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Marcela Mariño de Agoncillo, wife of Felipe Agoncillo and daughter of Francisco Diokno Mariño, she is called "The Mother of the Philippine Flag," who sewed the original flag of the Philippines, first unfurled at the declaration of Philippine Independence on June 12, 1898, while her Taal ancestral home owned by Francisco Mariño has been converted into a museum in Agoncillo's name.
Folk etymologies explaining the origin of the name include: misa-misa, a phrase that the natives used in the early days of Christianization of the northern coast of Mindanao to welcome priests that visited the area to celebrate mass; [79] and kuyamis, Subanon for a variety of sweet coconut that used to be the food staple of the natives. [80]
Families who had already adopted a prohibited surname but could prove their family had used the name for at least four consecutive generations. (Those were names prohibited for being too common, like de los Santos or de la Cruz or for other reasons.) Spanish names are the majority found in the books' list of legitimate surnames.
Having a Hispanized Filipino-Chinese surname signifies that a Chinese person has become Catholic. Some adopted the surnames of their Spanish godparents, while others combined modified Chinese names and added honorifics such as -co, -son, and -zon at the end. Many of them intermarried with Filipinos and were integrated into Philippine society.
Liang (Chinese: 梁) is an East Asian surname of Chinese origin. The surname is often transliterated as Leung (in Hong Kong) or Leong (in Macau, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines) according to its Cantonese and Hakka pronunciation, Neo / Lio / Niu (Hokkien, Teochew, Hainan), or Liong . In Indonesia, it is known as Liong or Nio.
The surname, Tecson, is a Spanish transliteration of Philippine Hokkien Chinese: 德孫; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tek-sun; Tâi-lô: Tik-sun. Most Chinese Filipinos whose ancestors came to the Philippines prior to 1898 use a Hispanicized surname, spelled with Spanish orthography using the Abecedario (Spanish Alphabet).
Mangubat (Spanish: Guerrear); [4] is a Hispanic Filipino surname of Mactan Island origin which means " TO WAGE WAR " [5] [6] [7] in Cebuano language. It belongs to a noble lineage according to Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent [8] the Cronista Rey de Armas of the Kingdom of Spain, and the last King of Arms appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Justice.
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