We are online with “Letters to the Island”

A blog to surf and serve the history of the Pacific islanders

Due to my family-related passion for the Polynesian people I am writing a story about the childhood of Margaret Brander, who was born on December 31, 1856 on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia.

The blog hopefully will motivate the Islanders as well as friends and experts to contribute to this story, recalling this time and age of the second half of the 19th century in the South Pacific via letterstotheisland.net

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4 Responses to We are online with “Letters to the Island”

  1. Ian Leslie Brander says:

    hi , from Newcastle , New South Wales. I’m a relation of John Brander who was probably Margaret’s father ?! I was after information about the family / family contacts in Tahiti. My father as a boy in Australia was told by his father ( my grandfather ) who was born in the 1870′s that his uncle / great uncle had married a Tahitian Princess. At which he & his brothers laughed . But did in the 1980′s visit some of his relations in Tahiti with my mum. John Brander’s wife’s name was Princess Titaua Marama of Tahiti, Chiefess of Haapiti . Kind regards, ian brander.

    • margaret says:

      How interesting is that. I never knew what John Branders brothers were doing.
      I have all about John Brander since he landed in Tahiti and I was at his tomb in Tahiti, which is looked after by our family. I will send you a photograph. Lets follow this up!
      Funny enough I spend all my life being laughed at for the tahitian princess…
      Who did you visit in the 1980? John Branders house was still in Mahina… its now torn down.

  2. Ian Leslie Brander says:

    My name is Ian Brander, from Newcastle , New South Wales , Australia. and my email address is as follows :——-ian777@kooee.com.au

  3. Hallo liebe Kusine Margaret,  I’m delighted getting in touch
    with you thanks to mail from Klaus about the Karl von Schiller story.
    Enchanté d’avoir de tes nouvelles des îles du Pacifiques
    qui m’intéresse énormement,  précisément dans le cadre de  notre 3ième programme de radio.-
    Tu verras ci-après  de quoi il s’agit. Mais d”abord ceci:

    A vrai dire  nous recherchons présentement des personnes qui voudraient se joindre à CKCU LITERARY NEWS et ce, dans l’espace virtuel des médias électroniques, comme bénévole contributeur / contributrice, à titre de chroniqueur ou correspondant littéraire.  Il convient de préciser qu’aucun de nos correspondants n’est rémunéré pour sa contribution. Or, peut-être connais-tu quelqu’un qui aimerait toutefois  acquérirainsi  une bonne expérience semi-professionnelle dans le domaine du journalisme radiophonique littéraire. Car une station universitaire qui est largement écoutée peut sans doute servir de rampe de lancement, n’est-ce pas? Donc voici quelques points au sujet de notre programmation.

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