Peerage Record – 11908

     Charles Christian was baptised on 18 July 1762 at Moreland Close, Brigham, Cumberland, England^G.² He was the son of Charles Christian and Ann Dixon.¹ He died in 1822.³
     He graduated with a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)² Entered the medical profession, and in 1780 joined the West Yorkshire Regiment as Assistant Surgeon. After three years, he studied again in Edinburh, qualified as a surgeon, and acted as such on the ship “Middlesex”. Captured by a French privateer, he was sent to Oporto, where a merchant captain gave him passage to England. In 1808, he joined his mother in Douglas, Isle of Man.⁴

     Fletcher Christian was born on 25 September 1764 at Moreland Close, Brigham, Cumberland, England^G.³ He was baptised on 25 September 1764 at Brigham Church, Brigham, Cumberland, England^G.⁴ He was the son of Charles Christian and Ann Dixon.⁴ He married Mauatua (?) on 16 June 1789 at Tahiti^G.⁵ He died on 20 September 1793 at age 28 at Pitcairn Island^G, supposedly murdered by four Tahitian natives who had accompanied the mutineers to Pitcairn Island.¹
     He was educated in 1773 at Cockermouth Grammar School, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England^G.¹ He gained the rank of Master’s Mate in 1787 in the Royal Navy, on board H.M.A.V. Bounty.⁶ On 28 October 1788 he lead the infamous mutiny, taking over the Bounty, and sailing it back to Tahiti, and then on to Pitcairn Island.⁶ He was named for his great-grandfather, Jacob Fletcher, a member of the Fletchers of Cockermouth Hall.³ He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.⁶
     

     Lt.-Col. Edward Chichester was born on 1 September 1611.¹ He was the son of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester of Carrickfergus and Anne Coplestone.¹ He married Elizabeth Fisher, daughter of Sir Edward Fisher.¹

     Elizabeth Fisher is the daughter of Sir Edward Fisher.¹ She married Lt.-Col. Edward Chichester, son of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester of Carrickfergus and Anne Coplestone.¹
     Her married name became Chichester.¹

     Edward Chichester was the son of Lt.-Col. Edward Chichester and Elizabeth Fisher.¹ He married Agnes Bulkeley, daughter of Reverend William Bulkeley.¹ He died in 1673, without issue.¹

     John Chichester is the son of Lt.-Col. Edward Chichester and Elizabeth Fisher.¹
     He held the office of High Sheriff of County Wexford in 1701.¹ In 1711 he sold the manor of Chichester to James Stopford, father of the 1st Earl of Courtown.¹

     Thomas Chichester is the son of Sir John Chichester and Gertrude Courtenay.¹
     King James I granted him lands in Wicklow.¹ On 8 December 1610 he had a grant of 1,000 acres of Rathdonnell, County Donegal.¹

     Eleanor Chichester is the daughter of Sir John Chichester and Gertrude Courtenay.¹ She married Sir Arthur Bassett, son of John Basset and Frances Plantagenet.¹
     Her married name became Bassett.¹

     Mauatua (?) was born before 1764 at Tahiti^G.¹ She married, firstly, Fletcher Christian, son of Charles Christian and Ann Dixon, on 16 June 1789 at Tahiti^G.² She died on 14 September 1841 at Pitcairn Island^G.¹
     Mauatua (?) also went by the nick-name of Mainmast (?)¹ She was also known as Maimiti (?)³ She was also known as Isabella (?)⁴ From 16 June 1789, her married name became Christian.² She and Edward Young were associated at Pitcairn Island^G.¹

     Thursday October Christian was born on 7 October 1790 at Pitcairn Island^G.^3,1 He was the son of Fletcher Christian and Mauatua (?)^4,1 He married Teraura (?) circa 1805 at Pitcairn Island^G.⁴ He died on 21 April 1831 at age 40 at Tahiti^G.^3,1
     He had an athletic figure, and was quaintly attired in a vest without sleeves and trousers to the knee. He wore a hat jauntily decked with black cock’s feathers. He had a dark complexion, with jet black hair flowing down his shoulders. (Description by Captain Pipon after first sighting him). When he was married to Teraura, the ceremony was carried out with a ring belonging to Ned Young.⁵