Hello,
I am looking for a cousin of my great-grandfather. His name was Heinrich Soya and he, according to an old diary emigrated to "Australia or one of the pacific [German] colonies". That was around 1860. Since he apparently didn't arrive in Australia, he possibly went to one of the islands.
You can see the pedigree at
www.vogel-soya.de/Soya.htmlRegards,
I. Vogel