Individual Details

LINEAGE
Fragment: She "is a descendant of rulers and of the priestly class of Paao" (The Hereditary Chiefs of Hawaii, HEN v1 p 3127-3129).
LIFE
A. She was adopted at birth by Kinau, mate of Mataio Kekuanaoa (Hawaiian Chiefs Biographical Abstract). When Kinau died, Pauahi returned to live with her parents (Kwan et al, Na Lani Kamehameha, p 23).
B. "For ten years Pauahi attended the Chiefs' Children's School, later called the Royal School" (Kwan et al, Na Lani Kamehameha, p 23).
B. Liliuokalani called her "sister" because Liliuokalani was adopted by Pauahi's parents. She was married to Charles R. Bishop in her 18th year. She and her husband held "principles of exalted piety and whose love for all that is good, honorable, and pure" (Liliuokalani, Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, p 10,333).
"long before he became king, Prince Lot had been engaged to Bernice Pauahi; that engagement was broken to permit Bernice to marry Charles R. Bishop" (Kuykendall, The Hawaiian Kingdom, vol 2 p 240).
Conflict: Rubincam, America's Only Royal Family, p 84 states marriage date as 4 June 1850.
C. She had no children with Charles R. Bishop (McKinzie, Hawaiian Genealogies, vol 1 p 41). Pauahi was very close with her cousin Keelikolani. Keelikolani gave Pauahi her child to raise, Keolaokalani, but he died when only 6 months old (Kwan et al, Na Lani Kamehameha, p 23).
D. "In the last hours of Kamehameha V ... a final effort was made to have a successor appointed.... Kamehameha then called Attorney General Phillips and the High Chiefess Bernice Pauahi (Mrs Charles R. Bishop) to his bedside and told the latter that he wished to be his successor. She said, 'No, no, not me; don't think of me," and she suggested for the position first the king's half-sister Ruth Keelikolani and then Queen Emma" (Kuykendall, The Hawaiian Kingdom, vol 2 p 241).
E. "Pauahi knew the importance of education. Before she died she made a will that would establish a school she wished to name for her great-grandfather, Kamehameha I. Pauahi directed in her will that the trustees of her estate were to 'erect and maintain in the Hawaiian islands two schools .... one for boys and one for girls, to be known as the Kamehameha Schools.'" (Kwan et al, Na Lani Kamehameha, p 25).
"She founded Kamehameha Schools by her will on October 31, 1883. The Bishop Estate consisted of 378,506 acres of land ... at that time... From her parens, Paki and Konia, and from Akahi, were 25,569 acres. Princess Ruth had left her 352,937 acres which had come from her own Mahele lands, other lands she had bought, lands from Kamehameha III willed to Victoria Kamamalu (then to her father, Mataio Kekuanaoa). In 1890 Charles Reed Bishop returned 29,070 acreas of land that had been given him by his wife, and before leaving Hawaii for California had added another 64,655 acres of his own land to the Estate. This made a total of 472,231 acreas of land, about 17 percent of all the land in Hawaii" (Oukah, Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, p 14).
"The Kamehameha Schools [and the Bishop estate] will be an enduring monument to the memory of their founder, Mrs. B. P. Bishop, the last descendant of Kamehameha I" (Alexander, A Brief History of the Hawaiian People, p 307).

Birth	19 Dec 1831	Honolulu, Oahu
Marriage	5 Jun 1851	Honolulu, Oahu - Charles Reed Bishop
Death	16 Oct 1884	Keouahale, Oahu
Alt name		Bernice Pauahi Bishop
Alt name		Pauahi
Alt name		Bernice Pauahi Paki
Alt name		B. Kalani Pauahi
Alt name		Mrs. C.R. Bishop
Alt name		Mrs. Pauahi Bishop
Alt name		Mrs. Bishop
Alt name		Pauahi Bishop

Spouse

Charles Reed Bishop (1822 - 1915)

Father	Paki (1808 - 1855)
Mother	Konia (1807 - 1857)