PATACSIL  Family Tree

Etymon

From PATERNO:

The Archbishop of Vigan warned member of his diocese of Nova Segovia  of dangers  due to incipient revolt and advised them to find a safer  place to  move their families.  One PATACSOPOLOS by name was an encargado, and heeding the warning moved his family to what is now called Bal-Lay , a valley between Bauang and Naguilian,  where he remained an encargado there also. The people there had a hard time saying his name and shortened it  to PATACSOS, which later became PATACSIL, and that is the spelling registered in the Municipal Archives of  Bauang.

 

From EUPHROSINO

The original name was TOMAS. One of the offspring was CHRISTENE TOMAS, so his full name was TOMAS TOMAS. He got fed up with the redundant sound, so he changed the family name to PATACSIL

 

From Stories told to LEOVIGILDO

The original name was PATACXIL, roughly translated from the vernacular: “Man Carrying Axe”, referring to the occupation of men who fell trees, meaning “lumberjack”, wood cutter”, “forester”, connotation: A fighter or warrior whose favorite weapon is an axe. (Compare to the Chinese “hatchet man” and to the typical American Indian warrior “brave”)  perhaps, an acceptable Nepotism: “An Axe wielding warrior” the spelling PATAXIL was modernized to PATACSIL in the town records of Bauang as early as 1740. When the Spanish Government required that all families must register their family names for census and tax purposes.

 

Facts Revealed By This Study

FACT: In the town of Asingan, Province of Pangasinan, generations of PATACSILs were found in Barrio BANTUG. Both sides of Barrio road are lined with PATACSIL family homes. Some of the houses are over 75 years old (visited in 1984).

 

FACT: There are PATACSILs in the town of Alos, Pangasinan.

 

FACT: There are PATACSILs in Naguilian, Province of La Union, and some of them later generations had spread out to Baguio.

 

Some Questions Germane To This Genealogy

 

1. Did great-grandfather MARIANO and his twin brother SANTOS and EPIFANIO have other brothers?

2. Did the PATACSILs in Alos migrate to Pangasinan separately or did they spread out from the Asingan?

3. Did these two groups descendants of

                  SANTOS?

                  EPIFANIO?

                  Or other brothers or great-grandfather MARIANO?

 

NOTE:

Patacsil women and their descendants are not included in this study until in much later entries.

Say it LOUD!! say it PROUD!!

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