Domíngo Ureta Róxas was the third of four children to parents Mariano Maximo de Baez Romero Roxas, a doctor, and Ana Maria Ureta-Roxas.[1] He had primarily Spanish ancestry; one of his ancestors, Antonio Fernandez de Roxas, was also a Mexican immigrant who was born in Acapulco and emigrated to the Philippines in 1695.[7] He married Maria Saturnina Ubaldo a Mestiza de Sangley from the town of Sta. Cruz on June 8, 1813 at Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar.[6] The couple lived together in the town of San Miguel and had three children; the philanthropistMargarita Roxas de Ayala inheritted her father's advocacies for the natives,[6]José Bonifacio Rojas y Ubaldo and Mariano Ubaldo Rojas, Mariano co-founded Academia de Dibujo y Pintura together with painter Damián Gabor Domingo.[6][1][8]
Domingo Roxas
Even after the Royal Company of the Philippines had liberalized investment in agriculture, it stopped functioning in 1829.[3][1] It was then declared dead in 1834, after the Philippines had just recently been opened up to foreign trade. Roxas then established Casa Róxas with his Basque business partner Antonio de Ayala who had just arrived earlier in the Philippines together with his uncle, the Archbishop of Manila José Seguí, O.E.S.A. Ayala would also become the husband of Roxas' daughter Margarita.[3][1] Ayala and Margarita's daughter Trinidad Roxas Ayala-Zobel was the wife of Jacobo Z. Zobel.[9]Casa Roxas focuses on cultivation of coffee, sugar, indigo and, cotton. Casa Roxas also manufacture gun power, liquors and castings.[3][1]
He was accused in 1823 by the government as a sympathizer of the revolt of Andrés Novales. He was accused again in 1841 uprising of Hermano Pule.[1] He was an easy target because of his enlightenment ideas influenced by Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País that originated in the Spanish Peninsula. It manifested through his advocacies for reforms which he sees would benefit the natives and the creoles.[10][11][3] In 1842, he was arrested for the third and final time in Fort Santiago. His daughter Margarita then, sailed to the Spanish peninsula to personally ask Isabella II Queen of Spain for her fathers release. The Queen ordered the immediate release of his father but Roxas already died back in Fort Santiago in 1843.[1]
↑Putzel, James (2001). Social capital and the imagined community: democracy and nationalism in the Philippines. In Michael Liefer (Ed.), Asian Nationalism. Routledge (UK), p. 173. ISBN0-415-23284-8.
↑"Ayala and Company"(PDF). Nigel Gooding. p.5. Archived from the original(PDF) on 28 February 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2026. Domingo Roxas - Philippine born, descendant of Mexican immigrant Antonio Fernandez de Roxas of Acapulco, who migrated to the Philippines in 1695.
↑Joaquin, Nick; Santiago, Luciano P. R. (1990). Nineteenth Century Manila: The World of Damián Domingo. Manila: Metropolitan Museum.
