Last year March 27, 2013, I wrote an article, "A Little Girl Named Mariana."
To summarize, Mariana was about two years old when Father San Vitores and his entourage docked in the Mariana Islands. She was one of the first to be baptized and was baptized on the ship by Father Luis Medina. What was not clear was the identity of her father Pedro, who took her aboard ship on June 16, 1668. The two primary conflicting information found in manuscripts regarding Mariana's father, was his ethnicity (Filipino versus Spanish) and his last name (Calungsod versus Jimenez).
So it turns out that her father indeed was Pedro Jimenez (sometimes spelled Ximinez in manuscripts). Pedro was a Filipino that survived the Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion shipwreck of 1638. Unlike other survivors of that shipwreck, who eventually made their way back to the Philippines, Pedro decided to settle in the Mariana Islands. Unfortunately, I have yet to find the name of Mariana's mother.
Sidebar...In September 1990, National Graphic published quite a story on recovery and salvage of the Concepcion.
References:
Rodrigue Levesque. 1995a. History of Micronesia, A Collection of Source Documents, Volume 4 – Religious Conquest, 1638-1670. Levesque Publications: Quebec, Canada
Augusto V. de Viana. 2004b. In the Far Islands: the Role of Natives from the Philippines in the Conquest, Colonization and Repopulation of the Mariana Islands. University of Santo Tomas: Manila, Philippines.
