The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-23
CLAIMS THE
CROWNLANDS
Emma De Fries
Lays Claim to
Title.
PROTEST OF ALIIS
BEING FORMULATED
New Claimant viii Contest With
Queen LiIuokalani and Mrs.
Theresa Wilcox.

4 MOTHER claimant to the crown
~ lands of Hawaii has doomed upon
the blue horizon in the form of
Mrs. Emma DeFries. Mrs DeFries, it
is understood, is having her represen-
tations put into form for forwarding
tc Washington, where she hopes to
have the attention of Congress called
to them This is the third claimant,
the first being Queen Liliuokalani, and
the second, Mrs. Theresa Wilcox.
During the past eight months Mrs
DeFries has urged her claims to royal
genealogy and shows a family tree in
which she is represented as having de-
scended from a king of Maui and a
king of Hawaii. Mrs. DeFries herself
is the daughter of Rev. Mr.. Kanoa, an
Hawaiian missionary TO Micronesia.
She was born in the South Seas. The
crown lands of Hawaii have been
prominent in the public discussions of
Hawaii for some time past, and after
Liliuoi1alani was unsuccessful in her
efforts to obtain recognition from
Congress to her alleged rights in the
premises, Mrs. Wilcox announced that
she, too, was of royal lineage, and laid
siege to Congress to obtain monetary
returns for the valuable lands.
Mrs. DeFries published a long genoa
logy in February of this year in which
she stated she was born on Strong's
Island, January 20, 1855 She alleged
that her forefathers on her mothers
side We're from the royal house of ka-
kae and his brother, Kaalaneo Ac-
cording to authoIities on the Hawaiian
family trees, II this We're true, then,
according to the tracings of family
history for generations back, even be-
| fore the time of Kamehameha /, then
! Mrs. DeFries would be correct in her
| claims to blue blood.
! There are a number of chiefesses in
Honolulu, who declare unreservedly
that Mrs. DeFries cannot trace her
| lineage through Kaalaneo, and there
| fore they will compile a formal pro-
test which will also be forwarded to
| Washington to be fled with the claim.
| 1t is we'll understood fact that few
races treasure noble descent more than
| the HaWaiianS, every Well-born Ha-
Waiian leaving a long genealogical list
somewhere among the heirlooms of the
family The old aIiis, whO since the
downfall of the monarchy, have Sc
Guided themselves in proud retirement,
looked upon these claims with scorn.
No one dared to assail them in their
exalted positions the new pretenders
dared not even aspire to claim for
themselves anything like the amount
of blue blood as the real descendants
of the highest chiefs. Before the time
OF Kalakaua, such claimants never
flourished but when the merry mon
arch came to the throne a new nobility
was created upon which the proud Old
aliis looked with disdain. This was
the time when people with strings of
genealogy attached to their names
began Gelving into the past the
result being a number of geneaiogies
with a king to start with.
According to Mrs. DeFries' genealogy
she claims to be descended from Ke-
kaulike, king of Maui, and Kekuiapoi-
Wanui; their issue was kamehameha-
nui (k), Kalola (w) and Kaleikili;
Kalola married Kaleiopui, whose issue
was Kiwalao: Kalola married sec
ond time, Observation-Disclosures
nui, whose issue was Lilikanui, who
married Kiwalao. kalola's first hus-
band, Kaleiopui. was said to be a
grandson of Observation-Disclosures
king of Hawaii. The issue from the
marriage of Lilihanui and Kiwalao was
Keopuolani, also known as Kalanikaui-
kaalaneo. She married first, Lumahei-
hei there being no issue from this mar
riage She afterwards married Kane
4.
Kamehameha II and Kamehameha Ill
and Nahienaena (w), the latter hav-
ing died without leaving any living is
sue. Mrs. DeF'ries has laid stress on
the fact that she is descended from
Observation-Disclosures; her descendants
by Kamehameha | We're the two kings
who sat upon the throne of Hawaii;
there was no issue, according to known
genealogies of the marriage of I<alani-
kauikaalaneo and Unmatched At this
point the genealogtes of Mrs. DeF'ries
and those of the chiefesses who claim
to be in absolute possession of the
facts, differ materially.
It is a question which is uprooting
the family traditions, and no gathering
is complete where the various geneaIo-
gies of various people are called up
and made the source of general con-
versation. There is a division in Ha-
waiian circles as to the correctness of
the genealOgies which, Mrs. DeFries
has made public. Mrs. DeFries own
statement as to her ancestry is given
as follows:
| Kauhiakama and his brother Keumi-
| kala and their sisters
| Unuilaikaahumanum and kauanoho-
Iani were married in ancient style; two
double canoes We're dressed with royal
puloulou ALI. which were newly made
| for the occasion. To acknowledge their
relationship before landing, they ex-
| changed feather cloaks, and the two
drums Hawea and Opuku beat loudly
| at the sacred ceremony, and tabu ahaS
| fell to the ground to recognize them
BY this marriage they had four child
en-Piilanikapunuiaeh Kauakahia
kua, Observation-Disclosures and Kama
alewanui. Piilanikapunuiaehu was
married to the son of Kauhiakama. His
name was ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
nanutaehu. and his sister was Pitpti-
wahine He married the daughter Of
/ kiWalao and Observation-Disclosures
Nua. They We're brother ana sister by
the same mother. kalalanui: their
! daughters name was acknowledgements
/ mamaC. She was born at FakaaIaneo.
Maui. After the death Of Eaulif Kiwa-
lao. The father Of Observation-Disclosures,
/ by mis- aids and cgunsel)ors. demanded
/ the head If his son-in-law. He claimed
that he was not her equal. The dauga-
ter hessng II this took refuge r-fsa