Tombstone Tuesday ~ Sarah Hinsdale, missionary to Mosul (Iraq), buried at Derry, New Hampshire 1857

This tombstone was photographed at the Forest Hill Cemetery, Derry, New Hampshire

MRS. SARAH C. HINSDALE

DIED

June 10, 1857

Aged 48 yrs.

For many years a missionary of

the American Board of Commissioners

for Foreign Missions

"She hath done what she could."

Sarah Clark was the daughter of Captain John Clark and Sarah Taylor of Londonderry, New Hampshire.  Sarah Taylor was the daughter of Samuel Taylor and Eunice Lancaster, and the granddaughter of Scots Irish immigrants Matthew Taylor and Jennet Wilson.   Sarah was  born in what is now the town of Derry and was educated at the Adams Female Academy and the Gilmanton Academy.  

Sarah Clark became the wife of Reverend  Abel Knapp Hinsdale, and served with her husband as a missionary to the Armenians from June 1841 to 21 October 1844.  This was called the “Mission to the Independent Nestorians”.   The Persian Christians were called Nestorians, but called themselves the Chaldeans.  Sarah’s husband, Reverend Hinsdale,  died in Mosul, in what is now Iraq,  and was buried in the courtyard of the Syrian Orthodox church of Mar Toma (St. Thomas).   This church in the Khazraj neighborhood of Mosul was reported as destroyed by ISIS in July 2014. 

Sarah stayed in the Middle East for another ten years and continued as a missionary teaching children in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey).   She had two children while in the Middle East, but they both died young before their father’s death in Mosul.  She retired to Derry, where she lived only another two years. 

You can view the personnel card for Sarah C. Hinsdale, an employee of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,  at the American Research Institute in Istanbul, Turkey and online at http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/13031

Family notes:

Sarah Clark, daughter of Captain John Clark and Sarah Taylor, died 10 June 1857 in Derry, New Hampshire; married the Reverend Abel Knapp Hinsdale, son of Abel Hinsdale and Mary Knapp.  He was born 6 October 1807 in Torrington, Connecticut, and died on 26 December 1842 in Mosul, Mesopotamia (now Iraq).  He was the grandson of Reverend Joshua Knapp.

For more information see Hinsdale Genealogy: Descendants of Robert Hinsdale of Dedham, Medfield, Hadley and Deerfield, by Herbert Cornelius Andrews and Sanford Charles Hinsdale, 1906.  Available to read online at Google Book Search.

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Copyright © 2015, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Weathervane Wednesday ~ Very far from Nutfield

Weathervane Wednesday is an on-going series of photographs I post weekly, usually of weather vanes in the Nutfield, New Hampshire area, but sometimes they can be from anywhere.  Occasionally they are elsewhere in New England, or very historical weather vanes from anywhere else.  Sometimes my weather vanes are whimsical, but all are interesting.  Often, my readers tip me off to some very unique and unusual weathervanes, too!

Do you know the location of weather vane #85?   Scroll down to the bottom to see the answer!

Today's weather vane can be found in Haleiwa, Hawaii on the island of Oahu.  It is the weather vane on the top of the steeple of the Queen Lili'uokalani Protestant Church.  This church dates back to 1832 when it was founded by the Reverend John S. Emerson, who arrived in Hawaii from Chester, New Hampshire (part of the original Nutfield!) with the Fifth Missionary Company sent by the American Board of Comissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM).  The first church was a thatched hut, dedicated on 25 September 1832, and the first service was attended by over 2,000 native Hawaiians.  Masses of people had to stand outside.

The second building was adobe, and erected about 1841.  The third building was made of wood and built in 1890 in the present location.  This was the building where Queen Lili'uokalani attended services when she stayed at her home on the Anahulu River.  She donated many things to the church, including the famous clock.  The present building was dedicated in 1961.  The weather vane is a frigate bird with a fish in its beak.     In Hawaiian the frigate bird is called "iwa", and the village was named Hale'iwa (house of the frigate bird).  According to the church website "The religious connotation is brought together with the fish in its mouth. 'Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.  The Kingdom of Heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea gathered many kinds...' "

I visited this church in both 2010 and 2012,  because of the Emerson family connection (my great great grandmother was an Emerson, and a distant cousin to Reverend John S. Emerson), and because of the connection to Queen Lili'uokalani, who married my first cousin 5 generations removed (John Owen Dominis)

The Queen Lili'uokalani Protestant Church website: http://liliuokalaniprotestantchurch.com/

Rev. John S. Emerson's genealogy (he's a distant cousin, my 2nd great grandmother was an Emerson) http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/12/rev-john-smith-emerson.html

Click here to see the entire collection of Weathervane Wednesday posts! 

