ADVANCED FATHERS DAY GREETING TO MY DAD IN HEAVEN - From San Juan, Batangas, my paternal grandfather settled in Sariaya, Quezon, where he eventually became a councilor (council member) in the 1920s. My father, the late JOSE JOE P. LARDIZABAL, migrated to Cebu right after being hired by William Chiongbian (William Lines, Inc.). Dad, a graduate of the University of the East, had garnered the THIRD PLACE in the nationwide CPA examinations. WHAT WE DIDNT KNOW is that the Lardizabal family is a part of CEBUs history. Somehow, Joe, as one of the original members of the Sinulog Foundation, which founded the celebrated SINULOG FESTIVAL in Cebu City, helped bring the LARDIZABAL name FULL-CIRCLE back to Cebu. (See the first paragraph below for the reason.) Toto Cupin Mary Anne Alcordo-Solomon Joy Young Anton Quisumbing Stephen Aznar Gwendolyn Garcia Esperanza C. Garcia Teng Angan Tetta Baad Evelyn Lacosta Dira Selma EXCERPT from THE PRIDE OF LARDIZABAL By Sonny Lardizábal on Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 3:01am The Lardizabals genealogy in the Philippines can be traced back to Governor-General LUIS LARDIZABAL Y MONTOJO from Basque, Spain (where Lardizabal Street in Sampaloc, Manila was named after). He was a high ranking Basque military official designated by Queen Isabella II in 1838 to serve in Las Islas Filipinas. During his term, he established the province of Nueva Vizcaya (named in honor of the Basque province, Biscay), a landlocked province which lies in Southeastern Cagayan Valley, host to some 400,000 inhabitants of various ethnic origins. He was also responsible for the erection of Magellans Cross monuments in Cebu City, and Mactan Island, which until today still exist, to commemorate Ferdinand Magellans discovery of the island and for bringing Christianity to the Philippines. It was said that the Governor-General then settled to Nueva Segovia (now Ilocos Sur) where the clan took its roots. Lardizábal died at sea on his way back to Spain. Therefore the roots of the Lardizabals in the Philippines must have originated from Nueva Segovia and Vizcaya which covered Ilocos Sur, Abra, Apayao, Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, Quirino, Benguet, Batanes, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Mountain Province. Due to migration, the clan has spread to Batangas, Mindoro, Leyte and even in Hawaii and California during height of Ilocano labor exodus in the 1900s. Further government-sponsored labor migrations during the early 1920s had led to the resettlement of Ilocanos to Mindanao, particularly to the provinces of South Cotabato, North Cotabato, and Sultan Kudarat. Thus some Lardizabals are found in the southern parts of the Philippines. https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=10151748521290824&set=t.699017024&type=3&theater
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