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Maimiti

Maimiti[1]

Female - 1841    Has no ancestors but more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Maimiti  
    Birth Tahiti, Polynésie française, France d'outre-mer Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 19 Sep 1841  Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I84011  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 30 Aug 2000 

    Family 1 Fletcher Christian,   b. Sep 1764, Moorland Close, Cumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Oct 1793, Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years) 
    Marriage 16 Jun 1789  Tahiti, Polynésie française, France d'outre-mer Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Thursday October Christian,   b. Oct 1790, Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Apr 1831, Tahiti, Polynésie française, France d'outre-mer Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years)
    +2. Charles Christian,   b. 1792, Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Jan 1842, Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
     3. Mary Ann Christian,   b. 1793, Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jan 1866, Norfolk Island, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    Family ID F34457  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

    Family 2 Edward Young,   b. 1766, Peel, Isle of Man, Crown Dependencies Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Dec 1800, Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Dorothy Young,   b. 1791, Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Apr 1863, Norfolk Island, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
    +2. Edward Young,   b. 1797, Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Nov 1831, Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years)
     3. James Young,   b. 1799, Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1806, Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 7 years)
    Family ID F37160  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - - Tahiti, Polynésie française, France d'outre-mer Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 16 Jun 1789 - Tahiti, Polynésie française, France d'outre-mer Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 19 Sep 1841 - Pitcairn, Pitcairn Islands, British Oversea Territory Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Also known as MAUATUA.
      "MAUA TUA" - "mountain spirit"
      "MI-MITTI" - "sick, sea"
      "MA VATUA" - "with seasickness"
      "ISABELLA" - English: Christian's cousin's wife was Isabella Curwen
      "MAINMAST" - English: "tall and straight as the mainmast of the ship"
      She was said to be the daughter of a Tahitian chief, however, because Christian was at that
      time lower in rank to the "English chief" Bligh, it is more likely that he would have been
      equated with ra'atira rank, thus it is likely that Isabella would have been of that rank as well.
      She was said to be very tall, perhaps 6 feet, which also speaks to her above average status.
      She would also have been a bit older, thus willing to settle down with one man, and if
      Gardner's estimate is to be believed, she is likely to have been somewhere around 35. She
      was a devoted wife to Christian until his death. The legend is that they were officially married
      on Tahiti in the custom of her people before leaving for Pitcairn.
      In 1841, George Gardner, visiting the island, described her as the 'most perfect picture of an
      old hag I ever saw. She is surprisingly active, her age being estimated between 80 and 90.
      She remembers Captain Cook and speaks of him'. But even more interesting, she remembered
      Heywood, and being told of his success, later marriage, and recent death, she gathered several
      yards of beautifully decorated tapa cloth, made by her own hand, and gave it to Captain Jones
      as a present for 'Peter's wife'.
      Other visitors of that period indicated that visitors would not talk to her, and considered her
      children to be mentally deficient (she did have one child who was, and another that had a club
      foot). Within a month of Gardner's visit, she had died in the epidemic.

  • Sources 
    1. [S317] Karl Rowe Anderson, Mutiny on the HMS Bounty, (1998).



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