My cousin, a genealogy buff on our Bowers side, posted a pic of an Isaac Bowers who lived in Orderville- another United Order community. (Our King side lived in Kingston which was a successful United Order community. Ended only because the rest of the church could not live the law of Consecration.)
I could never located an Isaac in our direct line, but came across a brief bio that named his parents as Maria Lay and James Bowers both born in 1811. Aha. p.764
https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE102301
He is the nephew of our direct line John Bowers born in 1816.
I have no idea if John also lived in Orderville.
I will have to look into his biography.
I did come across some old tapes made by the church in the 70's on church history that gave a very arresting picture of Orderville. (Along with some other issues that I would never see them cover in such a way today-such as ERA, etc.)
Those tapes made me wonder about our Bowers connection to that community.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Turns out my 4th great-grandparents Lewis Mecham Sr and his wife Lydia Knight Mecham nee Wells are both buried in our local cemetery here in Provo. I didn't know Lewis served a mission with his brother Moses to 2 native tribes. (I attend a native ward.) [Seems on Great-grandfather Parley King's line there were many relatives who worked with indigenous people. Such as Culbert King who served with the Kanosh, and William King who served in Hawai'i and then escorted Hawaiians to Iosepa in Tooele where he later served as the 2nd mission president for a year before he passed away of an untimely infection.]
You can read more about Culbert in this awesome link I found. https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE102301]
His wife is interesting to me. She was born in Iroquois territory in a town that later practiced a communal utopian lifestyle. I think she was long gone by then, but I read the hsitory and it said that town was against slavery long before the Civil War, was a place where people helped with the Underground Railroad, and had Quakers (makes sense) and atheists.
They suffered the persecution of the early Saints being pushed around from place to place but were sealed in the Nauvoo Temple December 30, 1945. :) They had 14 children.
This is where the Mechams are buried in Provo. You can search for Provo City Cemetery relatives here.
His mother is buried out in Heber!
I am going to pay them a visit and then in the spring go visit the grave of my 5th great-greandmother, Parmelia.
You can read more about Culbert in this awesome link I found. https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE102301]
His wife is interesting to me. She was born in Iroquois territory in a town that later practiced a communal utopian lifestyle. I think she was long gone by then, but I read the hsitory and it said that town was against slavery long before the Civil War, was a place where people helped with the Underground Railroad, and had Quakers (makes sense) and atheists.
They suffered the persecution of the early Saints being pushed around from place to place but were sealed in the Nauvoo Temple December 30, 1945. :) They had 14 children.
This is where the Mechams are buried in Provo. You can search for Provo City Cemetery relatives here.
His mother is buried out in Heber!
I am going to pay them a visit and then in the spring go visit the grave of my 5th great-greandmother, Parmelia.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
St.Saviour's Children's home
My daughter and I just listened to her interview with her Grandmother Alison. She talked about being sent to the Children's Home when she was around 7. Her brothers Les, and Russel were also there but she said when Les turned 5 he was sent far away to another orphanage in Timaru. She said that in the children's section their bathtubs were on pedestals and there were little ladders for the kids to climb up to get in so that the people bathing them did not have to bend over.
We did a google search and found this information which is exactly what she said.
We did a google search and found this information which is exactly what she said.
Church orphanages
- St Saviour’s Home was an Anglican home in Stapletons Road, Shirley, now the site of the Churchill Complex. The home catered for girls of all ages, and for boys aged between 2 and 5. Boys under 2 were catered for at the Babies' Home, Sumner. After 5, they went to the Timaru Boys' Home. For further information, see the Sun, 12 November 1927. The Anglican Diocese of Christchurch holds records of children at all three institutions. Access to the material is restricted and its release is in conjunction with the Director of Anglican Care.
Here's more on St. Savior's after the earthquake. " But one building didn’t fare so well. The historic chapel at Christchurch’s Churchill Courts aged care complex was hastily deconsecrated yesterday as a demolition crew waited to tear down its busted and dangerously unstable walls. The chapel had been a locus for faith and worship for more than 100 years. In the beginning, it was built to serve St Saviour’s orphanage. The orphanage has long gone, but the chapel found a new life when the Churchill Courts complex was built around it."
