PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The Vunivalu of Bau title, which belongs to the Tui Kaba clan
based on Bau Island, is generally considered to be the highest chiefly
title in Fiji, and the holder is the Paramount Chief of the Kubuna
Confederacy. Title holders
were...
- Ratu Banuve Baleivavalagi 1770/1803, married four
wives, 1stly, Adi Davila, sp, married 2ndly, Roko Lewasaki
(Rewa), married 3rdly, Adi Dabuli, married 4thly, Litia from Lakeba,
and
had issue. He
died
February 1803. (#1)
- Ratu Naulivou Ramatenikutu (by Roko Lewasaki) (qv)
- Ratu Tanoa Visawaqa (by Roko Lewasaki) (qv)
- Adi Davila (by Roko Lewasaki)
- Ratu Caucau (by Adi Dabuli), married Adi Vuniwaqa, and
had issue.
- Ratu Nayaqodamu
- Adi Titila Marama
- Adi Litia Vatea, born 1824, married Ratu Namosimalua,
died 1852. She
died
1855.
- Adi Tatila
- Ratu Ramudra (by Adi Dabuli), married Adi Kubunawere, and
had issue.
- Adi Toro
- Ratu Kalevu Vosalevu
- Adi Davila
- Ratu Vuibureta (by Litia), married Adi Mere Veisaca, and
had issue.
- Ratu Kamasese Mara Tuimacilai Kapaiwai, born 1815/1820,
married Adi
Loaloakubou
(see below), and had issue. He died 8th June 1859.
- Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, born 1859, Roko Tui Ra,
Roko
Tui Tailevu, married
1886, Adi Litiana Maopa and had issue. He died December 1920.
- Adi Mere Tuisalala, married Friedrich Wilhelm
Hennings, and had issue.
- Adi Senirewa, married Ratu Lote Cagawalu and had issue.
- Adai Salanieta, married Ratu Joni
Colata, brother of the
Roko Tui Ra, and had issue.
- Ratu Naulivou Ramatenikutu 1803/1829, married
1stly, Adi Talatoka, daughter of Ratu Yavalu, 4th Tui
Cakau, (she married 2ndly, Ratu
Tanoa
Visawaqa, see below), married 2ndly, Adi
Kawanavere
of the Vusaradave of Bau, and had issue. He died 1829. (#1)
- Ratu Ravulo (by Adi Talatoka)
- Adi Liku Qoliwasawasa (by Adi
Kawanavere), married Ratu Banuve, Roko Tui
Dreketi Rewa,
died June 1845, and had issue. She died after 1845.
- Ro Adi Saunayalewa, married Ro Peceli Musudreka,
Vunivalu of Rewa, and had
issue, three children. (#2)
- Ro Adi Kelerayani Vilikia, married Ro Taliali,
Roko Tui Naduguca, Chief of the District of
Dreketi in Rewa and Kaso Vanua or traditional advisor to the
Roko Tui Dreketi, and had issue.
- Ratu Jioji Ratulo, Roko Tui Naduguca
in succession to his father, married Ro Adi Tutolu of Nabuli in
Dreketi, Rewa, and had issue.
- Ratu Keni, Roko Tui
Naduguca in succession to his father, married Lenikali of Waivou,
Rewa.
- Ro Adi Mereseini Tokalaulal, married Ratu
Peni Rokamarusi, the Turaga Korodrau of Vuci in Tokatoka
District, and himself a direct descendant of the Valelevu clan of
Burebasaga, which was the yavutu and traditional seat of the
Roko Tui Dreketi before they moved to Rewa.
- Ratu Epeli Vakacakacakara
- Ratu Joni Mataitini, born 1867, married 1898,
Adi Florie, died 1905, daughter of Ratu Vuniani Vukinamualevu, Roko
Tui Ba, and had issue.
- Ratu Tanoa Visawaqa, Vunivalu of Bau 1829/1852,
married 9 wives
(6 of whom were strangled to death in December 1852), 1stly, Adi
Talatoka, daughter of Ratu Yavalu, 4th Tui
Cakau, (married 1stly, Ratu Naulivou Ramatenikutu, see above),
married 2ndly, Adi Savusavu, married 3rdly, Adi Qereitoka from Rewa,
married 4thly, Adi Vulase from Vuda, married 5thly, Adi Manakilagi from
Koro, married 6thly, Adi Reki, married 7thly, an unknown lady, married
8thly, Vulaono, married 9thly, Vereivalu of Gau, and had issue, twelve
children. He died 8th December 1852. (#1)
- Ratu Epenisa Seru Cakobau [King Cakobau], 1st Tui
Viti (King of
Fiji)
1871/1874,
6th Vunivalu of Bau 1852/1883, President of the General Assembly,
Confederacy
of Independent Kingdoms of Viti 1865/1867, 1st Tui Bau 1867/1869, born
1815 in Lakeba, converted to Christianity in 1854, taking the name of
Epenisa
(Ebenezer); a Confederacy of Independent
Kingdoms of Viti was established in 1865, with him as Chairman of the
General Assembly, in 1869 the confederacy split into
the Kingdom of Bau and the Confederation of Lau, with Cakobau assuming
kingship of the former, succeeded in creating a united Fijian kingdom
in 1871, and established
Levuka as his capital, he ceded the Fijian islands to Britain in
1874, married 1stly, Adi Litia Samanunu, daughter of the Roko Tui
Bau,
married 2ndly, Adi Salote Qalirea Kaunilotuna, sister of the first
wife,
and had issue. He died February 1883.
