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Thursday October Christian II was a Pitcairn Islands political leader. He was the grandson of Fletcher Christian and son of Thursday October Christian, and mother, Teraura. He was also known as "Doctor", "Duddie" or "Doodie". He spent several years on Norfolk Island but returned to Pitcairn in 1864. Christian was three quarters ...
- 17 Children
- 1 October 1820, Pitcairn Island
- 27 May 1911 (aged 90), Pitcairn Island
- Pitcairn Islander
Thursday October Christian II [1] [2] (Islas Pitcairn, 1 de octubre de 1820-Islas Pitcairn, 27 de mayo de 1911) [3] fue un líder político de las Islas Pitcairn. Era nieto de Fletcher Christian y Mauatua, e hijo de Thursday October Christian y Teraura.
Their common ancestors were the nine surviving mutineers from the mutiny on HMS Bounty which occurred in the south Pacific Ocean in 1789. Their descendants also live in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States.
- ~250 (2016)
- ~45 (2021)
- ~450 (2016)
- ~45 (2018)
28 de sept. de 2015 · Thursday October Christian II, estimated to be around 90 in this photo, in front of his house in 1899. The diminutive isle (two by one mile) is the only Pitcairn Island of the four with fresh water. Despite modernization, electricity is limited in present-day Pitcairn and provided by diesel generators.
- Meeting The British
- Death in Tahiti
- Literary References
When the British frigates Briton and Tagus arrived at Pitcairn on the morning of 17 September 1814, Thursday and George Young paddled out in canoes to meet them. Both spoke English well, and made a good impression on the officers and men of the ships as they met on the deck of the Briton. Their demeanour helped persuade the two captains that John A...
Along with a number of other Pitcairners, he migrated to Tahiti in 1831, but having no immunity to the diseases of the island he died on 21 April. At that point he had been "the oldest and perhaps the most respected of the first generation of native born islanders". Eleven other Pitcairners died in the same epidemic. Deprived of leadership, the gro...
Thursday's life story was written by R. M. Ballantyne in The Lonely Island; or, The Refuge of the Mutineers (1880). He also appears in Charles Dickens' The Long Voyage(1853). Thursday October Christian is also mentioned on the Rasputina album Oh Perilous World.
- Teraura
- Pitcairn Islander
- 14 October 1790, Pitcairn Island
- Fletcher Christian (father), Mauatua Maimiti (mother)
Thursday October Christian (Islas Pitcairn, 14 de octubre de 1790-Tahití, 21 de abril de 1831) fue el primer hijo de Fletcher Christian (líder del motín del Bounty) y su pareja tahitiana Mauatua. [1]
8 de abr. de 2021 · Thursday October Christian II was the sixth and last child of the original Thursday October Christian and Teraura and grandson of Fletcher Christian, he was born on a Thursday in October, 1820. In his childhood and youth he witnessed first hand the aborted relocation to Tahiti, as well as the tyranny of Joshua Hill and the treachery ...
