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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.
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 ...
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 .
Chauvel's film uses introductory enacted scenes showing the mutiny, followed by documentary footage, anthropological style, of the mutineers' descendants on Pitcairn Island. [5] Chauvel also used footage of Polynesian women dancers; and film of an underwater shipwreck, filmed with a glass bottomed boat, which he believed was the Bounty but was ...
– 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
Both of Adams's parents died in March 1829, when George was 24 years old. Adams served as Chief Magistrate on Pitcairn in 1848. Adams was an opponent of Joshua Hill in the 1830s. Adams opposed the decision to move to Norfolk Island in the 1850s, as his granddaughter was ill. Adams did eventually move, and died on Norfolk Island in 1873.
Arthur Quintal (6 May 1795 – 19 November 1873) was a Pitcairn Islander who served as the island's second magistrate from 1840 to 1841. [1] Quintal was the son of Matthew Quintal, the bounty mutineer, and his wife Tevarua.