Wednesday, February 9, 2011

original info on the SS Heliopolis, 1907

Originally this post covered Voyage #1: SS Heliopolis, 1907, which has been re-written and re-posted... please check the new posts for a more complete version

11 comments:

Patti said...

hello the ortegas.my name is gary gonzales.all of my grandparents and great grandpartents were on the ss heliopolis 1907.their last names were gonzalez,tornay,perz and pachon.from hawaii all of themsetlled all around the bay area.from hollister to fairfield.i was wondering if any of your family knew of any of them. my cell number is 8318010266 hollister ca

Julianne said...

Gary, it is unlikely that I will be able to help with our families knowing each other, but I will notify you if I find anything.

Till then I hope you enjoy reading about the voyage. Where in Spain is your family from? what are their first names?

Patti said...

Julianne,
The manifest page has the name of the my great grandparents, Juan Pachon and Lorena Reina Jaen. My grand mother's name was Dolores Pachon (11) and my great aunt's name was Carmen (13).

Now I have two out of the 8 grand parents that were on the Ship.

All of my family was from southern Spain...Malaga, Granada, Ronda, and Jaen... What about yours??

Also, do you know how difficult it is to find the original ship manifest??

Thank you,

Gary G.

Patti said...

Hello!

My family was from Southern Spain...Malaga, Jaen, Granada,and Ronda.

My great grandparents were named: Juan Pachon and Lorenza Reina Jaen...their two daughters names were Carmen Pachon (13) and Dolores (my grandmother) was 11.
My grandfather, was married Dolores, was Jose Perez. This is my mother's side of the family.

On my father's side their names were: Manuel ramos Gonzales & Maria Goday.

Where are your relatives from? Also, how difficult is it to find the manifest??

thank you,

Gary

Julianne said...

I have found the manifest on Ancestry.com... which I no longer have a subscription to. But I do have access to an listing of the passengers from the Heliopolis from a fellow descendent, Robert Rodrigues. I am working on converting it to be a searchable document and then it will be posted

Julianne said...

For more information on the 1907 voyage of the SS Heliopolis go to
http://heliopolis-malaga.blogspot.com/

Patti said...

Eureka......I found it.....took me two months to figure it out ...but the Ramos's on the manifest (44)...is my ggf Manuel Ramos (age 44) should be Manuel Gonzalez ramos....and the family is Gonzalez...with a z. My grandfather age 15 was listed as Jose Ramos.....but was always known by Joseph Gonzales (with the s)

Singh PDX said...

fantastic, our family also voyaged from Spain and Portugal to Hawaii aboard the Heliopolis, and later aboard the Lurline from Hawaii to San Francisco in 1920.

Cheers!

Becky
(family names aboard the ship: Villena and DeCorte)

Julianne said...

Gary Gonzales,

sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. I've been distracted.

First I would like to mention that in Spain people have multiple surnames, the first being their fathers name and the 2nd being the mothers fathers name; thus surnames on the Manifest would be their legal names in Spain. When they immigrated to America, they would have dropped their mothers name and used only their fathers last name.


I have a friend that is working on a new index to the manifest. He would like to know what town your ancestors are from.

is the town "Futalan or Tutalan", He thinks it is Totalan

on May 2 2011, you said: On my father's side their names were: Manuel Ramos Gonzales & Maria Goday

Might she have another family name? or a different spelling? Christobal does not recognize the
surname Godoy, as being from Totalan, but a people very, very close are called "Colmenar"

Unknown said...

Gonzalez part of my family.
Manuel Gonzalez Ramos was married to Maria Godoy Godoy.Their son Miguel Gonzalez Godoy married Lucia Pretel Moles [my great aunt]. Other children: Jose, Manuel, Manuela, Salvador, Maria
Maria Gonzalez Godoy married Jose Ruiz Aguera. Their child Maria Ruiz Gonzalez married my great uncle Manuel Pretel Moles.

Anonymous said...

hello steve ,i met your uncle about 50 years ago at their smith river ago.My fathers name was frank and his fathers name was Joe Gonzales .My grandmothers name was juana Gonazales Tornay.HER families name Mariscal was from venojan. gary

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