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Samuel and Dolly Emerson, Chester, New Hampshire

These tombstones were photographed at the Chester Village Cemetery, in Chester, New Hampshire.

In Memory of 

SAMUEL EMERSON Esq

who departed this life

Septr ye 26th AD 1793

AEtat 86

He was a perfect pattern of humanity

a worthy member of ??

?? him and died ??

[illegible]

Mrs Dorothy Emerson

Relict of

Samuel Emerson Esqr. 

died March 25, 1804

AEtat 83

Halt Passenger as you pass by

Remember death ??

[illegible]

from the book Facts relating to the early History of Chester, NH by Charles Bell, 1863, page 38,  "Samuel Emerson, Esq. was born at Haverhill in 1708 and removed to Chester in 1727 or 28.  He built a house on the spot where his son afterwards lived.  He was one of the principal lot-layers; in 1731 he was appointed the first Justice of the Peace of Chester.  The same year he was chosen Proprietor's Clerk; which office he retained over fifty years.  He was married twice; to Sarah Ayer, of Haverhill, Feb. 15, 1733.  They were admitted to the church in Chester, Feb. 8, 1741.  She d. Nov. 18, 1751.  Nov. 26, 1754, he m. Dorothy Dearborn.  Mr. Emerson had fifteen children, of whom several died young; he d. Sept. 26, 1793.  His wife d. March 25. 1804".    He was a signer of the Association Test in 1776, a town clerk of Chester, and a member of the Assembly of New Hampshire.

Samuel and Dolly's son, the Reverend John Smith Emerson (1800 - 1867),  went to Waialua, on the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian islands as a missionary.  He is a distant cousin to my 3x great grandmother, Mary Katherine (Emerson) Batchelder (1847 - 1932).   You can read all about his life and see his tombstone at his church in Haleiwa, Hawaii at this link at my blog:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/12/rev-john-smith-emerson.html 


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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

First Mission to Hawaii- left Boston on 23 October 1819

The harbor at Kona, Hawaii
and the Moku'aikaua Church founded by the First Missionary Company

Today’s blog post was inspired by the website “Mass Moments” which is written by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. Every morning it is the first thing I read on line. It’s a “what happened on this date in history?” sort of website. I love seeing the stories from the past, and most of them impacted the lives of my own Massachusetts ancestors.

On this day, 23 October, in 1819 the first Congregationalist missionaries left Boston for Hawaii. This was a pleasant bit of trivia to me personally because I had so many members of my own family go to Hawaii from New England, as sea captains, politicians, traders and a few missionaries. In the past I had read about the missionary companies that arrived in Hawaii, partly because I grew up in Holden, Massachusetts, which sent the Reverend Samuel Chenery Damon (1815 – 1885) as part of the Eleventh ABCFM company. My own church, the First Congregational Church of Holden, was his sponsor. When I visited the Dominis family plot at the Oahu Cemetery, the Damons were interred in the very next plot!

The missionaries were sent from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). In Hawaii, each group of missionaries is known by their arrival. The First Missionary Company, which arrived on 30 March 1820 aboard the “Thaddeus” included the following:

- Reverend Hiram Bingham (1789 – 1869), his grandson Hiram Bingham III was the Hawaiian born explorer who discovered Machu Picchu in 1911
- Reverend Asa Thurston (1787 – 1868), wife Lucy Goodale, (His grandson Lorrin A. Thurston led the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii)
- Reverend Samuel Ruggles (1795 – 1871)
- Elisha Loomis (1799-1836) and wife, first printer in Hawaii
- Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Chamberlain and 5 children
- Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Holman
- Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Whitney
- Four Hawaiians – Thomas Hope, William Kanui, John Honolii, George Tamoril

There were also Catholic and Russian Orthodox missions in Hawaii. The Mission Houses Museum in Honolulu strives to keep the memory of these brave men and women alive. An original wooden house brought in pieces from Boston in 1821 sits on their property. They also have a print shop with a printing press to show how the missionaries and native Hawaiians together produced the first bibles and other books printed in native Hawaiian.

