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Welcome to Pitcairn Island.
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A bit of Pitcairns History
Poem written by Meralda Warren.
The HMS Bounty – Meralda Warren 2025
From England 1787, Bounty left
For Breadfruit plants for the West.
In 1789 she failed
As out of Matavai bay she sailed.
On 28 April of 1789
Captain Bligh heard Christian whine.
Mutiny, get in that boat.
You lucky Sir that it will float.
Tahiti fast we turn around
Who is with me don’t make a sound.
Tubuai, it didn’t work
But with 3 more we look around.
Ahoy for Pitcairn Isle we found
In 1790 we made Adamstown
But Quintal didn’t like the plan.
Set fire to Bounty out the white sand.
Today after leaving Pitcairn twice.
Are descendants of Bounty who are really nice.
The HMAV Bounty- Lala(Meralda Warren) 2022
The HMAV Bounty left England in 1787. Bound Tahiti to pick up Uru (Breadfruit) plants for the West Indies. It took a long time for the plants to grow, in 1889 she sailed out of Matavai bay, Tahiti. Trouble between Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian and a few of the crew.
On 28th April 1879 Mutiny happened and they cast Captain Bligh and his men adrift in a boat.
Christian and his men returned to Tahiti, Picked up 12 women and 9 Men and a child.
They first tried to settle on Tubuai but didn’t work out. Tetahiti and wife Tinafornea and Uncle Uhu joined Fletcher Christian on Bounty as they sailed away looking for a place to settle. Finding Pitcairn on 15th January 1790. Coming ashore on 18th January. This is the place. This is Paradise so Mathew Quintal burnt the Bounty down and it sank to the bottom of Bounty Bay.
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Bounty. who was on her last Voyage.
WHO WAS ON BOARD AND WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?
MUTINEERS:
Fletcher Christian (Isle of Man and Cumberland, England), married Mauatua
Edward Young (St Kitts,West Indies: his father was an English gentleman, his mother was perhaps a slave girl) married Teraura
John Mills (Aberdeen, Scotland) married Vahineatua
Isaac Martin (Pennsylvania, USA) married Teehuteatuaonoa
William McCoy (Ross-shire, Scotland) married Teio
Matthew Quintal (Cornwall, England) married Tevarua
John Adams (London, England) married Opuarai
John Williams (Guernsey - between France and England where French and English were spoken) married Faahotu
William Brown (Leicester, England) married Teatuahitia
POLYNESIAN MEN:
Tararo a chief from Raiatea, married to Toofaiti
Taaroamiva/Tetahiti the brother of a chief of Tubuai
Ohu uncle of Taaroamiva from Tubuai married to Tinafanaea
Manarii stowaway from Tahiti
Niau stowaway from Tahiti
Teimua stowaway from Tahiti
POLYNESIAN WOMEN:
Mauatua (daughter of a chief from Matavai, Tahiti) also named Maimiti/Mainmast/Isabella
Vahineatua (probably from Tahiti)
Teio (Tahiti) also named Mary, Sore Mummy
Teatuahitia (Tahiti) Sarah, Sully
Faahotu (probably from Tahiti)
Teraura (from Tahiti or Moorea) Susannah
Teehuteatuaonoa (probably from Tahiti) Jenny
Opuarai (from Tahiti)
Tevarua (from Tahiti) Sarah, Big Sully
Toofaiti (from Huahine) Nancy
Mareva (from Tahiti)
Tinafanea (from Tubuai) married to Ohu
Sully was a baby and was Teio’s daughter
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Polynesian men who came on the Bounty
Polynesian Men on Bounty who died on Pitcairn Island
Ohu
Tubuai
D 20/9/1793 massacre day
No Children
Teimua
Timiti
Tahiti
D 1793
No Children
Niau
Tahiti
D 20/9/1793 massacre day
No Children
Manarii
Tahiti
D 20/9/1793 massacre day
No Children
Taaroamiva
(Tetahiti)
Tubuai
D 20/9/1793 massacre day
No Children
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Women who didnt have children
Polynesians on Bounty who landed on Hitiaurevareva (Pitcairn Island) 1790
Tinafonea
From Tubui
Prudence
Tubuai
D 29/4/1831 Tahiti
Taaroamiva
(Tetahiti)
No Children
Faahotu
From Tahiti
Fahutu
Fastoo
Tahiti
D 1790
Was with:
John Williams
No Children
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Teatuahitia
From Tahiti
Te Lahu
Te Rahu
Tohimata
Sarah
Tahiti
D 1808/1814
No Children
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Teehuteatuaonoa
From Tahiti
Tohimata
Jenny
Tahiti
Left for Tahiti 17 October 1817
No Children
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Mareva
From Tahiti
went back to Tahiti 1831
No Children
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Bounty Polynesian women who had children
I am a 7th Generation decendant from these 6 women.
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Mauatua
Other names:
Mrs Christian-Isabella
Main Mast-Memma- Maimiti
From:
Matavai Bay Tahiti
Born: 1760
died. 1841 Pitcairn Island
Married to:
Fletcher Christian
June 1788
Mauatua and Fletcher had 3 children:
Thursday
Charles
Mary
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Mauatua & Edward Young
Had 4 children:
Dolly
Polly
Edward
James
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Teraura
Other names:
Mataohu
Taoupiti
Sussanah
Mrs Young
From: Tahiti
Born: 1775
Died: 1850
Was with Edward Young when arrived on Bounty- No Children.
With Mathew Quintal:
Edward Quintal
had 6 children With:
Thursday October Christian
Joseph
Charles
Mary
Polly
Peggy
Thursday October(Duddy)
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Toofaiti
Other names:
Tohiti- Puni- Nancy
From Huahine
D. 9/6/1831 Tahiti
Was with:
Tararo From Raiatea
No Children.
Was with:
Edward Young
Had 3 Children:
George
William
Robert
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Tevarua
Other names:
Te Walua- Sarah- Big Sully
From: Tahiti
D 1799
Was with:
Mathew Quintal
Had 4 children:
Mathew
Arthur
Sarah
John
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Vahineatua
Wahineatua
Paraha Iti -Pate
From: Tahiti
D 1814
Was with: John Mills
Had 2 children:
Elizabeth
John
Was with: John Adams
Had 3 children:
Dinah
Rachel
Hannah
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Teio
Other Name
Te’o
From: Tahiti
D 1829
Had 1 daughter in Tahiti and brought to Pitcairn Island: Sully.
Was with:
William Mc Coy
Had 3 Children:
Sully
Daniel
Catherine
Was with:
John Adams
Had:
George
