Kiliwehi

Mary Ann Kiliwehi Kaʻauwai (c. 1840 – November 4, 1873) was a Hawaiian high chiefess and lady-in-waiting of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Alongside her husband William Hoapili Kaʻauwai, she traveled with Queen Emma of Hawaii to Europe between 1865 and 1866, and circumnavigated the globe upon their return eastward via New Zealand.

Kiliwehi was born c. 1840, as the daughter of Kuini Liliha, an influential high chiefess and Governor of Oahu, and Haʻalou. Her mother was a descendant of the ancient kings of Hawaii and Maui. Kiliwehi was also the name of an early Hawaiian high chiefess who was the daughter of King Kamehameha I and Peleuli, the wife of Prime Minister Kalanimoku and the mother of Leleiohoku I.

She had many half-siblings including sisters: Jane Loeau (1828–1873), Abigail Maheha (1832–1861), and Kailinoa, and brothers: John F. Koakanu (1833–1880) and Aberahama Kaikioewa Palekaluhi (1830–1912). Most of her siblings were given away in hānai to other family members and friends. The Hawaiian custom of hānai is an informal form of adoption between extended families practiced by Hawaiian royals and commoners alike. Kiliwehi and her sister Abigail Maheha were adopted under the Hawaiian tradition of hānai by the Princess Kekauʻōnohi, a granddaughter of Kamehameha I who served as Governor of Kauai.

She attended the Royal School in Honolulu, which was run by Rev. Edward G. Beckwith. Her classmates included the future monarchs Kalākaua and Liliuokalani, and Princess Victoria Kamāmalu. These royal classmates and her two elder sisters had attended the previous institution of the same name, a boarding school ran by American missionaries Amos Starr Cooke and Julliete Montague Cooke, and had been declared by King Kamehameha III as eligible for the Hawaiian throne.

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