The Mission Houses Museum also produced the famous blog The Thaddeus Journal in which one blog post was written for each day a journal entry was written on board the ship from 1819-1820 during the voyage from Boston to Hawaii. It is another example of the “what happened on this date in history?” genre. The original journal was kept by Hiram Bingham, Asa Thurston and Elisha Loomis. One blog post was written from 20 Oct 2009- 4 April 2010. Please click on this link to read this project http://missionhouses.blogspot.com/

Another member of my family tree, Reverend John Smith Emerson of Chester, New Hampshire, was part of the Fifth ABCFM company on board the New Bedford whaler Averick, and arrived in Honolulu on May 1832. You can read about his life at this post http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/12/rev-john-smith-emerson.html

For more information:

Mass Moments 23 October 2010 http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=306

Mission Houses Museum in Honolulu http://www.missionhouses.org/

The pilgrims of Hawaii: their own story of their pilgrimage from New England by Orramel Hinckley Gulick, Fleming H. Revell company, 1918

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel B. Emerson , Charles E. Tuttle Publishing. Place of Publication: Rutland, VT. Publication Year: 1965 (written by the son of Rev. J. S. Emerson)

The website for the Moku'aikaua Church, in Kona, Hawaii http://www.mokuaikaua.org/
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Copyright 2010, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Missionary to New Zealand?

That’s what he told the family!



My great great grandfather, the music Professor Caleb Rand Bill came from Nova Scotia to New England with his wife. They had their nine children in succession from New Brunswick, Maine, Boston and then Salem as he moved from place to place teaching music. According to the Bill Family Genealogy, he had three brothers. One died while studying away at Acadia College, and the other two went on a mission to New Zealand. This made sense to me, since their father was the Nova Scotia Baptist preacher Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill.

I didn’t question the compiled genealogy, at least not for a while…

Later, when using the NEHGS online vital records database, I decided to find out just how uncommon the “Bill” name was as a surname in Massachusetts. I typed in the name and I was surprised to find several Bills I didn’t know about. I found the death record of one of the brothers, Edward Manning Bill, who had gone on a mission to Australia. He died in Boston in 1904, of “hemiplegia”, contributory cause “exposure, life in Australia!”

The two brothers were Edward Manning Bill and Ingraham Ebenezer Bill, Jr. I knew that I. E. Jr. had gone on to become a minister, in his father’s footsteps. According to the Bill Genealogy he lived as a missionary for a while in New Zealand. In the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, there was a marriage in a newspaper entitled “Christian Visitor” July 1, 1869, listing a marriage on May 22nd, between I. E. Bill of Regent’s Park College, London, to Eleanor, the second daughter of George Pike, of Sutton, Kent, England. In the 1880 US Federal Census of Caribou, Maine (on the border with Canada) it lists Ingram Bill, age 44, minister, wife Ellen, and several children. I also found a “Ministerial Register” at Ancestry.com listing him as a Baptist Minister in Chicago in the 1892, 1893, and 1895 editions. So Junior’s story works out OK. What about his brother?

Two brothers: Edward Manning Bill and Ingraham Ebenezer Bill, Jr. were listed on an 1852 shipping list on board the ship “Chebucto” which arrived at Port Phillip, Melbourne, Australia on 9 October 1852. According to this list at the Victoria State Library, it was ““Another instance of the wide-spreading attractiveness of our gold-fields shows itself in the arrival of this vessel from Halifax, Nova Scotia bringing with it a large number of passengers all anxious to turn gold diggers. Nothing of importance occurred on the passage.”

Aha! Two young brothers left Nova Scotia, telling the relatives they were bound for a mission. Both arrived in Australia during the gold rush. One went on to New Zealand, like the good minister’s son he was brought up to be. What happened to the other?

Last year I found the answer when a woman in Australia sent me an email. Her message starts out with the line “Thank goodness for computers and for Google!” and it went on to describe her search for clues to the identity of “Edward Manning Bill!” She was tracing a young girl named Harriet Young Cox, who was adopted by Edward Manning Bill in the late 1800s. The daughter was a singer in London, and the United States, listed on the cast of musical productions found on line. Father and adopted daughter were on the 1901 Census in London, where Edward was listed as a widower.

With these clues, we were able to find passenger lists of the father and daughter leaving Australia, traveling to London and the United States. Harriet married and lived in Washington State. There was a wife, Charlotte Grace, which made me laugh because my ancestor, the music professor Caleb Rand Bill named one of his daughters Charlotte Grace. Another mystery solved. I received a transcript of the marriage record. Such nice people in Australia!

