The Ambegia Family
1953
Back: Juaning, Cipring, Elsa, Rufina, Ambrosio, Mauro,
Cidring.
Front: Erning, Joe, Oscar, Linda, Zena.
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Family
History
Chapter I: The Early Years.
Chapter II: Migration to the States.
Chapter III: Expansion Around the World.
This essay is a work in progress. Some information
may be inaccurate and facts may be missing. If you see incorrect
information or know some missing facts, please contact me.
Chapter I: The Early Years.
The history of the Ambegia's goes back to the
Philippines in the late 1800's. Back then, before there were
Ambegias, there lived three siblings, Pascuala, Ekong, and
Raymondo Ramos. Pascuala, Ekong, and Undong (Raymondo) lived
in Binmaley, a town in Pangasinan
, the westernmost province of the Philippine island of Luzon.
The siblings each married at least once and had children except
for Pascuala who had none. In fact, Pascuala had married twice
and was unable to have children.
Meanwhile, Ekong had three children, Nenet, Yayaw,
and Dadang, and resided in the barrios of Kitegan, Tonton,
in Binmaley, Pangasinan
. Accordingly, Undong married a woman from
Malasiqui
, Pangasinan
, named Maria, and had three children. They were Ambrosio,
Juan, and Epay, who had died. When Ambrosio was born, Undong
and Maria asked Pascuala and second husband, Gabriel Ambegia,
to register Ambrosio. In those days, certain countries required
that babies be registered after being delivered because most
babies were not born in hospitals. At the time, Maria was ill
and Ambrosio needed to be registered at the town as soon as possible.
Without Undong and Maria's knowledge, Ambrosio was registered
under the name Ambegia. To this day, Ambegia is still used by
Ambrosio's decendents.
Later on, Maria discovered Undong had a mistress.
She then took Juan and Ambrosio with her and moved to
Malasiqui
. There Juan and Ambrosio grew up. As an adult, Ambrosio Ambegia
travelled around the country. During one of his travels in
the late 1920's, Ambrosio met and married Rufina Albano. Ambrosio
was previously married with two kids, Gabriel and Durang, but
he spent his life with Rufina and they had ten children. Their
names are Mauro, Cidring, Juaning, Cipring, Erning, Zena, Linda,
Oscar, Joe, and Elsa.
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