George Charles BECKLEY [19275]

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Name: George Charles BECKLEY Sex: M Birth: 1787 in England ¹ Death: 1825 in Honolulu, HI He arrived in what was then called the Sandwich Islands around 1804. According to a researcher cousin of a Beckley descendant, George lived in Veracruz, Mexico with his father and both received privateer's licenses ("legal" piracy) from the Mexican head of state. He claims George's Hawaiian name translates as "snatcher of Ships" and that he waylaid ships on the high seas and later sold them to Kamehameha. According to an article in the "Sunday Advertiser" 12 Aug 1906, he brought to the islands a vessel, which was purchased by the chiefs and he was called "Humehume" by the natives. He afterwards made numerous voyages between Hawaii and Mexico as well as Hawaii and China. Family tradition has it that he made the first flag in 1806 or 1807, but Prof. W.D. Alexander believes it was at least 6 years later. Unfortunately, his log-book was lost about the year 1887. The original flag was made into a child's frock, which was worn by each one of his children in succession and long preserved as an heirloom in the family., In "Hawaii: A History" by Kuykendall and Day, he is listed as "a trusted advisor of Kamehameha". In the diary of missionary Hiram Bingham, Bingham states "Whatever of hostility may have been manifested against the spiritual claims of the Gospel by foreigners and others, we were encouraged in our efforts to commence a school by several residents, some wishing their wives, and others their children to be instructed. Among there, were . . . Beckley (English). . . These cherished a desire that their long neglected children, whose morals, habits, language, and manners differed little from their contemporaries - the children of aboriginal fathers - might now, at length, if they wished it, have the advantage of a school for their improvement. His son, William Beckley, was brought up together with Kauikeaouli, who was afterwards known as Kamehameha III. His two eldest daughters were brought up by Queen Kaahumanu. On the occasion of the birth of the Princess Nahienaena at Keauhou, Kona, Hawaii, in 1815, Beckley was made a high chief by Kamehameha I so that he might, with impunity, enter the sacred precinct and present the royal infant with a roll of China silk, after which he went outside and fired a salute of 13 guns in her honor. In consequence of his having become a tabu chief, his wife Ahia was thenceforth obliged by the ancient code of etiquette to "kolokolo" or crawl prone on her hands and knees when she entered the house of her lord., In a listing for Emma K. Metcalf Beckley in "History Makers of Hawaii" by A. Grove Day, he is said to be "an Englishman who was commandant of the fort begun by the Russians in Honolulu in 1816". This fort was apparently started by Georg Anton Scheffer in Honolulu in 1816. Kamehameha kicked him out and the fort was completed by the Hawaiians under John Young. George Beckley was the first commander of the fort. It is remembered in the name of Fort Street in Honolulu and was located at the corners of Queen St and Nimitz highway and extending to Fort St. It continued to be a stronghold until 1857. According to Elizabeth Punchard's diary, he had the Beckley Estate on what in 1904 was Alakea Street, Honolulu. It was called "Alakea House" and later kept by Mrs. Captain Hudson. George Beckley was buried in a stone or cemented grave on Beckley property. The property was later owned by Dr. Herbert. He was said to have had his own ship and to be engaged in the fur trade between Alaska and Canton, China. He wintered in the Hawaiian islands and took on "refreshments". All foreigners were required to go to the Big Island, either Kawaihae or Kailua, and receive permission from Kamehameha to trade, and Beckley became a friend of Kamehameha in his trading activities. If not supervised by Kamehameha, John Young supervised at Kawaihae. In 1814 or 1815, Beckley received permission from Kamehameha to marry the young and attractive chiefess Ahia-Kalani-Kumai-e-iwilani. Marriage did not make Beckley a landlubber. Instead, he followed the custom of the day and took his wife with him on his long trips between the Spanish Main (Mexico and California) and Canton, China. Beckley lived in a stone house in the fort. Documents in the Archives of Hawaii show how Beckley engaged in the sale of foreign ships to Kamehameha and his chiefs. He signed a sandalwood deal on 26 Sept 1816 in payment for the ship Albatross. On 26 Dec 1821 he witnessed a note by which Kalanimoku paid 3760 piculs of sandalwood as the purchase price of the brig Inori. Beckley only remained on land about 2 years, then he returned to the sea. He was of the Church of England, therefore not mentioned by the missionaries. He traveled from Vera Cruz, Mexico to Canton. He kept a home in Vera Cruz and his youngest child, Emmeline Keka-ili-moku was born off the coast of Mexico. The record of Beckley's activities in 1816 are known through the journal of Lieutenant Von Kosubue, a Russian explorer