Marcelo Madrid (1859-1921)

Don Marcelo Madrid y Alguevar (1859-1921) was born in Bacelona, Spain in 1859. His parents were Timoteo Madrid and Francisca Alguevar, all native of Barcelona, Spain. Being as Commercial shipping merchant, who came to trade in Asia, and frequentled the Philippines. He was married to Doña Maria Balderas y Baviera (1857-1934), daughter of the Gobernadocillo of Banate, Iloilo (Philippines) sometime in the late 1880s. Later, at the end of the Spanish rule in the Islands, he was among the first town officials of Banate when the local government was re-established at the end of the Filipino-American War in 1901; Sanitary Officer of Banate. He died in Banate, in 1921 at the age of 62 years old, and was buried in the local Catholic Cemetery, on 1 August 1921. Don Marcelo Madrid was mentioned as one of the " vecinos distinguidos" of Banate, Iloilo in the Report of Fray Agapito Lope, O.S.A. (Parish Priest of the town in 1893). The Report was done in Cornago, Spain in 1911. The other persons mentioned were Don Eugenio Badilla, Doña Carmen Baban, Don (Florencio) Villaluz, Doña Nicolasa Badilla, and Doña Apolonia Baban. In the document, Marcelo's family name was mispelled as "Lamadrid.