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Thursday October Christian (14 October 1790 – 21 April 1831) was the first son of Fletcher Christian (leader of the historical mutiny on the Bounty) and his Tahitian wife Mauatua. He was the first child born on the Pitcairn Islands after the mutineers took refuge on the island.
Soon after leading a famous mutiny against the captain of the Bounty in 1789, Fletcher Christian was blessed with a son born on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. He couldn’t think of a name for the baby, so Fletcher chose to call him Thursday October (I’ll bet you can’t guess the day and month that Thursday October Christian was born).
Jul 15, 2024 · His mother was Mauatua. [1] This is confirmed in the published family history - researched by many researchers. Glynn Christian, Fragile Paradise: The discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty mutineer; 2nd ed. (U.S.A.: Bounty Books, 2005) Thursday died on 21 April 1831 in Papeete, Tahiti.
Fletcher Christian (25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793) was an English sailor who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, during which he seized command of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty from Lieutenant William Bligh .
Jul 13, 2016 · This time the leader of the young men identified himself as Thursday October Christian, the 25-year-old son of Fletcher Christian. By Thursday’s own account, his father had indeed been killed on the island.
When Thursday Fletcher October Christian was born on 7 October 1790, in Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands, his father, Lt. Fletcher Christian, was 26 and his mother, Mauatua, was 16. He married Susannah Teraura Mataohu Taoupiti about 1806, in Pitcairn Island, Pitcairn Islands.
Fletcher Christian's son, Thursday October Christian (by John Shillibeer, c. 1814) Today, the population of Pitcairn numbers about fifty, nearly all of whom are descendants of the original mutineers. Dark-skinned with both European and South Pacific features, the Pitcairn natives use a unique language that combines elements of English and Tahitian.
