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pilot and fort ccmmandant at Honolulu for the first two Kamehamehas.

INDEX TO THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY
 * Beckley,Ahia, 15:51
 * Beckley, Fred, 12:105
 * Beckley, George Mooheau, 33:209
 * Beckley, Marie Kaha'awelani, 15:51

High Chiefess Keakuaaihue Kanealai Hua, the cousin and adopted sister of Chiefess Ahia Beckley. Related to the Kamehamehas through Uminuikukaailani, Nancy descended from the famous twins Kahanui and Kaha'opulani who were charged with the responsibility for rearing Kamehameha the Great in infancy.

Ahia was the granddaughter of Kahakuai-akea, the twin brother of Kahaopulani, who nursed the baby Kamehameha while he was in hiding.
 * By direct inheritance the Io prayers were transmitted to Ahuena from a priestly ancestor of Kohala district in the island of Hawaii. The mother of Ahuena (Mrs. A. P. Taylor) was the late Kekulani (Mrs. Mary Jane Fayerweather Montano) whose mother was Ahia (Mrs. George Beckley), whose father Kahaku'i-i-ka-waiea was high priest of the temple named Pu'u-o-Mane'o at Honokane, Kohala, in the time of Kamehameha. The same prayers are known to be in the possession of another descendant of Kahaku'i, who regards them as too sacred to publish.???????

Beckley died in 1826 at Honolulu, although some sources indicated he died in 1825. His last resident in Honolulu was a modern style coral house which had been built the same year as his death; the property on Alakea Street was later occupied by Dr. George Herbert's medical office in the 1920s. He named Alexander Adams as his executor and guardian of his heirs. Beckley was now judged entitled to have bequeathed to his part-Hawaiian descendants The landholdings he bequeathed to his descendants included an acre of land in Honolulu, seventy acres at the ahupuaʻa of Kalihi, and thirty-six acres in Mānoa. Initially buried in a vault at Kawaiahaʻo Church, his body was later removed to the Oahu Cemetery where many of his descendants are also interred.


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 * The custom of adoption was "a great thing among Hawaiian gentry." Mrs. Montano explained. "Not only children, hut grown folks were adopted as Captain George Beckley was adopted by the king [Kamehameha I as a son]

George Beckley viz: Ahia (widow of Beckley), William Beckley, Maria Beckley (wife of Kamakahonu), Abram (infant child of Nancy Beckley), Mary Beckley (wife of A. H. Fayerweather), George Frederick Beckley (absent from the Islands since 1834 and last heard from in 1841 at Valparaiso), Marie Beckley (wife of Geo. W. Punchard)...

Her mother and Uncle William were raised by Keopuolani, the "sacred queen" of Kamehameha the Great, and Queen Ka'ahumanu, the king's favorite wife, raised two of Julia's aunts

