Birth Name: Francis Xavier Garchitorena
Date of Birth: January 8, 1938
Place of Birth: Kobe, Japan
Date of Death: February 25, 2005
Place of Death: Makati, Philippines
Ethnicity: Spanish (including Basque, Castilian, Catalan, and Galician), 1/4 French, with distant English, Filipino (Bicolano and Dinagat), Han Chinese, Indian, Irish, and Mexican
Francis Garchitorena was a Filipino lawyer. His father, Buenaventura Erquiaga, was Basque. His mother, Flor Garchitorena y Chereau, was Filipina. He was married to Victoria “Vicky” de Santos Pineda.
Francis’ maternal grandparents were Andrés Garchitorena y del Buenviaje dela Estrada (the son of Mariano Garchitorena y Basa and María Verónica Bérénice del Buenviaje dela Estrada y Sauza) and Marguerite Chereau (the daughter of ? Chereau and ? Calhart). Francis’ grandfather Andrés was a Filipino revolutionary before becoming a governor of Ambos Camarines (now divided into Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur). Francis’ grandmother Marguerite was French.
Francis’ great-grandfather Mariano was a Spanish immigrant, from Barcelona. Francis’ great-grandmother María Verónica was the daughter of Juan José del Buenviaje de la Estrada and Restituta María del Carmen Sauza y Berenguer de Marquina. Restituta was the daughter of Santiago Sauza y de los Ríos, a Spanish-Mexican of Galician descent, and Ysabel Berenguer de Marquina y Sumulong. Ysabel was the daughter of Félix Ignacio Juan Nicolás Antonio José Joaquín Buenaventura Berenguer de Marquina y FitzGerald, Viceroy of New Spain, and Demetria Sumulong y Lindo. Félix was the son of Ignacio Berenguer de Marquina y Pascual de Riquelme, a Spaniard, and Mary FitzGerald, an Irish of distant English descent.
Francis’ great-great-great-great-grandmother Demetria was the daughter of Fortunato Sumulong y Singh, a Filipino of Dinagat, English, and Indian descent, and Li Xiaoli (later María Andrea Lindo), a Chinese immigrant from Fujian province.
Francis was a third cousin of nationalist Jose Diokno. Francis’ great-great-grandparents, Juan Noblejas and Restituta María del Carmen Sauza y Berenguer de Marquina, were also Jose’s great-great-grandparents.
Source: Genealogy of Francis Garchitorena – http://www.geni.com