whom Beckley guided about the Island of Oahu at the command of Kalanimoku. "The will of Captain George Beckley may be found in the Archives of Hawaii . . . The Beckley will is well written in clear handwriting and is obviously the work of an educated man. It is a simple document in which Beckley left all his property to his wife Ahia as administrator. Our old friend Alexander Adams was made the executor. Captain Adams was appointed guardian of the Beckley girls and the eldest son, William Frederick Malulani Beckley was left to the care of the king with the hope that the lad would be given a trip to the Spanish Main. Witnesses to the will were I. Temple, W. Hamilton and George Fife, all gentleman of the Honolulu English colony. Of all the pieces of land held by Beckley, the largest was probably the 182.80 acres held at Kealahewaeloa at Waimea, Hawaii. . . Beckley's will was made just in time. He died in 1826. "A sad incident in Julia?s Beckley family seemed to symbolize what was happening to their Hawai?i. At the height of the Reform Party takeover of the government, one of its supporters, Edmund Kistler, married Julia?s Aunt Maria Beckley on her sick bed. An unscrupulous man, Kistler inveigled Maria to sign over to him all her wealth and possessions. Maria, sixty-nine, died in August, and Kistler left for San Francisco with his booty, which included Captain George Beckley?s diary. The personal record of the man who had served Kamehameha the Great as commander of the Honolulu fort and designed the Hawaiian flag had gone the way of other Hawaiian treasure, as a memento of some unheeding haole?s Pacific adventure." Details to be entered., , , In Kotzebue?s Journal he states: "the natives not being familiar with the use of cannon, they have appointed an Englishman, named George Berkley, who had formerly served in a merchantman as commandant. The fort is nothing more than a square, supplied with loop-holes, the walls of which are two fathoms high, and built of coral stone. . . Early on the 8th [of Dec] . . . we called for Mr. Berkley at his house, where we found the two soldiers already waiting for us. . . Here we had a fine view of the harbour; I took out my instruments and made a few angles, at which the surrounding natives were much terrified, expecting, as Berkley said, a piece of enchantment. . . Mr. Berkley told me of a species of wild-duck, such as we have in Europe, which came there in January from the north, hatch their eggs, and return again in the beginning of spring. This account, which I had no reason to doubt, Mr. B. Speaking from his own experience." In another journal of Captain Otto Von Kotzebue, he states "Kareimoku was expecting yet another ship, a handsome schooner, which, under the command of Mr. Bekley, commandant of the fortress here, was transporting sandalwood from Atuai". "An English Captain (George C. Beckley) some time near the beginning of the century brought a small ship to the Islands and sold it to the chiefs. He then settled in Honolulu and became a friend of the king, who made him a ?tabu-chief.? He married an Hawaiian woman of high priestly family. Nevertheless ?she had to kolo-kolo or crawl on her hand and knees whenever she entered the house of her husband, the tabu-chief.? To Captain Beckley was entrusted the task of probably designing and making the first Hawaiian flag. The pattern flag, the first one made, was afterward ?fashioned into a child?s frock and worn on special occasions by each one the the children in succession, and was long preserved as an heirloom in the family.? This was apparently a compromise between the flags of the two antagonistic English-speaking nations. The Jack was retained to show the king?s friendship for England. The stripes were said to represent the red, white and blue of the American flag. They were eight in number, to represent the eight principal Islands of the group. It was a combination of Hawaiian with European and American interests. The old king was very proud of his beautiful new flag, and displayed it from his palace and over the royal homes in other Islands. It superseded the Russian flag on Kauai. He built a new coral rock fort, 300x400 feet thick. In it he placed forty guns, six, eight and twelve pounders, from which thundering salutes were fired on every possible occasion. He gave command of this fort to Captain Beckley, and over it probably flung his new flag to the breeze." "George Beckley, an Englishman who was commandant of the fort begun the Rusians in Honolulu in 1816." "Most of the white men surrounding Kamehameha were Englishmen, such as Young, David, George Beckley and ?Alika? Adams, and mostly Church of England men. Captain Beckley?s prayer book remains a prized relic in the keeping of one of his descendants today. It was his own prized possession. He was close to the person of the king, for he was a military adviser and commander of the first fort. It is certain these Church of England men discussed their religion with Kamehameha and those of his court." "George [George Pekelo Kalawaia Ahia] says he was named for Capt. George Beckley, one of