Elizabeth Kalanikumaieiwalani AHIA [19276]

  Research Notes:

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.[3]
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.
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Elizabeth married George Charles BECKLEY [19275] [MRIN: 6933] in 1813. (George Charles BECKLEY [19275] was born in 1760 in London and died in 1827 in Honolulu Oahu Hawaii.)