Family

The Rizal Family
God blessed the marriage of Francisco Mercado Rizal and Teodora Alonzo Realonda with eleven children--- two boys and nine girls.

Francisco Mercado Rizal was born on May 11, 1818 in Binan, Laguna. He was a graduate of the College of San Jose in Manila, studying Latin and Philosophy. Francisco moved to Calamba to become a tenant-farmer of a hacienda owned by the Dominicans. He died at the age of 80 on January 5, 1898 in Manila. About his father, Jose Rizal says that he is "a model of fathers.

Teodora Alonzo Realonda was born on November 8, 1926 in Manila. She was a graduate of the College of Santa Rosa. She died at the age of 85 on August 16, 1911 in Manila. About his mother, Jose Rizal says, "My mother is a woman of more than ordinary culture; she knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I. She corrected my poems and gave me good advice when I was studying rhetoric. She is a mathematician and has read many books."

These children were as follows:

1. Saturnina (1850-1913). She was the oldest of the Rizal children. She married Manuel T. Hidalgo of Tanawan, Batangas.

Saturnina 

2. Paciano (1851-1930). He was the older brother of Dr. Rizal. After gus younger brother’s execution, he joined the Revolution and became a general. After the Revolution, he retired to his farm in Los Baños and led the life of a gentleman farmer. He died an old bachelor, though he had a common-law wife.

Paciano 

3. Narcisa (1852-1939). She married Antonino Lopez, a school teacher of Morong, Rizal.

Narcisa 

4. Olimpia (1855-1887). She married Silvestre Ubaldo, a telegraph operator from Manila.

Olimpia

5. Lucia (1857-1919). She married Mariano Herbosa of Calamba.

Lucia 

6. Maria (1859-1945). She married Daniel Faustino Cruz of Biñan, Laguna.

Maria 

7. Jose (1861-1896). The “lucky seven” in a family of eleven children.

Jose 

8. Concepcion (1862-1865). She died at the age of three.
9. Josefa (1865-1945). She did not marry; she died an old maid.

Josefa 

10. Trinidad (1868-1951). She died an old maid, life Josefa.
11. Soledad (1870-1929). She was the youngest of the Rizal Children. She married Pantaleon Quintero of Calamba.

Soledad 

The Rizal’s Ancestry

PATERNAL SIDE

DOMINGO LAM – CO - great - great grandfather
                                - A Chinese immigrant from Chinchew “China’s City of Spring”
                                 - He was married to INES DE LA ROSA
1731- He adopt the name MERCADO meaning “MARKET”

FRANCISCO MERCADO – Domingo Lam- Co’s son who married CIRILA BERNACNA
JUAN MERCADO – Francisco’s son who married CIRILA ALEJANDRO
FRANCISCO MERCADO (Rizal’s Father) – son of Juan Mercado

MATERNAL SIDE

LAKAN – DULA – descendant
EUGENIO URSUA – great – great grandfather of Rizal
                                 - He is married to BENIGNA and they have a daughter named REGINA
REGINA – married to MANUEL DE QUINTOS and they have a daughter named BRIGIDA
BRIGIDA – married to LORENZO ALBERTO and they have their sons and daughters named NARCISA, TEODORA, GREGORIO, JOSE and MANUEL

RIZAL – “racial”; means “new pasture” and “green field”

PROOFS THAT RIZAL FAMILY BELONGS TO WELL TO DO FAMILY

• They have a large stone house 
• They have a home library with 1000 volumes of books 
• First to sent their children in Manila 
• They own a carjuahe