Predecessors and Short History:
Title Holders
were...
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- Ratu Vakamino, married and had issue. He died after
1828.
- Ratu Yavala, 4th Tui Cakau c1829/1845, married Adi
Levulevu of Bau,
and
had issue. He died 1845.
- Ratu Tui'ila'ila Lalabalavu Baleinamatau (qv)
- Ratu Rabici, died 1839.
- Adi Talatoka, married 1stly, Ratu Naulivou, died 1829,
Vunuvalu of Bau, married 2ndly, Ratu Tanoa
Visawaqa, Vunuvalu of Bau, and had issue
by both husbands.
- Ratu Ralulu, 5th Tui Cakau in 1845, a cousin of his
predecessor.
- Ratu Tui'ila'ila Lalabalavu Baleinamatau, 6th Tui
Cakau 1845/1854, installed
mid 1853,
married
and had issue. He died 1854.
- Ratu Goleanavanua (qv)
- Ratu Vakalolo (qv)
- Ratu Raivalita (qv)
- Ratu Daunivavanua, had issue,
- Ratu Isoa Gavidi, had issue.
- Ratu Epeli Gavidi Ganilau, born 1890, married 1stly
Adi Nunia Vaniceva,
2ndly 1920 Adi Litia Tavanavanua, born 5th September 1900, died
1983/1985, daughter of Ratu Penaia Kadavulevu, Roko
Tui Tailevu, and his wife, Adi Funaki,
and had issue. He died 1932.
- Ratu Sir Penaia Kantabatu Ganilau (by Adi
Nunia)(see
below)
- Ratu Rabici Ganilau (by Adi Litia), died aged 16
years.
- Adi Torika Kainona, married Ratu Epeli Popi Seniloli,
Roko Tui Tailevu,
and had issue.
- Adi Gativi, married 1837, Ratu Taliai, Tui Nayau.
- Ratu Vakalolo 1854, died 1854.
- Ratu Raivalita 1854/1862
- Ratu Goleanavanua, Tui Cakau 1862/1879, Paramount
Chief of
Cakaudrove,
1st Chieftain Supreme of the Confederation of Lau 1867/1869, married
and
had issue.
- Ratu Inoke Qeramoto Lesuma, born 1854, baptised in the
Catholic Church with the name of Polio, married Mereoni of Mataqali
Welitoa, Yavusa Cakaudrove, and had issue, one son. He died in his
sleep on 24th June 1950 in Suva and was buried in the Old Suva
cemetary.
- Ratu Inoke Ikanitabu Lesuma, born 13th December 1919,
married Adi Taraivosa Ulu, born 27th February 1927, and had issue. He
died 24th July 2004 in Taveuni Hospital and was buried in Taveuni.
- Ratu Inoke Qeramoto Lesuma
- Adi Salaseini Kavu Lesuma Fong
- Ratu Peni Sokia Lesuma
- Ratu Misaele Dakuiyau Lesuma
- Adi Veitinia Lua Lesuma Chung
- Adi Litiana Vuloko Waqaninaweni Lesuma
- Ratu Jone Ikanitabu Lesuma
- Ratu Josefa Lalabalavu (qv)
- Ratu Joni Antonio Rabici (qv)
- Ratu Josefa Lalabalavu , Tui Cakau 1879/1905, born
1860,
married
1880, Adi Furie (Princess of Tonga) and had issue. He died 1905.
- Ratu Glanville Wellington Lalabalavu (qv)
- Ratu Joni Antonio Rabici, Tui Cakau 1905/1925,
baptised in the Catholic Church with the name of Antonio. He died
1925.
- Ratu Glanville Wellington Lalabalavu, Tui Cakau
1925/1946,
married
Adi Susu, she died 5th April 1961 in Suva, and had issue. He died 1946.
- Ratu Josefa Ratavo Lalabalavu (qv)
- Ratu Josefa Ratavo Lalabalavu, Tui Cakau -/1988,
married
and had issue.
- Ratu Glanville Lalabalavu (qv)
- Ratu Josefa Antonio Rabici Lalabalavu (see above)
- Ratu Sir Penaia Kantabatu Ganilau, Tui Cakau
1988/1993, D.S.O. [cr.1956], O.B.E. [cr.1960], C.M.G. [cr.1968], C.V.O.
