Manaiula Tehuiarii

Manaiʻula Tehuiariʻi Sumner
Portrait of Manaiʻula by John Mix Stanley.
Spouse	William Kealaloa Kahanui Sumner
Issue
Nancy Wahinekapu Sumner Ellis
Full name
Manaiʻula Tehuiariʻi Sumner
Father	Tute Tehuiariʻi
Born	Tahiti
Died	Hawaii

Manaiʻula Tehuiariʻi Sumner (fl. 1848) was princess from the Kingdom of Tahiti who settled in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Her name has also been given as Mareilila, Malaiula, Mareiula, or Mareira.^[1][2] Her name is synonymous with a species of banana, mai`a mānai`ula.^[3]

Manaiʻula Tehuiariʻi was born to Tute Tehuiariʻi, a chief from either Tahiti, or Moorea or Bora Bora. Her father was the adoptive son of King Pōmare I of Tahiti, who named him Tute in honor of Captain Cook (Tapena Tute in Polynesian). In 1826, he brought his entire family over to Hawaii, where he served as missionary and royal chaplain to Kamehameha III and Kamehameha IV.^[4][5]

It was during this time that Manaiʻula met and married High Chief William Kealaloa Kahanui Sumner, the son of Captain William Sumner and the High Chiefess Keakuaaihue. They had their only daughter Nancy Wahinekapu Sumner in March 9, 1839.^[6][7][8]

Another dubious version of her life tells that she arrived in 1849, chaperoned by her elder sister Mauli, she and her cousin Ninito Teraʻiapo, as the guests Admiral De Tromelin.^[9][10] Ninito was betrothed to Prince Moses Kekūāiwa and Manaiʻula to Prince Lot Kapuāiwa, but the first prince died before their arrival and the second prince departed to Europe with his other brother.^[9][2] They were asked to wait for his return but not long after, both Ninito and Manaiʻula were wooed by the Sumner brothers, John Keolaloa Sumner and William Keolaloa Kahanui Sumner, respectively.^[11] This is chronologically impossible as Manaiʻula was already in Hawaii and married in 1849.

References

1. ^ Our Family History and Ancestry. "Mareilila". http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I2754&tree=Cole. Retrieved 2011-09-03. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Helena G. Allen (1982). The betrayal of Liliuokalani, last Queen of Hawaii, 1838-1917. A. H. Clark Co.. pp. 432. ISBN 0870621440. http://books.google.com/books?id=i2d0AAAAMAAJ. 
3. ^ Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station (1901). Bulletin - University of Hawaii, Agricultural Experiment Station. Agricultural Experiment Station.. pp. 50. http://books.google.com/books?id=bfJFAQAAIAAJ. 
4. ^ John Garrett (1982). To live among the stars: Christian origins in Oceania. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Fiji. pp. 269. ISBN 2825406929. http://books.google.com/books?id=b7HYexAnWCoC. 
5. ^ Vanessa Smith (2010). Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters. Cambridge University Press. pp. 64. ISBN 0521728789. http://books.google.com/books?id=7GYLWxLefL8C. 
6. ^ John Renken Kahaʻi Topolinski. "Mele Pua Panese". http://apps.ksbe.edu/kaiwakiloumoku/kaleinamanu/mele-hou/mele_pua_panese. Retrieved 2011-09-03. 
7. ^ John Renken Kaha'i Topolinski (1981). "Nancy Sumner, Hawaiian Courtlady". Hawaiian Journal of History (Hawaiian Historical Society) 15: 50–58. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/285. 
8. ^ John Renken Kahaʻi Topolinski. "Nancy Sumner: a Part-Hawaiian High Chiefess, 1839-1895." M.A. thesis (Pacific Islands Studies), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 1975. xvi, 158 leaves.
9. ^ ^{a b} A. P Taylor (1929). "Niniko, "Garden of Rest"". In Alexander Hume Ford. The Mid-Pacific Magazine, Volume 37. T.H., A.H. Ford; Pan-Pacific Union, Pan-Pacific Research Institution. pp. 433–440. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/349981/niniko.pdf. 
10. ^ Dorothy Barrere (1989). "Tahitian in the History of Hawai'i: the Journal of Kahikona ". Hawaiian Journal of History (Hawaiian Historical Society) 23: 75–107. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/426. 
11. ^ Mabel Clare Craft Deering (1899). Hawaii Nei. W. Doxey. pp. 101–108. http://books.google.com/books?id=FyoXAAAAYAAJ. 

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