Titaua Salmon

[1] She was born November 3, 1842, in Papetoai, Moorea, in the Society Islands, the daughter of Alexander Salmon and Princess Arrioehau.

[2][3] Growing up as Chiefess of Haapiti, she met the author Robert Louis Stevenson and the painter Constance Gordon-Cumming when they visited the island.

[1] At the age of 14, in July 1859, she married Scottish merchant John Brander.

[4] Following Brander's death in 1877,[5][6] she married her second husband, George Darsie, in Tahiti in 1878.

[1] She died on 25 September 1898 in Anstruther,[10] after giving birth to her fifteenth child, who was known as Princess Paloma.