Kamehameha the Great?s English officers. . . The admiral had used what the Hawaiians called the ?English method,? but, says George Pekelo, Ahia had been taught this method by Capt. George Beckley, the Englishman, whose daughter, later on, he had married. . . . That Ahia should have known so many methods was due to the catholicity of foreigners dwelling in Honolulu at that time. From Captain Beckley he learned the English method; from Jose, a Spaniard in Captain Beckley?s employ, he learned the Spanish method." Black and white photo made from his portrait on file with Barbara Fleming. He was called "the English friend and military adviser of Kamehameha the Great." "For near a century a flag of eight stripes, alternately, white, red and blue, each representing an island of the Hawaiian group, with the English Jack in the upper left corner, forming one of the most beautiful and colorful flas that ever floated in any breeze, waved over the Hawaiian Islands. .. Captain George Beckley, an English sea captain who came to these islands about 1801, was undoubtedly the originator of the flag of Hawaii. He brought to the Island a vessel which was purchased by the chiefs and was called ?Humehume? by the natives. He afterwards made numerous voyages between Hawaii and Mexico and also between Hawaii and China. According to the family traditions he made the first Hawaiian flag about 1806 or 1807. The logbook of the captain, in which was recorded the fact that he had made the flag, was unfortunately lost by his descendents several decades ago. It is certain, according to family records, that he made this first flag into a child?s frock which was worn by each one of his children in succession, and was long preserved as an heirloom of the family." "On the occasion of the birth of the Princess Nahienaena at Keauhou, Kona, Hawaii, in 1815, Captain Bckley was made a High Chief by Kamehameha, so that he might with impunity enter the sacred precincts of the grass house and prsent the royal infant with a roll of China silk, after which he went outside and fired a salute of thirteen guns in her honor. When Captain Beckley entered the house he took the infant in his arms and the little one immediately clutched his whiskers with her tiny baby fingers. When Queen Keopuolani saw this she said to the king, ?Look at the big sweetheart and the little sweetheart. George from henceforth you are Princess Nahienaena?s name husband. He was called keiki (son) ever afterwards by the chiefs, and his daughter Maria was called ?Kaiponui Kaipoliilii? after this incident, at her birth, it being a custom for Hawaiians, very frequently, to name children after an incident, historical event, the names often having a beautiful and poetic figurative meaning. In this way much of the old history was conveyed generation to generation." "Captain Beckley was the first commander of the Honolulu fort which was erected near the waterfront near the foot of what is now Fort street. It was build on the advice of the High Chief Kalaimoku, a general under Kamehameha, and who was a historical figure, later being the one to meet the first missionaries on behalf of Kamehameha II, in 1820. The fort was to command the harbor and its channel. It was begun in 1816 and completed in a year. It was nearly square, measuring three hundred yards on a side, with walls about twelve feet high and twenty feet thick and built of coral blocks hewn from the reefs, pierced with embrasures for cannon. it stood on the sea-ward side of Queen street and across the lower part of Fort street. About forty guns were mounted, consisting of six, eight and twelve pounders. It was placed under the direct command of Captain Beckley, who soldiery were malo-clad natives of the warrior class which had been trained by Kamehameha the Great. To supplement this fort eight thirty-two pounders were afterwards mounted on Punchbowl hill behind the city." "Captain Beckley?s oldest son, William Beckley was born at Keauhou, and was brought up with Kauikaeouli, afterward Kamehameha III. His two oldest daughters were brought up by Queen Kaahumanu. This indicates the high esteem in which the Englishman was held by Kamehameha, and also the probability that he would confide to his officer the task of designing a flag for Hawaii. Captain Beckley died in Honolulu in 1825. the national banner, adopted officially by the legislative council was unfurled on May 25, 1845, differing very little from the former one." "It was shortly after this time that Kotzebue met Capt. George Beckley, the Englishman, in the train of Kemehameha, at Oalua, on this island. The High Chief Kalanimoku, Governor of the island, designated Beckley to accompany the navigator on a tour of Oahu. Kotzebue met Beckley at the new fort which John Young and Kalauimoku, built by order of Kamehameha at Honolulu, Beckley having been chosen as commandant. The Russian was halted in true fortress style by sentries. He also refers to Beckley?s house at which he called, which was built of stone in modern style. The officers went to Moanalua and to the salt lake where Beckley, according to Kotzebue