The Families of Old Binan, Laguna I

February 14, 2010 at 1:44 pm (1800s Filipinas, 1900s Philippines, 19th century Filipino Art, 2000s Philippines, Angst, Architecture, Comedy Relief, Design and Decoration, Domestic Travels, Family Traditions, Filipino Art, Humor, Random memories, Religious Traditions, The Global Crowd, The Laguna Tagalogs, The Manilenos, The Past, Tristesse)

by Augusto M R Gonzalez III (Toto Gonzalez)

They make an interesting study, the families of Old Binan, Laguna.  In most places, “old family” connotes an attenuated, if not completely dissipated, fortune.  True, the Old Binan families have had their economic vicissitudes like all the other old Filipino families, but as a whole, they are amazing because their old agricultural fortunes luckily, gradually, and smoothly transformed to urban real estate fortunes and other consistently lucrative holdings.  In other words, they are “still up there”… One actually wonders if the “feng shui” of Binan, for hundreds of years traditionally a Chinese enclave, has anything to do with it.

From the Spanish era all the way to the present, Binan, Laguna has always been the center of economic activity south of Manila.  It has only been in recent years that neighboring Santa Rosa, with all its fortuitous new developments, has come to challenge Binan’s long-held economic preeminence.

Old Binan, Laguna [ pronounced “Been-yang” by its natives ] resonated with the surnames of rich hacendero and merchant families like the Gana, Carillo-Trinidad, Alberto, Ocampo, Mercado, Yatco, Yaptinchay, Guico, Yapchulay, Lim-Aco, Lopez de Leon, Yap, Lim, Lao, Potenciano, Casas, Almeda, Gonzales, Cruz, Garcia, and Baylon.  And although the Binan dons and donas behaved oddly  towards the “principalia” families of neighboring Santa Rosa —  the Zavalla, Tiongco, and Perlas — the Binan and the Santa Rosa families eventually intermarried and became related.

As in other old Filipino towns, there were usually one or two core families from which the rest of the “principalia” families radiated.  In Old Binan, these were the Gana and the Carillo-Trinidad families, both of Chinese ancestry.

GANA.

The clan progenitor Vicente Tang-Gana [ o ca. 1770 ] married Gertrudes de los Reyes and they had one son, Gaspar Gana y de los Reyes.  Gaspar and _____ had six children:  Rufino, Gregorio, Francisca, Donata [ married _____ Carillo ], Macaria [ Alberto Yaptinchay y Carillo-Trinidad ], and Ceferina [ married Mariano Potenciano ].

After his wife Gertrudes passed away, Vicente Tang-Gana married for the second time to Tomasa _____.  They had four children:  Eulalio [ married Florentina Potenciano ], Jose [ married Regina Marabillas Custodio ], Petrona, and Roman.

Eulalio Gana y _____ married Florentina Potenciano and they had five children:  Eduardo [ married Filomena Ocampo ], Jesualdo [ married Crisanta Cruz then Petronila Carillo-Trinidad ], Flaviana [ married Mariano Lopez ], Ciriaco [ married Leonarda German, then Francisca German, and then Carmen Francisco ] and Teodora.

Eduardo Gana y Potenciano.

Filomena Ocampo de Gana.

Maria “Angge” Gana y Ocampo.

Vicente Gana y Ocampo.

Filomeno “Menong” Gana y Ocampo.

Jose Gana y ____ married Regina Marabillas Custodio and they had seven children:  Isabela, Maria, Jose, Miguel, Agustin, Mariano, and Rosa.

CARILLO-TRINIDAD.

There is an extant oil portrait of “Romana A. Carillo” [ Romana Asuncion de Carillo-Trinidad ] of Binan, Laguna by the 19th century master painter Justiniano Asuncion of Santa Cruz, Manila in the Leandro V. Locsin collection.  It shows a comely “morena” lady, dressed in a “traje de mestiza” [ the delicate fashion of the period:  embroidered “pina” top and a voluminous silk/satin skirt ], with a “Paphiopedilum” / “lady slipper” orchid in a pot.  It is mentioned in historical notes that the Asuncion of Santa Cruz, Manila were related to the Carillo-Trinidad of Binan, Laguna.

Romana was the ninth child of Antonio Asuncion y Molo and Remigia Santa Ana of Santa Cruz, Manila.  She was a favorite subject/model of her uncle “Capitan Ting,” the master portraitist Justiniano Asuncion y Molo [ o 1816 – + 1901 ].  Romana Asuncion y Santa Ana married Andres Carillo-Trinidad of Binan, Laguna and they had six children:  Petronila [ married Fermin Yatco y Yaptinchay ], Josefa [ married Engracio Quintos ], Joaquin, Angela [ married _____ Eugenio], Filomena [ married _____ Castrillo ], and Anicia [ married Hipolito Habacon ].

According to the Asuncion genealogy, Petronila Carillo-Trinidad y Asuncion and Fermin Yatco y Yaptinchay had nine children:  Macario, Mariano, Catalina, Gertrudes, Feliza, Jose, Basilisa, Belen and Epifania.

ALBERTO.

From Sir John Bowring’s “A Visit to the Philippine Islands,” 1856 [ Sir John Bowring was the British governor of Hong Kong ]:

“”The roads are generally good on the borders of the Laguna, and we reached Binan before sunset,the Indians having in the main street formed themselves in procession as we passed along.  Flags, branches of flowering forest trees, and other devices, were displayed.***First we passed between files of youths,then of maidens ; and through a triumphal arch we reached the handsome dwelling of a rich mestizo, whom we found decorated with a Spanish order, which had been granted to his father before him.  He spoke English, having been educated at Calcutta, and his house — a very large one — gave abundant evidence that he had not studied in vain the arts of domestic civilization.  The furniture, the beds, the tables, the cookery, were all in good taste, and the obvious sincerity of the kind reception added to its agreeableness.  Great crowds were gathered together in the square which fronts the house of DON JOSE ALBERTO.***

