Jane Lahilahi

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Jane Lahilahi Young Kaʻeo 1813 - 1862 was a Hawaiian high chiefess and a daughter of John Young Olohana royal advisor of Kamehameha the Great. She was Emma Kaleleonalani's maternal aunt.

She was born circa 1813 in Kawaihae, in Kohala District, on the Island of Hawai'i. Her aging father was John Young the royal advisor of Kamehameha the Great, from Lancashire, England, who had been made made a chief and given vast tract of land. He mother was the High Chiefess Kaʻoanaʻeha, the niece of Kamehameha the Great. She was given the name of Jane and sometimes referred to as Jenny or Gini the Hawaiian version of Jane. She was raised on her father's homestead situated on a barren hillside overlooking the Kawaihae Bay, on a piece of land Kamehameha had parcel out to her father on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. She grew up with her two sisters, Fanny and Grace, and her brother, John. Fanny was eldest, Grace was second, John was third, and she was the youngest. Her siblings were hapa-haole or part Caucasian but still of a aliʻi (royal) status.

She was clever as well as a little frivolous. An amusing poet, she was skilled in the old allusive figurative style of her mother's ancestors. She married Joshua Kaeo, a Hawaiian chief sometimes Judge of the Supreme Court, and great grandson of King Kalaniopuu. She bore him a son name Peter Kaeo who attended Royal School and was adopted to her brother John. She later became a royal mistress of Kamehameha III and bore him twin son, Keoua and Albert Kunuiakea. Keoua died as an infant but Albert lived to adulthood. Her son Albert was raised as a hanai (adopted) of Kamehameha III's queen, Kalama and lived on to be the last of Kamehameha Dynasty.

She died at Honolulu, Oahu, 12th January, 1862.^[1] Being maternal aunt of Queen Emma and daughter of John Young and Kaoanaeha, she was consider to be royal so she was bury in the Wyllie Crypt, Mauna 'Ala (The Royal Mausoleum) along with many of the Young Family.