Individual Details

Humehume

(Abt 1800 - 3 May 1826)



LINEAGE
His mother was a "common woman" (Alexander, A Brief History of the Hawaiian People, p 173).
Conflict: Genealogical Information about Hawaiian Families from the Bruce Cartwright Collection, U-177 lists mother as Kapuaamohu.
LIFE
A. Conflict: Stokes, New Bases for Hawaiian Chronology, p 57 estimates his birth in 1797.
B. His father Kaumualii sent Humehume at the age of 4 to America to be raised and taught (Warne, George Prince Kaumuali'i, the Forgotten Prince, p 59).
C He was part of the Foreign Mission School in 1819 (Alexander, A Brief History of the Hawaiian People, p 173).
D. Humehume returned to Hawaii with the first ship carrying protestant missionaries on March 30, 1820 (Del Piano, Kalanimoku: Iron Cable of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1769–1827, p 14).
E. He courted and married Betty Davis, daughter of Isaac Davis (Stauder, George, Prince of Hawaii, p 40).
F. He took part in the Kauai rebellion (Warne, George Prince Kaumuali'i, the Forgotten Prince, p 70). George Kaumualii led a rebellion after his father's death because Kaumualii left the kingdom to Liholiho (Chun in Ka Moolelo Hawaii p v stated Kaumulalii wanted to give it to his newphew Luanuu Kahalaia). George wanted a re-distribution of land as had been done for centuries when a reigning chief had died (Kuykendall, The Hawaiian Kingdom, vol 1 p 118). He fled Kalanimoku during the Kauai rebellion of 1825 with his daughter and mate Pake (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 268).
Fragment: Kiaimakani (which means wind watcher) was an insurgent chief at Kauai (Bingham, Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands, p xvi).
G. He died in Honolulu in the 1826 epidemic of cough and bronchitis (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 235,274).
Conflict: Warne, George Prince Kaumuali'i, the Forgotten Prince, p 70 states he died from influenza on May 3, 1825.
H. Fragment: "it is said that the only survivors today [of the family] are through Helen Hoolulu, the High-Chiefess Kaleikapu-o-Kaeokulani, of Kailua, and her children, the oldest son being Arnold Hoolulu, the High Chief Kaimanaauao" (Oukah, Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, p 52).

Events

BirthAbt 1800
Death3 May 1826Honolulu, Oahu
Alt nameGeorge Tamoree
Alt nameGeorge Humehume
Alt nameGeorge P. Kaumualii
Alt nameGeorge Kaumualii
Alt nameGeorge Kaumualii Humehume

Families

SpouseElizabeth Davis (1803 - )
ChildWahinekipi (1824 - 1843)
FatherKaumualii (1780 - 1824)
MotherKawalu ( - )

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