showed he has been used to shooting in Europe, for he spoke of the migrations of certain ducks, Kotzebue saying ?this information, which I could not doubt, as Beckley, from his love of the chase, often remains for days on this lake, led me to suppose ther must be some undiscovered land in about latitude 45 degres whence these birds of passage came.? " "On leaving Honolulu the Rurick saluted Kalauimoku with seven guns and Captain Beckley, at the fort, did not neglect to return this politeness. The European custom had that day, December 14, 1816, been introduced into the Sandwich Islands." "Kahea Beckley a strong family member of the William Beckley descendents and curator of Kamehameha Museum in Kona, Hawaii, stated to me when we first met, that Captain Beckley was a Pirate and that he lived a very secretive life and that they have a different version of why William was well versed in the Spanish ways. William was not kidnapped but was given to his Grandparents in Mexico and returned when they could no longer care for him." "In 1812, Veracruz was the only port loyal to the Spanish crown. Veracruz was equipt to manage commerce to and from Mexico City and Europe (Spain). The people of Veracruz were patriotic and supported the mother country. However, the rural areas on the coast outside Veracruz were in the hand of the sons of the old slaves and Spaniards not born in Sprin. Their allegiance was to the Indpenedence Movement. The noose began to tighten when rural bands began to intercept even the most common food shipments, not allowing them to pass until they had paid a ?tax?. Guadalupe Victoria by this time controlled traffic on the Camino Real at Puente Nacional, then called Puente del Rey." "The Hawaiian monk seal, Monachus schauinslandi, may be considered one of the rarest and least known of our living mammals. . . This animal was well known to the Hawaiians prior to the discovery of the islands by Europeans, for they called it ?ilio-holo-i-ka-uaua,? which freely translated means ?the dog that runs in the tough elements.? Early reports give evidence that during the early part of the nineteenth century this seal was relatively abundant. Bryan (1915) stated that the brig ?Ainoa? set out in 1824 from Hawaii on a sealing trip to these islands." "The Maui Chief, Kalaimoku, gives a note for three thousand seven hundred and sixty ?pickules? of sandal wood, on December 26th, 1821, it being the purchase price of the Brig ?Inori? (Ainoa)." "July 9, 1823 . . . Wednesday, 9. Mr. Ellis embarked this morning in the brig Ainoa, for Hawaii. I should have accompanied him, but for an indisposition with which I have been affected for some days, and which has disqualified me for undertaking the hardships of the tour." "Sept. 8, 1823 . . . Monday, 8. This morning, the Ainoa, a native brig, arrived from Hawaii, bringing Mr. Harwood, a young American, who has resided some time with the Mission family at Honoruru, and who accompanied the deputation on their tour through Hawaii." "Sept.11, 1823 . . ..Thursday, 11. Yesterday and to-day the surf has been excessively heavy, and often by its beauty and sublimity has attracted our attention and admiration. But the dark wing of death has been over it, and its loveliness for a time is shrouded in gloom. At eleven o?clock this morning the long-boat of the brig Ainoa was overturned in attempting to land by the usual passage, and four white men narrowly escaped drowning, while a fifth sunk to rise no more alive. The report flying among th enatives, Ka habri make roa i ka nalue, ?The foreigner is dead in the surf,? collected a number of foreigners on the beach, by whom exertions were made to restore him to life, but without success. The spirit had fled through the foaming surges to the world of retribution! Mr. Butler humanely had the corpse removed to his enclosure; from whence in the evening, attended by most of the foreigners then at Lahaina, we bore it to a more decent grave, than is the last abode of many an inhabitant of Christian lands, whose destiny is to die among the heathen." "Feb. 9, 1824 . . . Feb. 9. Mr. and Mrs. Richards, in company with Karaimoku, sailed in the brig Ainoa this evening, for a short visit to Oahu." "Feb. 9, 1825 . . . Wednesday 9. . . . Before reaching the village, we descried a sail, coming from Tauai; it proved to be the native brig Ainoa, which came to anchor just after dark. Shortly after, a messenger from the royal family arrived, requesting a visit from us to Kaahuman, who had been absent some months to the leeward, and had just landed." From the journal of trader Charles H. Hammatt: "Thursday, Mar. 4 [1824]. Bailed Brig Ainor, Sunmer & Beckley, on a sealing voyage for account of Krymaku. This is about the second expedition the natives have undertaken on their own account, and I expect will turn out no better than their China voyage in the Bondeana Packet where they sunk stock & fluke [nautical term indicating that nothing was saved from the vessel]. " "Fur from seals, particularly seal pups, was valued both in the China Trade and in the greater fur trade. References to a ?sealing voyage? or to going ?sealing? refer to the hunting of seal either from a ship or by a crew stationed on an island such as Fanning?s Island (see Hammatt, March 17, 1824)."Page: pg. 215 Change Date: 25 NOV 2012 Father: ? BECKLEY Marriage 1 AHIA KALANIKUMAIKI'EKI'E b: 1792 Married: 1813 ¹ Children William Charles Malulani BECKLEY b: 1815 in Keauhou George Frederick Hoapili BECKLEY b: 1823 Maria K. BECKLEY b: 1817 Localia BECKLEY b: 1818 Mary BECKLEY b: 1820 Hannah BECKLEY Emmeline Maria Guadaloupe BECKLEY b: 1825 in Bay Of Mexico, Mexico Sources: Type: Book Author: Bob Dye Periodical: Merchant Prince of the Sandalwood Mountains: Afong and the Chinese in Hawai?i Publication: (Honolulu: University of Hawai?i Press, 1997) Type: Periodical Author: W.D. Alexander Title: The Maker of the Hawaiian Flag Periodical: Hawaiian Historical Society Reports Date: (1898) Text: From notes submitted by Cherissa DeShannon (CDeShannon@aol.com). Text: From article in "Sunday Advertiser", August 12, 1906, transcribed from a copy by Cherissa DeShannon. Type: Book Author: Hiram Bingham Periodical: A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands Publication: (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1969) Text: Clarice B. Taylor, "Tales about Hawaii", 6 July 1960. Text: Clarice B. Taylor, "Tales about Hawaii", 7 July 1960. Text: Clarice B. Taylor, "Tales about Hawaii", 9 July 1960. Type: Periodical Title: The Story of Hawaii?s Flag Periodical: Honolulu Advertiser Date: Sunday, May 17, 1925 Type: Newspaper Title: Captain George C. Beckley Periodical: Sunday Advertiser Place: Honolulu Date: August 12, 1906 Media: Newspaper Type: Newspaper Title: Fort of Honolulu of Century Ago Inspiration Periodical: Pacific Commercial Advertiser Place: Honolulu, Hawaii Territory Date: Tuesday, September 19, 1916 Media: Newspaper Type: Newspaper Title: Bits from Island History Periodical: The Sunday Advertiser Place: Honolulu, HI Date: April 6, 1919 Media: Newspaper Type: Book Author: Otto Von Kotzebue Periodical: Voyage of Discovery in the South Sea and to Behring?s Straits Publication: (London: Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1821) Type: Book Author: Adelbert Von Chamisso Periodical: A Voyage around the world with the Romanzov Expoloring Expedition in the years 1815-1818 Publication: (Honolulu, HI: University of HI Press) Type: Periodical Author: Rev. W.D. Westervelt Title: History of Hawaii?s Flag Periodical: Paradise of the Pacific Date: (July, 1901) Type: Book Author: A. Grove Day Periodical: History Makers of Hawaii: A Biographical Dictionary Publication: (Honolulu: Mutual Publishing of Honolulu, 1984) Type: Book Author: Albert Pierce Taylor Periodical: Under Hawaiian Skies Publication: Honolulu: Advertiser Publishing Co, 1922 Type: E-Mail Message Author: Warren Tsark (tsarkw001@hawaii.rr.com) Title: Ancestor Research Date: 30 Oct 2007 Location: In files of Barbara Fleming Type: Web Site Author: John Todd, Jr. Title: The Search for Boquilla de Piedras URL: http://www.johntoddjr.com/60%20Boquilla/boquilla.htm Date: Accessed 9 Nov. 2009 Type: Periodical Author: Arthur Svihla Title: Notes on the Hawaiian Monk Seal Periodical: Journal of Mammalogy Date: May, 1959 Type: Periodical Author: Robert C. Lydecker Title: The Archives of Hawaii Periodical: Papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society Date: June 9, 1906 Type: Book Author: C.S. Stewart Periodical: Journal of a Residence in the Sandwich Islands, 2nd Edition Publication: New York: John P. Haven, 1828 Date: 1 APR 2010 Type: Book Author: Charles H. Hammatt Periodical: Ships, Furs and Sandalwood: A Yankee Trader in Hawaii, 1823-1825 Publication: Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999
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INDEX TO THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY
George Charles Beckley
Beckley,Ahia, 15:51
Beckley, Fred, 12:105
Beckley, George Mooheau, 33:209
Beckley, Marie Kaha'awelani, 15:51
High Chiefess Keakuaaihue Kanealai Hua, the cousin and adopted sister of Chiefess Ahia Beckley. Related to the Kamehamehas through Uminuikukaailani, Nancy descended from the famous twins Kahanui and Kaha'opulani who were charged with the responsibility for rearing Kamehameha the Great in infancy.[2]
Ahia was the granddaughter of Kahakuai-akea, the twin brother of Kahaopulani, who nursed the baby Kamehameha while he was in hiding.[3]
By direct inheritance the Io prayers were transmitted to Ahuena from a priestly ancestor of Kohala district in the island of Hawaii. The mother of Ahuena (Mrs. A. P. Taylor) was the late Kekulani (Mrs. Mary Jane Fayerweather Montano) whose mother was Ahia (Mrs. George Beckley), whose father Kahaku'i-i-ka-waiea was high priest of the temple named Pu'u-o-Mane'o at Honokane, Kohala, in the time of Kamehameha. The same prayers are known to be in the possession of another descendant of Kahaku'i, who regards them as too sacred to publish. <http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_50_1941/Volume_50,_No._199/The_Hawaiian_cult_of_Io,_by_E._S._Craighill_Handy,_p_134-159/p1>???????
