Mary Young
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Mary Young was a Pitcairn Island-born granddaughter of Mutiny on the Bounty
survivor Edward "Ned" Young and his Tahiti
an wife Toofaiti. Mary and her husband, Thursday October Christian II
, a grandson of Fletcher Christian
and a longtime leader of the island's community, were the parents of seventeen children and the ancestors of subsequent leadership figures of the island.
(1766–1799) and his Tahitian wife Tevarua (1774–1799). Described as violent and quick-tempered, the elder Quintal was killed, within eyesight of seven-year-old Elizabeth, by Ned Young and the other Bounty mutineer, John Adams
(1767–1829). Three years after her marriage and the birth of two sons, John (1812–1838) and Matthew (1814–1865), Elizabeth was widowed when the younger Quintal was lost at sea. Nine years later, in 1823, she married William Young and, between 1823 and 1837, bore seven children: Mayhew (died following birth in 1823), Mary, her first daughter, then William Mayhew (1827–1876), Miriam (1829–1911), twins Lydia (1832–1883) and Dorcas (1832–1917) and, five years later, Robert, who died five months after birth in 1837.
d "Polly", after her father's sister, married, at age 14, Thursday October Christian II
(1820–1911), the grandson of mutiny leader Fletcher Christian
(1764–1793), and bore 17 children between 1840 and 1868. Her husband's father, Thursday October Christian I
(1790–1831), so named to commemorate the day of his birth, was the first of three children born to Fletcher Christian and his Tahitian wife Mauatua (c.1762–1841), and the first child that came into the world on Pitcairn Island following the arrival of the Bounty. Thursday October I, who was three when his father was killed, married Teraura (c.1775–1850) in 1805, upon reaching his fifteenth birthday, and they became the parents of seven children: Joseph John (1806–1831), Charles (1808–1831), Mary (1810–1852), Polly (1814–1831), Arthur (1815–no date of death indicated), Peggy (1815–1884) and, finally, Thursday October II, who lived a decade into the 20th century, dying seven months past his 90th birthday.
and, on 3 May 1856, the entire community of 193 people set sail for Norfolk on board the Morayshire, arriving on 8 June after an unhappy, inconvenience-laden five-week voyage. After eighteen months on Norfolk, however, seventeen Pitcairners sailed back to their home island and, five years later, another twenty-seven followed. Nine of Mary Young's children were born on Pitcairn before the 1856 departure, five more were born on Norfolk, and the last three were born on Pitcairn, after she and Thursday October returned in 1864. Her last child, a daughter, born in 1868, when she was 43, died a few weeks after birth.
Mary Young was 60 years old when she died on Pitcairn Island from dropsy, an abnormal accumulation of fluids, referenced in modern medicine as edema.
Mutiny on the Bounty
The mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny that occurred aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty on 28 April 1789, and has been commemorated by several books, films, and popular songs, many of which take considerable liberties with the facts. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the...
survivor Edward "Ned" Young and his Tahiti
Tahiti
Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous...
an wife Toofaiti. Mary and her husband, Thursday October Christian II
Thursday October Christian II
Thursday October Christian, Jr. was a Pitcairn Islands political leader. He was the grandson of Fletcher Christian and son of Thursday October Christian , and mother, Teraura . He was also known as "Doctor", "Duddie" or "Doodie". He spent several years on Norfolk Island but returned to Pitcairn in...
, a grandson of Fletcher Christian
Fletcher Christian
Fletcher Christian was a master's mate on board the Bounty during William Bligh's fateful voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants...
and a longtime leader of the island's community, were the parents of seventeen children and the ancestors of subsequent leadership figures of the island.
