Fernandes Family in Kaua'i

Frank (Francisco the younger) was Frances Mildred Rose Fernandes Dommel’s father.  He married Rose (Rosa or Rosie) Gomes.  They had Álvaro (Alfred or Primo), William (Bill or Willy), Alexander, Margaret, Frances and two infants, Reiana (September 17-25, 1917) and Catherine (buried behind The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church in Waimea, Kaua`i) who died soon after birth.  Rose died when Frances was very young (4) and her father Frank and the kids moved in with his father, Francisco, where her maiden aunts, Maria (Mary) and Luiza (Louisa, later Sister Clare) also lived.  Frank died of kidney disease when Frances was 11, so two aunts raised her until Filomena arranged for her to live with Uncle Joe and Auntie Elizabeth in Honolulu, and to attend Roosevelt High School, then an “English Standard” school.  After graduation Frances attended the University of Hawaii and earned a bachelor’s degree in education in 1945 and a fifth year teaching degree in 1956. 

 

Uncle Tony owned the movie theater in Kekaha, was postmaster there and worked as a bookkeeper for the plantation.  Uncle John worked at the Hofgaard Store in Waimea.  John and Tony eventually moved to California in their later years.

 

The 1930 census indicates these people in the household of Francisco Fernandes:

 

Francisco, age 73  

Frank, 45

Mary, 43

Louisa, 27

Augustine, 22

Alvaro, 13

William, 11

Alexander, 9

Margaret, 8

Frances, 5