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

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.

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

Looking at my Mom's side of the family. My grandmother is a King, and I found this website of a distant relative with some narratives and pictures.
http://user.xmission.com/~jatwood/index.html

It's interesting that in Culbert King's bio that it talks about him serving amongst the Kanosh (round about Cedar City). http://user.xmission.com/~jatwood/CK-1836/__html/sld1.html http://user.xmission.com/~jatwood/TRK-1813/Rice%20&%20King%20Family%20Genealogy.pdf He became the bishop there and baptized 85 members of the tribe. (Interesting to me since I attend a native ward.)  There is also the story of his mother Matilda King singing a song in the native language of the area when some native men came into Cove Creek up in Fillmore. I am not to find of the lyrics as I see them as very reflective of the time and how the white LDS settlers viewed native people.

I decided to poke around BYU's missionary journals see if I could find anything of Culbert's. (I did find William King's mislabeled diary when I went in person there- misfiled under one of his wife's names. That was a great day. I was reading through the diary when I realized that 'she' could not have been administering in the priesthood duties...William King was brought to my attention by my mother's brother- Dale Bowers who served decades in the church genealogy department and helped develop the interface for indexing. He let me know about the book King's of the Kingdom since I research Iosepa- a Native Hawaiian Colony. William King served as a missionary in Hawai'i and brought Hawaiians up to Iosepa located in Tooele, Utah. He served as Mission President there for a year because he died suddenly.)

I found this entry- most likely of LDS men who were jailed for polygamy.
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SCMisc/id/7680

What's interesting is also named on this page is John Bowers (I have a great-great-great grandfather on my Grandpa Wes Bower's side named this), and Henry Dinwoodey (possible relation to our ancestor Charlotte Dinwoodey- the great-great grandmother of my granmother Nathele Bowers nee King).

I also see a Hugh Gowan there- possible relation of a Korean friend of mine hanai/adopted as a child by the Utah Gowans.

Here is a link to Charlotte Dinwoodey Hall Lee Cooney (last three names are from her marriages). http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=58315031
Can't find much on her 1st kane William Hall. Not sure if they had children. We come of the Lee line (she married him in 1849 in St. Louis, Missouri. He passed. Then in Salt Lake she married a soldier stationed at Fort Hall- where she is buried with their son Charles (Jr.)

Wainiha Nu'uhiwa

Wainiha is an area on Kaua'i.
My Nu'uhiwa people are from that area. (My paternal great-grandmother Esther Kameakaulana Nu'uhiwa was the daughter of Kia'aina Nu'uhiwa- her mother was a keale from Ni'ihau).

Today I read about Reverand David Nu'uhiwa. He was my great-great-great grandfather, and the first Hawaiian Assistant Minister at the Wai'oli Mission to Abner Wilcox/ Here's some information about him.
http://www.hawaiianencyclopedia.com/hanalei-history-part-2.asp

(To my family if you use the control + f and get the search box on the above link- type in Nuuhiwa and you will go to the section on him.)

His son Simeona Kia'aina Nu'uhiwa was born in Hanalei.
I found this newspaper article in The Garden Isle, Tuesday, Sept 11, 1917 about him losing his land due to back taxes and fees.

http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10524/28181/1917091101.pdf?sequence=1

This caused me to research the Hui Ku'ai 'Aina o Wainiha. I found this chapter written by haole Reverand John  M. Lydgate .

http://books.google.com/books?id=w0QKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=Hui+Ku%27ai+%27Aina+o+Wainiha&source=bl&ots=Tp6UKmgNLU&sig=sZdT4lMXOMNBsbM2TkPHYo3EuLA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b76SUNbnDOmMiALP3oDgAQ&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=hui%20kuai%20aina%20o%20wainiha&f=false

I always read all sources with a grain of salt. My ancestor was said to have been given an ill fitting broadcloth suit to sway him... Here's my recap of what was said.

This chaper also tells abt Kekauonohi who acquired Waihina in the Mahele borrowing 10 grand fr to outfit a schooner Manuokekai to sail to China w/sandalwood. Didin't come back....he then decided to sell his lands in Wainiha (where our Kia'aina Nu'uhiwa was) to make up the debt he owed. 71 families took it on- getting advances fr the plantation and scrimping...Dividing it up was described as a process of who was most intimidating- Kanaka-nui being mentioned as one of those who bullied their way to the best .ended in various ways...

Very interesting the part about 65 Menehune being counted in the Census at La'au.  During the time of Kaumuali'i his konohiki counted 65 menehune in La'au, Kaua'i during the census. (My tutu told me several times the same story of her and her sister riding the horse to school and seeing menehune working on it who ran away. very interesting.) 
The bit about the Manuokekai could be the basis of a move or a play. I wonder what happened to it- did the captain make his way to China, sell the good, then tae off with his Hawaiian crew? Or did it sink at sea in a storm?

