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She died of tuberculosis, aged 25. Biography. Early life. A copy of Bracken's baptismal certificate. Bracken was born in Victoria Barracks in Hong Kong on August 9, 1876, to Irish parents [4] James Bracken, a corporal in the British Army, and Elizabeth Jane McBride, who were married on May 3, 1868, in Belfast, Ireland.
When Josephine was 7, her godmother—whose name Leopoldine was added to her own—also died. In 1891, her foster father remarried another Portuguese lady from Macau, Francesca Spencer. Because Josephine could not get along with Taufer’s new wife, she (Josephine) ran away and sought shelter in a boarding house run by nuns.
Jan 4, 2013 · ADVERTISEMENT. It is unfortunate, though, that not much is known about his “dulce extranjera (sweet stranger),” Josephine Bracken. Besides, their brief love affair in Dapitan and the Rizal family’s dislike for Josephine was a mere footnote after his death.
Nov 3, 2016 · How did fate bring them together? The hero meets his Irish love. It all happened in Dapitan, a secluded, rural village at the southern tip of Zamboanga, where Jose Rizal was banished to by Spanish...
May 13, 2011 · WHILE MOST people are forgotten as soon as they are put six feet under, Josephine Bracken remains controversial 119 years after she died of “milliary tuberculosis and ulceration of the breast.”
Oct 26, 2016 · Josephine Bracken was born in Victoria Barracks in Hongkong on August 9, 1876 to an Irish couple, James Bracken and Elizabeth McBride. Because her mother died after giving birth to her and because her father, being a military man, was always on the move, Josephine was adopted by her American godfather George Edward Taufer and his wife.
Dec 27, 2019 · This is the very book he gave to his wife Josephine Bracken before he was executed in Luneta on December 30, 1896. It includes a handwritten note from Rizal for his wife, which reads “To my dear and unhappy wife, Josephine Bracken.”
