Yes. These children posted in these photos are probably our great great great grandfathers.
The woman in the first picture is the wife of the Great Sr. Dr. Jose P. Rizal. The second portrait is of a Mestizo family (the wife is half spanish, half indio) and (the husband is also half spanish, half indio).
What I find very interesting in reading these kinds of relationships are the manner of their procurement:
1. It was typical for a Spanish man to marry a mestiza Filipina (either half spanish or part spanish)
2. It was rather typical as well for Spanish women to marry a Mestizo man (half or part spanish)
However, it was very uncommon (but not impossible) to find a pure Spaniard who married a pure Indio (pure Filipina). And the manner of the ethnicities were also racialized and had their own status in society.
The echelon of Filipino society ranked as follows:
1. The Peninsulares (the pure blooded Spaniards who were born in Spain and given land titles, or were appointed to military, bureaucratic positions in the Philippines)
2. The Creoles (pure blooded Spaniards who were born in the Philippines--nonetheless caucasian)
3. The Mestizo Filipino (half spaniard and half indio)
4. Filipino Indio (pure blooded Filipino malay)
5. Filipino Chinito (half filipino indio and half chinese)
6. Chinese (were considered lowly in spanish colonial times; were despised and looked down upon by Filipinos and Mestizos and Spaniards)
7. The Negro. (the aeta or negritos)
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