Beckley died in 1826 at Honolulu, although some sources indicated he died in 1825.[4] His last resident in Honolulu was a modern style coral house which had been built the same year as his death; the property on Alakea Street was later occupied by Dr. George Herbert's medical office in the 1920s.[5] He named Alexander Adams </wiki/Alexander_Adams> as his executor and guardian of his heirs. Beckley was now judged entitled to have bequeathed to his part-Hawaiian descendants The landholdings he bequeathed to his descendants included an acre of land in Honolulu, seventy acres at the ahupua?a </wiki/Ahupua%CA%BBa> of Kalihi </wiki/Kalihi>, and thirty-six acres in Manoa </wiki/Manoa>.[1] Initially buried in a vault at Kawaiaha?o Church </wiki/Kawaiaha%CA%BBo_Church>, his body was later removed to the Oahu Cemetery </wiki/Oahu_Cemetery> where many of his descendants are also interred.[5]
Tales of Old Hawaii <http://www.alulike.org/services/talesofourhawaii_vol3.pdf>
[1] <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=barbpretz&id=I58>
[2] <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~barbpretz/PS01/PS01_058.HTM>
[3] <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~royalty/hawaii/i424.html>[6]
The custom of adoption was "a great thing among Hawaiian gentry." Mrs. Montano explained. "Not only children, hut grown folks were adopted as Captain George Beckley was adopted by the king [Kamehameha I <http://books.google.com/books?id=emXxAAAAMAAJ&q=montano+hawaii+rancher+-montana&dq=montano+hawaii+rancher+-montana&hl=en&ei=cbIIT-O7AaKriQKG_8GpCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=2&ved=0CDwQ6wEwAQ> as a son]
George Beckley viz: Ahia (widow of Beckley), William Beckley, Maria Beckley (wife of Kamakahonu), Abram (infant child of Nancy Beckley), Mary Beckley (wife of A. H. Fayerweather), George Frederick Beckley (absent from the Islands since 1834 and last heard from in 1841 at Valparaiso), Marie Beckley (wife of Geo. W. Punchard)...[4] <http://books.google.com/books?id=tqcoAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Maria+%22+Kamakahonu&dq=%22Maria+%22+Kamakahonu&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hta7UfPaOIaargHA7YHIDg&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg>
Her mother and Uncle William were raised by Keopuolani, the "sacred queen" of Kamehameha the Great, and Queen Ka'ahumanu, the king's favorite wife, raised two of Julia's aunts [5] <http://books.google.com/books?id=NETf7njQoocC&pg=PA70&dq=%22the+king's+favorite+wife,+raised+two+of+Julia's+aunts%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=n9q7Ue_MHoXqqwHsh4DgDg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA>
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1 Descendants
1.1 Fayerweather, Afong, Taylor
1.2 Others
2 References
3 Bibliography
Descendants[edit </w/index.php?title=User:KAVEBEAR/George_C._Beckley&action=edit§ion=1>]
Fayerweather, Afong, Taylor[edit </w/index.php?title=User:KAVEBEAR/George_C._Beckley&action=edit§ion=2>]
Mary Kekahimoku Kolimoalani Beckley (1820-1850), married Abram Henry Fayerweather (1812-1850)
Mary Jane Kekulani Fayerweather Montano (May 14, 1842- November 8, 1930) married Benoni Richmond Davison (1842-1875) and Andreas Avelino Montano (1847-1913)
Emma Ahuena Davison Taylor (1866 - 1937), married Albert Pierce Taylor (1872 - 1931)
Emma's sisters and brothers were William Compton Malulani (1865), who died in infancy, Rose Compton (1868), Henry Fayer- weather (1870), and Marie Hope Kekulani (1874). Her father died on July 3, 1875, and her mother married Andress [6] <http://books.google.com/books?id=AycqAAAAYAAJ&q=fayerweather+Kekulani&dq=fayerweather+Kekulani&hl=en&sa=X&ei=w6q8UZ_yMJOyqAGGhIHICA&ved=0CEgQ6wEwBQ>
Fayerweather (Kekulani) Montano's notes which are in my possession. She was a descendant of one of the priesthoods of Io. "The Priesthood of lolani was the highest priesthood of the islands of Hawaii. Neither chieftains nor priests dared...[7] <http://books.google.com/books?id=9X5DAQAAIAAJ&q=fayerweather+Kekulani&dq=fayerweather+Kekulani&hl=en&sa=X&ei=w6q8UZ_yMJOyqAGGhIHICA&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg>
Julia Hope Kamakia Paaikamokalani o Kinau Beckley Fayerweather (1840-1919), married Chun Afong.....
Emmeline Agatha Marie Kailimoku Afong, (May 13, 1858 - August 31, 1946), married 1887 John Alfred Magoon
Catherine, Makia, Eaton, Allie and Lani.
Antone "Toney" Abram Kekapala Keawemaihili Afong (c. 1859 - October 18, 1936), known as Chun Chik-yu and became governor of Kwangtung Province from 1922 to 1923
Nancy Eldorah Luhana Frederica Afong, (February 16, 1861 - July 16, 1940), married Francis Blately McStocker, who served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Annexation Club and who secretly helped form the Citizen Guard, the army of the Republic of Hawaii, in June 1893.
Mary Catherine Afong (1862-1945)
Julia Hope Afong (1864-1953)
Marie K. Afong (1867-1925)
Elizabeth K. Afong (1869-1965)
Henrietta (Etta) Patrinella Kealaiki Afong (1870-1940), she was the beauty of the family and married Commodore William H. Whiting (1843-1925), a Civil War hero, settled with him in Berkeley, California, and was a member of the San Francisco social set. After his death, she married another naval officer, Rear Admiral Armin Fahrenholt.
Alice Lillian Afong (1872-1953), married Dr. Edson Lewis Hutchinson (1864-1943) in September 4, 1890.
Caroline Bartlett Afong (1874-1942)
Helen Getrude Afong (1873-1935)
James Edward Fayerweather Afong (1875-1875)
Martha Muriel Afong (1878-1983)
Albert Fayerweather Leialoha Afong, (February 23. 1877 - 1948), attended Oahu College and graduated from Harvard University in 1903 and became the first person of Chinese descent to head the Honolulu Stock Exchange. He married Anna Elizabeth Whitting, niece of his brother-in-law, and had four daughters: Elizabeth, Mary, Katherine and Julia.
