Kaiwi Lyman – “Den of Thieves” Los Angeles Premiere – Arrivals – Regal LA LIVE Stadium 14, 1000 W Olympic Boulevard – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Photo Credit: Guillermo Proano / PR Photos
Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii
Date of Birth: May 13, 1983
Ethnicity: Irish, English, French-Canadian, Scottish, Dutch, 1/32 Chinese, 1/32 Native Hawaiian
Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau is an American actor. He is the son of Marion Lyman-Mersereau (Marion W. Lyman), a poet and navigator, and Arthur Mersereau.
Kaiwi’s father, who is from Massachusetts, is of Irish, French-Canadian, Scottish, Dutch, and likely English, ancestry. His mother, who is from Hawaii, is of English, Irish, 1/16th Chinese, and 1/16th Native Hawaiian, descent.
Kaiwi’s paternal grandfather was Arthur Mersereau (the son of Miles Alexander Mersereau and Margaret Lucinda “Maggie” McRae). Miles was born in Canada, the son of Richard Mersereau and Sarah Dudley. Margaret was also born in Canada, the daughter of John McRae and Hannah Weaver.
Kaiwi’s paternal grandmother was Mary O’Connor. Mary’s parents were Canadian.
Kaiwi’s maternal grandfather was David “Bel” Belden Lyman (the son of David Belden Kua’ana Lyman and Charlotte Armstrong). Kaiwi’s great-grandfather David’s father, Rufus Anderson Lyman, was a lawyer and politician who founded the Paʻauhau Sugar Plantation Company. Rufus was born in Hawaii, to David Belden Lyman, a missionary to Hawaii, who was born in Connecticut, and Sarah Joiner, who was born in Vermont.
David’s mother, Kaiwi’s great-great-grandmother, was born as Hualani Ahung, but went under the anglicized name Rebecca Brickwood, after her father had died when she was only one year old and she was adopted by her mother’s second husband, Postmaster General Arthur Peter Brickwood, who was from Cornwall, England. