In the late 1800s, my family journeyed from continental Portugal, the Azores & Madeira to the Hawaiian Islands. Some ended up as plantation laborers, others left and went to the Mainland.
My mother’s family stayed on the Islands. They started out cutting sugar cane and driving cattle. They were known as Pukiki to the local Hawaiians and Portagees to themselves. In Portugal, they are called: Luso-Havaínos – Portuguese from Hawaiʻi or Luso-Hawaiians.
- Codeiros & de Câmaras geneology and fissures
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My father’s Portuguese relatives started out in Hawai’i and left after a few years for the Bay Area in California – they hail from Lisbon and the Azores; my second-great grandfather worked as a gardener on the Kimberly Clark estate in Redlands and many of the others became Dairymen.