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https://www.facebook.com/HawaiianSpaniard

Created by Michael Campos Muñoz

8,000 Spanish families would make their way from Spain to Hawaii working on sugar and pineapple plantations. Life was very hard as most left Hawaii for California, to work in the fields and canneries. Now, four generations later these Spanish immigrants have blended into the fiber of America. I hope this small contribution help Professor James D. Fernandez whose great work can be seen on the Facebook fan page called Spanish Immigrants in the United States and his web page http://tracesofspainintheus.org/

Thanks to Steven Alonzo, Patricia Ruiz Steele and Cristóbal Navas Perez for their work transcribing the original manifest documents into these databases.

https://www.facebook.com/TheSpanishGirlImmigrant 

Special Books by other authors:

An American Paella by Gloria Lopez

SS Heliopolis by Miguel Alba Trujillo

SS Orteric by Miguel Alba Trujillo

Invisible Immigrants 

by James D. Fernandez and Luis Argeo

Inmigrantes Españoles en Hawaii (Also in English: Spanish Immigrants to Hawaii 

by Francisco Javier Albertos

Emigración Española a Hawai 1899-1913 by José Pérez Martin

Doors, Dishes, and Dreams

 by Francie Martinez Vicondoa

 IMMIGRATION SHIP MANIFESTS 1907-1913

The immigrant ship manifests are currently being transcribed and indexed for descendants from the ship sailings.  

The index has been published to  

Spanish Hawaiian Heritage Association.

This was created to preserve the memory of the more than 8,000 Spaniards who emigrated to Hawaii between 1907 and 1913 on the ships Heliopolis, Orteric, Willesden, Harpalion, and Ascot and then to California.  The group is organizing its September 2025 California congress to bring together all Spanish descendants who wish to attend.  https://www.sphha.org

https://www.piccavey.com/spain-books/

 Books about Spain, set in Spain or with a Spanish theme. A list of over 50 titles to read. 

 17th March 2020

Molly began writing about Spain in 2011. Based in Andalusia. Molly is passionate about Mediterranean lifestyle, historic sites and Spanish food. Living like a local in Spain since 1998, she is fluent in Spanish. 

Molly enjoys sharing her travel tips and recommendations on this blog.  

SILVAN LEAVES tells the story of the  Silvan family, who sailed from Spain and eventually migrated to California.  Their story is in the historical novel, The Girl Immigrant.

1911 - SS Orteric

Juan Francisco Silvan Hernandez

Victorino Silvan Hernandez

Crescencia Silvan Hernandez

RUIZ LEGACIES tells the story of two Ruiz siblings who sailed from Spain to the Hawaiian sugar plantations on separate ships.

1907 - SS Heliopolis: 

Dolores "Glory" Ruiz García and  Antone Ruis Martos remained in Hawaii to raise their children and build a successful dairy farm.

1912 - SS Harpalion: 

Francisco Ruiz García and Maria Rey García 

emigrated to California, where they worked in the agricultural industry on their ranch 

Their other Ruiz siblings remained in Spain