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Wanted to post this here before I delete my email copy. :)

Our great grandfather, Faustino Macasaet, had daughters and an only son, Mamay Doroteo Macasaet, who married Juana de Joya, sister of Justice de Joya. Mamay Tio did not have a child. The daughters of our Great Gandfather, Faustino, were my Grandmother Dionesia, Tomasa ( your grandmother) , Luisa, the mother of Tio Pablo Silva and another daughter, the mother of Tia Arsenia Landicho. So the Macasaet name died with our branch of the family. 

Fortunately my grandmother, Dionesia , married a cousin, Anacleto Macasaet. So it was just in my branch of the family that the Macasaet named was maintained. Inay and her brother, Dr. Valentin Macasaet ( first veterinarian of Batangas ) were Macasaet. Dr. Romeo Macasaet, Dean Avelino Macasaet of U.P. Dentistry are sons of Kakang Valentin Macasaet. They carried the Macasaet name. So in our branch of the Macasaet Family, we became, Cuevas, Olgado, Silva, Landicho. Thanks to our forebearers, they stressed their name as Don ( PM ) Pablo Macasaet Silva, Atty Bonifacio Macasaet Cuevas etc.

 

A brother of our great grandfather, was Tiburcio Macasaet, the great grandfather of Renato Lumbera, who was your neighbor at Espana St.( remember him - god-son  of Tio Pacio.) In this branch the Macasaet name died also as Rene Lumbera's great grandfather had two daughters and a son, who had an only daughter - the mother of Rene Lumbera.

 

Our great grandfather, I believe, had another brother who might have been the grandfather of Ate Rita Ealla( here the Macasaet name also died as Ate Rita was the only child of Tio Paulo Macasaet), and another brother, the grandfather of Ate Martha Macasaet ( a doctor in Lakeland, Florida), daughter of Dr. Simeon Macasaet of Davao. Another brother might have been the father of Dr. Ramon Macasaet. and gradfather of Dr. Robert Macasaet.

 

What I have traced above are our immediate Macasaet relatives. Other Macasaets must have been first cousins of our great grandfather, Faustino Macasaet. It must be from this cousins that the Macasaets proliferated. I had an intention of organizing a reunion for the above relatives with creating a schism with the other Macasaets, where it is hard to trace now how we are related. In fact I financed the 2002 reunion when General Erning Macasaet of Davao ( Inay's nephew from her father's side ) and Celita Castillo Cabigao ( grand daughter of Nanay Seniang Macasaet Oreta ofBatangas City ) were presidents of the clan.

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