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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1956Vol. XXVI, No.11

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[?] Link In Polynesia

IDELIGHT on the history of le well known Brander family, : Tahiti, is supplied by Mr. 5 R. Clark, of Waiau, Puta e, Auckland, NZ.

Clark began tracing back his 7 tree, and ascertained that eat-grandmother who married i Clark, at Elgin, Scotland, in was Emelia Brander; and she brother, John, who had gone e eastern part of the South c 100 years ago. article by W. H. Percival, of onga, in a NZ newspaper, said the Marsters family obtained Tston Atoll from a Mr. John ler, a merchant of Tahiti, a ime ago; and Mr. Clark is of n that this John Brander is his grandmother’s brother. An old r record (which actually goes to 1650), shows that a John er, of the South Pacific Islands, 3d Titau Salmon, and that daughter married a Herr ach. mart’s Encyclopaedia of Tahiti, hed 50 years ago, mentions orman Brander, who was born peete in 1864 and educated in nd and Paris; and Mr. Tati n, son of Mr. Tali Salmon, tarried Chieftainess Arutaimai.