Descendants of the Bounty mutineers explained

Group:Descendants of the Bounty mutineers
Total:~1,000 worldwide
Total Ref:[1]
Pop1:~45 (2021)[2]
Region2: Norfolk Island
Pop2:~450 (2016)
Ref2:[3]
Region3:
Pop3:~250 (2016)
Ref3:[4]
Region4:
Pop4:~45 (2018)
Ref4:[5] [6]
Religions:Seventh-day Adventist Church

The descendants of the Bounty mutineers include the modern-day Pitcairn Islanders as well as a little less than half of the population of Norfolk Island. Their common ancestors were the nine surviving mutineers from the mutiny on HMS Bounty which occurred in the south Pacific Ocean in 1789. Their descendants also live in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States.

Origins

The nine surviving mutineers from HMS Bounty arrived on Pitcairn on 15 January 1790 with eleven Tahitian women and six men. Each of the mutineers took one woman as a wife, with the two remaining women to be shared by the six Tahitian men, which they resented. According to author Caroline Alexander, the women were "passed around from one 'husband' to the other".[7] Fletcher Christian, Ned Young, John Adams, John Mills, William McCoy, and Matthew Quintal had relationships with six Tahitian women. Mauatua, Toofaiti, Vahineatua, and Teio had children from two of the mutineers and one of their sons. Tevarua and Teraura had only one partner. Together they had 24 children, who in turn had 77 children. Because of the scarcity of people on the island, many of the mutineers' children and grandchildren intermarried, with some marrying first and second cousins.

When John Williams and John Adams' wives died, they commandeered two of the Polynesian men's wives, who plotted to kill the men in retribution. Two of the plotters were killed instead. On 20 September 1793, the four remaining Polynesian men stole muskets and killed Christian, Mills, Brown, Martin, and Williams. The remaining seamen—Adams, McCoy, Quintal, and Young, with the assistance of Teraura, the wife of Ned Young—who beheaded the Polynesian Tetahiti while he slept—soon killed the Polynesian men. In 1798, McCoy built a still. He, Quintal, and some of the women were continually drunk. On 20 April 1798, McCoy attached a rock to his neck with a rope and leaped over a cliff to his death. Quintal became increasingly erratic and threatened to kill the other seamen and their wives. In 1799, Adams and Young killed him. Young died of an asthma attack in 1800. Adams lived until 1829.[8] Occasionally a new person would arrive on the island bringing with them a new surname (like Samuel Russell Warren from the United States, whose descendants still live on the island today).

First generations

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Other descendants

The majority of the many rulers of the Pitcairn Islands have been descendants of the Bounty mutineers, till this day.

In 1935 – in the wake of their successful American blockbuster movie Mutiny on the Bounty, which premiered that year – the MGM Studios also shot a short documentary with the title "Pitcairn Island Today" (a Eugene H. Roth production, narrated by Carey Wilson).[13] [14] It tells the story of some of the descendants of the Bounty mutineers, who were natives of Pitcairn and inhabitants of the only village of the island, Adamstown.

The list of descendants mentioned and presented in this MGM documentary includes:

On top of those, three more people are mentioned in the MGM documentary: Andrew Warren (grandson of a whaler who came to Pitcairn around 1875, thus being no descendant of the mutineers), as well as Dora Warren and Roy Clark, whose exact direct descent from the mutineers (or lack of such) remains unclear, when judging only from the information that the documentary reveals.

A 1962 documentary, Pitcairn People (directed by Peter Newington, narrated by Patrick Wymark), was produced by the British Petroleum Company. It featured many of the island residents of that time. Another documentary, Miracle on Pitcairn Island, was produced in the 1960s by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (filmed and written by Eric Were, narrated by Neal C. Wilson). It featured many of the same residents.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Official Pitcairn Immigration and Repopulation Web Site Community. 4 November 2022.
  2. Web site: Pitcairn Islands Tourism | Come Explore... The Legendary Pitcairn Islands . Visitpitcairn.pn . 2018-01-03 . 19 September 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190919235419/http://www.visitpitcairn.pn/ . live .
  3. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC90004?opendocument 2016 Census QuickStats
  4. http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/2900.0Main+Features101422016?OpenDocument Census and Census Data, Australia - 2016
  5. Web site: 2018 New Zealand census. 2018. 14 August 2020.
  6. Born in Cook Islands
  7. Book: Alexander1, Caroline . Caroline Alexander (author). The Bounty . Harper Collins . London . 2003 . 978-0-00-257221-7.
  8. Book: Marks . Kathy . Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed . 2009 . Simon and Schuster . 9781416597841 . 16 . en.
  9. Web site: Maimiti . 5 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080410194359/http://www.lareau.org/maimiti.html . 10 April 2008.
  10. Web site: Teraura . 5 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080724095549/http://www.lareau.org/teraura.html . 24 July 2008.
  11. Web site: Taio . 5 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080419071330/http://www.lareau.org/taio.html . 19 April 2008.
  12. News: Fox. Margalit. Tom Christian, Descendant of Bounty Mutineer, Dies at 77. 24 August 2013. The New York Times. 23 August 2013.
  13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykgDX-dYN6g''Pitcairn Island Today (1935)
  14. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301732/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm''Pitcairn Island Today (1935) – Full Cast & Crew
  15. http://www.stamps.gov.pn/ParkinChristian.html''Prominent Pitcairners – Part I: Parkin Christian

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