:Anna Kaʻiulani
{{Short description|Noble during the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi (born 1842)}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Anna Kaʻiulani
| house = Kalākaua
| father =Caesar Kapaʻakea
| mother =Analea Keohokālole
| birth_date = 1842
| birth_place =Honolulu, Oʻahu, Kingdom of Hawaii
| death_date =
| place of burial =
}}
Anna Kaʻiulani (born 1842) was a noble member of the House of Kalākaua during the Kingdom of Hawaii. Two of her siblings became ruling monarchs.
Life
She was born in 1842 to the High Chiefess Analea Keohokālole and the High Chief Caesar Kapaʻakea. She was a younger sister of James Kaliokalani, David Kalākaua, and Lydia Kamakaʻeha, and the older sister of Kaʻiminaʻauao, Miriam K. Likelike and William Pitt Leleiohoku II.{{cite news|last=Taylor|first=Clarice B.|title=Little Tales All About Hawaii – Keohokalole Has A Family of 11 – No. 15|newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|location=Honolulu|date=June 15, 1951|page=26|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/15359143/|access-date=December 29, 2018}} The name Kaʻiulani translates from the Hawaiian language as The Royal Sacred One.{{cite book|last1=Pukui|first1=Mary Kawena|author-link1=Mary Kawena Pukui|last2=Elbert|first2=Samuel H.|author-link2=Samuel Hoyt Elbert|title=Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bHdRhjL9Y9EC|year=1986|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|location=Honolulu|isbn=978-0-8248-0703-0|oclc=12751521|access-date=July 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101142827/http://books.google.com/books?id=bHdRhjL9Y9EC|archive-date=January 1, 2015|url-status=live|page=104}}
She was, according to Hawaiian tradition of hānai, adopted by the Princess Kekauʻōnohi, who was the granddaughter of Kamehameha I, the royal governor of the island of Kauaʻi and foster mother of Abigail Maheha.{{cite book |title=Hawaii's story by Hawaii's queen, Liliuokalani |author=Liliʻuokalani (Queen of Hawaii) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QrTCvcy0sE4C |publisher=Lee and Shepard, reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, LLC |date=July 25, 2007 |origyear=1898 |isbn=978-0-548-22265-2 }}{{rp|400–403}}
She died young,{{cite news|last=Taylor|first=Clarice B.|title=Little Tales All About Hawaii – Keohokalole Children Raised As Royal Alii – No. 16|newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|location=Honolulu|date=June 16, 1951|page=24|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/15359339/|access-date=December 29, 2018}} although the date and exact cause of death was never recorded.
Her niece, Victoria Kaʻiulani (who shared her Hawaiian name) became Hawaii's crown princess but died aged twenty-three.{{cite book|last1=Webb|first1=Nancy|last2=Webb|first2=Jean Francis|title=Kaʻiulani: Crown Princess of Hawaii|url=https://archive.org/details/kaiulanicrownpri00webbrich|url-access=registration|year=1998|orig-year=1962|publisher=Mutual Publishing|location=Honolulu|isbn=978-1-56647-206-7|oclc=265217757|page=28}}
She is not buried at the Royal Mausoleum at Mauna ʻAla in the Nuʻuanu Valley with her siblings and parents.{{cite book|last=Kam|first=Ralph Thomas|title=Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty: Funerary Practices in the Kamehameha and Kalakaua Dynasties, 1819–1953|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4kvanAAACAAJ|year=2017|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|location=S. I.|isbn=978-1-4766-6846-8|oclc=966566652|pages=192–196}}
Ancestry
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Category:Royalty of the Hawaiian Kingdom