Pitcairn Island - the early history

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Inhabitants
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List compiled from Rosalind Young's description. She says the total number was 27, but she was either counting Agnes Christian both as T. O. Christian's daughter and Samuel Warren's wife, or she was counting Frederick L. F. Young, Simon Young's son, who RootsWeb says was serving at the Melanesian Mission in the Solomon's and among the 2nd wave of returnees. He was not among the returnees, he was killed in the Solomons. Or, there is another person that she does not mention.

"Four families decided to go. These were first, Thursday O. Christian [1], his wife [2] and nine children [11]. Mrs. Christian's aged mother also accompanied them...Elizabeth Mills [12]... The other families were Robert Buffett [13] and his wife [14], Samuel Warren [15] and his wife [counted above], who was the daughter of T. O. Christian. ... In addition to those above mentioned were Simon Young [16], his mother (Hannah Adams) [17], his wife [18], and eight children [26]. The number of persons composing the second party was twenty-seven."

Returnees:

  1. Thursday O. Christian (1820)
  2. Mary Polly (Young (1825)) Christian
  3.  Elias Christian (1845)
  4.  Alphonso Downs Christian (1846)
  5.  Julia Anna Rose Christian (1851)
  6.  Ernest Heywood Christian (1853)
  7.  Daniel Christian (1855)
  8.  Francis Hickson Christian (1859)
  9.  William Henry Gordon Christian (1860)
  10.  Harriet Christian (1863) [Died on voyage.]
  11. Samuel Russell Warren
  12. Agnes (Christian (1841)) Warren
  13. Robert Pitcairn Buffett (1830)
  14. Lydia (Young (1832)) Buffett
  15. Simon Young (1823)
  16. Mary Buffett (Christian (1828)) Young
  17.  Eliza Coffin Palmer Young (1847)
  18.  Robert Young (1850)
  19.  Benjamin Stanley Young (1851)
  20.  Rosalind Amelia Young (1853)
  21.  Mary Ann Young (1855)
  22.  George Edwin Selwyn Young (1857)
  23.  Eliza Ann Sophia Young (1859)
  24.  William Alfred Young (1863)
  25. Elizabeth Mills (1791)
  26. Hannah Adams (1800)
Populuation
Adults Children
Male Female Male Female
9 9 11 15
44

Males Females Children Age
Young, Moses (1829) McCoy, Albina (1828) Young, Mary Elizabeth (1849)
Young, Charles C. V. (1850)
Young, Sarah Grace (1856)
Young, Eunice J. L. (1858)
Young, Mercy A. L. (1858)
Young, Mathew Richard (1860)
Young, George Tomlin (1862)
15
14
8
6
6
4
2
(Christian, Margaret (1822)) McCoy, Harriett Melissa (1847)
McCoy, Alice Sophia (1848)
McCoy, Mary Ann (1851)
McCoy, Rebecca H. A. (1853)
17
16
13
11
Young, William Mayhew (1827) Christian, Margaret (1822) Young, Elizabeth Maud (1858)
Young, Maria Jane (1862)
6
2
Christian, Thursday October (1820) Young, Mary Polly (1825) Christian, Julia A. R. (1851)
Christian, Ernest Heywood (1853)
Christian, Daniel (1855)
Christian, Francis Hickson (1859)
Christian, William H. G. (1860)
13
11
9
5
4
Young, Simon (1823) Christian, Mary Buffett (1828) Young, Eliza C. P. (1847)
Young, Robert (1850)
Young, Benjamin Stanley (1851)
Young, Rosalind Amelia (1853)
Young, Mary Ann (1855)
Young, George E. S. (1857)
Young, Eliza A. S. (1859)
Young, William Alfred (1863)
17
14
13
11
9
7
5
1
Buffett, Robert Pitcairn (1830) Young, Lydia (1832)
Warren, Samuel Russell Christian, Agnes (1841)
McCoy, Sarah (1843)
McCoy, James Russell (1845)
Christian, Elias (1845)
Christian, Alphonso Downs (1846)
Mills, Elizabeth (1791)
Adams, Hannah (1800)

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