Apparently the Hui in Wainiha was still around according to this Kuokoa artcile dated August 13, 1925 describing a meeting of the Hui.
http://papakilodatabase.com/papakilonupepa/cgi-bin/pnupepa?a=d&d=KNK19250813-01.1.5&cl=&srpos=0&dliv=none&st=1&e=-------en-20--1---IN-----
Wainiha now is a million dollar homes area.Initially, the members of the Hui did not know how they would make any money on the land, though those who held onto it later would realize the water was one way...Now it's all about location, location, location.

Here is some about Kia'aina also dancing at George Mossman's village. Meant to preserve Hawaiian culture, because it was not sponsored by the state or local governments, it also was for tourists, having that element of objectification.
http://books.google.com/books?id=AgH9xngze1cC&pg=PA365&lpg=PA365&dq=kiaaina+nuuhiwa&source=bl&ots=1ClzJ2mmd4&sig=wfdhlsFVZ9rNlw_q4NGebL6xTVU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5C2TUPTIE6PjiALsmoGgDA&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=kiaaina%20nuuhiwa&f=false

Poole Line Checklist

Between the two posts I've done on the Poole line these are the things I am trying to work out:

Who was Thomas C W Poole's first wife? Did they have children? (I could also look for the people of his second wife Rebecca Pihe.) My sister thought it was Ann Aylett(e)/Alyett- but I am not so certain that Francis Thomas Poole and T C W Poole are one and the same.
What about the second husband of Thomas' sister Annie Poole? Is he the same Pilipo who married a Makasilasila?
I should look for Beke under Peke, and Benjamin E. Poole under last name Pua as he is listed on this marriage record for his son Thomas.

Here is the 1910 Census with Tom and Lepeka, taken 27 April 1910 in Honolulu. They've been married for a year, She is listed as having had 1 child with 0 living. Is that for this marriage? Both are listed as having been married twice. She is Hawaiian, and he is Caucasian Hawaiian, with Dad born in England. ? My tutukane always said he was English, the record I found has a Benjamin Poole coming via the US.

Here's Annie Aylett Poole divorcing Thomas Poole for nonsupport in Honolulu in 1907.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1907-11-29/ed-1/seq-7/;words=Aylett+Poole?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=Hawaii&date2=1922&proxtext=Aylett+%2B+Pool&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=2

Seemed this started much earlier- maybe a separation initially or just a divorce proceeding never completed? Here we have the "F" listed in front of Thomas' name.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016413/1897-01-25/ed-1/seq-1/;words=Aylett+Poole?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=Hawaii&date2=1922&proxtext=Aylett+%2B+Pool&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=3

Annie Aylett Poole in 1901 is described as Hawaiian. She became the treasurer of the Kapiolani Maternity Home (which besides being supported by Kapiolani's heir Prince Kawananakoa was also supported by our KSBE's C.R. Bishop Trust. He was a good man.)

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047097/1901-02-20/ed-1/seq-3/;words=Aylett+Poole?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=Hawaii&date2=1922&proxtext=Aylett+%2B+Pool&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=1

Here's another article about the Kapiolani Maternity home mentioning Annie Aylett Poole. I wonder if she met with the officers of the Home who were the princes of our Hawaiian people.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047165/1901-02-20/ed-1/seq-3/;words=Aylett+Poole?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=Hawaii&date2=1922&proxtext=Aylett+%2B+Pool&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=0

Tom Poole is the Royalist who when chased/fired upon shot a member of the Citizens Guard, part of the fake Republic of Hawaii (a bunch of rich foreign businessmen who overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom using threat of military, then kept rule via corruption). The man he shot was Charles Carter, the descendant of missionaries, a lawyer, and an aide to Sanford B. Dole.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1895-01-25/ed-1/seq-3/;words=Pool+Tom?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=Hawaii&date2=1922&proxtext=Tom+Poole&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=9

Here is Thomas Poole getting called for jury duty.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1904-03-08/ed-1/seq-8/;words=Thomas+Poole+F?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=Hawaii&date2=1922&proxtext=F.+Thomas+Poole&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=0

My great- grandmother- Martha Kamaka Luaehu, was the daughter of John Luaehu Pauahi and Annie Elizabeth Poole. Her maternal grandparents were Benjamin E. Poole and grandmother was Beke, (according to information listed in the church pedigree database).
I think this is Benjamin's naturalization record that I found on Ulukau. (There is also a *William Poole listed. A relative?)

Whoever put him into the church database listed his father as Benjamin Pool. Notice different spelling on the last name....
The problem with this information in the church database is that no source was listed. Also, I have found that people will find the same name in a vital stat record, assume it is their relative, use the information- but it is the corresponding information (like relations, vital stat records which corroborate family stories) that help us know for sure that is our ancestral line.
The information listed in the church database looks like someone found the matching name and then input the vital stat information- so when I find the same records I could say, AHA! Found it. When actually, the vital stat info CAME fr that record  and I need more evidence.

This naturalization record is part of that evidence needed to build a picture and when used with other information, build a trustworthy link to an ancestral line.