“Indians brought their game-cocks to be admired, but we did not encourage the display of their warlike virtues.  There was much firing of guns, and a pyrotechnic display when the sun had gone down, and a large fire balloon, bearing the inscription, “The people of Binan to their illustrious visitors,” was successfully inflated, and soaring aloft, was lost sight of in the distance, but was expected to tell the tale of our arrival to the Magidenne in Manila Bay. Binan is a place of some importance.  In it many rich mestizos and Indians dwell.  It has more than 10,000 inhabitants.  Large estates there are possessed by the Dominican friars, and the principal of them was among our earliest visitors.  There, as elsewhere, the principalia, having conducted us to our headquarters, came in a body to present their respects, the gobernadorcillo, who usually speaks Spanish, being the organ of the rest.  Inquiries about the locality, thanks for the honours done us, were the commonplaces of our intercourse, but the natives were always pleased when ” the strangers from afar” seemed to take an interest in their concerns.  Nowhere did we see any marks of poverty; nowhere was there any crowding, or rudeness, or annoyance, in any shape.  Actors and spectators seemed equally pleased; in fact, our presence only gave them another holiday, making but a small addition to their regular and appointed festivals.  Binan is divided by a river, and is about a mile from the Laguna.  Its streets are of considerable width, and the neighbouring roads excellent.  Generally the houses have gardens attached to them; some on a large scale.  They are abundant in fruits of great variety.  Rice is largely cultivated, as the river with its confluents affords ample means of irrigation.  The lands are usually rented from the Dominicans, and the large extent of some of the properties assists economical cultivation.  Until the lands are brought into productiveness, little rent is demanded, and when they become productive the friars have the reputation of being liberal landlords and allowing their tenants to reap large profits.  It is said they are satisfied with one-tenth of the gross produce.  A tenant is seldom disturbed in possession if his rent be regularly paid.  Much land is held by associations or companies known by the title of ‘Casamahanes.’  There is an active trade between Binan and Manila.”

“Greatly gratified with all we had seen, we again embarked and crossed the Laguna to Pasig.  Descending by that charming river, we reached Manila in the afternoon.””

YATCO.

The Yatco are one of Binan’s oldest fortunes.

Three Yatco-Mercado sisters “Tres Marias de Yatco” — Salud Yatco de Perlas, Leonila Yatco de Yaptinchay, and Paz Yatco de Ocampo — became the forebears of three of Binan’s “principalia” families.  They were the daughters of Ysidro Yatco and Bonifacia Mercado.

( Unconfirmed:  According to their descendants’ oral tradition, Bonifacia Mercado was an elder sister of Francisco Mercado, the father of National Hero Jose P. Rizal;  thus, they were Rizal’s paternal first cousins.  Bonifacia Mercado de Yatco and Francisco Mercado [ Francisco Engracio Mercado-Rizal ] were two of the thirteen children of Juan Mercado and Cirila Alejandra;  Francisco was the youngest of the thirteen children.  However, Bonifacia Mercado does not appear in the genealogy of Juan Mercado and Cirila Alejandra.  Perhaps she was a first or second cousin of Francisco Mercado’s. )

However, through their paternal Yatco line, “Tres Marias de Yatco” — Salud, Leonila, and Paz — were nieces of Jose ( Mercado ) Rizal.

Ysidro Yatco was a rich and prominent businessman.  He traveled to Europe in the 1880s.  In Paris, he bought furniture, chandeliers, and glassware [ crystal ];  in particular, he acquired a pair of Cristal Baccarat chandeliers for his Binan “sala” drawing room.  In London, he bought sterling silver and china services.  Many of those treasures were conserved in his house — inherited by his daughter Leonila and later known as the Yaptinchay-Yatco residence — through the decades until its destruction in the early 1980s.

Another daughter of Antonio Asuncion y Molo and Remigia Santa Ana of Santa Cruz, Manila, and a sister of Romana Asuncion de Carillo-Trinidad, Valentina Asuncion y Santa Ana married _____ Yatco and they had four children:  Eleuterio, Jose, Leoncio [ married Teodora Marcelino], and Filomena [ married Eugenio Alzona ].

The Alzona are also from Binan, Laguna.  Eugenio Alzona and Filomena Yatco had three sons:  Jose, Agripino and Cayo.  Cayo Alzona married _____ Amoranto and they had five children:  Encarnacion, Luz, Ceasar, Augusto and Octavio.  Cayo relocated his family to Tayabas, Quezon.  Dr. Encarnacion Amoranto Alzona Ph.D. became one of the most accomplished Filipinas of her generation.

[ There is currently a state congressman from Maryland named Augustus Alzona – judging from his name { please note the emperors’ names in the first names }, he could be related to the Alzona family in the Philippines. – SR ]

YAPTINCHAY.

Concepcion “Nena” Yaptinchay-Zamora wrote:

“”According to Tia Epay ( JOSEFA CARRILLO TRINIDAD ), wife of Tio Kiko Yaptinchay, the first YAP TIN CHAY ( YAP is the family name and TIN CHAY is the first name ) who migrated to the Philippines was still a CHIQUITO* ( meaning a very young kid ).  Because of his youthful appearance, he was registered as son to his OLDER brother, because that was the easiest way to bring him into the country.  He learned his trade from his OLDER brother ( father ).”

“He met MARIA CARRILLO TRINIDAD, who belonged to a prominent family in Biñan, Laguna, whom he later married.  The couple had a son, ALBERTO C.T. YAPTINCHAY ( please take notice that the family name YAPTINCHAY as currently used is the combined first and last name of the original ancestral root, and which all his descendants continue to use ) and two daughters, namely:  SIMEONA and ISABEL.  ALBERTO married MACARIA GANA and they had 8 children, namely:  Julia, Andres, Guido, Maria, Raymunda, Bibiana, Josefa and Pablo.  SIMEONA married ANICETO YATCO and their children were: Petrona, Fermin, Pascuala, Angela and Maria.  ISABEL married PEDRO GUICO and had 2 children, namely:  Anastacio and Faustino.  We are all the descendants of the above.””

*CHIQUITO:  a five to seven year – old boy.  [  AA ]

Alberto Yaptinchay y Carillo-Trinidad [ o 1822 ] married Macaria Gana y _____ and they had eight children:  Julia [ Cirilo Carlos ], Andres [ married Teodora Zavalla ], Guido [ married Agustina Alberto y Sanchez de Carabaca ], Maria [ married Andres Almeda ], Josefa, Bibiana, Raymunda [ married Ramon Ocampo ], and Pablo [ married Leonila Yatco y Mercado ].

Guido Yaptinchay y Gana married Agustina Alberto y Sanchez de Carabaca, a beautiful mestiza of the rich Alberto family with Macanese [ Portuguese-Chinese ] ancestry.

Guido and Agustina Yaptinchay built and lived in an elegant, classical “bahay-na-bato” in the “poblacion” of Binan.