Sadly, the wife Charlotte Grace was left behind in Australia, where she died in an insane asylum. As the details flowed out of Australia over the internet to me, the story became very sad. I sent her the details of Harriet’s life in Washington, and she found a photograph of Edward and Charlotte, but also the record for the asylum. Charlotte died on 21 September 1894, only a few weeks after Edward and Harriet arrived in London on 25 August 1894 . Did they abandon her to die in the asylum? Was she ill before they left?

Soon I had an answer from the Australian Public Records Office Website. This surprised me because I had a family member die at the Danvers, Massachusetts State Hospital in the 1910’s and I can’t get the records without a court order. However, here is the short version of what happened after she was admitted in 1893, suffering delusions:

2/6/94 Fractured hip at (?) and sent to hospital
30/6/94 Progressing favourably
7/9/94 Has a good deal of edema of (?) and side of abdomen also suffering from cystitis
18/9/94 Took to bed finally with (?) patches on hands and scratches on lower left leg - bedsores on ankle
21/9/94 Died at about 10.50pm with cause of death Disease of the heart and dropsy of the lungs.

At the time she was admitted Edward Manning Bill was a school teacher at Diamond Creek, a long way from the Beechworth Insane Asylum in Australia. From what I can tell, with bedsores and other signs of neglect, family was not nearby to monitor her care. In fact, it seems they abandoned her to go to Europe for young Harriet’s musical career?

The photo above is the primary school at Diamond Creek, where Edward Manning Bill was the head teacher from 1870 to 1892. Edward Bill is the man with the white cockatoo, and the woman next to him is Charlotte, his wife. Charlotte taught handcrafts. Diamond Creek is near where Australia experienced its gold rush of 1852. At the time the ship “Chebucto” landed in Australia in 1852 Edward was 21 years old, and his brother Ingraham was only 16!

Thank you to Helen Swaine, of Frankston, Victoria, Australia for helping me to solve this mystery, and for providing the primary source material out of Australia (marriage records, asylum case records, and the photograph!)
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For more information:

I previously blogged about the Bill family on 15 September 2009 in the posting “Tracing Your Minister Ancestors”. Please see this post for the Bill lineage http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/09/tracing-your-minister-ancestors.html.

History of the Bill Family, edited by Ledyard Bill, New York,1867. Updated by Harry Bill, of Billtown, Cornwallis, Nova Scotia

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Rev. John Smith Emerson, Missionary from Chester, New Hampshire to Hawaii

Missionary from Chester, New Hampshire to Hawaii

The Liliuokalani Church

Many famous New England missionaries voyaged thousands of miles to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian Islands. Their story was made famous in James Michener’s book “Hawaii” which was made into a classic movie starring Max von Sydow and Julie Andrews as the minister and his wife. Among these missionaries were Hiram Bingham, Levi Chamberlain and Richard Armstrong. Several members of my extended family passed through Hawaii at this time, some staying and some returning to New England, for mission work, captaining trading ships and serving aboard whalers.

My great grandmother was an Emerson, and this family was well known for large numbers of clergymen. From near Nutfield I found Rev. John Smith Emerson of Chester, New Hampshire, who went to Oahu on a mission, and interacted with some of my other distant relatives over his years in Hawaii. He was born in 1800 and was a graduate of Dartmouth College and Andover Theological Seminary. He married Ursula Sophia Newell in 1831, after serving for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

The Emersons traveled on the New Bedford whaling ship “Averick” and arrived in Honolulu on 17 May 1832, and their group was known as the Fifth Company of American Missionaries. They served at the Congregational Church at Haleiwa, Waialua, Oahu until 1864. He traveled back to the United States to earn a degree as a medical doctor, and returned to his work with the native Hawaiian people. Over his lifetime he baptized almost 1,200 people. Rev. Emerson is remembered for authoring a Hawaiian English dictionary with Rev. Artemas Bishop.

Ursula Newell

Mrs. Emerson, Ursula, was the typical helpmate of a foreign missionary. I can’t imagine starting married life aboard a ship bound for a faraway Pacific island. Their first church was a grass shack that could hold about 2000 congregants. She attended the sick and served as a teacher. She raised eight children in Hawaii, and the boys were educated in the United States. One son, Nathaniel Bright Emerson, served in the civil war, became a doctor at Harvard Medical School, and returned to Hawaii, with a wife, to work with the leper colonies.

