Hi All,
This is an interesting topic as I am too a Teves on my mother's side. It is true that the Philippines has the largest concentration of Teves especially in the Negros Oriental area. The oldest record of Teves was Don Vicente Anunciacion Teves who came to the Philippines to establish sugar mills/farms in Negros around the 1800s. This started the Teves line in the Philippines. Try the below two sites to see the extensive Family Tree as well as the history of the first Teves in the Philippines.
www.tanjaycity.org/familytrees/TevesTree-Ver8-7Sep2012.pdfhttp://rafael-baiscitypoliticalhistory.blogspot.hk/2011/02/t...The question of the very origin is not clear. According to belief agreed by many in the Philippines the first Teves came from mainland China which I could presume to be Macao specifically since according to my Uncle who went to Spain, most Teves are in Southern Spain or Portugal. Since Macao is a Portuguese Colony then the theory would be near correct. They married Spaniards in the Philippines giving rise to mixed Spanish/Portuguese/Chinese descent.