Where did Lakan Dula revolt happen?

    In Tondo, year 1574, the Lakan dula - led revolt happened. But that is just the tip of the ice berg, because history is crediting Lakan Dula for his foresight in preparing the homeland for a long protracted battle against Spain.

    Lakan Dula was born on December 16, 1503 A.D and died on March 21, 1589 A.D. He was the last King of Manila before the kingdom was totally subjugated by the Spaniards and his descendants were forced to do self exile to escape the bloody hispanic persecution by settling in far flung areas within the sea and river routes. It was in Lakan Dula's era when Britain and Spain are rivals for world power. Britain's way is to gain the trust of native royalties all over the world by diplomacy or intermarriages and then group these royalties into federation under its leadership. Spain's way is through conquest and subjugation. Lakan Dula's tall and fair appearance came from his great grand father, who has British blood, a Lord of Manor from Oxfordshire. The birth of Lakan Dula is the early attempt of the British crown to gain the trust of the native Manila aristocracy. It is one of the ways to slowly defeat Spain as the world power of that time. The surname Dula/Dulay therefore came from the British Aristocracy that somehow add color to the pre - hispanic Kingdom of Manila.

    The Dulay surname is generally thought to derive from a place name, perhaps Pont Doylly, or Duilly in Normandy. Spelling variations of this family name include: Doyley, D'Oyley, Doyle, D'Oyle, Doylee, Doley, Duley, Duly, Duely, Dueley, Ollie, Oyler, Oylie, D'Oyly, Olley, Oulley, Oullie, Ollie, Owley, Oyly, Oilli, Oiley, L'Oyle and many more. First found in Oxfordshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, having prevailed over King Harold, granted most of Britain to his many victorious Barons. It was not uncommon to find a Baron, or a Bishop, with 60 or more Lordships scattered throughout the country. These he gave to his sons, nephews and other junior lines of his family and they became known as under-tenants. They adopted the Norman system of surnames which identified the under-tenant with his holdings so as to distinguish him from the senior stem of the family. After many rebellious wars between his Barons, Duke William, commissioned a census of all England to determine in 1086, settling once and for all, who held which land. He called the census the Domesday Book, indicating that those holders registered would hold the land until the end of time. Hence, conjecturally, the surname is descended from the tenant of the lands of Eynsham held by Columban, a Norman noble as under tenant of the Bishop of Lincoln who was recorded in the Domesday Book census of 1086. His overlord was Robert d'Ouilli.http://wiki.answers.com/#cite_note-3

Lakan Dula decided to send his three grand children: David, Dola and Daba to far away lands within the the river and sea routes and provide them with armed followers and household to till the big tract of land. David was given a coconut plantation in Candawid, Isla de Batag , Laoang Islands, Northern Samar. Daba was given a big tract of land in Candaba, Pampanga. Dola was given a big farmland in Candola, San Luis , Pampanga. The world "Kan" means "own" in ancient Tagalog dialect which is similar to the present day Waray dialect , as evidenced by Calatagan jar writings. The strongest and the wealthiest Lakan Dula settlement was in Batag Island , Northern Samar because it is considered the farthest point of defense of the Lakan Dula Kingdom of Manila. The island is the point of entry of the Galleon Trade and other foreign ships going to the port of Manila from the Pacific Ocean. It is also in that area where the Spanish ship repair station was established in Palapag and the Spanish capital of Samar Island in Catubig. Up to now, an old lighthouse guiding the ships from the Pacific Ocean going to the Port of Manila is still standing and functioning at the Isla de Batag, in Laoang Islands, Northern Samar. Most of the relatives of David Dula where able to secure good businesses and gainful employment on these stablishments while secretly planning to overthrow the Spanish government on orders of the Lakan Dula household in Tondo, through David Dula y Goiti of Batag Island in the town of Laoang. In fact, for generations up to now, the Isla de Batag lighthouse is still being run by the members of the Dulay Clan uninterrupted. The Sumoroy Revolt itself is supposed to be the start of a big uprising directed from Tondo, through David Dula y Goiti. The well revolt was however weakened by the deliberate tactical moves of the Spanish authority to transfer the Spanish ship repair facilities in Palapag to Cavite, after sensing that the work force and the sorrounding towns and communities were under the influence of the Lakan Dula household through the duo of Juan Sumuroy, the armed leader and David Dulay, the financier and organization man.

