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Starting in 1907, several campaigns to recruit farmers were carried out in Spain and Portugal, especially in Castilla, Extremadura and Andalusia (mainly Málaga and Granada), to work sugar cane in Hawaiian plantations.
Some 8,000 Spanish compatriots responded to these calls with the false promise of a substantial improvement in their living conditions. Part of the contingent was made up of families and citizens of Estepona.
Based on the records available, it is estimated that around 300 people left this town. Many of the participating families were closely related to each other, so we can talk about them moving to Hawaii, or thanks to the trip, authentic groups, family clans were formed. An example of this was formed by the Aguilar - de Hoyos families, the Vílchez brothers and the Caravaca - Infante families.
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| Diego Aguilar Vélez and María Hoyos Jerez. Source: Joey V. Nardone |
The family made up of Diego Aguilar Vélez, 50 (born around 1861), and María de Hoyos Jerez, 44 (born 9/24/1867), traveled from Gibraltar to Honolulu in 1911, aboard the S.S. Willesden, accompanied by their children Diego, 20, Isabel, 18, Sebastián, 12, Francisco, 8, and Ildefonso, 4. They were sent to the sugar plantations in Honomu.
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| Extract from the passenger list of the SS. Willesen.1911. Source: Ancestry |
From a family tree of the Valerio, Infante, López, Caravaca, etc. family, found in Ancestry, and from those prepared by Dª Antonia María Aguado, we have that Diego Aguilar Vélez was the son of Diego Aguilar Rodríguez and Agustina Vélez Zaballos; and María de Hoyos Jerez was the daughter of Gerónimo de Hoyos Muñoz and Isabel Jerez Vázquez and granddaughter of Sebastián and Ana on the paternal line and of Miguel Jerez Ramos and Catalina Vázquez Fernández on the maternal line.
It is striking that if we look at the civil registry that is in the Municipal Historical Archive of Estepona, we find a marriage record, dated November 5, 1860, of Diego José de la Cruz, of unknown parents, and Agustina Velez Zaballos, daughter of Juan and Lucia. Both were from Estepona; he was thirty-two years old, and she was 30.
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| Marriage registration. AHME. Sig.- L-01139 |
On board the same ship, but on its second voyage, in February 1913, two other children joined: María Dolores (María) and Antonio. He stayed in Estepona because he was too young for the first trip and his sister María stayed with him, at the home of one of his mother's sisters. Joey V. Nardone believes that she was Ana and comments that she went to visit them in Hawaii and when she arrived she felt that something bad had happened to her son. She returned to Estepona and found that her son had died.
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The last child of the Aguilar-de Hoyos couple was Manuel, who was born in 1912 in Hilo (Hawaii).
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| María de Hoyos Jerez with her son Manuel Aguilar de Hoyos, in Hilo (Hawaii) around 1914-1915 Source: Hawaiian Spaniards. Photo courtesy of Mr. Joey V. Nardone |
The people who make up the Aguilar – Hoyos family and who appear in the following photograph are:
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Aguilar - de Hoyos Familie.
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• Back row (from left to right): Eduardo López (husband of María Aguilar de Hoyos), Isabel Aguilar de Hoyos, José Vílchez (husband of Isabel Aguilar de Hoyos), Sebastián Aguilar de Hoyos, Francisco Aguilar de Hoyos, Diego Aguilar de Hoyos.
• Front row (from left to right): Alfonso Aguilar de Hoyos, Manuel Aguilar de Hoyos, María Aguilar de Hoyos, Diego Aguilar Vélez, María de Hoyos Jerez and Antonio Aguilar de Hoyos.
Diego, Isabel and Francisco left for San Francisco on March 16, 1917 aboard the SS Great Northern, while the rest of the family left on December 19 of that same year on the SS Makura.
According to the 1920 US census, the family (except Isabel) lived on V Street, Washington, Alameda, California and according to the 1930 census, the parents and three children: Diego, Ildefonso and Manuel, are at the same address.
All family members always lived close to each other. They settled in San Francisco, and some, including Ildefonso and Manuel, in the East Bay, in the San Lorenzo and Hayward areas. The family patriarchs originally lived in the Monte Eden area and Alvarado and Diego Jr. remained with them. When the parents passed away, Diego moved to Redwood City to be close to most of the family.
