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Kekūanaōʻa was the punahele, or intimate companion of King Kamehameha II in his youth, and followed him to England where the King and Queen Kamāmalu died of measles in 1824. He was able to escape the sickness and return to Hawaii.
Nov 24, 2016 · Kekūanāoʻa, however, was born during a temporary absence in Hilo, near the period of Vancouver’s third visit.” (Pacific Commercial Advertiser, November 28, 1868) His name (literally, the standing projections) is said to refer to ships’ masts seen in the harbor when Kekūanāoʻa was born.
Boki, Liliha, and Mataio Kekūanaōʻa were principal members of the entourage that accompanied King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu on an 1824 diplomatic tour of the United Kingdom, visiting King George IV.
Kekūanaōʻa was governor of Oʻahu (1834–1868). To him she bore four sons: David Kamehameha (1828–1835), Moses Kekūāiwa (1829–1848), Lot Kapuāiwa (1830–1873), and Alexander Liholiho (1830–1873), and one daughter Victoria Kamāmalu (1838–1866).
Queen Lili‘uōkalani’s hānai daughter Lydia Aholo Dominis (top row, second from right) was a member of the first graduating class of the Kamehameha School for Girls in 1897. Lili‘u and John Owen Dominis were married at Haleakala, the home built by Pākī and passed to Pauahi after his death. TAGS. CATEGORIES.
Reigned From 1863-1872. . H.M. King Kamehameha V, Lot Kapuaiwa was the Son of High Chief Mataio Kekūanāoʻa & Princess Kinaʻu (daughter of King Kamehameha I), succeeding the throne on November 30, 1863, after his brother, H.M. King Kamehameha IV.
Mataio Kekūanaōʻa (c. 1791 – November 24, 1868), formally referred to as His Honor or His Highness, was a Hawaiian politician who served as governor of the island of Oʻahu, father of two kings, Kamehameha IV and Kamehameha V, and held the office of Kuhina Nui as did his wife, Kīnaʻu and their daughter, Victoria Kamāmalu.
