There used to be a family in Asan called CHIBOG.
The family goes all the way back to the 1700s. The name was also spelled Chiboc, Chibuc or Chibug. Spelling was not consistent in those days.
In 1791, in Spanish documents, there is a man named ANTONINO CHIBOG who was Teniente of the village of Asan. The Teniente was something like the assistant, or second-in-command, of the higher official who was in charge of something bigger than one village, so he had a Teniente to care for one section of his responsibility.
The document states that Antonino was the successor of an earlier Teniente named VOLFANGO CHIBOG. Volfango is the Spanish form of the German name Wolfgang (like Mozart), so this suggests to me that Volfango Chibog was born prior to 1769 which is when the Jesuit missionaries were expelled from the Marianas. Some, if not many, of the Jesuit missionaries in the mid 1700s were actually Germans, so the name Volfango was spread by them.
We know that Chibog women dominated the family in the late 1800s.
A María Chibog had married Gelacio Muña from Aniguak.
Mariano Materne also from Aniguak was a Chibog on his mother's side.
Marcela Tenorio was also a Chibog on her other's side.
BY 1897
By the 1897 Guam Census, there were only three people named Chibog on Guam.
All three were siblings, the children of Lorenzo Chibog and his wife Gabina Fegurgur. Sometimes her name is spelled Gavina.
They had two daughters and one son : Ana, María and Antonio.
Ana married Bernardo Cruz Pascual and had two daughters. The family moved to Saipan. The two daughters themselves married so the Chibog name was lost as the children took on their fathers' last names.
Neither María nor Antonio ever married and had children; so, the Chibog name was eventually lost when the two of them died, which was before the 1920 Census.
Lydia, the woman above, from San Roque in Saipan, was a Chibog. Her mother was Rosa Chibog Pascual, the daughter of Ana Fegurgur Chibog and Bernardo Cruz Pascual. They moved from Asan to Saipan in the early 1900s.
Buenas Pale, this is my late Mother in-law. My wife's (Rosalita) mother. We were just talking about the last name Chibog and trying to find out her Maternal Grandmother's name (Rosa Pascual Babauta). This is very interesting.
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