Ancestry.com has now posted the “Honolulu, Hawaii Passenger Lists -1900-1953.” The Honolulu Passenger Lists consists of inbound vessel passenger manifests for February 1900 to December 1953. The following description is from the Ancestry.com website:
This data collection contains inbound passenger lists arriving at Honolulu, Hawaii from February 13, 1900 to December 30, 1953. The lists include both alien and U.S. citizen arrivals. In later years passengers may have arrived by airplane rather than by ship.
A variety of passenger list forms were used. Some are INS forms, others are steamship company forms. Different forms were often used for aliens versus U.S. citizens, so that different questions could be asked. Many forms were several pages long. It may be necessary to navigate forward and backward in the image viewer in order to see all of the images pertaining to a particular manifest.
Typical information recorded on a passenger list includes:
- Name of passenger
- Age
- Gender
- Marital status
- Occupation
- Citizenship (nationality)
- Last permanent residence
- Birthplace
- Ultimate destination
- Name and address of individual intended to join
- Date of arrival
- Date and place of last arrival in the U.S.
- Physical description
In searching these Honolulu inbound passenger lists I ran across Bonnie Claussen, a cousin of my older brothers and sisters (their father was a Claussen). This document didn’t give a lot of information on him, but it say that he was 22 years old at the time, in 1942. Following is a copy of that document.
The following is from the Ancestry.com News Release:
Honolulu Passenger Lists, 1900-1953, consists of more than 1.4 million records of passenger arrivals to Honolulu, Hawaii. Because of Hawaii’s role as a vacation spot and as a stopping point for people migrating from the Eastern side of the globe to the United States, these records can provide invaluable clues about family immigration and travel. Passenger lists include name, birth year, ethnicity, port and date of arrival and departure, ship or airline name and much more.
Included in this collection are some familiar names who visited the island of Oahu from 1900 to 1953:
- Rita Hayworth – For the filming of Miss Sadie Thompson, Rita traveled to Hawaii aboard the ship Lurline and arrived in Honolulu on May 23, 1953.
- Shirley Temple – In 1935, at the age of six, Shirley Temple traveled to Hawaii with her parents, Gertrude and George, for the filming of Curly Top. She returned to Hawaii in 1937 and 1939.
- Cary Grant (Archibald Leach) – Traveling with Mary Astor (Lucille) and her husband, Manuel Del Campo, aboard the Mastonia, in 1938.
- John Wayne – Arrived in Honolulu with wife, Esperanza, aboard the ship Lurline on March 19, 1952 for the filming of Big Jim McLain.
Other famous people found in this collection include Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Laurence Olivier, Spencer Tracy and Bette Midler’s father, Fred Midler, who arrived in Hawaii in 1940 aboard the ship Washington. Bette was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1945.
Now go find your relatives in the “Honolulu Passenger Lists 1900-1953” at Ancestry.com. Note that you can search the lists (which are indexed), or browse them year-by-year.