Guido and Agustina Yaptinchay had nine children:  Felix, Francisco, Albina, Agapito, Isidro, Miguel, Alberto, Privado, and Agustin.

Agustina passed away during the birth of her youngest child, Agustin.  Afterwards, the widower Guido Yaptinchay had a relationship with Catalina Medel, then Nicolasa Garcia, and then Isidra Bergonia.

Pablo Yaptinchay y Gana married Leonila Yatco y Mercado who was related to the National Hero Jose Protacio Alonso [ Mercado ] Rizal.  She was a cousin of Jose Rizal because her mother, Bonifacia Mercado, was a cousin of Jose’s father Francisco Mercado [ who married Teodora Alberto Realonda-Alonso, an “hija natural” of the rich Alberto family also of Binan ].  Leonila Yatco y Mercado was also a niece of Jose Rizal through the Yatco line.  The Mercado de Binan are among the descendants of the prominent Chinese merchant Domingo Lam-Co of historical renown.

The Yatco fortune was far older than the Yaptinchay fortune:  the Yatcos were already aristocrats when the Yaptinchays were overseers and managers.  At the time of their marriage, Leonila “Ilay” Yatco was richer than her husband, Pablo Yaptinchay.  In that context, she was the heiress and he the manager.

Leonila “Ilay” ruled over her husband and children.  It was the story in the family that while Pablo had his romantic assignations in the “entresuelo,” Ilay was upstairs fuming in the “sala,” planning her next moves.  During one town fiesta when she was sure that her husband’s current mistress would participate in the procession, she ordered her househelp to transfer several “oyas” terra cotta water containers with spigots to the “sala” “pasamano” window pane.  As the current mistress marched under the Yaptinchay-Yatco “sala” [ which overhung the street ], Ilay signaled the househelp to open the spigots, thus continuously drenching the offending lass.  Revenge, late 1800s style.

Pablo and Leonila Yaptinchay had six children:  Felix, Francisco, Macaria [ married Eliseo K. Abad ], Trinidad, Isidro [ married Josefina Yatco ], and Flora [ married Teodoro Evangelista ].

After Jose Rizal’s execution at the Bagumbayan field on 30 December 1896, Leonila “Ilay” Yatco de Yaptinchay was visited several times in secret by Jose’s sisters Saturnina, Olimpia, Narcisa, et. al. [ who were her maternal Mercado cousins ] who were requesting financial assistance.  Decades later, “Ilay” related the story to her daughters Macaria “Nena” [ Mrs. Eliseo K. Abad ], the spinster Trinidad “Tating,” and Flora “Flory” [ Mrs. Teodoro Evangelista ] that the Mercado Rizal-Alonso sisters used to pass, indeed scurry through, the “voladas” outer galleries of the house so as to avoid being seen by non-family members, lest their visits be the subject of seditious rumors which could harm her [ Ilay ].

Pablo and Leonila Yaptinchay lived in an interesting “bahay-na-bato” in the “poblacion” of Binan, near the rear of the parish church.  The residence began with an ancestral Yatco “bahay-na-bato” [ Leonila’s ], probably late 1700s, which was extended by a new structure sometime in the 1830s, like a train, all the way to the other street, which became its new frontage.  Their descendants remember it as having been a rather long house.

The Yaptinchay-Yatco residence eventually devolved to the youngest daughter Flora “Flory” Yatco Yaptinchay-Evangelista [ Mrs. Teodoro Evangelista ].  She declared that she had bought out her siblings from the house.  Teodoro and Flora Evangelista had two children:  Teodoro Jr. “Teddy” and Tina.

In true Yaptinchay-Yatco fashion, Flora “Flory” Yatco Yaptinchay-Evangelista was a character…  Irritated by the long drawn-out shooting in her ancestral home of director Bert Avellana’s “Portrait of the Artist as Filipino” in 1965, she periodically stormed into the house [ all the way from Manila to Binan, Laguna ], inquiring and ordering:  “Shooting ng shooting!!!  Aba, kailan ba matatapos ang shooting na ito???  Bert, tapusin mo na ang shooting shooting mo!!!”

The Yaptinchay-Yatco residence was the setting for director Lamberto V. Avellana’s 1965 masterpiece “Portrait of the Artist as Filipino,” a film adaptation of Nick Joaquin’s famous play, starring Daisy Hontiveros-Avellana and Naty Crame-Rogers as the spinster sisters Candida and Paula Marasigan, respectively.  Thus, the family house and its contents were immortalized on film.

Apart from its history and pedigree, the Yaptinchay-Yatco residence was also haunted… by the ghosts of its former residents.  When Jose Ma. Ricardo “Joey” Yaptinchay-Abad Panlilio met one of the principal actresses of Avellana’s 1965 “Portrait of the Artist as Filipino” for the first time during the filming of the CCP’s “Noli Me Tangere” in Vigan, Ilocos Sur in 1992, she related that during their first shooting day in the house, she was alone in the “sala” when a kind old lady and old gentleman approached and welcomed her warmly into their home.  They inquired about her well-being and they actually had a pleasant chat.  It was only when the old couple had left the “sala” that the actress remembered that they were dressed elegantly and beautifully, but oddly in the fashion of an era long gone.  Looking around the spacious “sala,” she noticed the two antique, full-length portraits of an old lady and an old gentleman and realized, to her increasing disbelief, that they were the ones who had just spoken with her.  When the current owner, Flora “Flory” Yatco Yaptinchay-Evangelista arrived some hours later and was told about the actress’ supernatural experience, she confirmed that the ghosts must have been her Yatco grandparents, if they looked like the antique portraits in the “sala”…

Architect Roberto “Bobby” Quisumbing, a descendant of Guido Yaptinchay y Gana, recalled:  “The Pablo Yaptinchay house had a long room at the back which had two rows of altar tables with ivory ‘santos’ one after the other…”  [ the long hallway outside those rooms is visible in the first YouTube video of “Portrait…”:  the scene where Tony Javier forcibly looks for the painting from Candida Marasigan. ]

OCAMPO.

According to Jose Reynaldo Ocampo Cobarrubias:

Lolo Gil Ocampo married Lolo Magdalena Leyva Arevalo, son was Lolo Edilberto Ocampo, Mayor of Binan 1906-1909.
2nd Generation
Lolo Edilberto married Lola Ma. Paz Yatco y Rizal.
3rd Generation
Sons were Mauro Y. Ocampo and Vicente Y. Ocampo.

