Chapter Two
Grand Partriarchs | Origin | Roales Clan | Roales Landholdings | Don Tomas Memorial
Roales Family Tree | Sousa Clan | Sousa Landholdings | Sousa Family Tree
Roales Family Tree | Sousa Clan | Sousa Landholdings | Sousa Family Tree
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In 1908, he went back to get his first-degree nephews to join him in Cotabato. The following nephews through his eldest brother Juan, joined him on the trip back to Cotabato: Tomas Roales y Medina (who was then 21 years old), Antonio Roales y Medina (also 21 years old), Manuel Roales y Medina (17 years old), and Juan Roales y Medina (who was then just 12 years old). The nephews spent their first year in the place enrolled in an educational institution in the town of Cotabato. After a year, they dropped out to join their uncle in working on the farm. The scion of the Roaleses subsequently made another trip to his home place in Spain. With him on his return trip to Cotabato were two more nephews: Antonio Martinez y Roales and Francisco Blanco y Roales. In 1914, three more arrived from Spain to join their relatives in Cotabato. They were Tomas Martinez y Roales (brother of Antonio Martinez Y Roales), and the brothers Jose and Domingo Rodriguez y Blanco, nephews of Francisco Blanco y Roales. |
Roales Clan: Its family historical background Tomas Roales y Requeña was born in Carmona, Sevilla, Spain. He joined the Spanish army where he attained the non-commissioned rank of Sergeant. In 1859 he was sent to join the Spanish troops in the Philippine colony. His first assignment was with the Spanish military garrison in the town of Jolo, in the island of Sulu. There he got married to a native Joloana with whom he fathered a son. Unfortunately both mother and son died during a cholera epidemic that ravaged Jolo. After losing his wife and son, he asked to be transferred to the garrison in the Spanish naval port of Parang, Cotabato. While there, he started buying pieces of land in what are now known as Making and Landasan, the two barangays of the municipality of Parang, Maguindanao. With the defeat of the Spanish fleet in 1898 at the Battle of Manila Bay effectively ending the Spanish rule in the Philippines, he retired from military service. Because of his properties, he chose not to go back to Spain but instead remain in Cotabato. |
Only Tomas Roales y Medina, who arrived with the first group, would not settle permanently in Cotabato. He returned to Spain after a bad quarrel with his uncle. The rest would subsequently marry local lasses and thus give birth to the presently numerous Cotabateños of Spanish descent.
In 1936, the scion Don Tomas Roales y Requeña went back to Spain to visit his relatives. While there, he became sick and so he decided to go back to the Philippines where he died in April 28, 1936. He was buried at the Catholic cemetery of Cotabato.
In 1936, the scion Don Tomas Roales y Requeña went back to Spain to visit his relatives. While there, he became sick and so he decided to go back to the Philippines where he died in April 28, 1936. He was buried at the Catholic cemetery of Cotabato.
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Grand Partriarchs | Origin | Roales Clan | Roales Landholdings | Don Tomas Memorial
Roales Family Tree | Sousa Clan | Sousa Landholdings | Sousa Family Tree
Roales Family Tree | Sousa Clan | Sousa Landholdings | Sousa Family Tree