CHINESE ANCESTRY OF

JPR

LAM-CO OR DOMINGO
LAM-CO
great-great-grandfather

of Rizal
a native of Siongque, in the Chinchew
district of the province of Fookien

(currently known as: Quanzhou)

Chinchew

was a large city with a population of

around half a million people.
Chinchews wealth and culture
were considered better than those of
Manilas.
Industrious Chinese who came to the
Philippines perhaps because of
famine or of political troubles.

 Lam-co

was baptized on Sunday

(Domingo), June 1697, in the Parian
Church of San Gabriel.
Lam-co then became Domingo Lam-co
His parents were simply listed as
Siong-co and Jun-nio.
It is believed that his parents
belonged to the upper bracket socially
as indicated by the particles -co and
-nio at the end of their names.

 These

two
particles
correspond to
the Spanish
Don and Doa
which are
indicative of
social position
and prestige.

Conclusions of Rizals
Lineage
Both

paternal and maternal

sides are of Chinese descent.
They were of the intellectual and
industrious families.
well to do leaders, respectable, and

influential men among their peers

Chinese, Filipinos, Spaniards, and
others.

 These

facts seem to give

evidence that Lam-co came to
the Philippines, not because of
famine in China, but because of
political troubles.
That Dr. Jose Rizal, the greatest
hero of the Filipinos, was the
most important and most
significant Chinese contribution
to the Philippines.