. Died at the age of three.

▪️JOSEFA RIZAL (1865-1945)

The ninth child. An epileptic, died a spinster.

▪️TRINIDAD RIZAL (1868-1951)

The tenth child. Died a spinster and the last of the family to die.

▪️SOLEDAD RIZAL (1870-1929)

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

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