Grace Kamaikui's father was John Young, known as Olohana, the royal advisor of Kamehameha I, from Lancashire, England.
10 Facts About Grace Kamaikui
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Grace Kamaikui grew up with her two sisters, Fanny and Jane, and her brother, John.
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Fanny was oldest, Grace Kamaikui was second, John was third, and Jane the youngest.
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Grace Kamaikui had two older half-brothers by her father's first marriage to Namokuelua: Robert and James.
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Grace Kamaikui was about twenty years her senior, so she was left a young widow when Cox died at Honolulu, Oahu in 1823.
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Grace Kamaikui remarried Thomas Charles Byde Rooke, a British physician to king Kamehameha III, in 1830.
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Grace Kamaikui was the only royal part-Hawaiian chiefess to marry a white man in her generation.
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Grace Kamaikui had a fair command of the English language and was acquainted with British ways.
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Grace Kamaikui probably felt socially equal, if not superior, to her husband for he had come from a family of commoners.
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Grace Kamaikui grew up speaking both the Hawaiian language and English language fluently.