Madrazo

Madrazo is a Spanish surname and sometimes uses as "Maderazo" in the Philippines and US :

• Carlos Madrazo, Mexican politician
• Roberto Madrazo, Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), son of Carlos Madrazo
• José de Madrazo y Agudo, Spanish painter
• Federico de Madrazo, Spanish painter, son of Madrazo y Agudo
• Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Spanish realist painter, son of Federico de Madrazo
• Pablo Sierra Madrazo, Spanish footballer
• Sergio Canales Madrazo, Spanish footballer
• Carlos Mortola Madrazo- chemical engineer; national Philippine Sugar Industry's pioneer
• Rodolfo Mortola Madrazo- agriculturist;an expert in rubber, coconut and orchard farming in the Philippines

Meaning

"Madrazo" comes from the Pas valley in Cantabria and Espinosa de los Monteros in Burgos, northern Spain. The origin of the name is unknown but in Spanish and Portuguese it is understood to refer the process by which the second wife of widower man takes care of the children of the deceased first wife.

People with Madrazo surname

Beside Spain, people with Madrazo surnames reside in Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, San Salvador and the Philippines. Whereas in the central Philippines, Madrazo changed into Maderazo. The Madrazo Family of German & Carmen Madrazo of 242 German Madrazo Drive, Don L.E. Alfaro Street, Tetuan,Zamboanga City, has retained the original Spanish spelling of the surname. Philippines Yahoo's Facebook list over 500 people with Madrazo or Maderazo surnames living in these countries. The early spread of the surname followed the expansion of Spanish colonization. Most of the people with Madrazo or Maderazo surnames in the Philippines have mixed Chinese and Malay blood stocks unlike most of the other Madrazos living in South America. However, Madrazos who hailed from the original Zamboanga City lineage include the three Madrazo brothers Carlos, Sr., Lulo and Isabelo (all sons of German and Carmen) who founded/settled in San Carlos City, Negro Oriental sometime before Liberation. Their descendants eventually migrated to Manila, the United States, Iceland, Australia. The original Zamboanga City descendants went on to have remarkable careers in education(Rosa Garcia & Florinda Bello, agriculture(Rodolfo Sr.), the government services in general(Amando Sr, Cecilia)and private enterprise(Gerardo Sr) . Their descendants have been living in all parts of the world as the UK, Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Middle East, SE Asian countries as well as the United States, Canada and South America. A Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Roger Madrazo is a parish priest in Bermuda. The noted businessman and civic leader Edmundo N. Madrazo of Davao City also came from the other branch of the Clan. Intermarriages between and among prominent families of the city and beyond include the Natividads, Sebastians, Montehermosos, Garcias, Bellos, Bucoys, Matias', Pilars and others. A Facebook Family page(German & Carmen)has been a close linkage that establishes the Madrazo family of the Philippines in the modern world.(<ref FB page " German & Carmen"since 2009<ref>)

The blood line has also been established in Cuba which further migrated to the United States in the 1960s by Roberto I. Madrazo son of Roberto Domingo Madrazo which also followed soon after. Roberto I. Madrazo had two children (Robert and Kristie Fawn). In 2007 at age 60 Roberto I. Madrazo died of an AVM in Miami, Florida. The family has since spread out to different states.