Diego Aguilar Vélez died on January 21, 1934 and his remains rest in Mount Eden Cemetery, Hayward, Alameda County, California.
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| Foto: M. J. Martin. Source: Find a Grave |
Diego Aguilar de Hoyos was born in Estepona on September 7, 1891. He remained single, became a US citizen on May 15, 1962, and died in Redwood City, California, on February 16, 1974.
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| Application to obtain US citizenship. Source: Ancestry |
Isabel Aguilar de Hoyos, born in Estepona on March 4, 1893, married in Honolulu on July 8, 1916, with José Vílchez Gil, born in Estepona on 5/10/1891, son of Bartolomé Vílchez Troyano and Francisca Gil López (1).
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| José Vílchez Gil and Isabel Aguilar. Source: Joey V. Nardone |
José Vílchez Gil died on May 29, 1954 in Redwood City, San Mateo County and his wife on July 30, 1979 in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California.
María Dolores Aguilar de Hoyos, born in Estepona around 1896, she married Eduardo López Barquero, who traveled to Hawaii with her mother, a widow, and four brothers, on the second crossing of the Willesden in 1913, when she was 19 years old. They came from Guijo de Galisteo (Cáceres) and he embarked on the SS Mongolia on April 30, 1914 to go to San Francisco. They had no children.
Maria passed away on April 24, 1978.
Sebastián Aguilar de Hoyos, was born in Estepona on March 26, 1899 and dedicated himself to painting cars. According to the citizenship petition, he married in San Francisco on January 28, 1923, Concepción Caravaca Infante, born in Estepona on August 5, 1901, the daughter of Gonzalo Caravaca Jerez and María Concepción Infante Aragón.
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They had 5 children: Mary (María or Mariquita), born on 12/26/1923, Lawrence (5/28/1927), James (12/18/1928), Daniel (12/28/1929), and Elena (19 /5/1933).
Sebastián Aguilar de Hoyos died on October 16, 1968 in San Carlos, San Mateo, CA, and his wife in 1978 in San Mateo County, CA.
Francisco Aguilar de Hoyos, married Isabel Margaret Vigil Carrillo, from Jaén de Linares, who traveled to Hawaii on the S.S. Orteric, and had 5 children. Born in Estepona on April 16, 1903, he died in Shasta, California on April 3, 1983. His wife, Isabel, died very young, on July 6, 1950. He was 44 years old.
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| Francisco Aguilar de Hoyos. Source: Ancestry |
Alfonso and Claudia divorced. He remarried an American and had, with her, another son named Robert.
Ildefonso Aguilar de Hoyos passed away in Alameda, California, on September 24, 1975.
Antonio (Tony) Aguilar de Hoyos was born in Estepona on May 21, 1909, and married on March 9, 1929 in San Francisco. His wife was called Mª Concepción (Connie or Constance) Arias Romero, daughter of Rafael Arias Pérez and María Matilde Romero Pérez, a native of Alcázar (town and district of Órgiva) although she lived with her family in Bubión before embarking towards Hawaii. She was born on October 26, 1906 and passed away on May 10, 2000 in Redwood City, San Mateo, CA.
In 1930 they had their first daughter, Lorraine; in 1931 Eleanor was born; and later, in 1934, Antonio (Tony Jr.) was born.
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| Connie and Tony Aguilar. Source: Ancestry |
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| Application to obtain US citizenship. Source: Ancestry |
Lorraine Aguilar Arias was born in San Francisco on March 22, 1930; she married in San Mateo County, CA, on August 6, 1950, Richard Bernard Einselen, born 1/23/1925 in San Francisco; and she passed away on January 22, 2015. Her husband died a short time later on October 6, 2015.
Eleanor Aguilar Arias was born on March 22, 1931 in San Francisco, married Roberto D. Lópes on April 10, 1955, and died in San José, Santa Clara (CA), on February 11, 2000.
Manuel Aguilar de Hoyos was born in Hilo in 1912 and according to the 1950 US Census, lived at 6 Th Avenue, Eden, Alameda, California; he worked in the cement and construction industry, his wife's name was Sara and they had three children: David, Helen (Elena) and Manuel.
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| 1950 US Census sheet. Source Ancestry |
He passed away on November 21, 1992 in Fremont, Alameda County, California.
References:
(1) This family has its own biography in another article.
NOTE:
In addition, the documentary sources used for the development of the project are:
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