Family
Ned Young (c.1762–1800) and Toofaiti (c.1773–1831) had four children, all born on Pitcairn: Polly (c.1794–1843), George (c.1797–1831), Robert (c.1799–1831) and William, Mary Young's father (1799–1839). Mary's mother, Elizabeth "Betsy" Mills (1792–1883), also born on Pitcairn, was the older of two children born to Bounty mutineer John Mills (1749–1793) and his Tahitian wife Vahineatua (c.1772–c.1808). In 1811 Elizabeth married Matthew Quintal (1791–1814), the eldest of five children born to Bounty mutineer Matthew QuintalMatthew Quintal
Matthew Quintal was an Cornish able seaman and mutineer aboard HMS Bounty. His surname was, in all probability, the result of mis-spelling the Cornish surname "Quintrell". He was the last of the mutineers to be murdered on Pitcairn Island...
(1766–1799) and his Tahitian wife Tevarua (1774–1799). Described as violent and quick-tempered, the elder Quintal was killed, within eyesight of seven-year-old Elizabeth, by Ned Young and the other Bounty mutineer, John Adams
John Adams (mutineer)
John Adams was the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was John Adams; He used the name Alexander Smith until he was discovered in 1808 by Captain Mayhew Folger of the ship Topaz...
(1767–1829). Three years after her marriage and the birth of two sons, John (1812–1838) and Matthew (1814–1865), Elizabeth was widowed when the younger Quintal was lost at sea. Nine years later, in 1823, she married William Young and, between 1823 and 1837, bore seven children: Mayhew (died following birth in 1823), Mary, her first daughter, then William Mayhew (1827–1876), Miriam (1829–1911), twins Lydia (1832–1883) and Dorcas (1832–1917) and, five years later, Robert, who died five months after birth in 1837.
Marriage
In 1838 Pitcairn Island became a British colony and, the following year, Mary Young, who was nicknameNickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....
d "Polly", after her father's sister, married, at age 14, Thursday October Christian II
Thursday October Christian II
Thursday October Christian, Jr. was a Pitcairn Islands political leader. He was the grandson of Fletcher Christian and son of Thursday October Christian , and mother, Teraura . He was also known as "Doctor", "Duddie" or "Doodie". He spent several years on Norfolk Island but returned to Pitcairn in...
(1820–1911), the grandson of mutiny leader Fletcher Christian
Fletcher Christian
Fletcher Christian was a master's mate on board the Bounty during William Bligh's fateful voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants...
(1764–1793), and bore 17 children between 1840 and 1868. Her husband's father, Thursday October Christian I
Thursday October Christian I
Thursday October Christian was the first son of Fletcher Christian and his Tahitian wife Mauatua. He was conceived on Tahiti, and was the first child born on the Pitcairn Islands after the mutineers took refuge on the island...
(1790–1831), so named to commemorate the day of his birth, was the first of three children born to Fletcher Christian and his Tahitian wife Mauatua (c.1762–1841), and the first child that came into the world on Pitcairn Island following the arrival of the Bounty. Thursday October I, who was three when his father was killed, married Teraura (c.1775–1850) in 1805, upon reaching his fifteenth birthday, and they became the parents of seven children: Joseph John (1806–1831), Charles (1808–1831), Mary (1810–1852), Polly (1814–1831), Arthur (1815–no date of death indicated), Peggy (1815–1884) and, finally, Thursday October II, who lived a decade into the 20th century, dying seven months past his 90th birthday.