Mauro Yatco Ocampo (Lolo Bolo) married Adoracion Amante Nolasco (Lola Adoracion).
4th Generation
Their children are Magdalena, Lourdes, Dolores, Norma & Mauro Jr.
Magdalena (Nitang) married Felicito Gonzales, Lourdes (Ditas) married Dionisio Capunitan, Dolores (Lolita) Married Ramon Raymundo, Norma (Normie) married Jose L. Cobarrubias Jr. & Mauro Jr. married Imelda Morales.

5th Generation
Magdalena-Felicito has 6 kids: Mariano,Felnito, Jacobo, Pedro +, Felicito Jr. & Fernando
Lourdes-Dionisio has 4 kid: Roberto; Josephine, Evelyn & Susan
Dolores-Ramon has 4 kids: George; Fe Caridad, Jesus +, & Jim Anthony
Norma-Jose has 6 kids: Jose Luis, Jose Fernando; Jose Reynaldo; Jose Marie +; Jose Victor & Ma. Kristina
Mauro Jr.-Imelda has 5 kids: Adoracion; Mauro III, Erickson, Normadia, & Nowelyn

Vicente Y. Ocampo (Lolo Enteng) married Maxima Mercado (Lola Chimang)
3 kid: Leonardo, Renato & Erlinda

Yatco-Rizal
Lolo Ysidro Yatco married Lola Bonifacia Rizal has 3 kids. Ma. Salud married Pablo Perlas, Ma. Paz married Edilberto Ocampo & Ma. Leonila married Pablo Yatpinchay.

Bustamante (Amante) Clan
Adoracion Amante Nolasco clan. – Married Mauro Yatco Ocampo
Padre Santiago Bustmante married Juana Villamor- only son Mariano
Mariano V. Bustamante married Ma. Sorbito Regular only daugther Catalina.

Nolasco clan.
Eifemio Lim Yuatco Nolasco married Ma. Blasica Fernandez, only son Bibiano.

Catalina Amante y Regular married Bibiano Fernandez Nolasco. only daugther Adoracion Nolasco y Amante (Lola Adoracion)

POTENCIANO.  Mariano Potenciano married Ceferina Gana y ____ and had _ children:  Pablo, Ubaldo, et. al..

According to Michael Potenciano Almendral:

A story an aunt remembers hearing from my grandfather was that the original family surname was ARAMBULO from the neighboring Dominican hacienda of San Pedro Tunasan. An unnamed ancestor had a quarrel with his father, moved to Binan and changed his surname to POTENCIANO. Unfortunately, I have no way of verifying if this story is true. What is certain is that by the 1800’s the Potencianos were already established enough in Binan that JOSE POTENCIANO, the earliest ancestor that can be found in the surviving parish records, became a Capitan in 1833, 1846, and 1847. His marriage to MICAELA AREVALO, daughter of JOSE AREVALO(Capitan 1833), produced the siblings MARIANO, DOMINGO, and ROMAN.

The AREVALO-POTENCIANO Line
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MARIANO(Capitan 1861) married CEFERINA REYES GANA, daughter of GASPAR GANA(Capitan 1830). Their children were PABLO, CANDIDO, FRANCISCO, ISIDRA, and SILVERIA. Mariano also had a common-law-wife, CIRILA CORVA, with whom he had ENGRACIO, CANDIDA, PASTOR, and MIGUEL all of whom were baptized with the POTENCIANO surname.

*CEFERINA’s sister, MACARIA, married ALBERTO YAPTINCHAY establishing the link to the Yaptinchays.

*CEFERINA’s paternal half-uncle EULALIO(Capitan 1850, 1867-68) , son of the GANA patriarch VICENTE TANG GANA by his second wife TOMASA, married FLORENTINA POTENCIANO and established the other POTENCIANO-GANA line from which descended EDUARDO(Capitan 1886-87), father of Don MENONG, Don ENCHONG, and Dona LOLAY GANA-VALENCIA; and JESUALDO(Capitan 1895-98). I still need to do further research to find out exactly how FLORENTINA is related to JOSE and MARIANO.

DOMINGO married BRIGIDA MERCADO.

ROMAN married VALERIANA CRISOLOGO and LORENZA ALMARINES.

The GANA-POTENCIANO Line
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PABLO(1858-1941, Capitan 1889) married FELIZA GARCIA(1859-1929), daughter of AGATON GARCIA(Capitan 1877-78) and MARIA SALOME ALMEDA CARLOS who also comes from a family with a long history of Capitanes. They had three sons, MARIANO, UBALDO, and CONRADO.

The “Tres Caidas” which still goes out every Holy Wednesday was inherited by FELIZA from her GARCIA(pronounced gar-sha’) ancestors. The POTENCIANO ancestral home which stands to this day was built in the older transitional bahay na bato style. It is a very long house with a steeply hipped roof and sawali ceilings. Delicately carved rococo floral swags decorate the frieze above the windows. The original capiz were later changed to green and clear French panes. It was used as the headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army who occupied the town during WWII and fundoshi-clad Japanese soldiers loved to take their baths in the covered swimming pool on the grounds. It also served as the elementary school for a short period after the war. Pablo died in Malate in 1941. That house on 111 Calle Remedios burned in 1945 and along with it the original Senor of the Tres Caidas.

CANDIDO married RUFINA GANA. Their only child, Col. PELAGIO POTENCIANO, married MAXIMA BLOUSE daughter of MAX BLOUSE, founder of BTCo and LTBCo which eventually became BLTBCo.

FRANCISCO POTENCIANO married GERARDA MARFORI

ISIDRA POTENCIANO married MARIANO LOPEZ DE LEON. Their son, PASCUAL, remarried to TORIBIA EDRALIN(related to FM’s mother) of Sarrat, Ilocos Norte. The family owns the carroza of “La Muerte de San Jose”.

SILVERIA POTENCIANO(1873-1940) married MARIANO BAYLON in 1914. The BAYLON ancestral home is one of the last few remaining bahay na bato’s in town. A cavernous bat infested camalig occupies almost half of the three-level house.The Baylons owned the original processional carroza of the Agony in the Garden.

The GARCIA-POTENCIANO Line
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MARIANO RICARDO(1882-1955), being the eldest son, was groomed to follow in Kapitan Ambo’s footsteps but the Americans came and changed the old political system. He and his family moved back to Binan around 1943 to escape the hardships of war in Manila. They were forced to live with the Japanese officers who took over the old Potenciano house. He and his family moved to the house beside the Yaptinchays on Capinpin Street, a few steps from the plaza, in the early 50’s.

The second child, UBALDO(1885-1941), was a doctor who also headed the town’s “sanidad”. He and his son were killed by the Japanese in Tayabas. Only his daughter survived the war.

The youngest, CONRADO(1888-1951), was a surgeon. He and his family settled in Santa Mesa on V.Mapa. He was elected into Congress in 1941. He owned FARMACIA POTENCIANO on Calle Solana in pre-war Intramuros. His son founded Polymedic General Hospital now VRPMC.

CASAS.  The well-preserved Casas ancestral house was built by the spinster Josefa Yaptinchay y Gana [ ca. 1870 ] who bequeathed it to her niece, Encarnacion Almeda y Yaptinchay, who married Francisco Casas y Concepcion of Ermita, Manila.  Encarnacion was a daughter of Josefa Yaptinchay’s sister Capitana Maria Yaptinchay who married Andres Almeda.

Encarnacion Yaptinchay Almeda and Francisco Concepcion Casas had three daughters:  Maria Paz [ married Ramon Gana Mercado ];  Trinidad [ married Dr. Alfonso Mangahas Cuyegkeng of Ermita, Manila ];  Carmen [ married Francisco Manabat ].  All of the Casas-Almeda grandchildren spent their growing years in the house.

The house is particularly noted for a splendid, silverplated altar similar to those found in old churches.

Another splendid, silverplated altar — similar to the one currently installed in the Casas ancestral house — was inherited from another set of Yaptinchay forebears by Trinidad Almeda Casas-Cuyegkeng.  She donated it to the SVD Society of the Divine Word seminary near Tagaytay city.

The house was featured as one of the settings in the classic, 1976 Eddie Romero masterpiece film “Ganito kami noon, Paano kayo ngayon?”.  It served as the residence of the lead character Nicolas “Kulas” Ocampo, played by Christopher de Leon.

According to Antonio Casas Cuyegkeng:

Encarnacion (Oneng) Yaptinchay Almeda was born on March 25, 1885, the second child of Andres Almeda and Maria Gana Yaptinchay (Kapitang Maria).  On March 15, 1917, she got married to Francisco (Kiko) Concepcion Casas of Manila.  There are no known stories how the two, one from Biñan and one from Manila met.

Francisco Concepcion Casas is said to come from Casas lineage of Bulacan, rather than from the Casas family of Batangas that Archbishop Artemio Casas belonged to.

The marriage was blessed with 4 children: Maria Paz (Pacita or Pacing) married to Ramon (Monching) Gana Mercado; Trinidad (Trining) married to Alfonso (Al) Maria Mangahas Cuyegkeng of Manila and Bulacan; then 2 boys, Andresing, who died less than 3 months after birth and the other born dead; and the youngest, Carmen (Mameng) married to Francisco (Kikoy) Cariso Manabat. Both Monching Mercado and Kikoy Manabat are from Biñan.

Kiko and Oneng Casas lived at the corner of A. Mabini and Isaac Peral (U.N. Avenue) Streets in Ermita, Manila till around 1943.  Kiko, a pharmacist, also had his drugstore, Farmacia Nuestra Señora de Guia, in the said corner.

During their stay in Ermita, Pacita graduated as the valedictorian of her high school class at the St. Theresa’s College, in San Marcelino Street, Ermita, Manila, and a college degree, with honors, in Accounting  and Education from the same school.

While Pacita was convalescing at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Intramuros, Alfonso (Al) Ma. Cuyegkeng saw Trining Casas during one of the weekday masses at the nearby Santuario de of San Antonio.  Al Cuyegkeng and Trining Casas got married before the Casas family moved back to Biñan.

The Ermita house of the Casas family was completely destroyed during the liberation of Manila.

When the Casas family moved back to Biñan, it was not to the maternal house given by the spinster Josefa Yaptinchay y Gana, the sister of Kapitang Maria.  The said house was then being used by the Japanese Imperial Army as headquarters.  Most probably, the family stayed at the bahay na bato owned by Oneng’s brother, Antonio Yaptinchay Almeda married to Ricarda Sta. Ana Medel on A. Mabini Street going towards de La Paz, as Trining gave birth to her second child in the intersuelo of the said house on February 5, 1945.  Trining Cuyegkeng could not be brought to the hospital as the guerrillas were entering Biñan to liberate the town from the Japanese forces.

Pacita Casas got married to Monching Mercado in 1946 and settled in the Casas Maternal house till the growing commercialization and pollution in the area forced Monching and Pacing to relocate to Alabang.  Monching Mercado, a Biñan guerrilla leader, was the son of Mariano Mercado and Romana Gana.  The Mercado maternal house was also in A. Mabini, now Jacobo Gonzales, Street towards San Antonio, almost opposite the eskenita, now known as Noli Gana Road, connecting A. Mabini, now Jacobo Gonzales, street to the street now called General Capinpin.

Monching returned to farming, went into rural banking with 4 friends from Cabuyao, as well as help the Canlubang Sugar Central, as treasurer of the CABALAG (Cavite/Batangas/Laguna Sugar Farmers Federation). Pacing was, for a while, principal in Sta. Catalina School in Biñan, a housewife and caretaker of Lolo Kiko and Lola Oneng.

In the late 1950’s Monching and Pacing established RAM (Ramon, Amparo, Ma. Paz) Food Products, first in Biñan, at the backyard of the Mercado maternal house, and, then, in Barrio Pulo, Cabuyao.  Amparo Gana Mercado, sister of Monching, was a Home Economics graduate of Philippine Women’s University functioned as the food technologist.

After the war, Al was commuting between St. Anthony’s Hospital in the Oroquieta area of Manila, near the Espiritu Santo Church, and Biñan.  St. Anthony’s Hospital was owned by his close friends Dr. Antonio and Fidela Lazatin of Pampanga.

When the residence Al and Trining were building got finished, they moved the family back to the corner of A. Mabini and Isaac Peral (U.N. Avenue) Streets in Ermita, Manila. The ground floor of the structure was occupied by Valleson’s Department Store, in the corner, Farmacia Nuestra Senora de Guia owned by Al and Trining, in the middle, and a baby’s store, Angel’s Wear, a joint venture between Pacing and Trining.  Al had his medical clinic at the back of the pharmacy.  Al and Trining’s growing brood occupied the second floor till the mid 1962.

