Anna Kaʻiulani

Anna Kaʻiulani (born 1842) was a noble member of the House of Kalākaua during the Kingdom of Hawaii. Two of her siblings became ruling monarchs.

Anna Kaʻiulani
Born	1842 Honolulu, Oʻahu, Kingdom of Hawaii
House	Kalākaua
Father	Caesar Kapaʻakea
Mother	Analea Keohokālole

Life

She was born in 1842 to the High Chiefess Analea Keohokālole and the High Chief Caesar Kapaʻakea. She was a younger sister of James Kaliokalani, David Kalākaua, and Lydia Kamakaʻeha, and the older sister of Kaʻiminaʻauao, Miriam K. Likelike and William Pitt Leleiohoku II.^[1] The name Kaʻiulani translates from the Hawaiian language as The Royal Sacred One.^[2]

She was, according to Hawaiian tradition of hānai, adopted by the Princess Kekauʻōnohi, who was the granddaughter of Kamehameha I, the royal governor of the island of Kauaʻi and foster mother of Abigail Maheha.^{[3]: 400–403}

She died young,^[4] although the date and exact cause of death was never recorded. Her niece, Victoria Kaʻiulani (who shared her Hawaiian name) became Hawaii's crown princess but died aged twenty-three.^[5]

She is not buried at the Royal Mausoleum at Mauna ʻAla in the Nuʻuanu Valley with her siblings and parents.^[6]

Ancestry

• Kalākaua family tree

References

1. Taylor, Clarice B. (June 15, 1951). "Little Tales All About Hawaii – Keohokalole Has A Family of 11 – No. 15". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Honolulu. p. 26. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
2. Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986). Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-8248-0703-0. OCLC 12751521. Archived from the original on January 1, 2015. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
3. Liliʻuokalani (Queen of Hawaii) (July 25, 2007) [1898]. Hawaii's story by Hawaii's queen, Liliuokalani. Lee and Shepard, reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-0-548-22265-2.
4. Taylor, Clarice B. (June 16, 1951). "Little Tales All About Hawaii – Keohokalole Children Raised As Royal Alii – No. 16". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Honolulu. p. 24. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
5. Webb, Nancy; Webb, Jean Francis (1998) [1962]. Kaʻiulani: Crown Princess of Hawaii. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-56647-206-7. OCLC 265217757.
6. Kam, Ralph Thomas (2017). Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty: Funerary Practices in the Kamehameha and Kalakaua Dynasties, 1819–1953. S. I.: McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. pp. 192–196. ISBN 978-1-4766-6846-8. OCLC 966566652.