Marriage
In 1838 Pitcairn Island became a British colony and, the following year, Mary Young, who was nicknamed "Polly", after her father's sister, married, at age 14, Thursday October Christian II (1820–1911), the grandson of mutiny leader Fletcher Christian (1764–1793), and bore 17 children between 1840 and 1868. Her husband's father, Thursday October Christian I (1790–1831), so named to commemorate the day of his birth, was the first of three children born to Fletcher Christian and his Tahitian wife Mauatua (c.1762–1841), and the first child that came into the world on Pitcairn Island following the arrival of the Bounty. Thursday October I, who was three when his father was killed, married Teraura (c.1775–1850) in 1805, upon reaching his fifteenth birthday, and they became the parents of seven children: Joseph John (1806–1831), Charles (1808–1831), Mary (1810–1852), Polly (1814–1831), Arthur (1815–no date of death indicated), Peggy (1815–1884) and, finally, Thursday October II, who lived a decade into the 20th century, dying seven months past his 90th birthday.
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“What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man’s fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?—as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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