Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua, Roko Tui Dreketi

1847 - 1888  (41 years)

• Name	Timoci Tavanavanua
  Prefix	Ratu
  Suffix	Roko Tui Dreketi
  Birth	1847	Lakeba, Lau Island Group, Fiji
  Gender	Male
  Acceded	1874
  	Roko Tui Dreketi
  	Roko Tui Dreketi 1874/1888;
  _FSFTID	21TW-SZM
  _FSLINK	https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=21TW-SZM
  Death	1888
  Notes	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefa_Celua http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/12494312/family?cfpid=12586792915 (Research):Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua (by Adi Litia), born 1847, Minister for War and Police; Roko Tui Dreketi 1874/1888; married 1stly, Adi Tupouto'a, died 28th November 1918, daughter of Hon. Inoke Matafonuafotu Veikune (son of the Governor of Vava'u in Tonga), and his wife, Hon. Pauline Lupe, married 2ndly, Adi Kelera Rokovedro from the Batitobe sub-clan of the Vunivalu clan, and had issue. He died 1888 http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/states/fiji/vunivalu.html
  Person ID	I66106	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	17 May 2015

  
  

  Father	Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, Tui Viti,   b. Abt 1815, Lakeba, Lau Island Group, Fiji, Pacific Islands d. 1 Feb 1883, Bau, Tailevu, Fiji, Pacific Islands (Age ~ 68 years)
  Mother	Adi Litia Samanunu,   b. Abt 1815, Fiji, Pacific Islands d. Bef 1914, Fiji, Pacific Islands (Age ~ 98 years)
  Marriage	1833	Fiji, Pacific Islands   [1]
  Family ID	F104	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Adi Tupouto'a   d. 28 Nov 1918
  Children	1. Adi Seini Vakaoca   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Adi Teimumu Vuikaba   d. 1945   3. Adi Litia Cakobau,   b. 1876   d. 6 Dec 1952, Bau, Tailevu, Fiji, Pacific Islands (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F551619305	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Jan 2015

  
  

  Family 2	Adi Kelera Rokovedro   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F551619307	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jan 2015

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua Timoci is holding an iula drisia throwing club and wearing a cotton isulu with a white barkcloth waistsash and smoked barkcloth iwabale shoulder sash.
  		Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua 2nd son of Ratu Cakobau
  		Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua Roko Tui Dreketi Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua, second of three sons of Cakobau by Adi Litia, He wears a chiefly red-brown smoked barkcloth headscarf (i-sala kuvui) and wabale shoulder-sash, and a masi barkcloth cummerbund (i-oro), but his i-sulu skirt seems to be a tasselled Western cloth, perhaps a counterpane. Ratu Timoci and his manservant were the ones who introduced the measles to Fiji from NSW, starting (but surviviing) the epidemic that wiped out a fifth of the Fijian polulation
  		Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua
  		A chiefly group in front of Government House view showing a group, sitting in two rows in front of the verandah of Government House at Suva. All the men were Government 'Rokotui' (Roko = local officers in charge of a district, Tui = king or sovereign). All the men were high chiefs in their own right. 1-6 left to right, front row: 1. Not known; 2. Katonivere, Rokotui Machuata; 3. Not known, Rokotui Ra; 4. Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, Rokotui Tailevu (eldest son of Seru Cakobau); 5. Marica Toroka, Rokotui Lomaiviti; 6. Not known. 7-13 left to right, back row: 7. Not known; 8. Ratu Peni, Rokotui Naitasiri; 9. Not known; 10. Ratu Luke Nakulanikoro, Rokotui Nadroga; 11. Ratu Timoci, Rokotui Rewa (and, by Fijian title, Rokotui Dreketi); 12. Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua, Rokotui ? (son of Seru Cakobau); 13. Ro Matanitobua, Rokotui Namosi
  		Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua

  
  

• Sources

  [S284] Verbal records: Supplied by Adi Divono, Roko Tui Waimaro, (Adi Fulori's Ancestry: From Oral History recited to me by Roko Tui Waimaro, Adi Pataresia Vonokula (Adi Divono) and taken down by hand by me at her home in Nabukaluka, Waimoro, Fiji 1983).