MIGUELS at Ma'ema'e

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/571628/memorial-search?firstname=&middlename=&lastname=Miguel&cemeteryName=Maemae+Chapel+Cemetery&birthyear=&birthyearfilter=&deathyear=&deathyearfilter=&bio=&linkedToName=&plot=&memorialid=&mcid=&datefilter=&orderby=r&page=1#sr-106623368

John Kalani Pu'us Birth Affidavit

🌿 PUʻU–MIGUEL MASTER GENEALOGICAL CHART (MERGED & LOCKED)

(Puʻu = ancestral / aliʻi-associated line | Miguel = colonial indexing)

🧓 PUʻU GREAT-GRANDFATHER (ALIʻI-CONNECTED LINE)

• Name: ❓ Unknown

• Role: Bestowed the Puʻu name on your grandfather

• ʻOhana Teaching:

  • The Puʻu name was given due to a connection with
    Kalaniʻōpuʻu

  • This knowledge came through cousins Puanani & Martha via their father (your uncle).

• Birth / Death / Burial: ❓ Unknown

🌺 HĀNAI AUNT — PUʻU LINE

Kamaua Laʻanui

• Role: Raised John Kalani Puʻu from infancy under Hawaiian hānai

• Affidavit: Took him at ~3 weeks old

• Origin / Burial: ❓ Unknown

• Important: ❌ Not the same person as Isabel Kamaua Miguel (1903–1969)

• Meaning: Isabel carries her name in honor

🌋 DIRECT ANCESTOR

John Kalani Puʻu

• Born: 24 Oct 1889

• Died: 1966

• Burial: ✅ Nuʻuanu Memorial Park (you personally visited)

• Raised by: Kamaua Laʻanui (hānai)

• Biological Mother: From Maui (affidavit)

• Name Lineage: Puʻu name bestowed by great-grandfather (Kalaniʻōpuʻu link)

👩‍🍼 BIOLOGICAL MOTHER (MAUI LINE)

Malaia Maria Kealoha Keawe

• Born: 1861, Maui, Kingdom of Hawaiʻi

• Died: 12 Nov 1926

• Burial: ✅ Maʻemaʻe Cemetery

• FamilySearch:
  https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/sources/LZXJ-8G2

👨‍🍼 BIOLOGICAL FATHER (MIGUEL LINE)

Joseph Miguel

• Burial: ✅ Maʻemaʻe Cemetery

• Find a Grave:
  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104894882/joseph-miguel

🌺 CHILDREN OF JOSEPH & MALAIʻA — 11 TOTAL

1. Joseph Kealakaimanuia Miguel

• 29 Mar 1882 – 17 Jun 1936

• Burial: ✅ Maʻemaʻe

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106623360/joseph-kealakaimanuia-miguel

2. Rose Lokalia Miguel

• 29 Jun 1884 – 21 May 1977

• Burial: ✅ Diamond Head Memorial Park

3. Mary Ululani Miguel → Mary Ululani Aki

• 1886 – 1961

• Lei seller like mother

• Cousin Gayle hoped you’d take Ululani

• Burial: ✅ Maʻemaʻe

4. Peter Kaaʻi Miguel

• ~1888 – ~1928

• Burial: ❓ Unknown

5. John Kalani Puʻu

• (Listed above; included for sibling completeness)

6. Helen Elena Miguel

• 1890 – 1960

• Burial: ❓ Unknown

• https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZ6Y-442/helen-elena-miguel-1890-1960

7. Emma Miguel Kim

• 1895 – 1972

• Burial: ✅ Greenwood Memorial Park

8. Emma Miguel — Infant #1

• Died in infancy (affidavit)

• Burial: ❓ Unknown

9. Emma Miguel — Infant #2

• Died in infancy (affidavit)

• Burial: ❓ Unknown

10. Mary Ann Kawailani Miguel

• 1900 – 1958

• Member of Hale o Nā Aliʻi

• Burial: ❓ Unknown

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11. Isabel Kamaua Miguel

• 1903 – 1969

• Burial: ✅ Maʻemaʻe

• Note: Name-carrier for Kamaua Laʻanui

🌸 NEXT GENERATION — PUʻU LINE (NUʻUANU CLUSTER)

Lydia Evilda Puʻu

• Your grandmother

• Burial: ✅ Nuʻuanu Memorial Park

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193341770/lydia_evilda-pu

Henry Hoʻopai Puʻu

• Your uncle

• 1922 – 1981

• Burial: ✅ Nuʻuanu Memorial Park

• https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/G8WS-CHV/henry-ho'opai-pu'u-1922-1981

Beryl Hamilton Puʻu

• Wife of Henry

• Burial: ✅ Nuʻuanu Memorial Park

• http://www.nmplimited.com/obituaries/BERYLE-HAMILTON-PUU?obId=33615010#/obituaryInfo

🪦 CEMETERY CLUSTERS — FINAL

✅ Maʻemaʻe Cemetery

• Malaia Maria Kealoha Keawe

• Joseph Miguel

• Joseph Kealakaimanuia Miguel

• Mary Ululani Aki

• Isabel Kamaua Miguel

✅ Nuʻuanu Memorial Park

• John Kalani Puʻu

• Lydia Evilda Puʻu

• Henry Hoʻopai Puʻu

• Beryl Hamilton Puʻu

✅ Greenwood Memorial Park

• Emma Miguel Kim

✅ Diamond Head Memorial Park

• Rose Lokalia Miguel

❓ OPEN RESEARCH TARGETS

• Puʻu Great-Grandfather (name & burial)

• Kamaua Laʻanui (origins & burial)

• Peter Kaaʻi Miguel (burial)

• Helen Elena Miguel (burial)

• Mary Ann Kawailani Miguel (burial)

• Infant Emma #1 & #2 (burials)

If you’d like, I can next:

• Create a print-ready genealogy PDF, or

• Generate a Maʻemaʻe + Nuʻuanu field research map, or

• Prepare a formal family history narrative version of this chart.

