FAMILIA MANIQUIZ HALL OF FAME

(Aming Ipinagmamalaki)

CARLOS AGUSTIN,  our ancestor and a Spanish-Mexican nobleman from Acapulco, Mexico. He arrived in Mission San Bartolome (Tartaro, San Miguel, Bulacan) in the company of the early Augustinian friars assigned to do missionary and evangelical work in Northern Bulacan. He was a true Christian and devoted father. His renowned Castilian honesty and love of family endeared him to numerous Filipino friends.

MARIA JUANA PUNO, wife of Carlos Agustin and relative of Miguel Puno, a leader of the Pampango dominated Mission Sto. Rosario (Mandile)  -who with Miguel Pineda, organized and helped establish the town of San Miguel, Bulacan.

More than a hundred well known citizens of San Miguel were elected/appointed Capitan Municipal or Gobernadorcillo after Miguel Pineda until 1900 when the Americans came.

Eight (8) Maniquiz have occupied this position:

DIONISIO (D2)                1774 & 1778 ALEJANDRO(A2)                         1783 MIGUEL (M2)                                1786 SANTIAGO (S2)                           1798 AGUSTIN                                       1809 BLAS (M3)                                    1819 NORBERTO (A4)                          1859 LUCIO (A5)                                    1894

NOGOY-MANIQUIZ FAMILY of Cabiao, Nueva Ecija, for the last three generations has managed and nurtured the Banda 96  until it became the best band in the Philippines in 1961

SANTIAGO CLAN

DIONISIO CLAN

ALEJANDRO CLAN

MIGUEL CLAN

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