INDIA PEQUE, Peggy

Other Events:

• Biography: 29 Dec 1791, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia; Peggy Stewart meets & visits Edward Bell, clerk on George Vancouver's ship, Chatham

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Birth:
ETHNICITY: Native Tahitian princess

Name:
NAME VARIATIONS:
- Margaret PECK; dau. Bap. Record
- Peggy [PEQUE]; From Mission to Majesty: A Genealogy and History of Early California and Royal European Ancestors, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1983, Chapter: Peggy Stewart (Maria Antonia Stuart), pages 46-47
- Peggy STEWART; A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean: Performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff, Commanded by Captain James Wilson
by London Missionary Society; Wilson, James, 1759 or 60-1814; Wilson, William, Chief Mate of the Ship Duff, Published 1799, [APPENDIX], p. 346
https://archive.org/stream/missionaryvoyage00lond#page/346/mode/2up

Biography:
CAPTIAN GEORGE VANCOUVER'S SHIP, DISCOVERY ARRIVES AT MATAVAI BAY, TAHITI 29 Dec 1791:
Meanwhile, Discovery reached a small island on 22 December. It was Rapa, in the Austral group. ... A week later, Vancouver brought Discovery safely to Matavai Bay on the north coast of Tahiti, and was relieved to find [Commander, Lieutenant William] Broughton and [in] Chatham already at anchor there.
http://www.captaincooksociety.com/home/detail/george-vancouver-1757-1798-part-three-the-voyage-1791-1792

Peggy married STEWART STUART, George Abt. 1789 (tribal ceremony), Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia. George (son of STEWART, Alexander and RICAN, Margaret) was born 1766, South Ronaldsay, Orkney; died 29 Aug 1791, Great Barrier Reef, Moulter Cay, Queensland; was buried 29 Aug 1791, Great Barrier Reef, Moulter Cay, Queensland. [Group Sheet]

1. STEWART STUART, Maria Antonia de la Ascension "Little Peggy, Charlotte" was born Abt. 1790, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia; was christened 04 May 1815, San Diego Presidio, Alta California.

Notes:

Birth:
ETHNICITY: Native Tahitian "grandee" (chief), a man of great possession in landed property, near Matavy Bay [Tahiti].

1. NAME: Tippaoo, a Tahitian "grandee" who had befriended GS [George Stewart] according to traditional custom whereby names were exchanged, each man taking on reciprocal obligations toward the other, according to the rules of 'taio'-ship.
http://pandorawreckancestors.net/family-histories/george-stewart/.

2. LAND POSSESSION: This was more to be dreaded, as many of the prisoners were married to the most respectable chiefs' daughters in the district opposite to where we lay at anchor; in particular one, who took the name of Stewart, a man of great possession in landed property, near Matavy Bay: a gentleman of that name belonging to the Bounty having married his daughter, and he, as his friend and father-in law, agreeable to their custom, took his name.
http://www.fatefulvoyage.com/pandora/pandoraIHamilton01.html#n000072.


Name:
NAME VARIATIONS:
- Originally named Tippaoo
- Tippaoo STEWART; took the name of his son-in-law according to local custom
http://www.fatefulvoyage.com/pandora/pandoraIHamilton01.html#n000072

Tippaoo married UNKNOWN, Unknown Bef. 1774, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Unknown was born Bef. 1760, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia. [Group Sheet]