The first missionaries arrived in Hawaii on March 30, 1820, and within two generations 90% of the population was literate. They created a written version of the Hawaiian native language, and published bibles and newspapers for the people. At the Mission Houses Museum in Honolulu, there is the original printing press on display, along with a New England style house that was brought in numbered pieces and re-assembled by the missionary families.

The church the Emerson’s founded is now known as the Queen Liliuokalani Church in Haleiwa, Oahu. It is the third structure on the site built in 1890, after the original grass hut built by the first congregation. Queen Liliuokalani worshiped here when she stayed in Haleiwa, her vacation residence, and the current building was named in her honor. There is a clock on the back wall of the church with the twelve letters of her name on the face in place of the numbers. Reverend and Mrs. Emerson are buried in the churchyard with two of their sons.

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The Emerson Genealogy:

Generation 1: Michael Emerson, born 6 April 1627 in Howsham, Cadney, Lincolnshire, England, died on 18 Jul 1709 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; married on 11 April 1657 in Haverhill to Hannah Webster, daughter of John Webster and Mary Shatswell, born 23 December 1635 in Ipswich, Massachusetts and died on 3 February 1706/7.

Generation 2: Jonathan Emerson, born on 9 March 1669/1670 in Haverhill, died on 19 August 1736; married on 15 June 1699 in Haverhill to Hannah Day, born on 16 January 1678/79 in Ipswich.

Generation 3: Samuel Emerson, born on 8 January 1706/7 in Haverhill, died on 26 September 1793 in Chester, New Hampshire; married on 26 November 1754 in Chester to Dolly Sanborn, daughter of Samuel Sanborn and Elizabeth Folsum, born on 3 May 1721 in Kingston, New Hampshire and died on 25 March 1804 in Chester.

Generation 4: John Emerson, born on 13 August 1757 in Chester; married on 25 December 1783 to Elizabeth French, daughter of Nathaniel French and Elizabeth Colcord, born on 10 December 1761 in Chester.

Generation 5: John Smith Emerson, born on 28 February 1800 in Chester, died on 26 March 1867 in Waialua, Oahu, Hawaii; married on 25 October 1831 to Ursula Sophia Newell, daughter of Gad Newell and Sophia Clapp, born on 27 September 1806 in Nelson, New Hampshire and died on 24 November 1888 in Waialua. Eight Children born in Hawaii.

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Sources:

"The pilgrims of Hawaii: their own story of their pilgrimage from New England" by Orramel Hinckley Gulick, Fleming H. Revell company, 1918

www.missionhouses.org The Mission Houses Museum and Library website

http://liliuokalanichurch.org/ The website for the Protestant church in Haleiwa, United Church of Christ

The portrait of Ursula Sophia Newell is from www.findagrave.com

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Click on this link to read about my visit to the Lili'uokalani Church in Waialua and the graves of the Emerson family at this link http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/07/tombstone-tuesday-leaving-leis-at.html

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Rev. John Smith Emerson", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 3, 2009, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/12/rev-john-smith-emerson.html: accessed [access date]). 

Princess Ka'iulani of Hawaii

Princess Ka’iulani of Hawaii

The Barbarian Princess Controversy?

On the anniversary of her birthday, 16 October 2009 will be the world premiere of a new movie about Princess Ka’iulani of Hawaii. She was born Victoria Ka’iulani Kalaninuiahilapalapa Kawekiu i Lunalilo Cleghorn on 16 October 1875, and was Queen Liliuokalani’s heir to the throne. Her father was Scots, and her mother was sister to the Hawaiian King. At this point in history, Hawaii was the center of all trade and shipping in the Pacific, and held a strategic position in world history. Japan, England, the United States and others were poised to influence its politics. In 1881, when Ka’iulani was just a child, King Kalakaua (her mother’s brother) tried to arrange a marriage with Japanese Crown Prince Yorihito, and in 1894 Queen Liliuokalani (her mother’s sister) gave the princess three Hawaiian princes to chose amongst, but the princess told her that she would prefer to marry for love.