Beatrice Melanie Afong (1880-1959)
Abram Henry Afong (1883-1933)
Others[edit </w/index.php?title=User:KAVEBEAR/George_C._Beckley&action=edit§ion=3>]
Maria (Malaea Kanamu Beckley, daughter of William Beckley???) Kaiponuikaipoli'ili'i Beckley, married Kamakahonu[7]....... To win Mary's hand, Abram had promised to give a child to Mary's aunt, Kamakahonu, who was married to William Beckley. Two children were born to the young couple, but Abram refused to part with them. <http://books.google.com/books?id=emXxAAAAMAAJ&q=beckley+Kamakahonu&dq=beckley+Kamakahonu&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ite7UaDYCoXMqgHco4DIBA&ved=0CDQQ6wEwAQ>...Maria Kaiponuikaipoli'ili'i Beckley, who, as a favorite of Kamehameha, had been raised as a companion to Nahi'ena'ena <http://books.google.com/books?id=T9W5AAAAIAAJ&q=beckley+Kamakahonu&dq=beckley+Kamakahonu&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ite7UaDYCoXMqgHco4DIBA&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBQ>...Maria was called Kaiponui Kaipoliilii after this incident, at her birth <http://books.google.com/books?id=_2CmsAMr75wC&pg=PA316&dq=%22Beckley+was+made+a+high+chief+by+Kamehameha,+so+that+he+might%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ttu7UejFGYWSqwHS1oDwAQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA>

Maria Beckley Kistler (January 28, 1817 - August 1, 1887), married Edmund Kistler. Kistler <http://books.google.com/books?id=lRA3AAAAMAAJ&q=maria+beckley+kistler&dq=maria+beckley+kistler&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gdi7Ud3BBsajrAGHxYCACw&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ>....Will <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1887-09-06/ed-1/seq-6/>

Nancy Luhana Beckley (January 31, 1818 - Bef 1882), married Captain Ahia
Abraham Fred Beckley Kekapala Kepoomahoe Ahia (about 1840-1882) [8] <http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I173&tree=Cole>
William Charles Malulani Beckley [9] <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~royalty/hawaii/i423.html> [10] <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54754636> (August 1, 1814 - March 6, 1871), married Kahinu o-Kekuaokalani-i-Lekeleke (1829– after 1853)
Beckley— In this city, on the 6th instant, Mr. William C, Beckley, aged 56 years, eldest son of the late Captain George Beckley, who was for mauy years a resident of these islands. Friend <http://books.google.com/books?id=dywlAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA29&dq=%22William+C,+Beckley,+aged+56+years,+eldest+son+of+the+late+Captain+George+Beckley,+who+was+for+mauy+years+a+resident+of+these+islands%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GPi8UdumD8PMrQG7zYCoBg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA>
William Beckley, hapa-haole son of Captain George Beckley who had been in the service of Kamehameha I, was for a number of years in charge of the king's cattle on Hawai'i. After the death of Governor Adams Kuakini on December 9, l844, Beckley was appointed konohiki of Waimea, as well as manager of all the cattle there belonging to the king and the government. Beckley assumed, wrongly, that he had received all of Waimea to manage as he saw fit, believing, as he said, that there were no 'Hi kupono within it (Leleiohoku l845). William Pitt Leleiohoku, Kuakini's heir and successor to the governorship of Hawai'i, protested to Keoni Ana, minister of the interior (Ibid.). There is no record of Keoni Ana's reply, but matters seem to have been adjusted satisfactorily, for the Land Board records show Beckley as the konohiki with power to sanction all land transactions, native and foreign, on Crown and Government lands, while the lands of the Young family and those of Hu'eu Davis continued to be managed by themselves or their own konohiki. Leleiohoku's l0-acre 'Hi kupono "Kamakahonu," (LCA 997l:58) and Lunalilo's Puako (LCA 8559-B:6) were also unaffected by Beckley's authority. As konohiki Beckley proved to be a lenient one. There is no case in which he disputed a claim, and in fact he was the principal witness for the majority of cases on the lands of which he had jurisdiction. As witness, he clarified the extent, location, and tenure of the simply worded claims, and ensured more than one award where none would have been made due to vagueness of claimant. [11] <http://books.google.com/books?id=60ATAQAAIAAJ&q=%22son+of+captain+george+beckley%22&dq=%22son+of+captain+george+beckley%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hfW8UYnYGY78qQGg2IDAAg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA>
Maria A. Kahaawelani Beckley Kahea (Marae Kahaawelani)[8]....Maraea Kahaawelani Beckley[9]....... pic <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=36126405> (December 23, 1847 - July 11, 1909), [12] <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1909-07-12/ed-1/seq-7/> [13] <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016413/1909-07-12/ed-1/seq-3/> [14] <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1909-07-16/ed-1/seq-8/> [15] <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1909-07-16/ed-1/seq-8/> [], married David Kahea .........Kaiapeelua[9] ....She was among a list of Hawaiian court ladies in 1858.[2]
Mrs. Carl Maertens
Leonidas Beckley
Leander Kaonowailani[9]
