My Mother's Lineage ( See
Graphic)
(source: From a 1960 555-notebook
of the late Moilis Masampung)
Once upon a time, sometime
during the 2nd half of the 19th century, there were two brothers:
1 Sumporot
(The
ancestor of the Moilis Family)and
2. Gontolob
(My
great great grandfather). Gontolob had three sons:
2.1 Sombuling
(My
great grandfather, who married
Soluoi1,
my great grandma, i.e after
divorcing his 1st wife, Tinggahoi, ( due perhaps to her infidelity, or
his? One can't be too sure.
(See 2.2 below.), and together they had two
daughters,
2.1.1 Jouhim Sombuling
My grandma. Jouhim Sombuling,
married my grandpa, Manjal
Dondiau,2
and between them they had 5 children:
2.1.1.1 Majaim
Manjal
(m)
2.1.1.2 Jikuis
Manjal (f) (My mom who married
Kutai Sintik/Dagul.
Yeah, that's m' Dad)
2.1.1.3 Jinggulis
Manjal
(f)
2.1.1.4 Bilingan
Manjal (f)
2.1.1.5 Jouyis
Manjal (f)
2.1.2 Losinggun (Losinggun passed away before she could marry. A
memory painfully
expressed by Jouhim while she was yet alive).
2.2
Dulan ( Remember the infidelity thing in 2.1? Well, this Dulan eventually
married Sombuling's
1st wife, Tinggahoi. He didn't beget any decendant though, poor guy, but
I guess I have so
much to thank him for.)
2.3
Dalagi
(A reknown Violin
maker of his time, it was said. He gave lineage to the Mojilis
family.)
My Father's Lineage
(source: From a notebook
by Rozalie Sitayun as dictated by her father, Sitayun Dagul.)
These were the original brothers
and sisters ever recorded in a book of remembrance:
1. Sungkahid
(m) who fathered Majanggol
2. Majambat
(m) who fathered Lajawai
3. Somoyu(m)
who fathered Lojinon
and Jianji
4. Dohilig
(m)
5. (Unknown
female) who
mothered Singguan
6. Mokinta
(f)(My
great grandmother who married Modusin
and
had three daughters
and a son)
6.1
Singkiau
6.2 Tominah
and
6.3 Louvai3(my
grandmother who was married to Dagul
Kambalot4) and
6.4 A son
(the
father of Jopuin.)
7. Undioi
(f)
the father of Suoh
8. Unknown
female the
mother of Masagal
9. Ganggayou
(m) the father of Molimin
1Soluoi (she
was the great grandmother from my mother side)
It
was rumoured that Soluoi
came from Kibambangan with a host of others for a Tamu day at
Kolombuong (now Inanam) on one fine day in the late 1800s. She had
cried all the way to Inanam,
it was said, due to her fear of those jungle leeches that lined up
her jungle path. On account of
that, she resolved never to return home and pass through that detestable
path again. Instead she
took up residence at Kg. Sobog, Bambangan in a make-shift hut,
and with single-minded
determination opened up a piece of land therein until she got
bethrotted to one, Sombuling
Gontolob. They were blessed with two daughters, Jouhim
and Losunggim, the latter of whom
died in her adoloscence. My mother, Jikuis
Manjal, the daughter of Jouhim
Sombuling, is still
living on the land first opened up by Soluoi.
2Manjal
Dondiau. He was my maternal grandfather the husband of
Jouhim.
He
was a simpleton
who supported
his family by farming, hunting and as the way then, by collecting wild
fruits which
were aplenty.
It was in one of those wild-fruit collecting spree that he met his
end when he fell
down
from one of those trees and had one of his legs, it was said, poked through
by one of those
sharp
tree markers (put up earlier by himself).
3
Louvai
died
a mental case, probably a congenital type. Poor woman, she didn't manage
to raise
her last
son, Kutai, properly
on account of her constant bout of craziness. In her last bout, she
burnt
her wooden leg guards and got herself burnt to death. Kutai grew up as
a wanderer among
relatives,
mainly with his elder siblings but also with some relatives at Kg.
Hungab which was
nearer
his school . It was said that he had ever stayed with the
Molukun
family of Penampang for sometimes .
4Kambalot
had only 2 sons: Dagul
and Jali. Dagul
married Louvai, while Jali remain single. It
appeared, though. that he (Jali) had and affair with Singkiau,
the elder sister of Louvai, and had a
daughter called Kimoi.
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