Since the reigning Queen Liliuokalani was elderly and childless, it was hoped that Ka’iulani would become the next monarch. The monarchy was eventually overthrown in 1893 and the new government attempted to join the United States. The young Princess, who was being educated in an English boarding school, traveled to America and gave the press this statement:

"Seventy years ago Christian America sent over Christian men and women to give religion and civilization to Hawai’i. Today, three of the sons of those missionaries are at your capitol asking you to undo their father’s work. Who sent them? Who gave them the authority to break the Constitution which they swore they would uphold? Today, I, a poor weak girl with not one of my people with me and all these ‘Hawaiian’ statesmen against me, have strength to stand up for the rights of my people. Even now I can hear their wail in my heart and it gives me strength and courage and I am strong - strong in the faith of God, strong in the knowledge that I am right, strong in the strength of seventy million people who in this free land will hear my cry and will refuse to let their flag cover dishonor to mine!"

In reply, the pro Annexation propagandists called her “The Barbarian Princess” and a heathen. However, as Ka’iulani continued to travel across the United States, Americans came to know her as a beauty with impeccable British manners, speaking perfect English, French or German. She was invited to numerous balls and banquets, and even met with President Grover Cleveland at the White House. In the end, although Cleveland attempted to intervene on her behalf, Congress refused to restore the monarchy. In 1898 her homeland became the American Territory of Hawaii. By the end of that year she caught sick after a horse ride in the rain, and died on 6 March 1899. Most Hawaiians believe she died of a broken heart.

Marc Forby and Matador Pictures produced a $9 million film titled “Barbarian Princess” based on the life of Princess Ka’iulani. The star role will be played by Q’orianka Kilcher, who played Pocahontas in the Oscar nominated 2005 film “The New World.” It is the story of a young person of mixed races, caught up in the politics of her time, and so the title of the movie was pulled from the newspaper headlines of the times. As a result, the Hawaiian people have overwhelmingly protested the title of the movie, but are also embracing the idea of their princess heroine as the subject of a major motion picture. As of today, on youtube.com, the trailer for the movie is titled “Princess Kaiulani” and the final title of the movie seems to be up in the air.

The Hawaiian Royal Family:

Chief Caesar Kaluaiku Kapa’akea, patriarch of the Kalakaua Dynasty, born 1815 in Molokai, Hawaii, died 13 November 1866; married in 1835 to High “Chieftess Analea Keohokalole (as her second husband), born 1816, died 6 April 1869. He was the son of Ali’I Kamanawa Opio II and Kamokuiki, she was of a higher rank than he, but they were cousins and their marriage was sacred because of their close kinship. She was the daughter of Chiefess Kamaeokalani and the High Chief Aikanaka, and her first husband was John Adams Kiiapalaoku Kuakini, an important advisor to King Kamehameha I in the early days of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

They had over 10 children, including :

1. Moses Kapaakea, born about 1834 and died young

2. James Kaliokalani, born 29 May 1835, died 2 April 1852 at age 16.

3. David Kalakaua, born 16 November 1836, died 20 January 1891, the last reigning King of Hawaii (“The Merry Monarch”); married to Kapi’olani. No children.

4. Lydia Kamaka’eha Kaola Mali’i Lili’uokalani, born 2 September 1838, died 11 November 1917; married 16 September 1862 to John Owen Dominis, later Royal Governor of O’ahu and Maui. He was the son of Captain John Dominis and Mary Lambert Jones of Boston (see my blog posting on 27 July 2009 for more on this Boston Connection to the Royal Hawaiian Family.) She was Queen Lili’uokalani, the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Princess Ka’iulani was her heir to the throne.

5. Kaiminaauao, born 1844, and died 10 November 1848 at age four of the measles.

6. Anna Kaiulani, born 1842 and died young.

7. Likelike aka Miriam Kapili Kekauluohi Likelike, born 13 January 1851, died 2 February 1887; married 22 September 1870 to Archibald S. Cleghorn, financier and later a Royal Governor of O’ahu. They had only one child, the Princess Ka’iulani.

8. William Pitt Leleiohoku Kalahoolewa, born 1854 and died 1877. He was Crown Prince under his brother King David Kalakaua.

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Sources:

“Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen” by Lili’uokalani, Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1898

http://www.thekaiulaniproject.com/

http://www.electricscotland.com/ (Princess Ka’iulani was half Scots and half Hawaiian)

http://www.keouanui.org/ The Royal Family of Hawaii Official Web Site

http://www.imdb.com/ for information on the film “Barbarian Princess” released 16 October 2009

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Copyright 2009, Heather Wilkinson Rojo