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Alexander Salmon

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each other. A daughter of the second generation married the last King of Tahiti and was for many years known as 'the last Queen of Tahiti'. This royal connection was a major part of the prestige of what became a 'clan'. As each of family had nine children, the clan was numerically strong but on the founders' deaths many were still very young. Commercial naivety, familial distrust, poor staff management and infighting over inheritances led to the disappearance of the clan within a generation.
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described him thus: “The lady he wedded being a near kinswoman of the queen, he became a permanent member of her majesty's household. This adventurer rose late, dressed theatrically in calico and trinkets, assumed a dictatorial tone in conversation, and was evidently on excellent terms with himself.
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For four decades from the 1840s, the Alexander Salmon and John Brander families, who were of English, Scottish and Tahitian ethnicity, were important socially, commercially and politically in Tahiti. They married into the Tahitian royal families, and were aligned through marriage and commerce with
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We found him reclining on a mat, smoking a reed-pipe of tobacco, in the midst of an admiring circle of chiefs and ladies. He must have noticed our approach; but instead of rising and offering civilities, he went on talking and smoking, without even condescending to look at us."
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The Social and Economic Fall of the Salmon/Brander Clan of Tahiti Claus Gossler The Journal of Pacific History Vol. 40, No. 2 (Sep., 2005), pp. 193-212 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Stable URL:
78:, England. While often described as "the scion of a British Jewish banking family", his background was quite different. His father, John Solomon, was a fruiterer or greengrocer selling from a store in 215: 86:, who in 1847 described Salmon as, "... a low swindling bankrupt Jew from London." On his mother Rebecca's side, Alexander was a grandson of a renowned Jewish miniaturist artist, 152:(3 November 1842 – 25 September 1898), married in 1856 John Brander; and in 1878 George Darsie with whom she moved to Anstruther in Scotland, where she died and is buried 1013: 208: 201: 916: 787: 692: 20: 149: 122:. Considered one of the highest ranking chiefesses in the land, she was head of the Teva clan, the traditional rivals of the 1028: 908: 1008: 625: 931: 601: 167: 856: 676:
Alexandre Salmon, 1820–1866, et sa femme Ariitaimai, 1821–1897: deux figures de Tahiti à l'époque du protectorat
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Alexandria Manihinihi "Cheeky" Salmon (1 October 1866 – 2 December 1918), married her nephew Norman Brander
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in 1767. In 1846, she was considered a rival candidate to the Tahitian throne by the French governor
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Gossler, Claus (2005), "The social and economic fall of the Salmon/Brander Clan of Tahiti",
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Gossler Claus (2005). "The social and economic fall of the salmon/brander clan of tahiti".
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in the event that Queen Pōmare IV did not to return from her self-imposed exile to
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Jean Nari'ivaihoa Tepau Marama Salmon (24 October 1856 – 6 February 1906)
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his family formed part of the influential Salmon/Brander Clan of Tahiti.
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Who's who in Jewish history : after the period of the Old Testament
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and married her adopted half-sister. Through his daughter's marriage to
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The union of Salmon and Ali'i|ari'i produced the following children:
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Ernest Tepauari'i'iahurai Salmon (December 1843 – April 1844)
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Lois Beretania "Pri" Salmon (23 March 1863 – 25 May 1894)
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Ari'ino'ore Moetia Salmon (3 March 1848 – 1935), married
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Ari'i Teuraitera'i Tati Salmon (1852 – 5 December 1918)
142:and comply with a French protectorate over Tahiti. 130:who received the first European explorer to Tahiti 179:(24 April 1860 – 2 February 1934), married King 102:In January 1842, Salmon married Princess Oehau, 209: 106:(1824 – 24 June 1897), later given the title 19:For other people named Alexander Salmon, see 8: 857:"An ideal Jewish Polynesian royal husband" 216: 202: 194: 177:Queen Johanna Marau Ta'aroa a Tepau Salmon 810:(2) (published September 2005): 193–212, 126:, and descended from Chief Amo and Queen 224:Salmon-AriÊ»itaimai family tree (partial) 110:. She was the adoptive daughter of King 27: 758: 168:Alexander Ari'ipaea Vehiaitipare Salmon 104:Ari'i Ari'ioehau Ari'ita'ima'i Hinari'i 884:A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-War 150:Tetuanui Reiaitera'iatea Titaua Salmon 39:(1820 – 6 August 1866) was an English 1014:British emigrants to French Polynesia 946:https://www.jstor.org/stable/25169749 648: 646: 637: 635: 624: 622: 613: 611: 600: 598: 589: 587: 578: 576: 567: 565: 556: 468: 394: 388: 386: 384: 382: 380: 378: 376: 374: 372: 370: 368: 366: 364: 362: 360: 358: 356: 350: 348: 346: 344: 342: 340: 338: 336: 334: 332: 330: 328: 326: 324: 322: 320: 318: 308: 306: 304: 302: 300: 298: 296: 294: 292: 290: 288: 286: 284: 282: 275: 262: 260: 258: 256: 254: 252: 250: 248: 246: 244: 242: 240: 238: 236: 234: 7: 14: 859:. Jerusalem Post. 15 October 2018 679:. Paris: Société des Océanistes. 21:Alexander Salmon (disambiguation) 741:Salmon died on 6 August 1866 in 959:The Journal of Pacific History 1: 909:University of Minnesota Press 887:. 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Alexander Salmon (disambiguation)

merchant
Jew
Tahiti
Queen
Pōmare IV
John Brander
Hastings
Piccadilly
HMS Grampus
Solomon Polack
Joel Samuel Polack
ari'i
Pōmare II
Pōmare III
Pōmare IV
Pōmare family
Purea
Samuel Wallis
Armand Joseph Bruat
Raiatea
Tetuanui Reiaitera'iatea Titaua Salmon
Dorence Atwater
Alexander Ari'ipaea Vehiaitipare Salmon
Queen Johanna Marau Ta'aroa a Tepau Salmon
Pōmare V
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