Trining finished her pharmacy degree, which was disrupted by the war, from the Philippine Women’s University soon after moving back to Ermita.  When the members of her brood had had started settling down with their own families, Trining went back to PWU and obtained a master’s degree, and, then, a Doctor of Philosophy  degree in Social Work.

Mameng Casas, who is 6 years younger than Trining, finished high school in Sta. Catalina School in Biñan.  After which, Mameng enrolled in St. Theresa’s College in San Marcelino Street.  She stayed at the penthouse of Al and Trining’s residence during her schooling days.  Trining was her guardian.  While Mameng was in St. Theresa’s College, Kikoy was finishing his Law at the Ateneo Law School in Padre Faura, Ermita.

After Mameng graduated, Dr. Leoncio (Leony) Yatco occupied the penthouse upon his return from overseas studies till he got married to Letty Yaptinchay.

Kikoy and Mameng settled in Biñan, where Kikoy practiced law.  Kikoy joined government service and started as a clerk of Court of Biñan, till he got promoted to Judge of the Court of First Instance in Sta. Cruz, Laguna.

ALMEDA.

BAYLON.  The conserved Baylon-Gana ancestral house devolved to a grandson, Eduardo Baylon Zavalla Gan, who married Carmelita Palanca Gonzalez.  The house devolved to his heirs.

MERCADO.

GONZALES.

LOPEZ DE LEON.  The Lopez de Leon family was originally from “Palanyag,” now Paranaque.  It was by marriage that the Binan branch of the family was established.  The youngest of the third generation, Pedro Lopez de Leon y Ferrer, “teniente mayor” of Binan from 1894-1895, married Maxima Carillo-Trinidad y Gana.

Their eldest son Mariano married Isidra Potenciano, also of Binan.  The Lopez de Leon house still stands on Calle Capinpin, Binan’s main street. Across the house was the residence of General Mateo Capinpin with its spacious grounds.

SUMMARY, ANALYSIS, AND COMMENTARY ON THE GENEALOGIES OF THE FAMILIES OF OLD BINAN, LAGUNA BY ANTONIO CASAS CUYEGKENG:

ANCESTOR

 

Yap Tin Chay was probably born in Xiamen, Fujian province, China and brought to the Philippines by an older brother, who was a (magtitimon) rower of a Chinese vessel bound for Manila, as a very young child. Because of his age and youthful appearance, Chiquito was registered as son to his older brother, this being the easiest way to bring him into the country From then on Tin Chay Yap was said to have been adopted by Intramuros friars, probably Agustinians, because during the time the Yap brothers arrived in the Philippines, Biñan was still part of the Augustinian Province (Noni Agulto 02/15/10).

He was baptized Pablo Yaptinchay (Cesar Cariño 10/23/10) and got married to Maria Carrillo-Trinidad. 

While the Carrillo-Trinidad family is a prominent family in Biñan, the ancestry of Maria Carrillo-Trinidad is unknown.

The Carrillo-Trinidad family found at the OFBL originated with the marriage of Romana Asuncion y Santa Ana of Santa Cruz, Manila, to Andres Carrillo-Trinidad of Biñan, Laguna (Sonny Rayos 06/11/10).  At a later stage, the Carrillo-Trinidad family name disappeared in Biñan as the Biñan Carrillo’s dropped the Trinidad after an incident, probably with the prominent Carrillo-Trinidad’s in neighboring Carmona, Cavite (Noni Agulto 02/15/10).

Pablo and Maria Yaptinchay had three (3) children.  The eldest, Alberto, born in 1822, married Macaria Reyes Gana, Simeona married Miguel Gomes Yatco, and the youngest, Isabel married Pedro Basedilla Guico (Cesar Cariño 10/23/10).

FIRST GENERATION – YAPTINCHAY

Macaria Roberta Gana, wife of Alberto, was a member of what seems to be the oldest family in old Biñan.  Macaria was the granddaughter of Vicente Tang-Gana with his first wife, Gertudes De Los Reyes.  There is no record has to when and why Vicente dropped “Tang” from the family’s surname.  Vicente and Gertudes Tang-Gana had only one child, Gaspar, who married Gertrudes Santimora Roberta of Chinese descent (Cesar Cariño 08/16/11).  Macaria was the 5^th child of Gaspar and Gertudes Gana.

Miguel Gomes Yatco, husband of Simeona, was the eldest son of Marcos Dimas Yatco and Maria Juana Gomes.  However, in the research of Dr. Leoncio (Tito Leony) Gana Yatco, his name was Aniceto Yatco (Cesar Cariño 06/06/11).

Vicente Tang Gana was assumed to be a 1st generation Chinese immigrant from China like Yap Tin Chay (Cesar Cariño 08/16/11).  Vicente could be 1 generation ahead of Yap Tin Chay, or of the same generation but ages apart.  Of the same generation as Yap Tin Chay were Andres Carillo –Trinidad and Marcos Dimas Yatco.  Unlike Yap Tin Chay,  the ancestry of Marcos Dimas Yatco and Andres Carrillo-Trinidad are unknown (Noni Agulto 08/16/11).

There is no further entry on the ancestry of Pedro Basedilla Guico, husband of Isabel, except that he is the son of Luis Guico and Josefa Basedilla.

SECOND GENERATION – ALBERTO CT. YAPTINCHAY

 

Alberto Carillo-Trinidad Yaptinchay and Macaria Roberta Gana had eight (8) children.

The 1998 Yaptinchay tree did not contain any descendant for Julia, the eldest; the second child and eldest son, Andres; and the 5th child, Raymunda.  The list simply said that Julia Yaptinchay married Cirilo Carlos, Andres Yaptinchay married Teodora Zavalla and Raymunda Yaptinchay married Ramon Ocampo.  Daughters Bibiana Yaptinchay, the 6th child, and Josefa Yaptinchay, the 7th, never got married.

The ancestry of Ramon Ocampo, husband of Raymunda, and is unknown.

Guido, the 3rd child and 2nd son, married Agustina Sanchez de Carabaca Alberto and they had 9 children.

The roots of Agustina Sanchez de Carabaca Alberto was a descendant of the daughter of Dona Isabel Alberto de Sanchez, sister of  Lorenzo Alejandro Alberto, married to Brigida de Quintos, and parents of the mother of the hero Jose Alonzo Rizal.  They are the children of Cypriano and  Maria Florentina Alejandro Alberto (Noni Agulto 08/19/11).