Fayerweather, Afong, Taylor
Mary Kekahimoku Kolimoalani Beckley (1820-1850), married Abram Henry Fayerweather (1812-1850)
 * Mary Jane Kekulani Fayerweather Montano (May 14, 1842- November 8, 1930) married Benoni Richmond Davison (1842-1875) and Andreas Avelino Montano (1847-1913)
 * Emma Ahuena Davison Taylor (1866 - 1937), married Albert Pierce Taylor (1872 - 1931)
 * Emma's sisters and brothers were William Compton Malulani (1865), who died in infancy, Rose Compton (1868), Henry Fayer- weather (1870), and Marie Hope Kekulani (1874). Her father died on July 3, 1875, and her mother married Andress
 * Fayerweather (Kekulani) Montano's notes which are in my possession. She was a descendant of one of the priesthoods of Io. "The Priesthood of lolani was the highest priesthood of the islands of Hawaii. Neither chieftains nor priests dared...
 * Julia Hope Kamakia Paaikamokalani o Kinau Beckley Fayerweather (1840-1919), married Chun Afong.....
 * Emmeline Agatha Marie Kailimoku Afong, (May 13, 1858 - August 31, 1946), married 1887 John Alfred Magoon
 * Catherine, Makia, Eaton, Allie and Lani.
 * Antone "Toney" Abram Kekapala Keawemaihili Afong (c. 1859 - October 18, 1936), known as Chun Chik-yu 陳席儒, and became governor of Kwangtung Province from 1922 to 1923
 * Nancy Eldorah Luhana Frederica Afong, (February 16, 1861 - July 16, 1940), married Francis Blately McStocker, who served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Annexation Club and who secretly helped form the Citizen Guard, the army of the Republic of Hawaii, in June 1893.
 * Mary Catherine Afong (1862-1945)
 * Julia Hope Afong (1864-1953)
 * Marie K. Afong (1867-1925)
 * Elizabeth K. Afong (1869-1965)
 * Henrietta (Etta) Patrinella Kealaiki Afong (1870-1940), she was the beauty of the family and married Commodore William H. Whiting (1843-1925), a Civil War hero, settled with him in Berkeley, California, and was a member of the San Francisco social set. After his death, she married another naval officer, Rear Admiral Armin Fahrenholt.
 * Alice Lillian Afong (1872-1953), married Dr. Edson Lewis Hutchinson (1864-1943) in September 4, 1890.
 * Caroline Bartlett Afong (1874-1942)
 * Helen Getrude Afong (1873-1935)
 * James Edward Fayerweather Afong (1875-1875)
 * Martha Muriel Afong (1878-1983)
 * Albert Fayerweather Leialoha Afong, (February 23. 1877 - 1948), attended Oahu College and graduated from Harvard University in 1903 and became the first person of Chinese descent to head the Honolulu Stock Exchange. He married Anna Elizabeth Whitting, niece of his brother-in-law, and had four daughters: Elizabeth, Mary, Katherine and Julia.
 * Beatrice Melanie Afong (1880-1959)
 * Abram Henry Afong (1883-1933)
 * Hannah Kealiipuahao o Kinau Fayerweather Bell (1844? - April 11, 1870) married on April 1, 1861 to George Thomas William Kamukamu Bell, from Waimea, on the island of Hawaii.

Others
Maria (Malaea Kanamu Beckley, daughter of William Beckley???) Kaiponuikaipoli'ili'i Beckley, married Kamakahonu ....... [http://books.google.com/books?id=emXxAAAAMAAJ&q=beckley+Kamakahonu&dq=beckley+Kamakahonu&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ite7UaDYCoXMqgHco4DIBA&ved=0CDQQ6wEwAQ To win Mary's hand, Abram had promised to give a child to Mary's aunt, Kamakahonu, who was married to William Beckley. Two children were born to the young couple, but Abram refused to part with them.]...Maria Kaiponuikaipoli'ili'i Beckley, who, as a favorite of Kamehameha, had been raised as a companion to Nahi'ena'ena...Maria was called Kaiponui Kaipoliilii after this incident, at her birth

Maria Beckley Kistler (January 28, 1817 - August 1, 1887), married Edmund Kistler. Kistler....Will

Nancy Luhana Beckley (January 31, 1818 - Bef 1882), married Captain Ahia
 * Abraham Fred Beckley Kekapala Kepoomahoe Ahia (about 1840-1882)

William Charles Malulani Beckley  (August 1, 1814 - March 6, 1871), married Kahinu o-Kekuaokalani-i-Lekeleke (1829–after 1853)
 * Beckley— In this city, on the 6th instant, Mr. William C, Beckley, aged 56 years, eldest son of the late Captain George Beckley, who was for mauy years a resident of these islands. Friend
 * William Beckley, hapa-haole son of Captain George Beckley who had been in the service of Kamehameha I, was for a number of years in charge of the king's cattle on Hawai'i. After the death of Governor Adams Kuakini on December 9, l844, Beckley was appointed konohiki of Waimea, as well as manager of all the cattle there belonging to the king and the government. Beckley assumed, wrongly, that he had received all of Waimea to manage as he saw fit, believing, as he said, that there were no 'Hi kupono within it (Leleiohoku l845). William Pitt Leleiohoku, Kuakini's heir and successor to the governorship of Hawai'i, protested to Keoni Ana, minister of the interior (Ibid.). There is no record of Keoni Ana's reply, but matters seem to have been adjusted satisfactorily, for the Land Board records show Beckley as the konohiki with power to sanction all land transactions, native and foreign, on Crown and Government lands, while the lands of the Young family and those of Hu'eu Davis continued to be managed by themselves or their own konohiki. Leleiohoku's l0-acre 'Hi kupono "Kamakahonu," (LCA 997l:58) and Lunalilo's Puako (LCA 8559-B:6) were also unaffected by Beckley's authority. As konohiki Beckley proved to be a lenient one. There is no case in which he disputed a claim, and in fact he was the principal witness for the majority of cases on the lands of which he had jurisdiction. As witness, he clarified the extent, location, and tenure of the simply worded claims, and ensured more than one award where none would have been made due to vagueness of claimant.
 * Maria A. Kahaawelani Beckley Kahea (Marae Kahaawelani)....Maraea Kahaawelani Beckley....... pic (December 23, 1847 - July 11, 1909),    [], married David Kahea .........Kaiapeelua ....She was among a list of Hawaiian court ladies in 1858.
 * Mrs. Carl Maertens
 * Leonidas Beckley
 * Leander Kaonowailani
 * Violet Kahaleluhi Kinoole
 * Grace Namahana i Kaleleokalani
 * Frederick Maiulani
 * George Heaalii
 * Benjamin Kameeiamoku


