DESCENDANTS TO VISIT PITCAIRN ISLAND.
The great-Krcat-Kranrlson 0 r Fletcher Christian, avlio loii Ihc mutiny on the eighteenth century English sailing ship and eSUvblislicil Ihc llrst colony on l'ilealrn Island, sailed from San Francisco wit If his destination also Pitcairn Island. Lillie Charles Christian, 7, and his mother, Mrs Edna Christian are shown on hoard ship as they sailed for the Pacific island. Mrs Christian's husband, who died in 19.T5, was a: grandson of Thursday October Christian, the first while child born on Pitcairn Island, Started by a handful of mutineers and a small group of native women, llie colony now 'has a population of 202.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20261, 2 August 1937, Page 12
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106DESCENDANTS TO VISIT PITCAIRN ISLAND. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20261, 2 August 1937, Page 12
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