My sister is the one who initially told me in fact our grandfather was a small bit English. Maybe haole is a better word- being more general, since we just know Benjamin E. Poole came via the USA. I'd grown up thinking my tutukane was half Hawaiian and half Korean. Even though he said he was English. He didn't look English to me. hahahaha. But 1/8 English is sometimes hard to see, as is my 1/8 Korean. My take on ancestry is the same as Isaiah's take on the House of Israel- if you are just a little part- you are still part- those are still your people. We don't exist without every single direct ancestor in our family tree.

I'd also heard a mean story that his family had tried to change their birth certificates to 'not' be thought of as Hawaiian, since in that era, there was a social hierarchy, and native, as in other places where the indigenous population was supplanted, was on the bottom. I'd heard they looked down on their Hawaiian ancestry I had never heard a reliable source corroborate this. But still when my tutukane used to say he was English I used to wonder if it was going along with that.

But when my sister said he was indeed part haole, I knew he was just telling the simple truth.

I did not find him in the Citizenship- Denization and Citizenship- Passports section.

I did find him in the First Circuit Court Divorces Index for 1851-1908. I don't understand the entry below the first. Was he petitioning to remarry Beke or someone else? I assumed this before.

And I believe this is him in the Deaths- Second Circuit- Probate Records. Really would like to see the original of this.See about heirs, etc. Then I would know if Beke were still living if they did in fact remarry.)

(How to read the records: The Hawaii State Archives holdings for Second Circuit Court Probate case files are organized in two numerical sequences. The first sequence begins with case 1 and ends with 1761. The second sequence begins with case A1 and ends with A149. Probate case files have been microfilmed and cataloged as MFL 55, available in the Hawaii State Archives Microform Research Room.

To look at a probate, please note MFL 55 and the probate number preceding the name of the individual you are researching.

For more information about Probate Case Files of the Second Circuit Court, please refer to the Inventory of Records of the Judiciary located in the Hawaii State Archives Research Room.)

*Here is a William Pool (notice the last name spelled differently) listed in the Letters of Denization from 1846-1898. His date matches the year of naturalization listed above.

Portuguese (Azores) Ancestors to Kaua'i

This lists my great-great-great grandparents and their children who arrived 1883 May 4 on the S.S. Abergeldie from the Azores to Hawai'i. Listed is Guilherme who is not listed in NFS, and missing are William, Jose, and Manoel (who are listed in NFS).

This may be my great-great-great grandparents Luis Joao Medeiros and Maria Augusta Nunes. Have to research this some more.

I got these records by going to the Native Hawaiian Genealogy Society External Links, then to Hawai'i Ship Passenger Records Manifest, then the Portuguese Passenger Records Manifests.

This is the 1900 census where my Medeiros Family is listed. Maria Pavao is listed as marrying a Perreira in NFS vs Pavao, and I think she is the same Maria listed on the HighFlyer above. It's weird that on the census her parents and she are listed as coming at different times...?...and the HighFlyer Manifest contradicts the Census information on her parents birth years. Hard to ever know if it was a transcription error in the manifest, or errors on the census. Both common.

This is a pic of the Koloa Sugar Plantation from the Hawai'i State Archives (lacking a date). This KHS site has also some historical documents related to it. My family lived in Koloa and the earlier census records I've seen list them as working there. My tutu said her father Louis John Medeiros was a luna who was murdered when she was two. That he came across some workers gambling in the field. I know his father, John Louis Medeiros, was a luna (these were plantation managers) according to earlier census records, and Louis John Medeiros started off as a chauffer, I assume for the big boss...?...She remembers living in the luna house and having a maid and bathing in a hot Japanese style furo, with her Portuguese relatives making bread in the outside oven. But she says all of that changed when her father died, due to conflict with her dad's family and her mother who she says they didn't really approve of because she was a Mormon and Hawaiian. His wife, my great-grandmother was Esther Kameakaulana Nu'uhiwa-a Keale-Nu'uhiwa born on a wa'a between Ni'ihau and Kaua'i. In her latter years, my tutu became very interested in her Portuguese ancestry and joined a Portuguese club. I had never really heard much of this side of her family before then. Mostly meeting mainly the Ni'ihau side.

I did search through the Hawaii State Vital Statistics Collections and another favorite database of mine Papakilo run by OHA for Medeiros family. No luck with my direct ancestors.

The lady whose been running the Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and HeritageWeb Site since 2001 which had a link to this research guide and also a list of genealogical aids for researching Azores ancestry and also runs her separate blog where she documents her Portuguese ancestry research, said that looking for records of church's in the area our ancestors lived would be a good idea.

My tutu says her dad's side was Catholic. (Which makes sense, obviously.) And that she herself was baptized in the Catholic church (which does so very early) though her mother was a staunch Mormon and she was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints when she became of age. (We don't baptize children until they are at least 8 in the hopes that they understand the covenant.)

Anyway, I found a site that said St. Raphael's church in Koloa is the oldest on the island, so maybe when I go home next I will pay them a visit. Of course, what I need to do is talk to my Portuguese family still living. (Who my father has the contact information for.) Take my own advice I give when teaching, collaboration brings the richest rewards.