Koon Hung Sunn
also known as Kon Hung Sun, as recorded on the 1911 Mongolia manifest
b. ~1897, Honolulu
📖 English version below — Jump to English ↓ · 本页中文在上，英文见下方。
孙坤宏 (Koon Hung Sunn) — Stella 的父亲；亦是 Eesley 家族通过 Stella 接纳进来的华裔分支中最深一代的祖辈。约1897年生于檀香山 — 本土夏威夷人，非第一代移民，孙家在他这一代之前已在夏威夷扎根。
1911年11月，14岁的他乘SS Mongolia号客轮抵达檀香山，姓名在乘客舱单上写作 Kon Hung Sun — 是一次返港，而非首次入境。资料出处：Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Honolulu, Hawaii, 1900–1953 (A3422, 胶片31)。其姓氏的英文拼写在不同记录中有 Kon Hung Sun 与 Koon Hung Sunn 两种写法 — 此为该时代华人姓氏英文拼写不稳定的常见现象。
他娶 Mabel Lee Sunn，亦在美国出生。1940年时孙家居于瓦胡岛第五选区。Stella两位父母都是第二代或更后代的夏威夷华裔 — 这一事实加上Stella本人并非日本裔的澄清，是为何Jeanne姑姑的战时叙述在事实正确但在机制细节上存在误记的原因。
他更早的家世以及父母身份，目前尚未纳入本档案。
注：除孙姓外人名汉字为推测，待家族确认。
English
The earlier estimate was about right: Koon Hung Sunn was 27 when his daughter Stella was born in 1925, putting him around 1898. The 1911 Honolulu passenger manifest tightens that to ~1897 and adds two facts the parish records can’t reach:
- He was born in Honolulu, not in China — a Hawaii-native, with the family already established there before his own generation. The “immigration” line on the 1911 manifest is really a re-arrival; he had been somewhere else and came home aboard the SS Mongolia at age 14. Source: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Honolulu, Hawaii, 1900–1953, Affiliate Publication A3422, Film 31.
- The surname is rendered Kon Hung Sun on the 1911 manifest and Koon Hung Sunn on later records — typical period transliteration drift.
He married Mabel Lee Sunn, Hawaii-born and similarly American. Both of Stella’s parents were therefore second-generation-or-later Chinese-Hawaiian — which (alongside the new clarity that Stella herself was not Japanese by descent) is part of why Aunt Jeanne’s wartime account, while accurate on the act, mis-remembers the mechanism.
His parents and his earlier life are not yet recorded here.