You said:

and where kalani o puu is buried https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/249042740/kalaniopuu--a-lonoikamakahiki

ChatGPT said:

Good question — here’s what I found about Kalaniʻōpuʻu and where he’s said to be buried, plus how that compares to what you have — and what remains uncertain.

📜 What sources say about Kalaniʻōpuʻu’s burial

• The public memorial for Kalaniopuu - a-Lonoikamakahiki lists his burial location as Royal Mausoleum, Oʻahu(also known by its traditional name Mauna ʻAla). findagrave.com+2nl.findagrave.com+2

• Historical sources and genealogies (for example from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs) note that after his death in 1782, his bones were taken to Hale o Keawe in Hōnaunau (on Hawaiʻi Island) — the traditional burial site for many of the island’s aliʻi. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA)+2Images of Old Hawaiʻi+2

• There is no definitive historic documentation (in accessible public records) that verifies which of these two locations (or another) currently holds his remains.

So there are at least two competing traditions:

Tradition / Source

Burial Site for Kalaniʻōpuʻu

Modern memorial / public genealogy sites

Royal Mausoleum (Mauna ʻAla), Oʻahu findagrave.com+1

18ⁿᵗʰ-century chants & aliʻi burial customs

Hale o Keawe, Hōnaunau — on Hawaiʻi Island The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA)+2Images of Old Hawaiʻi+2

⚠️ Why there is uncertainty

• The bones of many aliʻi were historically moved, hidden, or re-buried in secret places to protect their mana — which means public records may not reflect the original interment.

• Over the centuries, oral traditions and written records diverge; some genealogies preserve one memory while apparently contradictory records surface elsewhere.

• The public memorial claiming burial at the Royal Mausoleum does not cite primary archival evidence (church record, royal decree, re-interment log) — it may reflect a later tradition rather than a verifiable chain.

✅ What you can record in your genealogy (linked)

You can include Kalaniʻōpuʻu as:

• Name: Kalaniʻōpuʻu (a-Lonoikamakahiki)

• Birth–Death: c. 1729 – April 1782 Wikipedia+1

• Two possible burial traditions:

  • Royal Mausoleum (Mauna ʻAla, Oʻahu) — per modern memorial listing findagrave.com+1

  • Hale o Keawe, Hōnaunau (Hawaiʻi Island) — per historical genealogical tradition The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA)+2Images of Old Hawaiʻi+2

• Status: ❓ Unconfirmed — “burial depends on tradition / source used”

📄 How this fits into your family history chart

Because your Puʻu line traces ancestry back to a Kalaniʻōpuʻu connection (as family oral history), you can:

• Reference Kalaniʻōpuʻu-a-Lonoikamakahiki as your ancestral aliʻi root

• Note both burial traditions in your lineage record to reflect the ambiguity

• Use this ambiguity as a research note — ideal if future archival work or cultural knowledge can help confirm

January 29th, 2025

Okay, this is officially a lot to take in. It is a function of how much pain can one process at once, but also, how much space is cleared to welcome the joy. 

I am learning much about the hawaiian side of the family while here on the Windward side.  In this present moment, I have no home anywhere, I have no kane anymore, and I am free to travel and explore, and have learned, my body at the age of 66 can't manage WWOOFing, so I will find another way to flow, rent free for a bit, but sheltered, as I write today from my private little room within a house built by a once senator of Hawaii on O'ahu.

I located 'ohana at Ma'ema'e and also at Nu'uanu Memorial, and went and gave aloha, a mutli-year project, and then, I set the intetnion to visit this great aunty I never knew, and discovered, I have a first cousin once removed that is famous. I am very unfamous as an artist, and can see clearly, when we make goo goo eyes at someone who is famous, we are giving away our own unexpressed creative mana. I once read an article about this family, and was too emotionally overwhelmed to process it, so yesterday, I had my ceremony and my journey about this 'ohana. https://www.maunalua.net/kuliouou.html

I learned in this trip, that the cousins on my father's side, that live here, there response of silence to emails and texts that I am on island working and would love to see them again, is a message, that the feeling is not mutual, which was painful, but also, just what it is.

They are not my people, and that is okay, I can place them from the love at a distance for now, and respect their wishes for privacy, while the words one cousin spoke "I always thought you were kind of weird" when I visited her, well, I think I need to extract those.

I am grateful though, for her observation, "you are a chanter", when I asked if she'd mind, as a Christian, if I took time to give oli to the land, and she nodded yes. Some Christians in the family I find are okay with ones decolonization, while others are not.

For instance, I have my one remaining brother on a no contact list, after when I expressed I as praying in Hawaiian, that he said he knew, and he sent my demons back to me.

so, in essence, perhaps he was rejecting the 'aumakua and helping spirits, and only wants one helping energy, Isu.

Isu, I think, would say, son, this is foolish, they are your 'ohana, and they love you, to say 'a'ole to their kokua 'ana, this is disrespectful to them, and disrespect isn't in the vocabulary of aloha.

So, I let go of the many harmful words of this brother, a ua hoe mua.

Who are my people? Why am I here? What is my remaining purpose.

I moved on to look at the Aunty Rose's 'ohana, how here family fared.

They fared extremely well.

https://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Aug/18/ln/ln07a.html 

Its a crazy mess, a crazzy mess the images I have been gathering.

Why, why do I do this?