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The cause of Tom's death was complications of a recent stroke, said his daughter Jacqueline Christian. [12] Rosalind Amelia Young (13 August 1853 – 1 February 1924), historian and great-granddaughter of John Adams; The majority of the many rulers of the Pitcairn Islands have been descendants of the Bounty mutineers, till this day.
Pitcairn Island was sighted on 3 July 1767 by the crew of the British sloop HMS Swallow, commanded by Captain Philip Carteret. The island was named after Scottish midshipman Robert Pitcairn, a fifteen-year-old crew member who was the first to sight the island. “we discovered land to the northward of us.
John Adams, known as Jack Adams (4 July 1767 [1] – 5 March 1829), was the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was John Adams, but he used the name Alexander Smith until he was discovered in 1808 by Captain Mayhew Folger of the American whaling ship Topaz .
Whilst little is known about Teraura's early life, it is likely that she was born on Moorea, an island in French Polynesia. [1] Tradition on Pitcairn states that she was from a chiefly family. [2] It is possible that she was born c. 1775, since she was reportedly 15 years old when she left Tahiti with Fletcher Christian and his crew in 1789. [1]
Pitcairn Islands people of Polynesian descent (28 P) S. Pitcairn Islands people of Saint Kitts and Nevis descent (16 P) This page was last edited on 18 May 2024, at ...
In 1938, the three islands, along with Pitcairn, were incorporated into a single administrative unit called the Pitcairn Group of Islands. By the 1930s and 1940s, diminished shipping and tourism to the island resulted in the residents selling many of the pre-European cultural items and Bounty -related paraphernalia to private individuals for ...
– The Romance of Pitcairn Island. 1923; Hancock, W. K. – Politics in Pitcairn and Other Essays. 1947; Lucas, Charles – The Pitcairn Island Register Book. 1929; Lummis, Trevor – Pitcairn Island: Life and death in Eden. 1997; Manorial Research with the National Maritime Museum (UK) – Mutiny on the Bounty, 1789-1989. 1989
Edward Quintal (1800 – 8 September 1841) was the first magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of Pitcairn Island. Quintal was the son of Matthew Quintal, the Bounty mutineer, and Teraura, the partner of Ned Young, and the future spouse of Thursday October Christian. The elder Quintal was killed by a hatchet the year before Edward was born.