Phyllis Phillips (nee McCann)

Phyliss McCann was born in 1910 at Waihi, New Zealand. She is the daughter of William McCann and Rosena Dufty.

She Married August Frederick Phillips (Ted) b. (TBA).

Ted’s mother was Mary Constance Jewell, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Joseph

Jewell who were 2 of only 10 survivors (out of 83 passengers) of the American ship ‘The General Grant’ that sank off the Auckland Islands. They survived freezing conditions on an island in the Antarctic until rescued.

Children of August Frederick Phillips and Phyliss McCann

1.Raymond Frederick Phillips b. 8 Apr 1932

2.Keith Phillips b. 30 Apr 1934

3.Henry August Phillips+1 b. 25 Jan 1936

 

Rosena McCann (nee Dufty)

Rosena Dufty was born on 12 February 1887 at Norfolk Island. She was the daughter of Walter Frederick Dufty and Georgina Phyllis Adams.1 She married William McCann in 1908 at New Zealand.1 She died on 18 November 1972 at age 85.

Her married name became McCann.

With their children, Rosena Dufty travelled to Tonga where Rosena became good friends with Queen Salote of Tonga. They travelled the Islands with her father’s job eventually ending up in New Zealand where Rosena married William (Cocky) McCann in 1908. William was a seaman from Millers Point, Sydney, Australia. They settled in Waihi, New Zealand, where William became a gold miner.

Children of Rosena Dufty and William McCann

1.Lillian McCann

2.Coral McCann

3.Jean McCann

4.Flora McCann

5.Mervyn McCann

6.Phyliss McCann b. 1910

7.Vera McCann b. c 1911

Georgina Phyllis Dufty (nee Adams)

Georgina Phyllis Adams was born on 6 July 1859 at Norfolk Island. She was the daughter of John Adams and Caroline Quintal. She married Walter Frederick Dufty, son of Francis Herbert Dufty and Martha Stowe, on 22 February 1877 at Norfolk Island. She died on 14 October 1905 at age 46 at Norfolk Island.

Her married name became Dufty.

Walter Frederick Dufty was born on 9 July 1852 at Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, England. He was the son of Francis Herbert Dufty and Martha Stowe. He married Georgina Phyllis Adams, daughter of John Adams and Caroline Quintal, on 22 February 1877 at Norfolk Island.1 He died on 29 October 1919 at age 67 at Auckland, New Zealand. He was buried at Waikumete Cemetery, Waikumete, Auckland, New Zealand.

Photographer, Melbourne & Pacific. Was living in Noumea (1882), Kingston & Fiji (1887), Kingston (1889, Sydney (1890). He met and married Georgina.

While traveling the Pacific as a photographer for the Australian Government.1 He emigrated with her parents to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, arriving on April 1871 on board Bengal.

Children of Walter Frederick Dufty and Georgina Phyllis Adams

1.Rosetta Caroline Dufty b. 4 Oct 1877, d. b 1905

2.Catherine Clavadina Dufty b. 7 Jan 1879

3.Lilian Rosetta Dufty1 b. 8 Sep 1880, d. a 1905

4.Florentine Daisy Dufty b. 15 Jun 1882, d. 1969

5.Rosena Dufty b. 12 Feb 1887, d. 18 Nov 1972

6.Ethel Florrie Claire Dufty b. 9 Jan 1889, d. 23 Sep 1944

7.Byron Edwin Victor Dufty b. 11 Jul 1890

 

 

John Adams

John Adams was born on 10 November 1827 at Pitcairn Island. He was the son of George Adams and Polly Young. He married Caroline Quintal, daughter of Arthur Quintal and Catherine McCoy, on 16 April 1843 at Pitcairn Island. He died on 29 May 1897 at age 69 at Norfolk Island.

He was Councillor of Norfolk Island in 1858.

He was Councillor of Norfolk Island in 1870.

 

Children of John Adams and Caroline Quintal

1.Thomas Lyndsay Shepherd Adams

2.Pauline Adams b. 16 May 1844, d. 5 May 1920

3.Gilbert Warren Fysh Adams b. 28 Nov 1845, d. 10 Feb 1875

4.Byron Stanley Mitchell Adams b. 1 Oct 1847, d. 9 Sep 1902

5.George Webb Adams b. 19 Apr 1849, d. 18 Jul 1911

6.William Ward Dillon Adams b. 28 Oct 1851, d. 19 Dec 1912

7.Elizabeth Holman Adams b. 31 May 1853, d. 2 Dec 1868

8.Caroline Augusta Adams b. 5 Jan 1855, d. 21 Apr 1855

9.John Bayles Heastey Adams b. 20 Aug 1856, d. 26 May 1874

10.Georgina Phyllis Adams b. 6 Jul 1859, d. 14 Oct 1905

11.Thomas Lyndsay Skipton Adams b. 12 Jan 1862, d. 11 Aug 1862

12.Absolam Caleb Adams b. 21 May 1866, d. 19 Nov 1927

 