Children of Mary Young and Thursday October Christian II
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julia Christian | 23 July 1840 | 15 June 1850 | |
| Agnes Christian | 6 October 1841 | 6 April 1911 | Married American United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... (from Rhode Island Rhode Island The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area... ) whaler Samuel Russell Warren, thus becoming the ancestor of all the Warrens on the island. |
| Albert Christian | 31 March 1843 | 19 January 1861 | |
| Elias Christian | 7 January 1845 | 7 October 1893 | Married Mary Young and became the ancestor of Jay Warren Jay Warren Jay Calvin Warren is a political figure from the Pacific territory of the Pitcairn Islands.-Political roles:Jay Warren was elected Mayor of the last remaining British dependency in Oceania in the general election held on 15 December 2004, defeating Brenda Christian, who had held the Mayoralty in... and Pitcairn mayor Mike Warren Mike Warren (mayor of Pitcairn) Michael Calvert Warren is the current mayor of Adamstown, the capital city and sole settlement of Pacific territory Pitcairn Islands.... |
| Alphonso Driver Christian | 3 August 1846 | 14 June 1921 | Married Sarah McCoy and became father of Gerard Bromley Robert Christian Gerard Bromley Robert Christian Gerard Bromley Robert Christian served as Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of Pitcairn Island from 1910 to 1919. As is commonly the case with the small population of Pitcairn, he was closely related to several other island leaders, notably cousins Edgar Allen Christian, Frederick... and grandfather of John Lorenzo Christian John Lorenzo Christian John Lorenzo Christian served as Chief Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of Pitcairn Island, twice, in 1952-54 and 1961-66. He was the son of Gerard Bromley Robert Christian. He married Bernice Young. In 1980, he and his wife were the oldest couple on Pitcairn.- References :... |
| Anna Rose Christian | 31 July 1848 | 30 March 1851 | |
| Julia Anna Rose Christian | 9 November 1851 | 30 August 1864 | |
| Ernest Heywood Christian | 5 October 1853 | December 1926 | |
| Daniel Christian | 27 July 1855 | March 1904 | Married Harriet McCoy and became father of Edgar Allen Christian Edgar Allen Christian Edgar Allen Christian was a politician from Pitcairn. He was the Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn Island on several occasions between 1923 and 1939... and Frederick Martin Christian Frederick Martin Christian Frederick Martin Christian was a politician from Pitcairn. The was the Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn Island on three occasions between 1921 and 1943... |
| Elizabeth Saidley A. Christian | 27 April 1857 | 1863 | |
| Francis Hickson Christian | 18 February 1859 | 3 January 1938 | Married Eunice Young and became father of Charles Richard Parkin Christian Charles Richard Parkin Christian Charles Richard Parkin Christian was a long-serving politician from Pitcairn. The was the Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn Island for eleven years at various times between 1920 and 1957... and ancestor of Ivan Christian Ivan Christian Ivan Roa Christian is a former politician from Pitcairn. He was the Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn Island from 1976 to 1984. As his surname suggests, he is descended from the original mutineers who settled the island, led by Fletcher Christian... and Steve Christian Steve Christian Steven Raymond Christian is a political figure from the Pacific territory of the Pitcairn Islands.-Mayor:... |
| William Henry Gordon Christian | 1 September 1860 | 22 January 1934 | |
| Albert Swain Christian | 8 May 1862 | 9 May 1862 | |
| Harriet Christian | 22 August 1863 | 1864 | |
| Harriet Christian | 23 August 1864 | 19 August 1937 | Married Matthew Edmond McCoy Matthew Edmond McCoy Matthew Edmond McCoy served as Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of Pitcairn Island in 1909. He was the son of James Russell McCoy and Eliza Coffin Palmer Young, and was the grandson of Matthew McCoy... |
| Charles Benjamin Christian | 1 August 1865 | July 1885 | |
| Mary Elizabeth Saidley Christian | April 1868 | 1 June 1868 |
Later life
By mid-1850s the Pitcairn population seemed to have grown too large for the 4.6 sq.km (2.9 sq.mi) island and its leaders appealed to the British government for assistance. They were offered another colonial possession, the 34.6 sq.km (13.3 sq.mi) Norfolk IslandNorfolk Island
Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it enjoys a large degree of self-governance...
and, on 3 May 1856, the entire community of 193 people set sail for Norfolk on board the Morayshire, arriving on 8 June after an unhappy, inconvenience-laden five-week voyage. After eighteen months on Norfolk, however, seventeen Pitcairners sailed back to their home island and, five years later, another twenty-seven followed. Nine of Mary Young's children were born on Pitcairn before the 1856 departure, five more were born on Norfolk, and the last three were born on Pitcairn, after she and Thursday October returned in 1864. Her last child, a daughter, born in 1868, when she was 43, died a few weeks after birth.
Mary Young was 60 years old when she died on Pitcairn Island from dropsy, an abnormal accumulation of fluids, referenced in modern medicine as edema.
Sources
- Nicolson, Robert (1997). The Pitcairners. Auckland, New Zealand: Pasifika Press