Noble during the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi (born 1842)
Anna Kaʻiulani (born 1842) was a noble member of the House of Kalākaua during the Kingdom of Hawaii . Two of her siblings became ruling monarchs.
Life
She was born in 1842 to the High Chiefess Analea Keohokālole and the High Chief Caesar Kapaʻakea . She was a younger sister of James Kaliokalani , David Kalākaua , and Lydia Kamakaʻeha , and the older sister of Kaʻiminaʻauao , Miriam K. Likelike and William Pitt Leleiohoku II .[ 1] The name Kaʻiulani translates from the Hawaiian language as The Royal Sacred One .[ 2]
She was, according to Hawaiian tradition of hānai , adopted by the Princess Kekauʻōnohi , who was the granddaughter of Kamehameha I , the royal governor of the island of Kauaʻi and foster mother of Abigail Maheha .[ 3] : 400–403
She died young,[ 4] although the date and exact cause of death was never recorded.
Her niece, Victoria Kaʻiulani (who shared her Hawaiian name) became Hawaii's crown princess but died aged twenty-three.[ 5]
She is not buried at the Royal Mausoleum at Mauna ʻAla in the Nuʻuanu Valley with her siblings and parents.[ 6]
Ancestry
References
^ Taylor, Clarice B. (June 15, 1951). "Little Tales All About Hawaii – Keohokalole Has A Family of 11 – No. 15" . Honolulu Star-Bulletin . Honolulu. p. 26. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
^ Pukui, Mary Kawena ; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986). Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press . p. 104. ISBN 978-0-8248-0703-0 . OCLC 12751521 . Archived from the original on January 1, 2015. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
^ Liliʻuokalani (Queen of Hawaii) (July 25, 2007) [1898]. Hawaii's story by Hawaii's queen, Liliuokalani . Lee and Shepard, reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-0-548-22265-2 .
^ Taylor, Clarice B. (June 16, 1951). "Little Tales All About Hawaii – Keohokalole Children Raised As Royal Alii – No. 16" . Honolulu Star-Bulletin . Honolulu. p. 24. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
^ Webb, Nancy; Webb, Jean Francis (1998) [1962]. Kaʻiulani: Crown Princess of Hawaii . Honolulu: Mutual Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-56647-206-7 . OCLC 265217757 .
^ Kam, Ralph Thomas (2017). Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty: Funerary Practices in the Kamehameha and Kalakaua Dynasties, 1819–1953 . S. I.: McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. pp. 192– 196. ISBN 978-1-4766-6846-8 . OCLC 966566652 .