Hello Chuck,
I found the following information on http://aidaonline.niedersachsen.de/ :
Rep. 72/172 Geestem�nde Nr. 11462Staatsarchiv Stade
Bissen, Johann Heinrich, Drechslermeister Hypothek des Drechslermeisters
Johann Heinrich Bissen zugun-sten des Schachtmeisters Heinrich Kohlenberg
sowie B�rg-schaft der Ehefrau Maria Bissen, geb. Fuge, alle zu Geesten-dorf
This Heinrich Bissen was a turner. He took on a mortgage for H. Kohlenberg
and his wife Maria vouched for him.
They are from Geestendorf, which became Geestem�nde and part of the city of
Bremerhaven in the 1890's.
You might want to check all the entries for Geestendorf.
There exists an Ortsfamil�enbuch (OFB) for Geestendorf that might contain
your Bissen. Maybe somebody from the list has access to it and could look
up Bissen for you.
Titel: Das Familienbuch des Kirchenspiels Geestendorf (heute
Bremerhaven-Geestem�nde)
Untertitel: 1689-1874
Autor / Hrsg.: Friedrichs, Erika; Friedrichs, Klaus
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003 (?)
Umfang: 800 Seiten; 2 B�nde
Reihe ; Band: Deutsche Ortssippenb�cher / Reihe A; 289
Bearbeiteter Zeitraum: 1689-1874
Bearbeitete Orte: Geestendorf
There should be some Bissen in this OFB too:
Titel: Die Familien und Einwohner des Kirchspiels Wriedel
Untertitel: Ortsfamilienbuch 1758-1875
und Untersuchung zur Bev�lkerungsgeschichte
zu den Orten Arendorf, Brockh�fe, Holthusen I, Langlingen, Lintzel,
Lopau, Schatensen, Wriedel und Wulfsode
Autor / Hrsg.: Heinrich Porth
Hrsg.: Museums- und Heimatverein des Kreises Uelzen e. V.
Auflage: 2
Erscheinungsort: Uelzen
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Umfang: 257 S., 14 Tabellen, 18 Abbildungen
ISBN: ISBN 3-929864-12-6
Reihe ; Band: Quellen und Darstellungen zur Geschichte von Stadt und
Kreis Uelzen ; Band 7
Erg�nzende Angaben
Bearbeiteter Zeitraum:
You probably already know this link:
The German Immigrants of Kaua'i
By this time, however, it became apparent that they needed more help
and enlisted the agents of Hackfield and Company with offices in
Northwestern Germany, the area of Bremen and Hanover. H. H. Hackfield
apparently cut quite a figure with his two feet long white beard and
apparently was quite a salesman. The Hawaii Immigration Board gave approval
of all immigrants and even frequently subsidized the cost of the passage for
the women and children.
The first boat to ship out a load of German workers was the French
built bark "Cedar" which left Bremen on January 4, 1881. "It was the finest
ship ever entered the harbor of Honolulu", according to Jensen Blackstad.
The ship manifest included twenty-one families of 128 individuals. H.
Hackfeld paid 148$ each for 74 passengers. I'm uncertain about how the
others had the passage paid. Among these were 4 Swedes and 10 Norwegians,
the rest Germans. This first group didn't arrive in Honolulu until June 18th
of 1881, making the voyage about six months long. The Cedar was apparently
burned in a mutiny with a new American crew. The next year the "Ioloni"
brought nearly 200 more workers and their families. The Germans from this
group went to the island of Kilauea. In 1883 the steamer "Ehrenfels," in
only a two months voyage, brought over eight hundred passengers. During this
voyage, however, twenty-one children died. The surviving immigrants were
divided between the plantations Lihu'e and Koloa. Several smaller groups of
one to three families continued to arrive on other boats until 1897.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/importan35nnw.txt
1758-1875
HEINRICH HACKFIELD
[ Henry ]
(1815 -1887 )
Born near Palmenhorst in Oldenburg. Germany, Hackfield was captain of
his own trading vessel on the China Coast before 1848, when he left the
port of Hamburg for Hawai'i. He opened a shop in Honolulu in 1849 as a
ship's chandler and general agent. He moved to a location on Fort Street
that today is the site of his company's successor, Amfac's Liberty
House. Hackfield developed a business of importing machinery and
supplies for the spreading sugar plantations and exported raw sugar. H.
Hackfield & Co. became prominent factors ---Agents and Shippers -- for
plantations, especially when the Koloa and East Mau'i holdings headed by
Dr. R. W. Wood began to succeed.
Hackfield was appointed consul in Hawai'i for Germany, Norway, and
Sweden in 1852. He was a charter member of the Honolulu Chamber of
Commerce. he retired in 1861, but his concern thrived ad became one of
the top companies in the islands; during World War I the assets of the
German owned firm were liquidated and acquired by a new corporation,
American Factors, Ltd ( later Amfac ), which became one of the so-called
" Big
Five." Hackfield returned to Germany in 1863 because of the illness of
his wife, and severed his connection with the firm in 1886, a year
before his death.