Individual Details
Kaikioewa
(1765 - Apr 1839)
LINEAGE
He descended from Kaolohaka-a-Keawe (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 131).
LIFE
A. He fought in Kamehameha's army in the battle for Oahu. Kamehameha gave him his sister for mate (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 350).
B. He was governor of Kauai during the reign of Kamehameha III (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 131). He had been Kamehameha III's kahu but was appointed governor over Kauai before he became king (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 258). He was made governor after the rebellion of Kauai chiefs in 1825, replacing Kahalaia (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 269). He was governor of Kaua'i from 1824 to 1839 (Miller, Ka'iana: the Once Famous Prince of Kauai, p 3; Hawaiian Chiefs Biographical Abstract). Governor of Kauai 1824-1840 (Bingham, Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands, p xv).
C. In his old age, he became a Christian. He and his mate Keawe-a-Mahi taught Sunday School at "Canaan" (Kana'ana) (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 351).
D. He "died in 1839 in his seventy-fourth year," from the mumps (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 346,350).
Events
| Birth | 1765 |  | |||
| Death | Apr 1839 | | |||
| Alt name | Palekaluhi Kaikiowea | | |||
| Alt name | Palekaluhi | |
Families
| Spouse | Kalanikaulihiwakama ( - ) |
| Child | Kiliwehi ( - ) |
| Spouse | Keaweamahi ( - 1848) |
| Spouse | Nahaukapu ( - ) |
| Child | Likelike ( - 1821) |
| Father | Kaiana Ukupe ( - 1804) |
| Mother | Kekikoola Kalanikauleleiaiwi ( - ) |
Endnotes
1. S. M. Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, trans. A. Group Of Hawaiian Scholars. rev. ed. (Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate, 1992)., p 350..
2. Ka Nupepa Kuokoa., 13 July 1865, p 4, Ka papa kuhikuhi makahiki o na mea Kaulana o Hawaii nei! (Kamakau).
3. S. M. Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, trans. A. Group Of Hawaiian Scholars. rev. ed. (Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate, 1992)., p 350..
4. Abraham Fornander. "Chronological Table of Events in Hawaiian History." In An English-Hawaiian Dictionary, ed. H. R. Hitchcock (1887)..
5. Thomas G. Thrum. "Chronological Table of Important Events." Hawaiian Almanac and Annual. (1876): 12-23..
6. The Polynesian, 13 May 1848, p 1, Hawaiian Chronological Table..
7. A. Forbes, "A Chronological Table of Remarkable Events Connected with the History of the Hawaiian Islands," in A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language, ed. Lorrin Andrews (1865)..
8. S. M. Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, trans. A. Group Of Hawaiian Scholars. rev. ed. (Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate, 1992)., p 189..
9. Oukah. Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, (Dallas: Triskelion Press, 1998)., p 80..