Family
They say, "...plant a seed, grow a tree. Plant a root, grow a family"
"It all started..."
Dona Vasinta Salvadore and Don Delgado, both descendents of wealthy Spanish families residing in the Philippines, met during the Spanish-Filipino peace treaty, after years of bloodshed.
When the Spanish-American war broke out, where the main battleground in this onslaught was Manila, and after years of enduring the suffering of war, and seeing hundreds-of-thousands defenseless civilians laying dead and dying caught between the crossfires - both Dona Vasinta Salvadore and husband Don Delgado decided to flee from the Philippines.
They ended up in British Colonial Singapore. There they lived in peace and decided to have a family.
Clara Salvadore was their first child, then came Celestina Salvadore, and the last of their offspring - and first heir -was Pablo Salvadore.
After the death of Don Delgado, and with the signing of the treaty of Paris in 1898 which ended the Spanish-American war in the Philippines, Dona Vasinta Salvadore brought her three children back to the Philippines.
Unbenounced to her and to the Filipino representative in Paris, there was nothing to go back to for the Americans main intention in signing the treaty was to serve their own economic gains.
This cause tempers to rise back in US-occupied Manila, and the Filipino revolutionaries were openly defying the Americans, and the Americans were antagonizing the Filipinos.
Therefore, any dreams of impending Filipino independence were shattered in 1899 when Malonos, the makeshift capital of President Aguinaldo's Philippine Republic was captured by American troops - led by General Arthur MacArthur.
This time, being the Matriarch of the family, Dona Vasinta Salvadore migrated with her three children, in 1907 to Elopura the Capital of North Borneo - now known as Sandakan - which was part of the Philippines area of influence during that period.
Dona Vasinta Salvadore then got remarried to Don Gonzales - they had one daughter together - they named her Prudence.
And the rest, as we say, is history.
This is the story of their descendents... continued... (by Ace Emerson-Belson)
"It all started..."
Dona Vasinta Salvadore and Don Delgado, both descendents of wealthy Spanish families residing in the Philippines, met during the Spanish-Filipino peace treaty, after years of bloodshed.
When the Spanish-American war broke out, where the main battleground in this onslaught was Manila, and after years of enduring the suffering of war, and seeing hundreds-of-thousands defenseless civilians laying dead and dying caught between the crossfires - both Dona Vasinta Salvadore and husband Don Delgado decided to flee from the Philippines.
They ended up in British Colonial Singapore. There they lived in peace and decided to have a family.
Clara Salvadore was their first child, then came Celestina Salvadore, and the last of their offspring - and first heir -was Pablo Salvadore.
After the death of Don Delgado, and with the signing of the treaty of Paris in 1898 which ended the Spanish-American war in the Philippines, Dona Vasinta Salvadore brought her three children back to the Philippines.
Unbenounced to her and to the Filipino representative in Paris, there was nothing to go back to for the Americans main intention in signing the treaty was to serve their own economic gains.
This cause tempers to rise back in US-occupied Manila, and the Filipino revolutionaries were openly defying the Americans, and the Americans were antagonizing the Filipinos.
Therefore, any dreams of impending Filipino independence were shattered in 1899 when Malonos, the makeshift capital of President Aguinaldo's Philippine Republic was captured by American troops - led by General Arthur MacArthur.
This time, being the Matriarch of the family, Dona Vasinta Salvadore migrated with her three children, in 1907 to Elopura the Capital of North Borneo - now known as Sandakan - which was part of the Philippines area of influence during that period.
Dona Vasinta Salvadore then got remarried to Don Gonzales - they had one daughter together - they named her Prudence.
And the rest, as we say, is history.
This is the story of their descendents... continued... (by Ace Emerson-Belson)
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