from surname GREGORY - - - to Y Casiano> Ycasiano> Icasiano

During the Spanish times, family names were written down as:

                                               Ramon Gregory Y Casiano,

with the mother's name written last.

Interpreted as: RAMON GREGORY "And" CASIANO.

With the "Y", or "AND", was later incorporated into the word, as in Ycasiano.

Instead of having the "Gregory" family name, Capt. Gen. Ramon Gregory Y Casiano's Filipino descent settled for the written form of Cpt./Gen. Ramon Gregory's documented full name.

It was the general's mother's maiden name that they were actually promoting down the clan's history.

And none of the earlier clan members had made corrective actions into this "typographical" error, or was it error in "pen-man-ship".

There were no typewriters during those time yet, it was the "plume" or the "quill pen".

The "Y" was later changed into the "I", for class "roll-call" purposes.

Most of the Gregory descendants, were almost always, the last class pupil, or student, to be called from the teacher's list.

This for having a family name that started with the letter "Y".

So down, along the clans family history, most of Gregory's decendants adopted the "I", instead of the "Y" for their family names to start with the "I", as in :  "I" +  "Casiano".

That was the story that I learned from my mom, she changed it while she was in school.

Her brothers, older than she is, had carried on the "Y", in the "Casiano" family name, but later changed it to an "I", for the purpose of "consistency", among the siblings.

Their father, Cesar Rivera Ycasiano, or more correctly, "CESAR RIVERA GREGORY", the eldest son of Dr. Santiago Bello Ycasiano, or more correctly, "DR. SANTIAGO BELLO GREGORY", used the "Y" with his surname, while his children with, Francisca Sarmiento Aguilar, had all adopted the "I", earlier or later on their lives.

The children of his sons, Mario, Adrio,  Gumercindo, Serafin, and Rodobaldo, had all adopted the "I" into their surnames, again for the same reason, "they were almost always called last in the classroom".

Let it be known, that the true "surname" of this Filipino lineage from Blanca Casiano Gregory, through her son Capt./Gen. Ramon Casiano Gregory, is the surname "GREGORY", the surname of our great-great-grandfather.

And not : "Y CASIANO" nor "YCASIANO" nor "ICASIANO"

However, "reverting" to our true surname identity might cause a wave of legal complications.

Ancient Coat of Arms associated with the family names

Origin displayed: German   

Spelling variations include: Gregory, Gregorie, Greggory and others

First found in Bavaria, where the name was anciently associated with the tribal conflicts of the area.

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: settlers who travelled to the New World and established themselves along the eastern seaboard of the United States in Canada in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Some noteworthy people of the family name Gregory

• Wilfred Gregory, Canadian Lawyer
• Cedric Gregory, Australian Educator
• Jack Gregory, Australian Scientist
• John Munford Gregory (1804-1884), Governor of Virginia from 1842 to 1843
• Earle Davis Gregory (1897-1972), World War I Medal of Honor recipient
• Horace Gregory, American Poet
• Richard Langton Gregory (b. 1923) British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at tthe University of Bristol
• Augustus Charles Gregory (1819-1905), Australian surveyor
• James Gregory (1638-1675), Scottish mathematician
• Col. Frederick D. Gregory (b. 1941), former NASA Astronaut with over 455 hours in space
• Lt. Col. William G. Gregory (b. 1957), former NASA Astronaut

Origin displayed: Italian

Spelling variations include: Cassano, Cassani, Cassiano, Cassiani, Casciano, Cassanello, Casssanelli, Cascianelli, Cascianini, Cassius, Casano, Casana, Casani, Casiano, Casino, Cassino, Cascante, and more

First found in Modena, anciently Mutina, a city in Emilia capital of the province of Modena.

Modena is a city of northern Italy west-northwest of Bologna. An ancient Etruscan settlement and later (after 183 b.c.) a Roman colony, Modena became a free commune in the 12th century a.d. and was absorbed into Italy in 1860. Population: 175,000.

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Maria Casana, who came to New Orleans in 1779; Paul Castagnet, who arrived in Maryland in 1792; Lucy Cassanova, who came to New Orleans in 1829; Francisco Casellas, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1845.

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Blanca Casiano Gregory - A line of her Filipino descendants

Our Great-Great-Great Grandmother was

BLANCA CASIANO GREGORY

(American)

also spelled as Blanca Gregory Y Casiano

ONE OF HER SONS WERE

Capt. Gen. Ramon Gregory Y Casiano

(Cpt./Gen. Ramon C. Gregory)

The five children of Cpt./Gen. Ramon Gregory with Nicolasa Bello were:

Francisco Bello Ycasiano
Andres Bello Ycasiano

Dr. Santiago Bello Ycasiano (Our Great Grandfather)

A member, and doctor of the Filipino revolutionaries "Katipunan"

Co-signor 1899 Malolos Constitution

He studied with Dr. Jose Rizal in Madrid, Spain

His personal memorabilia, letters, pictures, documents and a sword 

was burned down with the house in Pasay City during the second world war

He was also the first director of the Coron Leper Colony hospital in Palawan, an island-province

south-west of the Philippine archipelago

Trinidad Bello Ycasiano - Governor of Bulacan 1912-1916
Alipio Bello Ycasiano

The seven children of Cpt/Gen. Ramon Gregory Y Casiano with Apolonia Roxas were:

Francisco Roxas Ycasiano (pensionado at Cornell University)

Pedro Roxas Ycasiano

Aurelia Roxas Ycasiano

Jacinto Roxas Ycasiano

Mariano Roxas Ycasiano

Felisa Roxas Ycasiano

Amalia Roxas Ycasiano

Being half-brothers, the two Francisco(s) felt about the fact that they both shared the same name.

The names Francisco and Ramon seems to be used more often down the family tree. 

Historically, Francisco "Paquito" Roxas Ycasiano (grandson of Blanca Gregory y Casiano) and Francisco "Mang Kiko" Bayan Ycasiano (great grandson of Blanca Gregory y Casiano) are the more famous Francisco(s) of the clan.

Note:

From the research and postings of Gayle Gupit-Mayor