José Zárate Sycip

Jose Zarate SyCip was born in the early 1850s in Jinjiang county, Fujian, and arrived in Manila in the late 1860s, at the age of fourteen. He worked hard and saved up money to start his own trading businesses in Binondo. He acquired Spanish citizenship and was baptized.

Jose SyCip and Yu Lan had six sons -- of whom, four, Eusebio, Policarpio, Alfonso (1883-1969), and Albino (1887-1978), lived to adulthood. They also had two daughters—Unchong SyCip Lin and Felisa SyCip Godinez.

Resources

• Rodrigo, Raul, "A Matter of Trust: The China Bank Story." China Banking Corporation, 2012. Web: https://www.chinabank.ph/about_china_bank.aspx?title=A+Matter+of+Tr.... Accessed 20 July 2020.
• Probate record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSH2-9SK1-Q