Vicenta Reyes de Rojas

The rich Vicenta Reyes viuda de Juan Roxas owned a seaside property in the suburb of Malate. It was inherited by her son Francisco Roxas and it became famous because no less than the wife and son of Governor-General Valeriano Weyler took their sea baths there regularly. After Francisco’s 1897 execution,

it was sold by the family’s attorney Gregorio Araneta to their relatives, the Zobel-Roxas family. The property was cut off from the sea when the Americans constructed Dewey Boulevard. In the 1930s, Jacobo Zobel Roxas and his wife Angela Olgado, the parents of tycoon Enrique “Enzo” Zobel Olgado, built their beautiful Spanish style villa there along Dewey Boulevard facing Manila Bay. After the Zobel-Olgado family, the villa served for some years as the British Embassy. -Felix Roxas

Pension claim

• Marriage certificate

Reclamo de pensión

• Partida de matrimonio