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Historic Antique Photograph Philippine Cuenco Family

March 5, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

For the first time I deci­phered the writ­ing on this old pho­to that I got from my aunt, Lour­des Cuen­co. It’s quite an inter­est­ing pho­to that includes a his­toric fig­ure, Mar­i­ano Sevil­la who had been part of the Rev­o­lu­tion against Spain. His com­pan­ion rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies were killed by the Spaniards; for­tu­nate­ly for Sevil­la, he was exiled. Read on.
1895 his­toric pic­ture of the Cuen­co Fam­i­ly. The pho­to ref­er­ences the Philip­pine hero Father Jose Bur­gos of the famous trio of hero-mar­tyrs Gom­BurZa who were exe­cut­ed by the Spaniards in 1897 fol­low­ing the Cavite Mutiny. Father Mar­i­ano Sevil­la (shown in the pic­ture) had been exiled after the 1872 Cavite Mutiny.
The cap­tion is in Span­ish; I’ll try to trans­late: His­toric Pho­to­graph tak­en in Mani­la in the year 1895 for the Fotografia Pantier­ra. From left to right: sit­ting, Dona Reme­dios Dio­somi­to Cuen­co, moth­er of Arch­bish­op Cuen­co, Sen­a­tor Cuen­co, and Con­gress­man Cuen­co; Stand­ing: Jose Ma. Cuen­co, 10 years old, stu­dent at the Cole­gio de la Sagra­da, Head Dr. Mar­i­ano Sevil­la, com­pan­ion of Father Jose Bur­gos; Stand­ing Mar­i­ano Jesus Cuen­co, 8 years old; cen­ter stand­ing Jaime Cuen­co, 7 years old (died); girl Dolores Cuen­co, (1 year old).
My pater­nal grand­fa­ther was Mar­i­ano Jesus Cuen­co. Reme­dios Dio­somi­to Cuen­co, here shown, was my great-grandmother.
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