 * Frederick William Kahapula Beckley (November 25, 1845 - January 7, 1881) married Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina (1847-1929)...Death....http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1880-09-15/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1880&index=3&rows=20&words=Beckley&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Hawaii&date2=1881&proxtext=Beckley+&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Governor Beckley is however regarded as an immense gain for Kauai over his predecessor. Mrs. Beckley, daughter of the talented Theophilus Metcalf, who died on Hawaii some years ago, is a lady of culture and of character].....Mr. Fred. W. Beckley has sold his cane planting interest to a Chinaman, Lum Choy by name. The cane looks well and undoubtedly the thrifty oriental will make it pay. Molokai has some good sugar land....F. W. Beckley has been appointed Governor of Kauai vice Jno. E. Bush, promoted. Such are the reports...Governor Beckley of Kauai, who is in town at present for medical treatment is so far recovered that he hopes soon to be at his post of duty again.......Appointment and Kanoa as acting Governor
 * William Ahuena Frederick Beckley, Sr (December 27, 1873 - April 24, 1947), married Juliet Lolokuokalani Sheldon Beckley (July 19, 1874 - October 6, 1929)
 * Frederick William Kahapula Beckley Jr. (May 7, 1874 – December 20, 1943), married Alice L. K. Heanu Beckley and had nine children
 * Nominated and Decline...
 * Ticket still unfilled ...cannot get on printed ballot...not subsitute
 * Beckley Once More Refuses
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 * Sabina Kahinu
 * Frederica Beckley


 * George Charles Mo'oheau'ika'uluhe'imalama Beckley (May 5, 1849 - July 4, 1910), death       .....http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1887-01-04/ed-1/seq-5/ 1887 Election at Hilo J. K. Kaulia vs Beckley married Mary Risley.....Appointed to the Privy Council by Liliuokalani.


 * William Kauluheimalama
 * Henry Hoolulu
 * Juanita .....May 20, 1906, Miss Juanita Mary Kamakahuki Beckley was married to Albert Richard Cunha at noon.
 * George Mooheau Beckley, Jr.

Six Generations of Race Mixture in Hawaii a study of the coming neo-Hawaiian American race]
 * A recent study of "Six Generations of Race Mixture in Hawaii" traces the descendants of an English sea-captain and an Hawaiian princess who were regularly married in 1814. The offspring of that marriage number approximately 400 and [http://books.google.com/books?ei=VQC8Ud6yN8LZrgGMi4HYAw&id=hYV0AAAAMAAJ Mixing the races in Hawaii:

Granddaughter Voices Family Flag Claims
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XXI THE HAWAIIAN FLAG ....


 * Mary Beckley was a daughter of George Beckley, an English ship captain and a trusted advisor to King Kamehameha the Great, and of his wife, Chiefess Elizabeth Ahia, a member of the Hawaiian nobility (ali'i) descended from early Hawaiian.......The New England Historical and Genealogical Register - Volume 152 - Page 247
 * The subsequent adoption by the King gave Beckley such exalted rank that even his own wife, Ahia, a chief- tainess by birth, was made to crawl before him, on such occasions as homage was due. So Beckley, united with a chieftainess New Catholic World - Volume 133 - Page 661

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James Kahea Beckley