Mela (Miller)

Mela (Miller) was the name Native Hawaiians called the foreign advisor to Kamehameha I and chief builder of the Brick Palace who was on Oahu before the Battle of Nuʻuanu in 1795. He, along with Mr. Keka 'ele'ele (Black Jack), possibly the first African American in Hawaii, built the structure for Kamehameha I's favorite wife, Kaʻahumanu.^[1]^[2] Mela and Keka 'ele'ele were considered escaped or ex-convicts of Botany Bay.^[3] The Brick Palace was the first western-style structure built in the Hawaiian Islands, serving as the first Royal Palace.^[4] Located at Lahaina, Maui, the site became the seat of government and capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii until 1845.^[5] Mela was the kahu (royal attendant) of John Papa ʻĪʻī, who writes of the occasion when, as a young boy who didn't wish to walk on a long journey, his attendants, either Mela or Kiwalao, scared him into wallking by pointing to foreigners and telling the young boy; "Here come the haoles, who do not like children who cry too much".^[6]

Family tree

Beamer, Desha, Kāneakua, Miller family tree

Key- Subjects with bold titles and blue bold box= Aliʻi line. Bold title and grey bolded box= Lower ranking Aliʻi line. Bold title and un-bolded box= European nobility. Regular name and box= makaʻāinana or untitled foreign subject.

Mela (Miller)

Kānekapōlei

Kaialii

Poimoa

Kilinahe

Lama (w)

Alexander P. Miller Jr.
(Alika Mela)^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kapuailohia Wahine Kanuha Kaialiilii.^{[lower-roman 2]}

Namakalele

Charles Makee^{[lower-roman 3]}

Sarah Kaʻili Miller

John Mahiʻai Miller/Kaneakua
(Oct. 9, 1860-Jan. 26, 1936)
County Clerk of Kaua‘i
Hui Hawaiian Aloha ʻĀina

Lucy Kaʻumealani Cummings

Samuel Kalimahana Kaialiilii Miller.^{[lower-roman 4]}^{[lower-roman 5]}
(1868-Nov. 24, 1933)

Daisy Amoe Ai^{[lower-roman 6]}

George Langhern Desha

Isabella Haleʻala Kaʻili Miller^{[lower-roman 7]}^{[lower-roman 8]}
(1865-Feb. 28, 1949)

Noa Miller

Charles Miller

Sakichi Hayashi

Annie Maikaʻi Miller

Charles Hoolulu Siemsen

Peter Carl Beamer

Helen Kapuailohia Desha
(Sept. 8, 1882–Sept. 25, 1952)

David Lester Desha

James Waichiro Miller

Milton Hoʻolulu Beamer
(October 18, 1903^{[lower-roman 9]} - )

Kaaloehukaiopuaena Copp

Francis Kealiʻinohopono Beamer

Louise Leiomälama

Harriet Kekahiliokalani Beamer

Peter Carl Kaleikaʻapunihonua Beamer Jr.

Helen Elizabeth Kawohikukapulani Beamer

Mahi Beamer

Odell Steppe

Winona Beamer

Keola Beamer

Kapono Beamer

Notes:

↑ Kaʻanoʻi Walk writes in an article for the Hawaiian Cultral Center: "..my great-grandfather John Mahiʻai Kāneakua was born in Honuaʻula, Maui to his loving parents Alexander P. Miller and Kanuha (Kaialiilii) Miller".^{[lower-greek 1]}
↑ Kapuailohiawahine and her daughter Isabella, taught Hula in secret, hiding it after the ban by Kaʻahumanu.^{[lower-greek 2]}
↑ The son of Charles Makee (the son of James Makee, a wealthy sea Captain) Charles Miller was the son of "Sarah Miller, written as "S. Mila" on the marriage record".^{[lower-greek 3]}
↑ Hawaii State Archives lists Samuel Kaia Miller marrying Amoy Ai on 5-2-1903 in Honolulu, Hawaii.^{[lower-greek 4]}
↑ The Marriage certificate of Samuel and Daisy Amoe Ai lists Alika Miller and Kanuha as parents to Samuel, with Namakelele and Ai as parent to Daisy.^{[lower-greek 5]}
↑ Daisy Amoe and Samuel Kalimahana Miller had 12 children and resided in Kalihi where Samuel workd as a painter.^{[lower-greek 6]}
↑ In a press release from the Hula Preservation Society, they list Isabella Hale`ala Miller Desha as Nona Beamer's great grandmother.^{[lower-greek 7]}
↑ The Desha Genealogy lists William Francis Desha as the son of Isabella and George Desha.^{[lower-greek 8]}
↑ Hawaii Births and Christenings, 1852-1933. Milton Hoolulu Desha Beamer, 18 Oct 1903; citing Hilo, Hawaii, Hawaii, reference p 36; FHL microfilm 1,031,747.^{[lower-greek 9]}

↑ Walk, Kaʻanoʻi. "Kāneakua, John Mahiʻai". Hawaiian Cultural Center. Kamehameha Schools. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
↑ Barbara Bennett Peterson (1984). Notable Women of Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-8248-0820-4.
↑ Chinese America, History and Perspectives. Chinese Historical Society of America. 1988. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-9614198-1-3.
↑ "MARRIAGES: Oahu (1832-1910)". Hawaiian Genealogy indexes. Hawaiʻi State Archives. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
↑ State of Hawaii Department of Health, Office of Health Status Monitoring, Certificate of Marriage, May 2, 1903
↑ "No Race Suicide Here". The Garden Island. December 17, 1918. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
↑ "Hula Preservation". Hula Preservation Society. Hula Preservation Society. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
↑ DeWitt Collier Nogues (1983). Desha genealogy: a survey. ATEX Austin Inc. p. 212.
↑ Births, Kaʻanoʻi. "Milton Hoolulu Desha Beamer". Family Search. Retrieved 4 September 2015.

Citations

↑ Kamakau 1992, p. 174.
↑ Jackson 2004, p. 11.
↑ Woodson & Logan 1934, p. 193.
↑ Benson & Balfour 2013, p. 732.
↑ Ring, Watson & Schellinger 2013, p. 315.
↑ Ii 1983, p. 20.

References

Benson, Sara; Balfour, Amy C (1 August 2013). Lonely Planet Hawaii. Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN 978-1-74321-788-7.
Jackson, Miles M. (2004). Social Process in Hawaii. Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii at Manoa. ISBN 978-0-8248-2965-0.
Ii, John Papa (1983). Fragments of Hawaiian History. Bishop Museum Press. ISBN 978-0-910240-31-4.
Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani (1992). Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii. Kamehameha Schools Press. ISBN 978-0-87336-014-2.
Ring, Trudy; Watson, Noelle; Schellinger, Paul (5 November 2013). The Americas: International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-25930-4.
Woodson, Carter Godwin; Logan, Rayford Whittingham (1934). The Journal of African American History. Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. ASIN B06XNVQRMP.

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