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The Ginn, Zagalo, Marques Family





Madeira Islands

Porto da Cruz  [ˈpoɾtu dɐ ˈkɾuʃ], (Port of the Cross) is a parish in the district of Machico which lies in the northeastern part of the Madeira Islands of the Portuguese archipelago that lies in the north Atlantic Ocean.

A farming family leaves Portugal to start a new life in America.

The steamship the S.S. Kumeric left the port of Maderia on May 1st, 1907 with Manoel  Ramiz Marques, his wife Augusta Spinola, his first son, Alfeno Jaoa and new born daughter Maria for Honolulu Hawaii to grow sugar cane.  Alfeno was just two years old, and Maria was a new born, born January 20th, 1907.


The ship arrived in Honolulu Hawaii on June 27th 1907.  They found work at Pākalā Camp.   According to Wikipedia, in Hawaiian, Pakala literally means the sun shines.  Pakala Village is named for the temporary living quarters of plantation workers. This sugar plantation in the ahupua'a of Makaweli, the last remaining sugar plantation on Kauai. The plantation is managed by the Robinson family of Kauai and Niihau, who first arrived in Hawaii in 1863.

 The Marques family lived and worked in the Hawaiian Islands for fourteen years until  January 16, 1921 when they migrated to California.  While in Hawaii the family grew to seven children.  Alfeno and Maria being the oldest.  Alfeno went off on his own as did Maria.  The family moved to the Sacramento Valley where Manuel, his wife Augusta and daughter Maria (now Mary) worked in a canary.
Eleanore Laverne Zagalo was born to her mother Mary, June 14, 1928 in Alameda California.