Paciano, Baptized in Oas in 1880: The Record That Names Eusebia Gumba's Parents
Paciano, Baptized in Oas in 1880: The Record That Names Eusebia Gumba's Parents
A nine-day-old's baptism lists his parents, four grandparents and a numbered cabecería. It also gives Lola Rosa's grandmother a mother and father of her own.
Lola Rosa's father had a mother. The 1881 baptism of Marciano Campusano gave me her name, Eusebia Gumba, and her husband's, Don José Isac Campusano. It listed her parents too, Tomás Gumba and Antonina de Viterbo. But a name that shows up on one page is a reading, not yet a pattern.
A second page now backs it up. About twenty months before Marciano, the same parish of Oas baptized a nine-day-old boy named Paciano. His parents, his four grandparents and the number of his cabecería all match Marciano's entry. That makes Paciano Marciano's brother, Lola Rosa's uncle and my great-granduncle. It also means I'm now looking for two sets of parents, and I'm still searching for the parents of José Isac Campusano himself.
The same page sorts everyone by colonial category. Paciano's parents and grandparents are "indios," and his godfather is described as a European. My great-great-grandparents were counted that way in their own parish church, in their own town.
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Ninuno — nee-NOO-noh
Ancestors, the ones who came before. A baptism entry is where ninuno first appear on paper: two parents and four grandparents, set down in one paragraph by a priest who never imagined we would read it.
The Record
The entry opens "En trece días del mes de Marzo del año del Señor de mil ochocientos ochenta." On 3/13/1880 the parish priest of Oas wrote that he had baptized "un niño de nueve días nacido," a boy nine days old, and named him Paciano. He was the legitimate son of Don José Isac Campusano and Doña Eucebia Gumba, of cabecería number thirty-six. His father's parents were Don Florentino Isac and Doña Estefania Campusano de Manila. His mother's parents were Tomás Gumba and Antonina de Vitervo. The entry calls all of them indios, and names the godfather as Don Antonio Sánchez Muñoz, a European. This time the parish priest baptized him himself.
| Detail | What the record shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Paciano |
| Baptized | 3/13/1880, parish church of Oas, Albay |
| Age at baptism | Nine days old |
| Estimated birth | About 3/4/1880, counted back from the baptism. FamilySearch's index also lists 4 March 1880. The page itself gives only the age. |
| Parents | Don José Isac Campusano and Doña Eucebia Gumba, married |
| Cabecería | No. 36 |
| Paternal grandparents | Don Florentino Isac and Doña Estefania Campusano de Manila |
| Maternal grandparents | Tomás Gumba and Antonina de Vitervo |
| Godfather | Don Antonio Sánchez Muñoz, described as European |
| Baptized by | The parish priest of Oas, Fr. Santos. FamilySearch indexes the surname as Hurejon. |
Two Sons, One Couple
Put Paciano's page beside Marciano's and the match is hard to miss. The two entries agree on both parents, on all four grandparents and on the number 36. They differ only in a spelling and in who stood as godparent.
| Detail | Paciano, 1880 | Marciano, 1881 |
|---|---|---|
| Baptized | 3/13/1880 | 11/6/1881 |
| Age | Nine days | Two days |
| Parents | Don José Isac Campusano and Doña Eucebia Gumba | Don José Isac Campusano and Doña Eucebia Gumba |
| Number | Cabecería 36 | Barangay 36, "de Don José Isac Campusano," as transcribed on this site |
| Paternal grandparents | Florentino Isac and Estefania Campusano de Manila | Florentino Isac and Estefania Campusano |
| Maternal grandparents | Tomás Gumba and Antonina de Vitervo | Tomás Gumba and Antonina de Viterbo |
| Godparents | Don Antonio Sánchez Muñoz, described as European | Presbítero Don Yndalecio Seguenza and Doña Eulogia Zaragoza |
| Baptized by | The parish priest himself | Presbítero Don Francisco Eucebio, under the parish priest's license |
The page also says "hijo legítimo y de legítimo matrimonio," so José and Eusebia were married before Paciano's birth, which counts back to about 3/4/1880. That gives me a search window for their wedding: Oas, before 1880. I haven't found it yet.
It also settles an older question. My post on Lola Rosa's baptism first read her paternal grandmother as "Juana Jumba." The 1910 marriage entry and the 1881 baptism both give Eusebia, and now the 1880 page gives Eucebia. Three records, one first name, and a surname that is Gumba each time.
