Vinancio Timosa Fellisarta
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content: Filipino Agricultural Workers Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical
content: Vinancio Timosa Fellisarta was born in 1894 in Anda, Bohol, Philippines. He departed from Manila, Philippines on March 16, 1918, aboard the S. S. Columbia. A month later, he arrived at the port of Honolulu, Hawai'i. In Hawai'i, Felisarta worked as a laborer for the Ewa Plantation Company, a substantial sugar plantation that was affiliated with the Hawaiian Sugar Plantation Association which employed numerous Filipino immigrant workers.  According to his World War I draft registration card for United States military service, dated October 26, 1918, his nearest relative was identified as his father Hermorines Felisarta. Information relating to his later life could not be located.


*Conflicting birth date: US Word War I Draft Registration Card, 1894. Honolulu, Hawai'i Arriving and Departing Passenger and Crew List, 1896. Honolulu, Hawai'i Index to Passenger Arriving, 1886.

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Registration State: Hawai'i; Registration County: Hawai'i

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, DC; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving At Honolulu, Hawaii, Compiled 02/13/1900 - 12/30/1953; NAI Number: A4156; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: RG 85

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, DC; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving At Honolulu, Hawai'i, Compiled 02/13/1900 - 12/30/1953; NAI Number: A3422; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: RG 85

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, DC; Index to Filipino Passengers Arriving at Honolulu, Hawai'i, circa 1900-circa 1952; Microfilm Series: A3407; Microfilm Roll: 8
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content: 1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1515, Series 8
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content: Archival materials
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content: Contains letters written to Vinancio Timosa Fellisarta from Felisa Felisarta and Celedonia Felisarta in 1971 from Bohol, Philippines. These letters are in Visayan. The relationship between the correspondents and Vinancio Timosa Fellisarta is unknown.  Their communications probably add little information to understanding his life in Stockton, California. Instead, they serve as primary source materials for understanding the important aspects of Filipino lives in the 1970s.