Progenitors

Trying to trace your family tree is an interesting and exciting endeavor.  Just trying to connect the relationship of each family is difficult.  Thanks to the internet, this task have been made a little bit easier.  All the data we discover will need to be verified but whatever we find we want to share to all those interested in this activity of piecing together the Neri family tree of the Sampurna bloodline from Kagay-an or Cagayan de Misamis or now currently known as Cagayan de Oro.

Some information on our proginetor were found in the internet.

These information was supposed to have been copied from a document given to Ramon V. Neri by Fr. Jaime Neri.

The information were copied and paste below:

• 1521 : Rajah sa Lanao (Samporna), Chief of CIPIT, visited by Magellan's chronicler Pigafetta, on the expedition's return to Spain.
•  1571 : Adelantado Miguel Lopez de Legaspi assigned to his soldier, Juan Griego, the encomiendas of Cagayan, Gonpot (?) and Tagoloan.
• 1625 : Rajah sa Langsang (Neri), Chief of Kagay-an. Evangelization of Kagay-an and the baptism of Rajah sa Langsang by the Recoletos.
• 1626 : Seige of Kagay-an and the defeat of the allied forces of the Maguindinao's (old name for Mindanao) Cachil Corralat (?) by the defending Kagay-anons.
•  1832 : Savador Neri, Gobernadorcillo of Kagay-an.
• 1833 : Lino Neri, Gobernadorcillo of Kagay-an.
• Don Leon Neri
• 1898 : Catalino Neri, Gobernadorcillo of Kagay-an.

Additional information was also found on the same website which we also copied and paste below:

"The information below was supplied by Jaime Casino Neri (1987) and was recounted to him by his sister Josefina. Josefina received it from Ramon A. Neri y Velez before World War II.  Leon's brother fathered Graciano and Ramon Neri y Coronado, who both married San José sisters (progenators of the Neri-San José line). The Leon Neri children:

• Vicente married Ciriaca Velez
• Consolacion married Nicolas Velez
• Antonia married Vicente Rivera
• Catalino married Nicolasa Gabor

The information above on the Leon Neri and children coincides with data we have.

We hope that other Neri's of Cagayan de Oro will be able to contribute to building up the Neri family tree.