Antonina's Surname, and Other Spellings to Search
I wondered whether Antonina's surname was a real surname at all. This page reads "Antonina de Vitervo," and FamilySearch's index spells it the same way. My reading of the 1881 page was "de Viterbo." In period Spanish, b and v were close to interchangeable, so I'd treat these as one name and search both. Here is the full set, so anyone searching in 2070 starts where I am.
| The page says | Other forms to search |
|---|---|
| Campusano | Camposano, the family's spelling since |
| Isac | Isaac, Ysac, Ysaac. FamilySearch indexes Florentino as "Ysaez," a misreading of "Isac y," where the y means "and." |
| Gumba | Jumba, my earlier reading of the 1914 page. Guimba is worth trying too. |
| Eucebia | Eusebia, as the 1910 marriage entry has it |
| Vitervo | Viterbo, Biterbo, Bitervo |
| Santos Hurejon, as indexed | Burejon, as I read the surname on the 1881 entry |
"Isac" also carries a clue. If José's father is Florentino Isac and his mother is Estefania Campusano, then Isac is the name that came down the paternal line and Campusano is the one that came through his mother. I'm holding that as a working reading, as I did in the 1881 post, until José's own record turns up.
"De Manila": The Page Points Somewhere Else
This page adds something the 1881 entry, as quoted on this site, does not. After José's name, the words "de Manila" appear between the lines, and a closing note, "Nota de Manila, entre líneas vale," marks that insertion as valid. Estefania's name carries "de Manila" in the line itself. Both entries call everyone natives of Oas, yet the clerk took care to add Manila. That could mean birth, or it could mean where the family had lived. I don't know yet, and I'm not going to guess.
The Search for José's Parents
This is what I'm doing next. Florentino Isac and Estefania Campusano are José Isac Campusano's parents, and I'm searching for records of them. This page names them without documenting them. The targets:
- José Isac Campusano's own baptism, and anything that explains "de Manila"
- José's marriage to Eusebia Gumba in Oas, before 1880
- Florentino Isac and Estefania Campusano, under every spelling in the table above
- Tomás Gumba and Antonina de Vitervo, on the Gumba side
- Anything on Paciano after 3/13/1880. Nothing in this article follows him past his baptism.
What the Page Calls Everyone
The register sorts the room the way the colonial parish did: Don and Doña for the paternal side, indios for the family, a European for the godfather. I'm not reading rank into the honorifics yet. But "indio" is the word we were handed, not the one we chose, and it was written into the first document our ancestors ever appear in. Reading the page means reading past it.
Where Paciano Fits
The name Marciano runs through this family, so a note for whoever reads this later. Lolo Marciano Perseveranda, my paternal grandfather, was born and raised in Ligao, and my Tito Sonny is Marciano Jr. Marciano Campusano, Lola Rosa's father, was born in Oas. Lola Rosa's mother, Saturnina Manlangit, is a different line, and I follow it in other posts. This article follows her father's. The relationships below depend on the 1910 marriage entry, which names Marciano's parents as José Camposano and Eusebia Gumba, both deceased, and on Lola Rosa's 1914 baptismal record.
| Person | To Lola Rosa | To J.F. | To Veronica, Chesca and JianCarlo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marciano Campusano | Father | Great-grandfather | Great-great-grandfather |
| Paciano | Uncle | Great-granduncle | Great-great-granduncle |
| José Isac Campusano and Eusebia Gumba | Grandparents | Great-great-grandparents | Great-great-great-grandparents |
| Florentino Isac and Estefania Campusano | Great-grandparents | Great-great-great-grandparents | Great-great-great-great-grandparents |
| Tomás Gumba and Antonina de Vitervo | Great-grandparents | Great-great-great-grandparents | Great-great-great-great-grandparents |
To my dad, Ronald, and his siblings, Tita Gigi, Tito Ed (the late), Tito Sonny, Tita Nene, Tito Maning, Tito Nelson and Tita Lila: Paciano was your mother's uncle, and Eusebia Gumba was her grandmother. To Veronica, Chesca and JianCarlo: Eusebia's parents, Tomás and Antonina, are your great-great-great-great-grandparents, and a priest in Oas wrote their names down in March 1880 so that you could find them. Tomás, Antonina, Florentino, Estefania, José, Eusebia, Paciano and Marciano: I'm still looking for the rest of you.
Sources
- FamilySearch: Catholic Church records, Oas, Albay, christening of Paciano, 3/13/1880
- PinoyBuilt: Marciano Campusano, Baptized in Oas in 1881
- PinoyBuilt: My Great-Grandparents' 1910 Wedding
- PinoyBuilt: Rosa Manlangit Camposano, the Full Name Behind Lola Rosita
- PinoyBuilt: Found on FamilySearch, Lola Rosa's 1914 Baptismal Record From Oas, Albay
- PinoyBuilt: Maganda, Magayon, and the Word for Beautiful That Named a Volcano
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