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Oct 20, 2023 · Josephine was born in Victoria Barracks in Hong Kong on October 3, 1876 to Irish parents James Bracken, a corporal in the British Army, and Elizabeth Jane McBride, who were married on May 3, 1868 in Belfast, Ireland. After her mother died shortly after childbirth, her father gave her up for adoption. She was taken in by her godfather, American ...
Josephine Bracken In the last days of February 1895, while still in Dapitan, Rizal met an 18-year old petite Irish girl, with bold blue eyes, brown hair and a happy disposition. She was Josephine Bracken, the adopted daughter of George Taufer from Hong Kong, who came to Dapitan to seek Rizal for eye treatment. Rizal was physically attracted to her.
Si Marie Josephine Leopoldine Bracken ay ang nakaisang palad ng pambansang bayani ng Pilipinas na si José Rizal sa kanyang pagkakatapon sa Dapitan sa lalawigan ng Zamboanga del Norte sa katimugan ng Pilipinas. Noong umaga ng Disyembre 30, 1896, araw ng kanyang pagbitay sa pamamagitan ng pagbaril, ang mag-kasintahan ay nagpakasal sa Fort Santiago, ang lugar ng kanyang piitan, kasunod ng ...
Josephine Bracken is significant because she was the wife of Dr Jose Rizal, the hero of the Philippines struggle against Spain. Her nationality is usually given as "Irish" but that is more correctly a descripotion of her ethnicity; she would have been a British citizen.
Aug 28, 2015 · Josephine Bracken was the subject of a number of dispatches from her arrival in Hong Kong in May 1897, her stay in the home of Jose Ma. Basa, and the press interviews she gave, which attacked Spain and provided her version of conditions in the Philippines. Two copies of Navarro’s clippings from the China Mail regarding “the Widow of Rizal ...
May 13, 2011 · Josephine Bracken: woman with a past. WHILE MOST people are forgotten as soon as they are put six feet under, Josephine Bracken remains controversial 119 years after she died of “milliary tuberculosis and ulceration of the breast.”. The latest addition to Bracken literature is “Romance and Revolution,” a hefty volume by Luis Lisa and ...
Josephine Bracken was Rizal's common-law wife whom he reportedly married shortly before his execution. In February 1895, Rizal, 33, met Josephine Bracken, an Irish woman from Hong Kong. She had accompanied her blind adoptive father, George Taufer, to have his eyes checked by Rizal. After frequent visits, Rizal and Bracken fell in love.
