Fletcher Christian
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Fletcher Christian was an English sailor who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, during which he seized command of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty from Lieutenant William Bligh.
Fletcher Christian's house
Postage stamp, UK issue for Pitcairn Islands (1940) showing King George VI and an artist's interpretation of Fletcher Christian
A view of Pitcairn's Island, South Seas, 1814, by J. Shillibeer
Fletcher Christian's son Thursday October Christian in 1814 at the age of 24, by J. Shillibeer
Thursday October Christian I
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Thursday October Christian was the first son of Fletcher Christian and his Tahitian wife Mauatua. He was the first child born on the Pitcairn Islands after the mutineers took refuge on the island. Bor
Fletcher Christian
…was variously said to have died of natural causes, committed suicide, become insane or been murdered. Christian was survived by Maimiti and his son, Thursday October Christian (born 1790). Besides Thursday October, Fletcher Christian also had a younger son named Charles Christian (born 1792) and a daughter Mary Ann Christian…
August 1849 Edward Gennys Fanshawe sketch of Susan Young, the only surviving Tahitian woman on Pitcairn's Island
Thursday October Christian II 1820–1911