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Elizabeth Keomailani Crowningburg Taylor (1859–1887) was a high chiefess during the Kingdom of Hawaii and cousin of King Lunalilo.

Family
His parents were Jesse Crowningburg, a German-American settler of Hawaii, and the High Chiefess Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi Crowningburg, the daughter of High John Harold Kaiheʻekai and High Chiefess Namahana. Through her maternal grandfather, she was a descendant of Kameʻeiamoku, one of the royal twins (with Kamanawa) who advised Kamehameha I in his conquest of the Hawaiian Islands. On her maternal grandmother's side, he was a descendant of Kalaʻimamahu, half-brother of Kamehameha I, and thus related to King Lunalilo and her mother Kekāuluohi. Her surviving brother was William Charles Keeaumoku Crowningburg.

Lydia Sellon came to Hawaii in 1867 and founded St. Andrew's Priory. On her return, Sellon brought Ella Dudoit as a nursery governess and four Hawaiian girls including Keomailani and Manoanoa.

The queen noted in a letter to Kamehameha V that little Keomailani "was jumping with glee at the prospects of going to England."

Daughter Keomailani. Married Englishmen Wray Taylor, the organist and choirmaster of St. Andrew's Cathedral.
 * Wedding


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 * She was born in Lahaina, on February 24, 1859, as one of the twin daughters of Jesse Crowningburg, a German-American settler of Hawaii, and the High Chiefess Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi Crowningburg.
 * Her sister Lydia Kalola died at Lahaina, on November 21, 1859, at the age of eight months and twenty-seven days.

Born February 24. 1859. Died August 3, 1887. Married June 23, 1881 to Wray Taylor.

Keomailani was sent to England with Palemo, a niece of Kamakau, Kealakai, a child of one of Queen Emma's retainer, and Manoanoa, the daughter of one of the King's people.

[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047084/1887-08-04/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1875&sort=date&date2=1898&words=Auhea&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=4&state=Hawaii&rows=50&proxtext=auhea+&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Daughter Lydia Croninberg, Mrs. Wray Taylor's death. father Jesse Croninberg and mother Auhea. Grandmother was a cousin of Lunalilo's mother 1887]


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 * His mother, Keomailani, was of chiefish descent and therefore accompanied by two other little Hawaiian maidens as attendants when she had been sent by Mrs. Bernice Pauahi Bishop to be educated at Ascot Priory in England. On her return journey to Honolulu, Keomailani was chaperoned at Queen Emma's request by Mrs. J. S. McGrew with her small daughter Kate, now Mrs. Charles B. Cooper. To this day Mrs. Cooper tells vividly of her mother's embarrassment on needing to borrow money from a strange gentleman on the overland train to cover the unexpected expense of Keomailani's heavy English "boxes" of books and music; also of Keomailani's wedding not long after at Honolulu in the little wooden pro-cathedral of St. Andrew's; the groom was Mr. Wray Taylor, cathedral organist for many years, and small bridesmaids, Kate McGrew and Emmelita Wilder, were both very proud of their new white dresses adorned with broad red satin sashes! William Bishop Taylor, son of this marriage, was taken as an infant into Mrs. Bishop's motherly care. And well he remembered the day in 1888 -when he sat on Mr. Bishop's knee during the drive in a hack out to the new Kamehameha Preparatory School to be entered among its first pupils. Many look through the wrought iron gateway of the Royal Mausoleum today, on Nuuanu's Mauna Ala (Fragrant Mountain), but not many realize that the old mausoleum itself, erected of coral reef rock in 1864 for Kings Kamehameha II, III, IV, and V, is today no longer a burial repository.


 * Keomailani, was a granddaughterof abrother of Kamehameha I. After she returned to the Islands,she married Mr.Wray Taylor, who was organist at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Theirchildren, William Bishop Taylor and Mrs. Emma Strauss,were leaders inHawaiian societies. Mr. Taylor served as trusteeof Lunalilo Home andwas in charge of the Royal Mausoleum. Mrs. Strauss,a godchild ofQueen Emma, was in charge of the Queen Emma Museum.

Five children: William Edward Bishop Kaiheʻekai Taylor (1882–1956), Mabel Nalanielua, Harriet Kalanihoaono-o-Kahikoloa, Emily Auhea Kekāuluohi and Beatrice Albertina Kuliaikanuu.

Marriage ceremony is held in the Pro-Cathedral. Little Kate McGrew and Emmelita Wilder are the bridesmaids.

1882 - Birth of son William Edward Kaiheʻekai Bishop Taylor on 28 April in Honolulu.

1883 - Birth of twin girls Mabel Nalanielua Taylor and Henrietta Kalanihoano Taylor on 10 Feb in Honolulu. Pauahi and Charles Reed Bishop offer to take William as a hānai (they were his god-parents at his christening). Offer is refused, and twin girls are offered instead. Bishopʻs did not want the girls.

1884 - Birth of daughter Emily Auhea Taylor (later marries Leon Moise Strauss, 2 Jan 1912) on 5 April in Honolulu.

1887 - Birth of daughter Beatrice Kuliaikanuu Taylor (later married Joshua Durhave Clauton, 19 Jun 1912)

Wray Taylor (1854–July 14, 1910)
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 * Second wife Amy Taylor

Married Wray Taylor (1854-1910), American-born organist at St. Andrew's Cathedral; for her Crowningburg and Hawaiian connections, see Letter 89, note 1. 4. Theresa Owana Kaohelelani (1860- 1944), a descendant of Keoua, father of ...

Born in 1882 of a Hawaiian mother and an English father, Mr. Taylor, through his mother's family, is a lineal descendant of the Kamehameha dynasty, his great grandmother having been a sister to the High Chiefess Auhea, mother of King ...

Her grandson William Edward Bishop Kaiheʻekai Taylor (1882–1956), who Bernice Pauahi Bishop had wanted to hānai (adopt), would later serve as a trustee for the Lunalilo Home. Taylor would succeed the Kahea's, descendant of Auhea's aunt Kahinu Beckley, as kahu of the Royal Mausoleum at Mauna ʻAla in 1947, serving till his death. All subsequent kahu of Mauna ʻAla have been descendants of Auhea and her ancestor Hoʻolulu except for Taylor's widow and Hawaiian kumu hula ʻIolani Luahine. However her most disreputable descendant is her great-great grandson Sammy Amalu (1917–1986), a con man and longtime columnist at The Honolulu Advertiser. A self-proclaimed royal, who titled himself High Chief Kapiikauinamoku, Prince of Keawe and Duke of Konigsberg, he attempted to buy up several Waikiki hotels with phony checks in the 1940s and ended up in jail. Under the alias Kapiikauinamoku, he wrote "The Story of Hawaiian Royalty" and "The Story of Maui Royalty," in a series of columns written for the The Honolulu Advertiser, which accounts much of the genealogy of Hawaii's aliʻi families including his ancestress Auhea.

Descendants.