 

 

 

George Adams

George Adams was born on 6 June 1804 at Pitcairn Island. He was the son of John Adams and Teio. He married, firstly, Polly Young, daughter of Edward Young and Toofaiti, on 1 April 1827 at Pitcairn Island. He married, secondly, Sarah Quintal, daughter of Matthew Quintal and Tevarua, on 6 October 1844 at Pitcairn Island. He died on 29 October 1873 at age 69 at Norfolk Island.

He held the office of Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn Island in 1848. George was a strong opponent of Joshua Hill. In 1856, because one of his grandchildren was very ill and suffering convulsions, he opposed taking her on the migration to Norfolk, as it would kill her. His initial response was to simply refuse to go, but was forced to go by the island leadership.

Children of John Adams and Polly Young

1.John Adams b. 10 Nov 1827, d. 29 May 1897

2.Jonathan Adams b. 23 Jan 1829, d. 23 May 1906

3.Josiah Chester Adams b. 19 Jun 1830, d. 2 Feb 1907

 

John Adams

John Adams was born on 4 December 1767 at St. John’s, Hackney, London, England.¹ He married Teio on 17 December 1825 at Pitcairn Island.  He died on 5 March 1829 at age 61 at Pitcairn Island.
He was also known as Alexander Smith. He and Teehuteatuaonoa were associated circa 1788 at Tubuai. He and Puarei were associated circa 1790 at Pitcairn Island. He gained the rank of Able Seaman in the service of the Royal Navy, on board H.M.A.V. Bounty. He and Tinafanaea were associated at Pitcairn Island. He and Vahineatua were associated at Pitcairn Island. He and Mareva were associated at Pitcairn Island.
Adams was either from Wapping-on-Thames or Stanford Hill, St. John Hackney, Middlesex in England. His father, a lighter man and servant to Daniel Bell Cole, a merchant, drowned in the River Thames. He and 3 siblings were left orphaned, and he and 2 siblings were brought up in the poorhouse. One sibling married soon after the father’s death. It was in the poorhouse that Adams gained what little literacy he had before being tutored by Young on Pitcairn. It is also where he learned the rudiments of the liturgy of the Church of England. One brother was a waterman at Union Stairs, a ‘steady character, and wore the fire coat of London Assurance’.
He signed on board the Bounty using the assumed name of Alexander Smith. He reverted to the use of his real name (Adams) after the mutiny.
Adams belonged to that class of individuals, who, under ordinary circumstances, would likely attract public attention only when picked up by the police. Known as ‘reckless Jack’, he was not the toughest, meekest, and most nor least intelligent of the crew. Certainly not afraid to ‘go for the cutlass’, he learned survival in the streets of London.
One of the active mutineer party, he was part of the group who arrested Bligh. He was not in the leadership, but there was no question as to where his sympathies lay.
On Pitcairn, he formed a close friendship with Young, and lived as neighbours, sharing possessions and women between themselves. They had also the most even-handed attitude toward the Tahitian men. He was scarcely literate, and as he noted Young’s increasing illness, he took reading lessons each day from his companion, knowing that he would soon by responsible for the growing community. It was at Young’s death that this non-religious sailor found himself, for the first time, having to officiate at the burial services, and from that point on took his responsibilities very seriously.
Adams found himself alone among a community in which only he had an experience of the outside world. Early visitors reported him as kindly, wise, thoroughly regenerated, and a deeply religious and moral patriarch. This is likely not far from the truth. He was indeed a completely regenerated rascal – whether this was due to a deep moral direction or from simple expediency in controlling an island teeming with the young will be forever unknown. We have only his own words to judge what he did, and we have the survival of a strong, religious, vital colony that he left in his wake.¹ Bligh described him as 5’5′ tall, brown complexion, brown hair, strong made, very much pitted with smallpox, and very much tattooed on body, arms, legs, and feet. He had a scar on his right foot where it was cut with a wood axe.

Children of John Adams and Vahineatua

1. Dinah Adams b. c 1796, d. 18 Jan 1864
2. Rachel Adams b. 1797, d. 18 Jan 1864
3. Hannah Adams b. 1799, d. 27 Aug 1867

Children of John Adams and Teio

1.  George Adams b. 6 June 1804, d. 29 Oct 1873