Saturday, June 5, 2010

Excepts:Marriage Certificate of Santiago Bonifacio and Catalina de Castro :Parents of Andres Bonifacio (1863)

"Don Jose N.Javellanos, secular priest of the Archbisopric of Manila, a parish priest of Tondo,manila,Philippine Islands

Certifies that in Book 9 of Marriages on page 29 is a document that reads:
SANTIAGO BONIFACIO with CATALINA DE CASTRO.

"On thhe 24th of January 1863 * ...Saturnino Buntan ,parish priest of Tondo,authorized the marriage contracted between (Santiago Bonifacio) the son of Vicente Bonifacio and of **Alejandra Rosales...and Catalina de Castro ,single ,mestiza espanola,a native of the province of Zambales and resident in this pueblo of Tondo... daughter of Martin de Castro and Antonia Gregorio...in the presence of Don Severino Ampil and Dona Patricia Trinidad as sponsors..."

(Source: Ambeth Ocampo."Bones of Contention:The Bonifacio Lectures"(1998:90-91)

Notes:
*On page 91 of Ocamp0,the year is 1873, a typographical error ? I corrected it 1863.
**On the same page " y de " appear in the text,Spanish words not translated to English ?
so I translated it to english as "and of".

Andres Bonifacio's parents was married on Jan.24,1863.Both were residents of the town of
Tondo (now a district of Manila).

Santigo Bonifacio , Andres' father was the son of Vicente Bonifacio and Alejandra Rosales.

Catalina de Castro, Andres'mother was the daughter of Martin de Castro and Antonia Gregorio.

Santiago and Catalina,were residents of Balangay (Village/Barrio) n0.174 under Don Patricio Infante,the Cabeza de Barangay. (Ronquillo.1999:724)
She was a native of Zambales.
Catalina was a Spanish mestiza,(half indio/Filipino) ,her father Martin was Spaniard.
Therefore,Andres Bonifacio have Spanish blood .Traces of his Spanish lineage can be gleaned in the eye witness testimony of Vicente Samson where he remember Bonifacio as " taller and fairer than most of the katipuneros"in the Cry of Balintawak in 1896.(Gregorio Zaide.Documentary Sources Of Philippine History.Vol.8,pp.310-313 cited by Soledad Borromeo Buehler.The Cry of Balintawak:A Contrived Controversy p.33)

Severino Ampil and Patricia Trinidad ,witnesses to the wedding ceremony,were bussinessmen who owned and rented horse drawn carriages (Karitela). ( I.Medina's interview with Prof.Grace A, .Tirona,descendant of the witnesses. in Ronquillo 1996 : Note no.2 ,p.724)

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  1. If I may add,Catalina de Castro's roots is in Cabangan, Zambales.

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