Individual Details
Kamanawa
( - 20 Oct 1840)
LINEAGE
Conflict: Buke Ku Auhau Hawaii, G-8, p 5 lists parents as Alapai and Kameeiamoku.
LIFE
A. He was publicly executed on 20 October 1840 for poisoning his wife (Alexander, A Brief History of the Hawaiian People, p 230). "Kamanawa was the first to be hanged under the new laws and rules brought into Hawaii by the Christian missionaries. After finding out that his wife's second child was not his, he went into a fit of rage and killed her. Under the old ways his actions would have been understood and forgiven, but he was living a new day and a new time" (Oukah, Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, p 115).
B. Conflict: Oukah, Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, p 115 gives 1841 as the death year.
Events
| Death | 20 Oct 1840 |  | |||
| Alt name | Kamanawa opio | | |||
| Alt name | Kumuhonuakamanolaualii Kamawa | |
Families
| Spouse | Kamokuiki ( - 1840) |
| Child | Kapaakea (1817 - 1866) |
| Child | Keaumauhili ( - ) |
| Father | Kepookalani ( - ) |
| Mother | Alapaiwahine ( - ) |
| Sibling | KapelakapuoKakae ( - ) |
Endnotes
1. W. D. Alexander, A Brief History of the Hawaiian People (New York: American Book Company, 1891)., p 230..
2. Genealogies, etc., 1918, M397-2-17, Hawaii State Archives..
3. 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)..
4. Chronology- 1784-1859 and 1555-1730. G1.4. (FamilySearch: Bishop Museum)..
5. Abraham Fornander. "Chronological Table of Events in Hawaiian History." In An English-Hawaiian Dictionary, ed. H. R. Hitchcock (1887)..
6. Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers, (Laie: The Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1986), vol. 2., p 47..
7. Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, 28 September 1878, p 4, He Mookuauhau no ka lani ka Moi Kalakaua..