After Agustina Sanchez de Carabaca Alberto passed away, the widower, Guido, had a relationship, first with Nicolasa Garcia, with whom he had 7 children, 4 boys and 3 girls, all surnamed Garcia. The said relationship was followed by a liaison with Catalina Sta. Ana Medel, with whom Guido had 4 children, 1 boy and 3 girls, all surnamed Medel. Guido’s last partner was Isidra C. Bergonia, with whom he had 3 children, 1 boy and 2 girls, all surnamed Agulto (Nonie Agulto 04/16/10).

The 2nd daughter, Maria, more commonly known as (Kapitang Maria), married Andres Ponce Almeda. Andres and Maria Almeda had 5 children.  However, according to Cesar Cariño (08/16/11) there was another daughter, for a total of 6 children.

While the Almeda family is a prominent family in Biñan, nothing else is known about the ancestry Andres Ponce Almeda., except for his being the son of Antonio Almeda and Maria Dolores Ponce.

The oldest Almeda in the web were from Pedro Paterno’s listing of Biñan leaders (alcalde, kapitan or gobernadorcillo) from 1757-1898. The list included 1851 – Don Lazaro Almeda Carlos; 1854 – Don Jose Almeda Carlos; and 1858-59 – Don Agaton Almeda Carlos.  The fourth Almeda in the list, Don Andres Almeda, was for Kapitan in 1888 (Nonie Agulto 04/13/10).  Considering the period involved was during the Spanish regime, could they be using the Spanish name format?  If yes, then the names should have been written as “Almeda y Carlos”.

The youngest child and son, Pablo, married Leonila Mercado Yatco, a first cousin of the national hero Jose Alonzo Rizal (Cesar Cariño 08/01/10).

Leonila Mercado Yatco is a descendant of Marcos Dimas Yatco and Maria Juana Gomes.  Her grandfather, Gregorio, is the youngest brother of Miguel Gomes Yatco, the husband of Simeona Carillo-Trinidad Yaptinchay.  Her mother, Bonifacia Alejandra Mercado, was the older sister of Francisco Engracio Alejandro Rizal-Mercado married to Teodora De Quintos Alonzo Realonda, the father of Jose Alonzo Rizal (Antonio Cuyegkeng 09/08/11).

THIRD GENERATION – ALBERTO CT. YAPTINCHAY

Of the 9 children of Guido and Agustina Yaptinchay, only one was a girl, the 3rd child, Albina, who never got married (Nonie Agulto 06/01/10).

Of the 8 sons, there were no mention about their families, except that the eldest, Felix Yaptinchay, got married to Josefa C. Gana, the 2nd, Francisco Yaptinchay, married Josefa Carrillo Trinidad, the 5th, Isidro Yaptinchay, married Francisca Morando, and the 8th child, Librado (Privado) Yaptinchay, was assumed to have remained single.

The ancestry of Josefa C. Gana, wife of Felix, and Josefa Carrillo Trinidad, wife of Francisco are unknown.

The 4th child, Agapito Yaptinchay, married Avelina (Belen) Luna from Malabon and had 4 children.

Miguel Yaptinchay, the 6th child, married Maria Mateo. They had an only child, Guillermo.

The 7th child, Alberto Yaptinchay, married Milagros Marfori, had 5 children.

The youngest, Agustin Yaptinchay, married Francisca Amoranto and had 2 daughters.

Andres Almeda and Kapitang Maria Almeda had 5 or 6 children.  The 1998 Yaptinchay tree showed no other information on the eldest child, Rosenda, other than her marrying Macario Carrillo.  As to the 3rd daughter, Meruacion, born around 1895, and married to Timoteo de Mesa (Cesar Cariño 08/16/11), she was never mentioned in any family gatherings of the children of Kapitang Maria.

The ancestry of Macario Carrillo, husband of Rosenda Almeda, is unknown.

The second child Encarnacion married Francisco Concepcion Casas from Manila.

The eldest son, Antonio married Ricarda Sta. Ana Medel.

Esteban married Lazara Sabas.

Raymunda married Mariano S. Cruz Yatco.

Mariano S. Cruz Yatco, a descendant of Marcos Dimas Yatco and Maria Juana Gomes, was the 6th child of Leoncio Asuncion Yatco and Ysidora Faustorino Cruz.  His grandfather, Ignacio Gomes Yatco, married to Valentina Sta. Ana Asuncion, was the younger brother of the husband of Simeona Carrillo-Trinidad Yaptinchay, Miguel Gomes Yatco. 

His grandmother, Valentina Sta. Ana Asuncion, was the eldest sister of Romana Asuncion y Santa Ana who married Andres Carrillo-Trinidad that started the known Carrillo-Trinidad line in Binan, Laguna.

Pablo and Leonila Yaptinchay had 8 children.  There were no indications as to whether the daughter, Trinidad, and the son, Alberto, got married or remained single. The eldest, Francisco, married Anita Cartegna, while the 2^nd son, Francisco married Amparo De Los Reyes.  The 4th child, Isidro married Josefina Salterio Yatco, and daughter, Tita married Hermenegildo La’O.  Macaria got married to Eliseo Abad and youngest daughter, Flora, married Teodoro Evangelista, Sr.

The ancestry of Josefina Salterio Yatco, wife of Isidro Yaptinchay, is unknown.

FOURTH GENERATION – ALBERTO CT. YAPTINCHAY

By the 4^th generation, probably due to greater mobility and better educational opportunities, marriage between the families became less.

Of the children of Agapito and Avelina Yaptinchay, 2 married into old Biñan families.  The eldest, Angel, married Rafaela Toribio Gana . 

Rafaela Toribio Gana was a 5^th generation of descendant of Vicente Tang-Gana with his second wife, Tomasa Apolonia.  Her great grandfather, Eulalio Apolonia Gana, married Florentina Potenciano.  However, ancestry of Florentina Potenciano is unknown.  The ancestry of her grandmother, Filomena Ocampo, wife of Eduardo Potenciano Gana, is also unknown.

The eldest daughter, Leticia, married Leoncio Gana Yatco.

Leoncio Gana Yatco was a 4^th generation descendant of Marcos Dimas Yatco and Maria Juana Gomes. His great grandfather, Ignacio, was the 5^th child of Marcos and Maria, Dimas Yatco, and married to Valentina Sta. Ana Asuncion (See Marcos S. Cruz Yatco above.). His father, Jose S., married Generosa Cruz Gana, is the older brother of Mariano S., husband of Raymunda Yaptinchay Almeda,

Generosa Cruz Gana was the daughter of Jesualdo Potenciano Gana with his first wife. Crisanta Cruz. Jesualdo Potenciano Gana was the younger brother of Eduardo Potencaino Gana (See above.).

