ROKO TUI DREKETI (Title)

  
TITLE:  Roko Tui Dreketi RELIGION: 
STATE:   Fiji (Rewa) CAPITAL: 
   
PRESENT TITLE HOLDER:  Ro Adi Teimumu Vuikaba Kepa (née Tuisawau), since 2004.
A former students' co-ordinator at the University of the South Pacific and principal of Corpus Christi College, has served in the Fijian Cabinet in 2000, having joined the interim government of Prime Minister Qarase as Minister for Women, Culture, and Social Welfare; appointed Minister for Education in 2001/-, Chairperson of the Rewa Provincial Council in 2005 (May to August); elected to the executive board of UNESCO in October 2005, married Sailosi Kepa of Ono-i-Lau, former High Commissioner to London, Minister of Justice and Attorney General 1988/1992), later a High Court judge, Ombudsman, and first Chairman of Fiji's Human Rights Commission, and has issue, 2 sons and 2 daughters.
  • Filipe Kepa
  • Sailosi Kepa
  • Asenaca Kepa
  • Tupoutu'a Kepa
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Title holders were...
  • Roko Tabaivalu 1825/1839, married and had issue. He died 1839 or c1822.
    • Koroitamana (qv)
    • Macanavai (qv)
    • Vidovi, died 1842 in New York.
    • Cokanauto (qv)
    • Qaraniqio (qv)
    • Banuve (qv)
  • Koroitamana 1839, died 1839.
  • Bativuaka 1839, died 1839.
  • Macanavai 1839, full brother of Cokanauto, died 1839 or 1827.
  • Cokanauto 1839/1841 and 1845/1851 or 1845/1852, born c1810, married and had issue. He died 1851.
    • B. V. Rabici (qv)
  • Qaraniqio 1839/1840 and 1851/1855, died 26th January 1855
  • Banuve 1839/1845, full brother of Qaraniqio, married Qoliwasawasa, daughter of Naulivou and Kawanavere. He died December 1845.
  • B. V. Rabici 1855/1874 
  • Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua, born 1847 in Lakeba, 2nd son of King Cakobau (see Vuinvalu title), Roko Tui Rewa (and, by Fijian title, Roko Tui Dreketi); married and had issue. He died 1888.
    • Adi Teimumu Vuikaba, married 1903, Ratu Lutunauga Bativuaka Tuisawau, and had issue (see below).
  • ....
  • Ratu Lutunauga Bativuaka Tuisawau, married 1903, Adi Teimumu Vuikaba, died 1945, and had issue.
    • Ratu George Cokanauto Tuisawau (qv)
  • Ratu George Cokanauto Tuisawau 1936/- , born c1904, Roko Tui Dreketi and Paramount Chief of Burebasaga and Rewa, married 1stly, Adi Asenaca Vosailagi Makutu of the Ka Levu household of Nadroga, and had issue, as well as further issue by Flora Black of the Tui Kanacea household of Vuna in Taveuni, and Miliakere Lewavaro from the Yavusa Nakovacake of Namotomoto Village in Nadi.
    • Ro Adi Lalabalavu Litia Katoafutoga Tuisawau (by Adi Asenaca) (qv)
    • Ro Adi Teimumu Vuikaba Tuisawau (by Adi Asenaca) (qv)
    • Ratu Aporosa Rageci Tuisawau (by Flora), born 20th September 1924, married 1959, Maraia Sau (Tuisawau) of Vutia in Rewa, and has issue.
      • Ro Adi Asela Flora Tuisawau, born 11th January 1960
      • Ratu George Cokanauto Tuisawau, born 6th May 1962
      • Ro Adi Alumeci Susu Tuisawau, born 4th April 1964
      • Ratu Mosese Varasikete Tuisawau, born 18th May 1966, died 1993.
      • Ro Adi Vasemaca Laisa Lewatubekoro Tuisawau, born 30th March 1977
    • Ro Mosese Varasikete Tuisawau (by Miliakere), born 26th March 1926, married Leba Losana (Tuisawau), and had issue. He died 24th November 2000 in Lautoka.
      • Ro Lutunauga Bativuaka Tuisawau, born 1960. 
      • Ro Miliakere Lewavaro Tuisawau, born 1962. 
      • Ro Filipe Qaraniqio Tuisawau, born 1964.
      • Ro Alipate Komaiwai Tuisawau, born 1965. 
      • Ro Asela Lalaciwa Tuisawau, born 1967.
  • Ro Adi Lalabalavu Litia Katoafutoga Tuisawau [Lady Adi Mara] -/2004, born 3rd January 1931, Roko Tui Dreketi and Paramount Chief of Burebasaga and Rewa, married 22nd September 1950, Ratu Sir Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilai Mara, 3rd Tui Lau and Tui Nayau, and had issue. She died 20th July 2004.
  • Ro Adi Teimumu Vuikaba Tuisawau (see above)
 
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