ʻElisiva Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku
ʻElisiva Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku | |
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Born | 18 May 1850 |
Died | September 1889 (38-39 years) |
Spouse | Siaʻosi Fatafehi Toutaitokotaha (1842–1912) |
Children | George Tupou II |
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ʻElisiva Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku (18 May 1850 – September 1889) was the mother of King George Tupou II of Tonga.
Biography
Born to Tēvita ʻUnga and his first wife Fifita Vava'u, her father was, according to newly adopted Christian law, an illegitimate son of King George Tupou I because his mother was a secondary wife of the king. Her family's luck changed when the king's only legitimate son, Prince Vuna Takitakimālohi, died, leaving her father as King Tupou's heir.[1][2][3]
She married her paternal first cousin Prince
In July 1865, English explorer Julius Brenchley visited Vavaʻu for five days and met governor ʻUnga and his family including Fusipala. Brenchley noted that she was "twelve years old, is strongly built, and has her breasts perfectly developed, as is usual in a country where the women are generally mothers before they are thirteen. [7] However, Fusipala was actually fifteen at the time, being born in 1850, and not twelve as Brenchley claimed.
Family tree
References
- ^ Rutherford 1977, pp. 26–27, 173.
- ^ Wood-Ellem 1999, pp. 19–21, 324.
- ^ Rodman 2007, p. 79.
- ^ Wood-Ellem 1999, pp. 309, 314, 322, 324.
- ^ Biersack 1996, p. 274.
- ^ Hixon 2000, p. 202.
- ^ Brenchley 1873, pp. 94–95.
Bibliography
- Biersack, Aletta (1996). Fox, James J.; Sather, Clifford (eds.). "Rivals and Wives: Affinal Politics and the Tongan Ramage". Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography. Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Australian National University. OCLC 245762652.
- Brenchley, Julius Lucius (1873). Jottings During the Cruise of H. M. S. Curac̜oa Among the South Seaislands in 1865. London: Longmans, Green. OCLC 6749498.
- Hixon, Margaret (2000). Sālote: Queen of Paradise. Dunedin, NZ: University of Otago Press. OCLC 247978391.
- Rodman, Margaret (2007). House-girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. OCLC 35760773.
- Rutherford, Noel (1977). Friendly Islands: A History of Tonga. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. OCLC 611102698.
- OCLC 262293605.