Sunday, December 2, 2012

The Old Families of Cavite City

It would be interesting to know the Old Families of Cavite City and how they look like because it will give us a glimpse how life in our beloved city was before.






The above and below are old photos of my ancestors and ordinary Caviteños of yesteryears I took from my abuela y abuelo's baul.




Here is a list of popular surnames of old Cavite City families.  

ALONSO
ANTONIO
BALLESTEROS
BASA
BERNAL
CASTRO
CONCHU
DE OCAMPO
GARCIA
HERRERA
INOCENCIO
JAVIER
PINZON
ROJAS
GONZALEZ
OSORIO
TIRONA
TOPACIO
VIRATA
ABARRO
SANCHEZ

This is a working list. Informations for additional surnames and family history is very much welcome GRACIAS!

11 comments:

  1. pamilia castro, pinzon, abarro

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  2. you can also add our surnames, GARCIA AND SANCHEZ

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  3. Ejercito Santos , Joseph Estrada s grandfather telesforo ejercito Santos is caviteno , Vasquez , Paredes , Ejercito Santos y Vasquez esi los apelidos de familia de me padre , y Lina de me madre esi los Paredes y Rojas

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  4. As what I've heard from the story of my grandmother, the surname "Dalida" is also one of known surnames in Cavite in '19s.

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  5. Hi, On the last photo Maximo Herrera is my great grandfather. My grandfather is third on the right, my moms dad.

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  6. Gusto ko malaman family roots namin sa cavite city. pamilya amador and pamilya delgado. ang lola ko ay si victoria amador at ang lolo ko naman ay si julian delgado

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  7. Curious about the Javiers of San Roque, Imus .... Does anyone have info on Geronimo Advincula Javier, born around 1850? Thank you.

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