Alfred Restieaux was born in Paris, France, and came from a family of French descent.
13 Facts About Alfred Restieaux
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Alfred Restieaux's grandfather was a French nobleman who escaped the guillotine during the French Revolution.
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Alfred Restieaux later became an island trader in the central Pacific.
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Alfred Restieaux worked on sheep stations and engaged in exploration for gold in South Australia and Victoria.
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Alfred Restieaux spent time in Peru where he participated in a revolution.
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In 1867 Alfred Restieaux was foreman of a Guano excavation operation at McKean Island, in the Phoenix Islands.
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Alfred Restieaux then traded as agent for Ben Pease on Ponape atoll, although that venture failed.
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Alfred Restieaux sailed with Hayes through the Gilbert Islands and arrived in Samoa in December 1872.
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Alfred Restieaux met Louis Beck, who travelled with Hayes on the Leonora; Beck's later published stories helped to build the mythic history of Bully Hayes.
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Alfred Restieaux left Samoa in 1873 to trade at Nukufetau in the Ellice Islands.
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Alfred Restieaux said that Hayes could be in the Marshall Islands.
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In 1879 Restieaux was J C Godeffroy's resident trader at Nanumea, the northern atoll of Tuvalu.
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In 1890 Alfred Restieaux met Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson and her son Lloyd Osbourne during their voyage on the Janet Nicoll, a trading steamer owned by Henderson and Macfarlane of Auckland, New Zealand, which operated between Sydney, Auckland and into the central Pacific.