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Emma Soares nee Luaehu and Louisa/Eloise Mii Range
My older sister passed along some genealogy work she had been doing. Included was the Application for Certificate of Hawaiian birth by our great-grandmother Kamaka Luaehu Kim's sister Emma Luaehu Soares.
Very interesting!
In the application we learn that Emma was hanai by the Paakua's until they passed, then she went back to her parents- Annie Poole and John (Pauahi) Luaehu.
I didn't knbow they were baptized Catholic! Huelo Catholic Church- record of her baptsim is in St. Anthony's church. (Is this how she met Antone J Soares later? More than likely a portuguese name, and they generally were Catholic.)
Also interesting is she states there were 14 total children.
She doesn't know all their names. Asked for her siblings she states- Katherine Wilhelm, Emma, Victoria, and Joseph Lyons. (Emma being herself? Is this just miscommunication?)
Asked about who passed she says- Kalei, Mary, and Martha.
Who is Kalei?
I can see that my sister must have updated all of this in Family Search years ago.
I added addtional information gained from the application, such as appearance, race (on the application she is listed as being Hawaiian-English. Her witness Malaikini says that her mother [Annie] looked half white and Hawaiian. Father Hawaiian. And Emma says her mother was Hawaiian English and father pure Hawaiian.
From the genealogy, this is most likely true. (We are stuck on Annie Poole's paternal line. Stuck meaning I need more corroborating information. I have posted on this blog about the Poole line quite extensively.)
But what's interesting is that when she married Antone J Soares in Pāhoa, she eventually moved to Panaewa Street in Hilo, where our kaikua'ana and kaikunāne live now. Her addres in 1948- 60 Panaewa Street Hilo, Hawaii
Cool. We have Maui Luaehu-Pauahi-Mii family on Hawai'i island most likely as she had 4 children. (I can find no obituary or record for them. 2 girls- Flora born in Waipio, Huelo, Maui in 1912, Elizabeth born in Pāhoa in 1913, and 2 boys- both born in Pāhoa- Louis 1914, Richard 1916.
Another mystery is about her witness (she had 2) Malaikini Naniho who says she is his sister-in-law. In vital statistic records his wife (who is not named in the application testimony) is Louisa Mii Range or Eloise Mii Range. Malaikini is listed by last names Naniho and Ho'opi'i in vital statistic records.
Was she hanai by John and Annie because there is no one by that name that I know of in their biological children.
However Mii IS a family name. John's mother was a Mii.
AND in the 1910 Census, we do see Emma living with Malaikini and Louisa! So there is a connection. What is it?
Maybe my dad would know.
In a forum on genealogy.com I found this
I just recently found out that part of my family aren't right and I just wanted to find out more info..My Gr.Grandmothers name was "Eloise Mii Range". but according to my grand. aunt. her last name is supposed to be "Range Muller". her dad Is Guastave or Agustave Range Muller/Meuller/Mueller not sure of the spelling..but he is from Germany..he married a Louise Bench not sure of were she is from..If you have any Infor. Please respond..Mahalo! May
So I responded and also emailed the emaila ddress provided.
I hope this mystery is resolved.
Actually, I did a search for Eloise Mii Range in familysearch.org on the Find side of Family Tree (not SEARCH vital stats side) and it looks like she is the COUSIN of Emma (and our great grandmother Kamaka/Martha). Either they were raised together, hanai, or it's just misunderstanding when talking to non-Hawaiians and trying to explian family relations. They are same generation. According to Family Tree in familysearch.org Eloise/Louisa was the daughter of August Range and Mary Keahi Ka'ana'ana Kala'aula Pauahi Luaehu who was John Pauahi's sister.
My older sister passed along some genealogy work she had been doing. Included was the Application for Certificate of Hawaiian birth by our great-grandmother Kamaka Luaehu Kim's sister Emma Luaehu Soares.
