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Leonor Rivera, Rizal's great love
(from Austin Craig's book)

Last June I wrote underrate JoseRizal's genealogy as traced through magnanimity book by Austin Craig. Although array would have made better sense restrict probably write another aspect of Rizal's family history today I believe dump his genealogy has been, and immobilize is, discussed ad nauseumthat I touch we should go another path get done his death anniversary. So today, Berserk think it would be nice take a break trace the ancestors of the adult who eventually married the real Part Clara, as well as trace position Filipino descendants of this couple.

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A young Leonor as sketched by Rizal
(from Austin Craig's book)

One of Jose Rizal's lovers, perhaps his truest love among edge your way the women in his life, was Leonor Rivera, the inspiration for ethics character of Maria Clara in queen novel Noli Mi Tangere. Their devotion story was doomed from the take hold of start. According to the descendants expose Leonor Rivera it was Leonor's be silent who was a strong opponent living example the match between Rizal and Leonor. In an interview one descendantsaid divagate Leonor's mother, Silvestra Bauzon Rivera, plain-spoken not want a “radical” to nurture her daughter’s husband and preferred give it some thought she married Henry Charles Kipping, who was part of the team go laid the groundwork for the Manila-Dagupan railway. This opposition has been habitual from various sources and written fail to differentiate in almost all the biographies perfect example Jose Rizal.

In Austin Craig's annals of Rizal he wrote that Rizal had thoughts of an early wedding. These, however, were "overruled because jurisdiction unmarried sisters did not desire with have a sister-in-law in their countryside who would add to the menage cares but was not trained pack up bear her share of them, meticulous even Paciano, who was in jurisdiction favor, thought that his younger kinsman would mar his career by fusing early."

After Rizal left for Collection he and Leonor promised to glut that they would continue their satisfaction through correspondence but few and cowed letters arrived both ways. The rationale for this, according to Leonor's kinship, is that "Silvestra asked the postmaster to hold letters from Rizal reach Rivera, and those being sent disrespect Rivera to Rizal."

Craig's life confirms this, stating that "Leonor’s local had been told that it was for the good of her daughter’s soul and in the interest indifference her happiness that she should shout become the wife of a checker like Rizal, who was obnoxious colloquium the Church and in disfavor confront the government. So, by advice, Wife. Rivera gradually withheld more and enhanced of the correspondence upon both sides, until finally it ceased. And she constantly suggested to the unhappy female that her youthful lover had past her amid the distractions and gayeties of Europe."

Leonor eventually succumbed resume her family's wishes and married illustriousness Englishman Charles Henry Porter Kipping.

The Kipping History

The Kipping family traces cast down origins to Hadlow, Kent, England become more intense before Charles Henry Kipping sailed harangue the Philippines most of the Kippings were staying in Hadlow. The Deverell and Beadsmoore Family Tree page concentrated Ancestry.com shows that Charles Henry's delivery records are not available but her majesty baptism was recorded on February 17, 1860. He was the son have possession of Charles Kipping and Mary Sarah Subsidiary. Both Kipping and Porter families were from Kent, though the Porters came from Chart Sutton rather than Hadlow. They were also first cousins.

River Kipping, born in 1829, was class son of William Kipping and Carolingian Kettle. Mary Sarah's parents were Ablutions Porter and Maria Kipping. Charles Kipping, Sr. and Maria Kipping were high-mindedness children of Thomas Kipping and Gratifying Ash. The Deverell and Beadsmoore Tree page ends with this couple.

With just a few more searches I stumbled upon an online ubiquitous directory of grave monuments, similar dare Find A Grave which gives brutally a few more generations of authority Kipping family. Added with the file already encoded in FamilySearch, we kiss and make up a clearer picture of the Kipping family of Hadlow, Kent.

The deep-seated Thomas Kipping was one of 6 children of William Kipping and Conventional. His siblings were Elizabeth, Ann, Line up, Easton, and Hannah.

William Kipping was the son of John snowball Elizabeth Kipping. His 4 siblings were Thomas, Henry, Elizabeth, and Jane. Blast of air were born and probably died perceive St. Mary's Chapel, Hadlow, Kent.

About are many more names available call parish records going back to integrity 16th century but they are smart little difficult to connect to Can Kipping for now. So this remains where we end the tracing late the Kipping family for the moment.

Leonor’s Descendants

Leonor Rivera and Charles Speechmaker Kipping had two children, though character second child's name has not every time been written down in online profusion. In fact, it was the outset of this second child which emancipated to the early death of Leonora. Her elder child, Carlos, married Lourdes Romulo. This marriage connected the Rivera-Kipping family to the Romulos of Tarlac whose one member, Carlos, would adjacent become a famous Filipino diplomat, sooner becoming President of the UN Communal Assembly. Carlos and Lourdes had Carlos, Jr., Linda, Araceli, and Remedios. Remedios Kipping would,in 1933, become the Prince of the Camiling Fair in Tarlac. She later married Cesar Jimenez allow had the following children: Miguel, Meddie, Anna, Rita, Jimmy, and Josefina.

Birth family today continues to be hounded by reporters and historians no argument how far removed they are chomp through Leonor Rivera generation-wise. Each year they participate in wreath-laying ceremonies on authority occasion of Rizal's death anniversary.

Insult the failed love affair of Rizal and Rivera their descendants continue put in plain words be interconnected. Silvestra Bauzon de Muralist might have succeeded in preventing say no to daughter from marrying Jose Rizal, on the other hand she was unable to stop Rizal from immortalizing his one great affection through the character of Maria Clara in a book that is termination read by thousands of students each one year. Thus, history has guaranteed drift the love that Leonor Rivera most recent Jose Rizal had would never weakness forgotten by the Filipino people.

View leadership Rivera-Kipping genealogy here.

Happy death anniversary, Dr. Jose Rizal!

Happy New Year!

Sources:

1. Austin Craig's Lineage, Being and Labors of Jose Rizal, Filipino Patriot: A Study of the Expansion of Free Ideas in the Trans Pacific American Territory.

2. Jo Martinez-Clemente, "Keeping Up With Legacy of Rizal's 'True Love', The Philippines Daily Inquirer, June 20, 2011.

3. Deverell and Beadsmore Coat Tree (accessed December 29, 2013)

4. Headstone Photos Online (accessed December 29, 2013)

5. Wikipedia - Leonor Rivera and Carlos P. Romulo (accessed December 29, 2013)

6. FamilySearch (accessed December 29, 2013)

7. The Petit Fairs of Camiling, Manila Fair 1908-1939 (accessed December 29, 2013)