Taio

Consort of William McCoy

She was known by several names:

• MARY - English: reference unknown, likely named by McCoy
• TAIO - friend
• TEIO - Probably Taio, as pronounced by McCoy's accent
• SORE MUMMY - English: perhaps a reference to pregnancy or childbirth

She was McCoy's woman in Tahiti, and when the party arrived on Pitcairn. After his death, she moved in with Adams, and lived many years with him, she was partially blind and ailing when Beechey married her officially to Adams, at his request, in 1825.