Mareva

Consort of Manarii, Teimua, and Niau

She was known also as:

• MALEWA - Derivation/Source unknown.
• MOETUA - The name she was given in Nordhoff & Hall's "Mutiny on the Bounty" novel.

It has been suggested that Mareva was kidnapped by the mutineers and their male associates close to the time they were leaving Tahiti, although there is no convincing proof of this. On Pitcairn, she was shared as consort to the three Tahitians, Manarii, Teimua, and Niau.

After the Tahitian men had been killed, Mareva and Tinafanaea moved into the household of Vahineatua and John Adams. She died sometime between 1808 (the visit of the Topaz) and 1814 (the visit of the Tagus). She had no children.