Very interesting!
In the application we learn that Emma was hanai by the Paakua's until they passed, then she went back to her parents- Annie Poole and John (Pauahi) Luaehu.
I didn't knbow they were baptized Catholic! Huelo Catholic Church- record of her baptsim is in St. Anthony's church. (Is this how she met Antone J Soares later? More than likely a portuguese name, and they generally were Catholic.)
Also interesting is she states there were 14 total children.
She doesn't know all their names. Asked for her siblings she states- Katherine Wilhelm, Emma, Victoria, and Joseph Lyons. (Emma being herself? Is this just miscommunication?)
Asked about who passed she says- Kalei, Mary, and Martha.
Who is Kalei?
I can see that my sister must have updated all of this in Family Search years ago.
I added addtional information gained from the application, such as appearance, race (on the application she is listed as being Hawaiian-English. Her witness Malaikini says that her mother [Annie] looked half white and Hawaiian. Father Hawaiian. And Emma says her mother was Hawaiian English and father pure Hawaiian.
From the genealogy, this is most likely true. (We are stuck on Annie Poole's paternal line. Stuck meaning I need more corroborating information. I have posted on this blog about the Poole line quite extensively.)
But what's interesting is that when she married Antone J Soares in Pāhoa, she eventually moved to Panaewa Street in Hilo, where our kaikua'ana and kaikunāne live now. Her addres in 1948- 60 Panaewa Street Hilo, Hawaii
Cool. We have Maui Luaehu-Pauahi-Mii family on Hawai'i island most likely as she had 4 children. (I can find no obituary or record for them. 2 girls- Flora born in Waipio, Huelo, Maui in 1912, Elizabeth born in Pāhoa in 1913, and 2 boys- both born in Pāhoa- Louis 1914, Richard 1916.
Another mystery is about her witness (she had 2) Malaikini Naniho who says she is his sister-in-law. In vital statistic records his wife (who is not named in the application testimony) is Louisa Mii Range or Eloise Mii Range. Malaikini is listed by last names Naniho and Ho'opi'i in vital statistic records.
Was she hanai by John and Annie because there is no one by that name that I know of in their biological children.
However Mii IS a family name. John's mother was a Mii.
AND in the 1910 Census, we do see Emma living with Malaikini and Louisa! So there is a connection. What is it?
Maybe my dad would know.
In a forum on genealogy.com I found this
| y: Maydoria Malaikini (ID *****0105) | Date: March 23, 2004 at 14:55:21 |
| of 1157 |
I just recently found out that part of my family aren't right and I just wanted to find out more info..My Gr.Grandmothers name was "Eloise Mii Range". but according to my grand. aunt. her last name is supposed to be "Range Muller". her dad Is Guastave or Agustave Range Muller/Meuller/Mueller not sure of the spelling..but he is from Germany..he married a Louise Bench not sure of were she is from..If you have any Infor. Please respond..Mahalo! May
So I responded and also emailed the emaila ddress provided.
I hope this mystery is resolved.
Actually, I did a search for Eloise Mii Range in familysearch.org on the Find side of Family Tree (not SEARCH vital stats side) and it looks like she is the COUSIN of Emma (and our great grandmother Kamaka/Martha). Either they were raised together, hanai, or it's just misunderstanding when talking to non-Hawaiians and trying to explian family relations. They are same generation. According to Family Tree in familysearch.org Eloise/Louisa was the daughter of August Range and Mary Keahi Ka'ana'ana Kala'aula Pauahi Luaehu who was John Pauahi's sister.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
I had earlier been working on the Keale line, and actually had a wonderful breakthrough a few weeks back, initiated by someon emailing about the Padekan line. They'd seen my work on behalf of a family in our ward (LDS word for congregation). In addressing her question I was looking at a common name the Padeakn 'ohana and mine share- 'Opunui. In looking to see a link (since the geni sight had a pedigree maintained by a very distant cousin through our Nu'uhiwa (Kaua'i) and Kela (Ni'ihau side) I found a wonderful transcript of an oral history.
