Of Pitcairn Island. Daughter of John Adams (1767-1829) a Bounty mutineer and a Tahitian woman. She married to George Young, another such descendant. Both were resident on Pitcairn in the mid-1820s when H. M. S. Blossom visited. They had a small child.
Young, Hannah, 1799-1864
Adams, Hannah, 1799-1864
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Moresby, Fairfax (Sir) fl 1851-1867 : Letters from Pitcairn Islanders
Date: 1851, 1868
By: Moresby, Fairfax (Sir), 1786-1877
Reference: MS-Papers-5779
Description: Comprises copy of letter to Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby requesting that he visits Pitcairn Island, from a group of islanders (1851) with note re Pastor Nobbs; and letter to Admiral Moresby (son of Sir Fairfax) also from a group of Pitcairn Islanders who had moved to Norfolk Island thanking him for his assistance in their conflict (1868) Accompanying material - Letter from High Commissioner for Australia to Library enclosing list of material provided for Library by Phyllis Mander-Jones re Samoa and from A G Bagnall re this donation (1969) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - MS-Papers-0766 has same material Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (photocopies) Provenance: Copies of two letters given by Mrs Moresby about 1965 to Colonel A Murray, Greenhill, Rownhams, Southampton and the typescript was lent by him to Australia House in May 1968 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 18 photographs from the US Archives relating to Samoa transferred.
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Pitcairn Islanders : Letters
Date: 28 Jul 1851, 20 Oct 1868
Reference: MS-Papers-0766
Description: Letter to Admiral Sir F Moresby, 28 Jul 1851, and Admiral J Moresby, 20 Oct 1868. Including biographical note on Rev G H Nobbs. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Same papers with further explanations re provenance at MS-Papers-5779 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)
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[Batty, Robert, (Lieutenant-Colonel)], d 1848 :[George Young & his wife (Hannah Adams) ...
Date: 1831
By: Batty, Robert, -1848
Reference: B-097-001
Description: Portrait of a young half-cast couple with their baby, standing beneath a banana palm, with other banana palms and two other people as well as a high rock formation in the background. The couple are both descendants of Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives. Proof before letterpress, for the frontispiece illustration in Barrow, John. The eventful history of the mutiny and piratical seizure of H. M. S. Bounty. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 105 x 69 mm (image), 151 x 105 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 439 x 300 mm