    Northern Samar is now therefore known in history as where the Sumuroy Rebellion of 1649-1650 led by the Waray hero Juan Ponce Sumuroy and David Dula y Goiti first began. When Sumoroy was executed, one of the trusted co conspirators of Sumuroy and his relative, David Dula y Goiti, sustained the Filipino quest for motherland in a greater vigor. He was however wounded in a battle, was captured and later was executed also in Palapag, Northern Samar by the Spaniards together with his seven key lieutenants. They were accused of masterminding several attacks on Spanish detachments. The place where David came from was named later by the town folks as Candawid (Kan David or owned by David in Waray dialect) in Isla De Batag, Laoang, Northern Samar. Some of David's descendants changed their surnames to Dulay to avoid Spanish prosecutions. Some maintained their surname Dula, which up to these days is the source of minor internal frictions among some descendants of David Dula y Goiti in Laoang, Northern Samar accusing each side as "sigbinan", a native waray folklore which originated in Isla de Batag, which connotes "a family secretly keeping bear-like creatures", which are being fed with all kinds of meat, sometimes, including flesh of dead Spanish Guardia Civil. Several famous Northern Samarenos are tracing their ancestry among the seven co conspirators executed with David Dula y Goiti in Palapag. Northern Samar, which include the great grandfather of Governor Raul Daza. One of the great grandfathers of the Romualdezes of Leyte is also part of the rebel group of Sumoroy and Dulay. The Romualdez will later return in their Manila homeland and won as Mayor of the City of Manila . David Dulay's army was composed of his abled body relatives that came from the household he brought from Tondo. He was originally the financier of the Sumoroy Revolt, due to his wealth and logistical connections from the Lakan Dula coffers in Manila, but he was thrust to the forefront of the armed struggle when his relative, Sumoroy, was executed and nobody can take the leadership position of the revolt except him.

    Most of the towns where the Batag Island is located are situated along the northern coast facing the San Bernardino Strait. In the late 16th century, the strait was part of the galleon trade route of the Spaniards between Manila and Acapulco. A royal port was established in the cove of Palapag, a town east of the capital, where the trade vessels were repaired by experienced native shipbuilders. In the mid-17th century, many of these Samareños migrated to Cavite after they had been forceably recruited by the Spanish authorities to work at the new shipyard there. The intention is to weaken the armed base of the Sumoroy Revolt by uprooting them to a generally peaceful province Cavite. Many Caviteños may therefore trace their roots to this now sleepy coastal town. But that moved of the Spaniards could be a blunder because the mutiny of the Cavitenos were started through the help of the Lakan Dula descendants who were taken from Palapag Spanish Ship Repair to Cavite. The Palapag Ship Repair was forcibly closed by the Spaniards. The only evidence of its busy maritime past is a tall, lonely stone tower used as a lookout for invading Muslim pirates.

    The descendants of David Dula y Goiti slowly merged with the community and a lots of them do not even know their ancestry even now. From the historical accounts of the old folks of the clan, notably, the late Candawid Barangay Captain Macario Dulay; David Dulay is a wealthy Tagalog with several wives and children. The children from the first wife carry the surname Dulay to hide them from the Spanish persecutions. The children from the second wife used the surname Dula to reconnect to their Lakan Dula heritage. The children from his other wives used the surnames of their mothers. Some younger children from the first wife settled in Laoang town and made good in arrastre business and another younger brother joined a Spanish shipping crew to Manila and fell in love with a pretty native from Samara, Aringay in the Northern Philippines where they later settled and raise a big family, but their eldest brother remained in Candawid, Isla de Batag, running the coconut plantation with uninterrupted lineage of his first born descendants down to the generation of Petre and Elpidio, until Ceferino who surprisingly decided to go back to their ancestral homeland in Tondo and raised a big family. Later in his life, he uprooted his family in Tondo and together with some relatives, settled in Marikina Valley. They are now known as the Angkan ng Dulay dito sa Lambak ng Marikina. The descendants of Daba and Dola are still being identified. They are found mostly in Pampanga. They are so badly disunited that they are throwing accusations to each side, as traitors or Spanish collaborators. They dont have any identified clan head which makes the situation worst. Understandable, because Daba and Dola are both female, so their descendants must be sporting new surnames now.

    So, it can be said that the foundation of the uprising in Cavite that culminated in Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo's proclamation of independence in Kawit was hatched in the household of Lakan Dula in Tondo, with the Sumoroy Revolt in the second district of Northern Samar as one  major attempts to drive away the invaders, and onward to the ship ports in Cavite where the descendants of Lakan Dula from Laoang and Palapag were forced to work that led to the Cavite Mutiny and all the way to the struggle of Aguinaldo. The Tondo (Lakan Dula)- Waray (Sumoroy) - Caviteno (Aguinaldo) triumvirate rebellions contributed a lot in the birth of the Filipino nation. This is the link of Lakan Dula to the birth of the Philippine Republic . From kingdom to republic, Lakan Dula's wisdom and bloodline became the hidden, basic and important fiber in our quest for a homeland, even up to the present with the Sumpa ni Lakan Dula guiding the Philippine Presidents. 

    When the Revolutionary Philippine Government of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo formally protested the sham Treaty of Paris, the official  diplomatic letter of protest invoked that the Philippine archipelago is the ancestral domain of the native Filipinos under the hereditary guardianship of the Lakans of Tondo, with Lakan Bunao Dula as the last King and the archipelago decided to be a sovereign nation headed by President Emilio Aguinaldo. This is the legal basis of the formal protest of the Philippine government against the Treaty of Paris.