Violet Kahaleluhi Kinoole[9]
Grace Namahana i Kaleleokalani[9]
Frederick Maiulani[9]
George Heaalii[9]
Benjamin Kameeiamoku
Frederick William Kahapula Beckley (November 25, 1845 - January 7, 1881) married Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina (1847-1929)...Death <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014681/1881-01-29/ed-1/seq-2/>....http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1880-09-15/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1880&index=3&rows=20&words=Beckley&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Hawaii&date2=1881&proxtext=Beckley+&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1880-09-15/ed-1/seq-3/> Governor Beckley is however regarded as an immense gain for Kauai over his predecessor. Mrs. Beckley, daughter of the talented Theophilus Metcalf, who died on Hawaii some years ago, is a lady of culture and of character].....Mr. Fred. W. Beckley has sold his cane planting interest to a Chinaman, Lum Choy by name. The cane looks well and undoubtedly the thrifty oriental will make it pay. Molokai has some good sugar land. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1880-01-21/ed-1/seq-3/> ...F. W. Beckley has been appointed Governor of Kauai vice Jno. E. Bush, promoted. Such are the reports <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1880-08-18/ed-1/seq-3/>...Governor Beckley of Kauai, who is in town at present for medical treatment is so far recovered that he hopes soon to be at his post of duty again. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1880-10-13/ed-1/seq-3/>......Appointment and Kanoa as acting Governor <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1880-09-15/ed-1/seq-2/>
William Ahuena Frederick Beckley, Sr (December 27, 1873 - April 24, 1947), married Juliet Lolokuokalani Sheldon Beckley (July 19, 1874 - October 6, 1929)
Frederick William Kahapula Beckley Jr. (May 7, 1874 – December 20, 1943), married Alice L. K. Heanu Beckley and had nine children
Nominated and Decline... <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1906-10-30/ed-1/seq-6/>
Ticket still unfilled ...cannot get on printed ballot...not subsitute <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1906-10-30/ed-1/seq-1/>
Beckley Once More Refuses <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1906-10-29/ed-1/seq-1/>
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Sabina Kahinu[9]
Frederica Beckley[9]
George Charles Mo'oheau'ika'uluhe'imalama Beckley (May 5, 1849 - July 4, 1910), death <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1910-07-12/ed-1/seq-7/> [16] <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1910-07-15/ed-1/seq-1/> [17] <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1910-07-05/ed-1/seq-1/> [18] <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047211/1910-08-01/ed-1/seq-2/> [19] <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047211/1910-08-01/ed-1/seq-5/> [20] <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1910-07-05/ed-1/seq-8/> [21] <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1910-07-19/ed-1/seq-1/> [22] <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54752147> [23] <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54752147>.....<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1887-01-04/ed-1/seq-5/> 1887 Election at Hilo J. K. Kaulia vs Beckley married Mary Risley.....Appointed to the Privy Council by Liliuokalani </wiki/Liliuokalani>.[10]
William Kauluheimalama[9]
Henry Hoolulu[9]
Juanita[9] .....May 20, 1906, Miss Juanita Mary Kamakahuki Beckley was married to Albert Richard Cunha at noon. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1906-05-21/ed-1/seq-7/>
George Mooheau Beckley, Jr. [9]

Six Generations of Race Mixture in Hawaii
A recent study of "Six Generations of Race Mixture in Hawaii" traces the descendants of an English sea-captain and an Hawaiian princess who were regularly married in 1814. The offspring of that marriage number approximately 400 and [<http://books.google.com/books?ei=VQC8Ud6yN8LZrgGMi4HYAw&id=hYV0AAAAMAAJ> Mixing the races in Hawaii:
a study of the coming neo-Hawaiian American race]
Granddaughter Voices Family Flag Claims[11]
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XXI THE HAWAIIAN FLAG <http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hhl/hhl25.htm> ....
Mary Beckley was a daughter of George Beckley, an English ship captain and a trusted advisor to King Kamehameha the Great, and of his wife, Chiefess Elizabeth Ahia, a member of the Hawaiian nobility (ali'i) descended from early Hawaiian.......The New England Historical and Genealogical Register - Volume 152 - Page 247 <http://books.google.com/books?id=1i9XAAAAYAAJ>
The subsequent adoption by the King gave Beckley such exalted rank that even his own wife, Ahia, a chief- tainess by birth, was made to crawl before him, on such occasions as homage was due. So Beckley, united with a chieftainess New Catholic World - Volume 133 - Page 661 <http://books.google.com/books?id=tcMRAAAAYAAJ>

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George married Elizabeth Kalanikumaieiwalani AHIA [19276] [MRIN: 6933], daughter of Huhakekaua'a KAMEHAMEHA'A NU'UANU [19277] and OHIKIMAKALOA [19278], in 1813. (Elizabeth Kalanikumaieiwalani AHIA [19276] died in 1854.)