Peerage Record – 15823

     Sarah Quintal was born in 1797 at Pitcairn Island^G.² She was the daughter of Matthew Quintal and Tevarua (?)¹ She married, firstly, Daniel McCoy, son of William McCoy and Teio (?), in 1811 at Pitcairn Island^G.¹ She married, secondly, George Adams, son of John Adams and Teio (?), on 6 October 1844 at Pitcairn Island^G.¹ She died on 27 November 1851 at Pitcairn Island^G.²
     Sarah Quintal also went by the nick-name of Seldarb.¹ From 1811, her married name became McCoy.² From 6 October 1844, her married name became Adams.² In 1851 she was one of the 14 women who invited Admiral Moresby to visit Pitcairn.²

     Teio (?) was born at Tahiti^G.² She married John Adams on 17 December 1825 at Pitcairn Island^G.^1,3 She died on 14 March 1829 at Tahiti^G.^2,1
     Teio (?) also went by the nick-name of Mary (?)² She and William McCoy were associated circa 1789.¹ From 17 December 1825, her married name became Adams.

     John Adams was born on 4 December 1767 at St. John’s, Hackney, London, England^G.¹ He married Teio (?) on 17 December 1825 at Pitcairn Island^G.^3,4 He died on 5 March 1829 at age 61 at Pitcairn Island^G.¹
     He was also known as Alexander Smith.⁵ He and Teehuteatuaonoa (?) were associated circa 1788 at Tubuai^G.³ He and Puarei (?) were associated circa 1790 at Pitcairn Island^G.³ He gained the rank of Able Seaman in the Royal Navy, on board H.M.A.V. Bounty.¹ He and Tinafanaea (?) were associated at Pitcairn Island^G.⁶ He and Vahineatua (?) were associated at Pitcairn Island^G.⁶ He and Mareva (?) were associated at Pitcairn Island^G.³
     Adams was either from Wapping-on-Thames or Stanford Hill, St. John Hackney, Middlesex in England. His father, a lighterman 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, 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 neighbors, 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.⁷

     Tyrrell Charles Alfred Finch was born on 26 March 1994 at Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia^G.¹ He is the son of Warren Richard Finch and Michelle Nobbs.¹

     Maxine Lawson Marshall was born circa 1900 at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia^G.¹ She was the daughter of Harry Marshall and Sophia Lawson.¹ She married Harry Robert Nobbs, son of Benjamin ffrench Nobbs and Amy Quintal, on 23 September 1936.¹ She died on 20 August 1945 at Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.^1,2
     From 23 September 1936, her married name became Nobbs.¹

     Agnes Donaldson Brown was born on 31 October 1920 at Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand^G.¹ She married Harry Robert Nobbs, son of Benjamin ffrench Nobbs and Amy Quintal, on 4 May 1949 at Norfolk Island^G.¹
     From 4 May 1949, her married name became Nobbs.¹

     Christopher Lawson Nobbs was born on 18 July 1938 at Norfolk Island^G.¹ He is the son of Harry Robert Nobbs and Maxine Lawson Marshall.¹

     Jillian Amy Nobbs was born on 28 October 1949 at Norfolk Island^G.¹ She is the daughter of Harry Robert Nobbs and Agnes Donaldson Brown.¹ She married, firstly, Peter Max Hustan McKee, son of Max Hunter David McKee and Edith May (?), on 13 April 1968 at Auckland, New Zealand^G.¹ She married, secondly, Hasse Jerry Karlsson on 17 April 1976 at Göteborg, Sweden^G.¹
     From 13 April 1968, her married name became McKee.¹ From 17 April 1976, her married name became Karlsson.¹

     Peter Max Hustan McKee was born at New Zealand^G.¹ He was the son of Max Hunter David McKee and Edith May (?)² He married Jillian Amy Nobbs, daughter of Harry Robert Nobbs and Agnes Donaldson Brown, on 13 April 1968 at Auckland, New Zealand^G.¹ He died in July 1991.²

     Hasse Jerry Karlsson was born on 25 May 1946 at Göteborg, Sweden^G.¹ He married Jillian Amy Nobbs, daughter of Harry Robert Nobbs and Agnes Donaldson Brown, on 17 April 1976 at Göteborg, Sweden^G.¹