Marinduque Province, Philippines Genealogy

Asia Philippines  Marinduque Province

Guide to  ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

History
Note: This history line is from the LGU of Marinduque:

When Martin de Goiti and Juan de Salcedo, two Spanish conquistadores, returned to the Philippine islands in 1569, and conquered Manila, they stayed on to establish other settlements in the region. Marinduque, together with Mindoro, the southeast part of Laguna and Camarines was made a part of Batangas when the latter was founded in 1581 by the Spaniards.

Early in the 17th century, the island of Marinduque was separated from Batangas and became a part of Mindoro as a corregimiento, town.

On April 28, 1898, with the overthrow of the last Spanish casadores (Tagalog soldiers) after armed conflict and hostilities with the revolutionists during the Philippine-Spanish War, Marinduque declared its separation from Mindoro and from Spanish rule.

On February 21, 1920, Marinduque became a separate province.

Mining prospectors discovered large copper deposits in 1956 and in the late 1960s, the island became home to one of the largest mining operations in the country. In March 1996, mine tailings from a holding pool leaked into the Boac River, destroying fishing resources in the river as well as in the coastal areas surrounding the river mouth. This was one of the worst ecological disasters in the country which eventually forced the closure of the copper mines in the province.

Cemeteries

 * Find A Grave
 * Sariaya Public Cemetery
 * Cemetery
 * Buenavista Cemetery
 * Gasan Municipal Cemetery
 * Lipa City Cemetery
 * Lucena Memorial Park
 * Lodlod Cemetery

Websites

 * Marinduque
 * Marinduque Province, Philippines
 * Marinduque Government Website
 * Marinduque
 * Marinduque Map 1
 * Marinduque Map
 * ZIP Codes & Phone Area Code of Marinduque, Philippines