Re: How Did the Rochas Came to the Philippines?
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Re: How Did the Rochas Came to the Philippines?
Maria Rocha 3/14/08
We did not make it to the Philipines; we left Portugal and arrived to California over a hundred years ago.But your family probably came to Asia much earlier than that.
But you will be surprised to know that if you ever visit the city of Amsterdam in Holland, and visit the Jewish graveyard there, that there are graves from Rocha family there.They left more than three hundred years ago and made it to Holland and freedom.
They left Europe because of religious bigotry and persecution, in order to find a safer place.