Mary Polly Paaāina

Mary Polly Paʻaʻāina or Mary Iʻi (1833 - 1853) was a Hawaiian chiefess and sister of Queen Emma who attended Royal School.

Biography

She was born circa 1833. Her parents were Henry Coleman Lewis and High chiefess Fanny Kekela. Her mother was daughter of John Young the advisor of Kamehameha I and was also grandniece of Kamehameha I. She was adopted by John Papa ʻIʻi and his wife Sarai. Her hānai parents were lesser ali'i and her foster father also served as kahu (caretaker) to Princess Victoria Kamāmalu. Her half-sister was Emma Rooke, who was 3 years younger than her and the daughter of her mother's second marriage to George Naea.

Entering the boarding school May 1843, she was the last girl to enter the school (the last boy "William Pitt" Kinaʻu entered in 1844). She was 10 years old which was relatively old.^[1] She was taught reading, spelling, penmanship, arithmetic, geometry, algerbra, physics, geography, history, bookkeeping, singing and English composition by the missionary couples Amos Starr Cooke and Juliette Montague Cooke. In the classroom students were divided by their age and or length of time as the school. The older group consister of Moses, Lot, Alexander, William, Jane, Bernice, Abigail and Elizabeth who had attend the school since 1839. The next class consisted of Emma, James, Peter and David. Mary was in the youngest class together with Victoria, Lydia, and John Pitt due to her late attendance.^[2] They never failed to go to church in a procession every Sunday in charge of their teachers, Mr. and Mrs. Cooke, and occupied seats in the immediate vicinity of the pew where the king was seated. The custom was for a boy and girl to march side by side; the lead being taken by the eldest scholars. Moses and Jane had this distinction, next Lot and Bernice, then Liholiho with Abigail, followed by Lunalilo and Emma, James and Elizabeth, David and Victoria, Mary and Peter, and John and Lydia being the last. She was called Polly Paaina by the Cookes and Liliiuokalani mentioned her in her Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen as Mary Paaina. Notice the numbers of "a" letters in her name varies. ^[3]

She married Mr. James Augustus Griswold on December 21, 1851 in Honolulu, Oahu. She died at Honolulu, Oahu, May 28, 1853 and was buried in Honolulu in June.^[4]The only child of this marriage was a daughter named Mary Paʻaʻāina Griswold (1853-aft 1900) who married (1) in San Francisco, 1871, Lewis Albert and had daughter Edith G. Albert, b. 18 Sep 1872, and married (2) in Honolulu, 15 Apr 1886, Charles Ellet Kellogg.^[5]

Family tree

References

1. ^ The Hawaiian Chiefs' Children's School By Amos Starr Cooke, Juliette Montague Cooke, Mary Atherton Richards
2. ^ Emma: Hawaiʻiʻs Remarkable Queen : a Biography By George S. Kanahele. Page 30-34.ISBN 0824822404
3. ^ Chapters I-V
4. ^ Our Family History and Ancestry. "Mary Polly PAAAINA". http://familiesofoldhawaii.com/getperson.php?personID=I4048&tree=Ano. Retrieved 2010-12-27. 
5. ^ Timothy Hopkins, The Kelloggs in the Old world and the New (San Francisco, Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co., 1903), Vol. 2, p. 1427

External links

• Mary Polly PAAAINA 1
• Mary Polly PAAAINA 2
• Mary Polly PAAAINA 3