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Guareca Hala: A Manchu Clan Named for a Locality

Ancestral localities, banner affiliation, and genealogical evidence

The Guareca clan appears in volume 55 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners. The source explicitly describes Guareca as originally a place-name later.

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Clan and Banner Background

The Guareca clan appears in volume 55 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners. The source explicitly describes Guareca as originally a place-name later used as a surname, while also recording families whose ancestral homes lay around the Changbai region and Jilin Ula. The place giving the clan its name must therefore be distinguished from every later family residence.

Family Service and Distinctions

Asu of the Bordered Blue Banner lived at Guareca and served as a cavalry-company officer; his son Suozhu held the same kind of post. Asu's grandson Yalantai served as a guard-company officer in the campaign against Galdan. He died at Jao Modo and received a posthumous yunqiwei distinction. His son Bulantai inherited it, but after Bulantai was removed for misconduct, the award passed to his younger brother Entehetai. The company offices and hereditary rank were separate.

Kinship, Succession, and Evidence

A Bordered Yellow Banner branch associated with Yelong'e included Saerbu, a bithesi, and Deming, president of the Board of Punishments. Another Plain White Banner line, descended from Lapute, included descendants serving in ceremonial, censorial, and teaching functions. The present records do not establish the nearest common ancestor of these branches. The precise historical location of Guareca still requires verification.

Sources and Bibliography

  1. Source reference 1 — zh.wikisource.org
  2. Source reference 2 — zh.wikisource.org
  3. Source reference 3 — zh.wikisource.org
  4. Source reference 4 — zh.wikisource.org

References reproduce links supplied with the Chinese research manuscript. Individual historical claims have not all been independently verified against the primary sources.