None of the grand children of Andres and Maria Almeda and Pablo and Leonila Yaptinchay married into an old Biñan family, except for Ma. Paz Almeda Casas.

Ma. Paz Almeda Casas married Ramon Gana Mercado.  However, the ancestry of Mariano Mercado and Romana Gana, parents of Ramon Gana Mercado, are unknown.  Mariano Mercado was supposed to have been from Malabon.

SECOND GENERATION – SIMEONA CT. YAPTINCHAY YATCO

Of the children of Simeona Carrillo-Trinidad Yaptinchay and Miguel Gomes Yatco, only the only son, Fermin,  married into an old Biñan family.

Fermin Yaptinchay Yatco married Pertonilla Asuncion Carrillo-Trinidad and they had 9 children.   However, the marriage did not last. Pertonilla Asuncion Carrillo-Trinidad became the 2^nd spouse of Jesualdo Potenciano Gana.  Fermin “married” Paulina Rosales.

Pertonilla Asuncion Carrillo-Trinidad was the eldest child of Andres Carrillo-Trinidad and Romana Sta. Ana Asuncion (See above.).

Jesualdo Potenciano Gana was the second son of Eulalio Apolonia Gana married to Florentina Potenciano.  Eulalio was the eldest child of Vicente Tan-Gana and his second wife, Tomasa Apolonia,.

The ancestry of Florentina Potenciano, wife of Eulalio Apolonia Gana, is unknown.

The eldest daughter of Miguel and Simeona Yatco, Petrona, married a Rotea.  Daughters Pascaula and Maria married the brothers Lazaro and pablo Velasco, respectively.  The 3^rd daughter, Teodora Angela married Juanito (Jacinto) Alzona, and the youngest, Nicolasa, married Andres Laseano.

After Fermin and Petronilla Yatco, no descendants of Simeona Carrillo-Trinidad Yaptinchay and Miguel Gomes Yatco have been noted to have married into definitely identifiable members of families named in the main section of FOBL.

SECOND GENERATION – ISABEL CT. YAPTINCHAY GUICO

Isabel Carrillo-Trinidad Yaptinchay and Pedro Basedilla Guico had 3 children.  The eldest of Anastacio married Macaria Mercado Rizal.

The 2^nd son, Faustino, or Florentino per Cesar Cariño (Nonie Agulto 02/21/11), married Miguela Gana Carrillo, while the youngest, Fernando, married Agapita Gana Carrillo.

Miguela Gana Carrillo, wife of Faustino, and Agapita Gana Carrillo, wife of Fernando, were first cousins.

Miguela’s mother, Francisca, was the elder sister of Donata, the mother of Agapita.  They were children on Gaspar De Los Reyes Gana with his first wife, Gertrudes Santimora Roberta (Cesar Cariño 08/16/11).  While Donata used Roberta as a middle name, most of the records show that Francisca, Macaria, and Ceferina used Reyes as their middle name (Cesar Cariño 09/23/10).  Macaria Reyes Gana was the wife of Alberto Carillo-Trinidad Yaptinchay (See above.), while Ceferina Reyes Gana was the wife of Macario Ricardo Arevalo Potenciano, the eldest son Jose Potenciano and Micaela Arevalo.

The ancestries of Juan Carrillo-Trinidad, husband of Francisca Reyes Gana, and Ambrosio Carrillo, husband of Donata Roberta Gana are unknown.  The relationship between Juan Carrillo-Trinidad and Ambrosio Carrillo have also not been established.

THIRD GENERATION – ISABEL CT. YAPTINCHAY GUICO

 

No children of Anastacio and Macaria Yaptinchay Guico married into members of families named in the main section of FOBL.  There is no information as to the children of Fernando and Agapita Yaptinchay Guico

Florentino and Miguela Yaptinchay Guico has 3 children.  The eldest child, Isidra, married Ignacio Almeda Yatco.

 

Ignacio Almeda Yatco, husband of Isidra Carrillo Guico, is the grandson of Igancio Gomes Yatco and Valentina Santa Ana Asuncion.    Igancio was the younger brother of Miguel Gomes Yatco, husband of Simeona Carrillo-Trinidad Yaptinchay (See above.).  The parents of Ignacio were Jose “Coseng” Asuncion Yatco and Victoria Custodio Almeda.  The ancestry of Victoria Custodio Almeda is unknown.

The second daughter, Maria, married Fernando C. Belizario.

The first wife of the only son, Eduardo, was Leonila Potenciano Lopez-De Leon. The second wife was Guillerma E. Evasco.

Leonila Potenciano Lopez-De Leon, first wife of Eduardo, was the daughter of Isidra Gana Potenciano and Mariano Trinidad Lopez de Leon, and great granddaughter of Jose Potenciano and Micaela Arevalo and Vicente Tang-Gana and his second wife, Tomasa Apolonia.

After Eduardo and Leonila Guico, no descendants been noted to have married into definitely identifiable members of families named in the main section of FOBL.

THE COLLECTIVE MATERIAL CULTURE.

Architect Roberto Quisumbing, a descendant of Guido Yaptinchay y Gana, recalled:  “The Pablo Yaptinchay house had a long room at the back which had two rows of altar tables with ivory ‘santos’ one after the other…”  [ the long hallway outside those rooms is visible in the first YouTube video of “Portrait…”:  the scene where Tony Javier forcibly looks for the painting from Candida Marasigan. ]

*unfinished*

Acknowledgments:  Jose Ma. Ricardo Yaptinchay-Abad Panlilio, Lourdes Yaptinchay Abad-Panlilio, Cita Yaptinchay Abad-Dinglasan, Maria Juanita Yaptinchay Eligir-Cueto, + Leticia Luna Yaptinchay-Yatco, + Oscar Luna Yaptinchay, Arch. Roberto Quisumbing, Antonio Agulto, Rafael Gana Hocson, Jose Reynaldo Ocampo Cobarrubias, Michael Potenciano Almendral, Antonio Casas Cuyegkeng, Dr. Victor Casas Manabat, Lucy Francisco Borromeo, Augusto Gonzalez Gan, Sonny Rayos, Ma. Laura Lopez de Leon, Cesar Carino, et. al..