[cr.1970], K.B.E.
[cr.1974], K.C.V.O. [cr.1982], G.C.M.G.
[cr.1983], and E.D. (Hon.) [cr.1974], 3rd Governor General of
Fiji 1983/1987, 1st President of Fiji 1987/1993, born 28th July 1918 at
Taveuni, educated at Provincial School, Northern, Queen Victoria
Memorial
School and Wadham College, Oxford University 1946. Joined the Colonial
Administration Service in 1947; District Officer 1948/53; Service with
the Fiji Military Forces 1953/56 retaining rank of Temp. Lt.-Col. 1956,
Roko Tui Cakaudrove 1956/-, Hon. Colonel 2nd Battalion (Territorial)
FIR 1973; Deputy Secretary for
Fijian Affairs 1961; Minister for Fijian Affairs and Local Government
1965/1970;
Minister for Home Affairs, Lands and Mineral Resources 1970/1972;
Minister
for
Communications, Works and Tourism 1972/1973; Deputy Prime Minister
1973/1983;
Minister for Home Affairs 1975/1983 and Fijian Affairs and Rural
Development
1977/1983; Member of the House of Representatives , Council of
Ministers
and Legislative Council; Chairman of Fijian Affairs Board, Fijian
Development
Fund Board, Native Land Trust Board, Great Council of Chiefs; interests
include Rugby Football (rep 1938/39), Member of the Defence Club
(Fiji),
married 1stly 8th March 1949, Adi Laisa Delaisomosomo Yavaca, married
2ndly,
1975, Adi Lady Asilina Davila and had issue. He died 15th December 1993
in Washington, USA, buried at Taveuni, Fiji.
- Adi Mei Kanona Ganilau, married Mr. Gauna and has issue.
- Salote Daugunu (née
Gauna).
- Isoa Gauna
- Mala Gauna
- Brig.-Gen. (retd.) Ratu Epeli Gavidi Ganilau, (by 1st
wife), born 10th
October 1951 in Savusavu, educated at Wanganui Collegiate School, New
Zealand, from 1965; graduated from the University of the South Pacific
and from the Royal Military Academy, in Sandhurst, UK; and the Royal
New Zealand Air Force Staff College; enlisted with the Royal Fiji
Military Forces in June 1972, later promoted to the rank of
captain, appointed Army Chief of Staff in 1987, appointed Commander of
the Military in 1991, retired
in 1998 with the rank of Brigadier General; helped to found the
Christian
Democratic Party in 1999, Chairman of the Bose Levu Vakaturaga
(Great
Council of Chiefs) 2001/2004, formed the National Alliance Party of
Fiji in 2005, married Adi Ateca Mara of the Tui
Nayau family, and has issue.
- Ratu Edward Tuivanuavou Ganilau
- Adi Koila Ganilau [Adi Koila Ganilau-McBride], married
Tim McBride, and
has issue, 2 sons.
- Adi Tuikilakila Ganilau
- Ratu Gavidi Ganilau
- Ratu Sukuna Ganilau, married to Elenoa from Lomaiviti,
and has issue.
- Leonard Ganilau, has issue with his partner, Sonya
Gardiner.
- Epeli Ganilau
- Maca Ganilau
- Adi Sivokidaveta Ganilau, has issue.
- Laisa Ganilau
- Gail Fugawai Ganilau
- Ratu Jone Ganilau
- Ratu Fugawai Ganilau
- Ratu Rabici Ganilau, married to Bernadette Rounds, they
have adopted
the
daughter of Laisa Ganilau (see above).
- Ratu Tomasi Korovakaturaga (by Lokoloko Dimuri), born 9th
April 1947,
married
and has issue, 2 sons and 1 daughter.
- Ratu Glanville Lalabalavu, Tui Cakau 1993/1999,
Paramount Chief
of Cakaudrove, born 1929, married and had issue. He died 29th October
1999
in Suva, buried 6th November at Somosomo, Taveuni.
- Ratu Naiqama Tawake Lalabalavu (see above)
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