So today when I saw the post abt the Manini-Keale family in the fb group for the Native Hawaiian genealogy Society, I got excited. Here is what I messaged the person who grandmother was Violet Kui- the niece of my direct line.
Aloha, these are the records that conflict regarding the name of Violet's mother who is from our Ni'ihau side of the family. The first is the marriage record for Charle S A Kui ( Father's Name: Keiki Liilii, Mother's Name:Kapewaiku Liilii) married to Emma K Keale. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FW8H-ZLQ
The other record is the 1920 census record where the family is listed as
SELF Charles Kui M 31 Hawaii
WIFE Mele Kui F 29 Hawaii
DAU Emma K Kui F 5 Hawaii
DAU Violet A Kui F 2 Hawaii
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11009-122658-5?cc=1488411&wc=12019631
If you look at the actual image they are house 35, but her father and siblings are above under house 33. Just so you know her father was known as Keale Te Kaula (Keale the Prophet) here's a link to the story. http://www.oocities.org/moekeale2020/retrospective.htm
This ancestor was the author of Ua Mau (very well known spiritual song back home) http://www.oocities.org/moekeale2020/s-uamau.htm
The town of Ni'ihau was renamed Pu'uwai by him.
Here is a link I thought you might like. When I was young I spent time with our family from Ni'ihau (I never went there, only my brother) but they are some of my favorite memories. http://www.halaumohalailima.com/HMI/Pupu_o_Niihau.html
I do need to resolve if Violet's grandmother was Mele or Emma or maybe she went by both. Or maybe, as was the case in other locations of haole, that Mele was often just used as the female mother's name on cital stat records. Maybe a haole from an area like that who was the recorder put it like that. Probably doubtful since it was the census record.
Here is a public picture I got from ancestry.com posted by a Manini-Kui 'ohana member. I wish I could see it better. I feel like seeing the faces of my people.
This has some of their pedigree....http://thegreatmanini.org/tree14.html
So today when I saw the post abt the Manini-Keale family in the fb group for the Native Hawaiian genealogy Society, I got excited. Here is what I messaged the person who grandmother was Violet Kui- the niece of my direct line.
Aloha, these are the records that conflict regarding the name of Violet's mother who is from our Ni'ihau side of the family. The first is the marriage record for Charle S A Kui ( Father's Name: Keiki Liilii, Mother's Name:Kapewaiku Liilii) married to Emma K Keale. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FW8H-ZLQ
The other record is the 1920 census record where the family is listed as
SELF Charles Kui M 31 Hawaii
WIFE Mele Kui F 29 Hawaii
DAU Emma K Kui F 5 Hawaii
DAU Violet A Kui F 2 Hawaii
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11009-122658-5?cc=1488411&wc=12019631
If you look at the actual image they are house 35, but her father and siblings are above under house 33. Just so you know her father was known as Keale Te Kaula (Keale the Prophet) here's a link to the story. http://www.oocities.org/moekeale2020/retrospective.htm
This ancestor was the author of Ua Mau (very well known spiritual song back home) http://www.oocities.org/moekeale2020/s-uamau.htm
The town of Ni'ihau was renamed Pu'uwai by him.
Here is a link I thought you might like. When I was young I spent time with our family from Ni'ihau (I never went there, only my brother) but they are some of my favorite memories. http://www.halaumohalailima.com/HMI/Pupu_o_Niihau.html
I do need to resolve if Violet's grandmother was Mele or Emma or maybe she went by both. Or maybe, as was the case in other locations of haole, that Mele was often just used as the female mother's name on cital stat records. Maybe a haole from an area like that who was the recorder put it like that. Probably doubtful since it was the census record.
Here is a public picture I got from ancestry.com posted by a Manini-Kui 'ohana member. I wish I could see it better. I feel like seeing the faces of my people.
This has some of their pedigree....http://thegreatmanini.org/tree14.html
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