- Adi Arieta Kuila (by Adi Litia), born 1839 in Bau,
married Ratu Timoci
Vakaruru, Qaranivalu
of
Naitasiri, born 1832 in Navuso, died 1872, and had issue. She died
1887.
- Ratu Peni Tanoa, born 1859 in Navuso.
- Ratu Epenisa Ravulo, married (his cousin) (sep'd.), Adi
Litia Cakobau, daughter of Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua, and his wife, Adi
Tupoutoa.
- Ratu Epeli Nailatikau (by Adi Litia), (qv)
- Adi Asenaca Kakua Vuikaba (by Adi Litia), married Ratu
Tevita
Uluilakeba, Tui
Nayau, died 1876 and had issue.
- Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua (by Adi Litia), born 1847,
married 1stly, Adi
Tupoutoa,
married 2ndly, Adi Kelera Rokovedro, and had issue. He died 1888.
- Adi Litia Cakobau (by Adi
Tupoutoa), born 1876, married Ratu Peni Tanoa,
but separated
shortly
thereafter, and had issue by HM King George II of Tonga. She died 6th
December
1952 in Bau.
- Ratu Edward Tuivanuavou Tungi
Cakobau,
born 21st December
1908, Roko Tui Tailevua 1955/-, Deputy Prime Minister of Fiji 1970/-,
commanded the Fijian Battalion in World War II, married
Adi Vasemaca Tuiburelevu, died March 2001, buried 23rd March at
Nausori,
and had issue, he had further issue by Laisa Kaukiono. He died 25th
June
1973.
- Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, Na Turaga Mai
Naisogolaca, born 5th
July
1941 in Levuka, Deputy
Prime Minister, Speaker of the House of Representatives 2001/-,
Chairman of the Parliamentary Appropriations Committee and of the House
Committee, educated at Bau District School, Draiba Fijian School,
Levuka Public School and Queen Victoria School, entered military
service and rose through the ranks to Brigadier-General, and was the
Commander of the Royal Fiji Military Forces. After the first coup, he
retired from the Army and joined the diplomatic service, he was
appointed High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and accredited as
Fiji's Ambassador to Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Israel and the Holy See,
later appointed as Fiji's Roving Ambassador and High Commissioner to
the member states of the South Pacific Forum, before taking up a post
as Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Trade in 1999.
After the second coup, he became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for
Fijian Affairs in the interim Cabinet, Speaker of the House of
Representatives 2001/-, appointed the UNAIDS Special
Representative for the Pacific, married 1981, Adi Koila Mara, born
1953, Member of Parliament, Cabinet Minister and Senator, daughter of
Sir
Kamisese
Mara, and has issue.
- Ratu Kamisese Vuna Nailatikau
- Adi Litia Cakobau Nailatikau
- Ratu Tu'uakitau George Cokanauto,
born 5th June 1945, appoibted on 19th July 2000 as Minister for Local
Government, Housing and the Environment in the Cabinet of Interim
Prime Minister Qarase, Director of the Native Land Trust Board, married
1stly Taraivosa, married 2ndly, Adi
Sainimili
Rokolewasau Uluilakeba, (married 1stly, 28th January 1970, Ratu Edward
Kikau Tuivanuavou), and has issue, as well as further issue by Rebekah
Ward.
- Adi Litia Vuikaba Tuiburelevu
(by
Rebekah), born 16th November
1994.
- Ratu Keni Vuiyasawa
- Ratu Viliame Foukimoana
Dreunimisimisi (by Laisa), born 7th
June 1937 in Mualevu, married Akanisi Vunitiko, and has issue, 2 sons
and
3 daughters.
-
Adi Tupoutu'a Dreunimisimisi, born 1970.
- Ratu Enele Ma'afu'otu'itonga
-
Adi Mitimiti Dreunimisimisi, born 1972.
-
Adi Lusiana Dreunimisimisi, born 1974.
-
Ratu Edward Tuivanuavou Tungi Tevita
'Unga Cakobau
- Adi Teimumu Vuikaba (by Adi
Tupoutoa), married 1903, Ratu Lutunauga
Bativuaka Tuisawau, Roko
Tui Dreketi, and had issue. She died 1945.
- Ratu Nailatikau Cakobau (by Adi
Tupoutoa), died 1892.
- Ratu Eparama Mateilevuka (by Adi
Tupoutoa), married and had issue.
