Discovering the Roots

Great Grandfather - Pedro Royo Jr.

My great great grandfather is Don Pedro Royo Y Rincon from Malaga, Spain. He was a stowaway and worked his way up to become one of the prominent figure in Cebu. He used to own a cockpit then later became the first owner of a movie house. He married Maria Rubi from an elite family in Cebu. She is a combination of Filipino and Chinese. They had two sons, Juan and Pedro Jr.

Juan married Amparo Mellado, had twos sons and one daughter namely, Mario, Jesus, and Pilar.

We are descendants of Pedro Jr. His wife id Maria Gerozaga from Carcar, Cebu. They had eleven children namely, Primitiva, Rafael, Felix, Emigdio, Angeles, Perfecto, Eugenia, Ruth, Ernesto, Flora and Rosario. All are deceased except for Lola Flora who is in California right now.

Lola Ruth said that there is a book of the Royos owned by a relative living in Beverly Hills, Cebu, a place where rich people live. Unfortunately, no one knows who this person is.

Family Tree

I feel like a kindergarten student while I'm doing this. One of my mum's cousins started a group in Facebook and added up every Royo he knew. They are preparing for this grand reunion mid 2013 somewhere in the Visayas. My mum's parents are from Leyte and Cebu but they started their family here in Manila, while most of them are still in the Visayas. I was asked to make a diagram to introduce our clan. Meet the Royo-Urgel of Q.C.!