Thursday October Christian

Thursday October Christian ( born Thursday October Christian ; October 7, 1790, Pitcairn - October 21, 1831, Tahiti ) - the son of Fletcher Christian , the leader of the "revolt on the Bounty . " He was the first son of Christian and the first child born on Pitcairn Island from the marriage of an English sailor and Tahitian.

Thursday October was the first of three children of Fletcher Christian and his Tahitian wife Mayimichi. It is not known exactly why Fletcher called his first child the name of the day and the month instead of the Christian name. Among the assumptions indicate the possible date of his birth in October 1790 or the date when the rebels discovered Pitcairn - October 25, 1789. Assuming that his name meant his birthday, the English sailors called him Friday October, because Pitcairn Island was outside the international date line and, thus, the calendar of local residents had an error for one day.

The first meeting of the young man with the Europeans took place on September 17, 1814, when two English frigates stopped at Pitcairn Island. Two young men climbed aboard one of them - one of them was Thursday October Christian. He said that he was the son of the famous Fletcher Christian from the rebel ship "Bounty". Although Thursday October was a child from a mixed marriage, the English features of his face were easily recognizable in his appearance and he was fluent in English. By the time the British ships approached the island, the young man was married to the widow of one of the dead rebels, who were much older than him. In the next marriage, seven children were born on Thursday October, the last of whom he also named Thursday October (1820–1911).

Over time, Thursday October became the head of the colony after the death of the last of the sailors "Bounty" John Adams . When Pitcairn Island came into British possession, concerns arose that there were far more people living on the island than it could provide with food. In 1831, the British government relocated a significant part of the population to Tahiti, the motherland of Thursday October, but after the resettlement, an epidemic of local diseases broke out, and one out of five Pitcairn immigrants died, including Christian Thursday, October.