Individual Details
Kahekili
( - Jul 1794)
LINEAGE
Conflict: McKinzie, Hawaiian Genealogies, vol 2 p 34 lists parents Kapohauola and Kaulaheanuiokamoku, son of Kakae .
Conflict: Pukui, Hawaiian Genealogies, p 8 lists parents as Kaulahea-nui-o-ka-moku (son of Kakae of Maui) and I-mea-ka-po-hauola (w).
Conflict: Peabody-Henriques genealogy, Hms G17, p 7 lists parents as Kaulahea and Kapohauola.
LIFE
A. Birth year ?
B. Kahekili means "thunder" (Jarves, History of the Hawaiian and Sandwich Islands, p 214).
C. He was near the age of his cousin Kaululaau (Kalakaua, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii, p 209).
D. Ruler of Maui (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 152). King of Maui 1773-1794 (Bingham, Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands, p xv).
E. He "impoverished his Kingdom and people by his many war-campaigns" (Oukah, Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, p 114).
F. Contemporaries: wars with Kalaniopuu and Kahahana 1775-1783 (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, p 151-157,224-225).
G. Conflict: Forbes, A Chronological Table of Remarkable Events indicates death year as 1791 and The Polynesian, 13 May 1848, p 1, Hawaiian Chronological Table indicates 1795. Kuykendall, The Hawaiian Kingdom, vol 1 p 44 indicates spring or summer 1794.
Events
| Death | Jul 1794 |  | |||
| Alt name | Kahekiliakaaae | | |||
| Alt name | Kahakili | | |||
| Alt name | Kahekiliakakae | |
Families
| Spouse | Haukanuimakamaka ( - ) |
| Child | Kawaukaohele ( - ) |
| Child | Kelea ( - ) |
| Father | Kakae ( - ) |
| Mother | Kapohauola ( - ) |
| Sibling | Kaponaenae ( - ) |
| Sibling | KikenuiaEwa ( - ) |
Endnotes
1. David Kalakaua, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folk-lore of a Strange People (New York: C.L. Webster & Co, 1888)., p 367..
2. Abraham Fornander. "Chronological Table of Events in Hawaiian History." In An English-Hawaiian Dictionary, ed. H. R. Hitchcock (1887)..
3. Thomas G. Thrum. "Chronological Table of Important Events." Hawaiian Almanac and Annual. (1876): 12-23..
4. James J. Jarves, History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands (Boston: James Monroe and Company, 1844)., p 179..
5. Ralph Simpson Kuykendall, The Hawaiian Kingdom, 1778-1854 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, reprint 1947)., p 38..
6. Hawaii State Archives, Genealogy Books, G-9, He Kuauhau Alii o Hawaii Nei. Genealogy Books., p 18..
7. Genealogy of the Chiefs. Hms G46 (FamilySearch: Bishop Museum)., p 4..
8. Oukah. Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, (Dallas: Triskelion Press, 1998)., p 70..