Yapko Family Amoy China

[trissy]

I am looking for my ancestors and possible relatives. I need help with the possible Chinese characters for the last name "Yapko". Thanks for your help .

[Henry]

trissy,

I believe your Chinese surname is: 葉 / 叶 Ye in Pinyin and Yap in Minnan

If you click on the following link, and check rank # 43, it indicates that it is the 43 rd most common surname in China and shows how it is spelled according to various languages & dialects:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames

Because of the Filipino naming conventions - there is a suffix added to your Chinese surname, Yap + ko = Yapko




" combine the name of their Chinese parents and add the suffix "ko" at the end of each surname. The "ko" is a Hokkien polite word, signifying respect "

You note that you your ancestors & relatives are from Amoy/Xiamen - how do you know this? Is this a known family fact?

If you check this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Filipino


Minnan (Hokkienese) people

Chinese Filipinos who are classified as Minnan people (閩南人) have ancestors who came from southern Fujian and speak one of the Minnan dialects. They form the bulk of Chinese settlers in the Philippines after the Spanish Colonial Period, and settled primarily in Metro Manila and key cities in Luzon such as Angeles, Baguio, Dagupan, Ilagan, Laoag, Lucena, Tarlac, and Vigan, as well as in major Visayan and Mindanao cities such as Bacolod, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Dumaguete, General Santos, Iligan, Iloilo, Ormoc, Tacloban, Tagbilaran, and Zamboanga.

The Teochews are often mistaken for being Minnan people and Hokkiens.

Minnan peoples, more popularly known as "Hokkienese", or "Fujianese" in English, or Lan-nang, Lán-lâng, Bân-lâm, Fújiànren in Chinese. The Minnan form 98.7% of all unmixed ethnic Chinese in the Philippines. Of the Minnan peoples, about 75% are from Quanzhou prefecture (specifically, Jinjiang City), 23% are from Zhangzhou prefecture, and 2% are from Xiamen City.[27] Minnan peoples started migrating to the Philippines in large numbers from the early 1800s and continue to the present, eventually outnumbering the Cantonese who had always formed the majority Chinese dialect group in the country.
The Minnan (Hokkienese) currently dominate the light industry and heavy industry, as well as the entrepreneurial and real estate sectors of the economy. Many younger Minnan people are also entering the fields of banking, computer science, engineering, finance, and medicine.
To date, most emigrants and permanent residents from Mainland China, as well as the vast majority of Taiwanese people in the Philippines are Minnan (Hokkienese) people.

Please verify with your family that your Chinese surname is 葉 Ye/Yap and that Amoy/Xiamen is the city in Fujian province where your ancestors emigrated from.

Then we can proceed from these 2 facts.

Henry

[naycoyapph]

Hi, My grandfather migrated to the Philippines at the close of the 1800s and he is from Amoy. M. His 2 other brothers went back to Amoy with Spanish names. Unfortunately, communication between them was cut-off at the start of WWII. We are looking for information to trace their ancestral village and where they are now :-(

[naycoyapph]

Hi Sir,

Here is the copy of my grandfather's entry document. You'll find his Chinese signature on the right. I just wanted to know if the surname is correct. I was told that back then in order to gain entry to the Philippines, would be migrants need to pay families in Amoy to use surnames of Chinese migrants in the Philippines. I don't know how true is this, but it looks like a desperate exit from the country

this is what i decipher: 李 金 葉 

I would really appreciate your help. So in case if it's true then my search is to look for my real grandfather's relatives and village in Amoy. I hope you can read it well.


 

[yapchiongco]

Ms. Trissy, I’m also tracing my family genealogy. My great grand father’s name is Yap Chiong Co. My aunt told me that our ancestors came from Amoy, China.. now Xiamen. Our family name evolved through time, my grand father used the family name Yap Chiongco while some relatives used Yap-chiongco and we now used Yapchiongco.

[mishaelpark]

Hello! I just so happened to have stumbled upon this thread due to my dedication for searching for my Chinese family roots. My great-grandmother Antonia Yap was a daughter of a Chinese immigrant who lived for awhile in Cebu. I do not know what his actual Chinese name was but my grandmother’s sister mentioned years ago, that their maternal-grandfather was from Amoy, China (now known as Xiamen). She said he used a Spanish firstname, Ildefonso, instead of his Chinese first name, which I have no idea what it was till this day. So everytime I would search for Ildefonso Yap in ancestry and genealogical records, I’d find nothing.

[philiptancl]

Feb 8, 2023 9:16:54 GMT -5 mishaelpark said:

Hello! I just so happened to have stumbled upon this thread due to my dedication for searching for my Chinese family roots. My great-grandmother Antonia Yap was a daughter of a Chinese immigrant who lived for awhile in Cebu. I do not know what his actual Chinese name was but my grandmother’s sister mentioned years ago, that their maternal-grandfather was from Amoy, China (now known as Xiamen). She said he used a Spanish firstname, Ildefonso, instead of his Chinese first name, which I have no idea what it was till this day. So everytime I would search for Ildefonso Yap in ancestry and genealogical records, I’d find nothing.

Hi Mishaelpark,

May you should reading the postings of Riko Tap in this Forum to provide you with some guidance:

siyigenealogy.proboards.com/thread/3209/puhou-yap-clan-progenitor