- Ratu Kitione Kida
- Ratu Jone Ragogo
- Adi Lavenia Motea
- Adi Tupou Cakobau (by Adi
Tupoutoa)
- Adi Finau Cakobau (by Adi
Tupoutoa)
- Adi Seini Vakaoca (by Adi
Tupoutoa), married Ratu Ilaijia Toroca, and had
issue.
- Ratu Ilaitia Matanimeke (by Adi Kelera),
married and had
issue.
- Adi Kakua
- Ratu Konile Rabici
- Ratu Josefa Tabakaucoro
- Ratu Josefa Celua (by Adi Litia), married Adi Mere
Kulabui
and had issue.
He
died 1886.
- Ratu Epeli Popi Seniloli, born 1883, Roko Tui
Tailevu
ca1915/-, married
Adi Torika Kainona of Cakaudrove, and had issue. He died 13th October
1936.
- Ratu Tevita Naulivou, born 30th November 1906,
married (a), Kelera
Uluibatiki,
married (b), Seini Sauvou and had issue. He died 1984.
- Ratu Eliki Liceni Tikoidraubuta (by Kelera), born
1927, Roko Tui,
married
and had issue, 3 sons and 3 daughters.
- Ratu George Kadavulevu Naulivou, born 18th November
1948 in Nanukuloa,
married Sereana Tinaidaniva Berwick.
- Adi Cakaunivalu (Cockburn)
- Adi Ane Banuve
- Adi Vasemaca Loatuicana
- Ratu Sir George Kadavulevu Cakobau (qv)
- Adi Tirisiani Daucakacaka
- Ratu Sukuna Vana (by Adi Salote)
- Ratu Viliame Bulu (by Adi Salote)
- Adi Lusiana Qolikoro (by Adi Salote)
- Ratu Epeli Nailatikau 1883/1901, born 1842, Roko
Tui Tailevu,
never
installed as Vunivalu of Bau, but posthumously recognized as such,
married 1stly, Adi Kelera (Na Baubau), married 2ndly, Adi Nanise,
married 3rdly, Adi Koila, and had issue. He died 1901.
- Ratu F. L. Temesia (by Adi Kelera)
- Ratu Etuate Wainiu (by Adi Kelera)
- Ratu Penaia Kadavulevu (by Adi Nanise) (qv)
- Ratu Tuisavura
- Adi Lagilagi
- Adi Ateca Moceiwaqa, married Ratu Alifereti Finau, Tui Nayau, died
April
1934, and had issue.
- Ratu Penaia Kadavulevu 1901/1914, Roko Tui
Tailevu
-/1912,
married
Adi Funaki, daughter of Ratu Sowani, and his wife, Adi Kakua (daughter
of Ratu Kubuanavua, see above), and had issue. He died 1914.
- Adi Litia Tavanavanua, born 5th September 1900 in Navuso,
married 1920,
Ratu Epeli Gavidi Ganilau, and had issue (see Tui
Cakau). She died 1983/1985.
- Ratu Sir George Kadavulevu Cakobau 1957/1989,
K.St.J.
[1973], G.C.M.G.
[cr.1973],
G.C.V.O. [cr.1977], O.B.E. [cr.1953], Royal Victorian Chain [1982], Vunivalu
of Bau 1957/1989, Tui Levuka, 2nd Governor-General of Fiji
1973/1983,
born 6th
November 1912,
educated
at Queen Victoria School, Fiji, Newington College, Australia and
Wanganui
Technical College, NZ. Served during WWII 1939/45, Captain, Fiji
Military
Forces. Member of the Council of Chiefs 1938/1972; Member of the
Legislative
Council 1951/1970; Minister for Fijian Affairs and Local Government
1970/1971;
Minister without Portfolio 1971/1972, retired from office in 1983,
married 1stly, 1937, Adi Veniana
Gavoka, Radini Levuka,
married 2ndly, 1956, Lady Lelea Seruwaia Balekiwai, and had issue. He
died
25th November 1989.
- Adi Samanunu Cakobau-Talakuli (by 1st marriage), born
1940, High Chief
of Tailevu, High Commissioner to Malaysia, Minister for Fijian Affairs
and Regional Development 1994/95, Chairperson of the Great Council of
Chiefs
1994/95.
- Adi Litia Cakobau (by 1st marriage)
- Ratu George Cakobau (by 1st marriage), a Fijian Chief,
and Senator since 2001, prominent candidate for the position of
Vunivalu of Bau.
- Adi Litia Kaunilotuma Cakobau (by 2nd marriage)
- Ratu Epenisa Cakobau (by 2nd marriage), President of the
Matanitu Vanua
Conservative Alliance Party of Fiji.
- Ratu Josefa Celua Cakobau (by 2nd marriage)
- Ratu Tanoa Visawaqa Cakobau (by 2nd marriage), born 12th
May 1969 in
Suva, President of the Conservative Alliance.
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