Joshua Kaʻeo (c. 1808 – June 27, 1858), was a Hawaiian high chief or nobleman of
Hawaii Island descent, the uncle of
Queen Emma of Hawaii, and an early Hawaiian politician and advisor of
Kamehameha III.
His father was Asa Kaʻeo, a grandson[2][3] or son of Manoua, the daughter of
King Kalaniʻōpuʻu and one of his wives, Mulehu, from a noble family of the
Kaʻū district; Mulehu was also the grandmother of
Abner Pākī (one of Kaʻeo's own contemporaries) through a second marriage and great-grandmother of
Bernice Pauahi Bishop.[3]
His mother is named Paaluanui.[4][5]
He was distant cousin to
Kamehameha I since his great (great) grandfather Kalaniʻōpuʻu was Kamehameha I's half-uncle.
He was member of the King's Privy Council from 1845 to 1850 and a member of
House of Nobles from 1845 to 1856.[6] At one time, he was the Judge of the Supreme Court of Hawaii from 1844 to 1848, succeeding
Zorobabela Kaʻauwai who resigned in November, 1846.[7][8][9]
Keliʻimaikai Kaʻeo, nicknamed "Alebada" (died October 13, 1851), he was given as a hānai child to Jane's other brother
James Kanehoa and his wife Sarah Kale Davis. He was named after Jane's ancestor
Keliʻimaikaʻi, Kamehameha's only full brother.[10][11]
References
^"Royal Mausoleum". The Hawaiian Gazette. March 10, 1899. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
^"By Authority". The Polynesian. November 14, 1846. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
^Frear, Walter F. (1894). "Evolution of the Hawaiian Judiciary". Papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society (7). Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society.
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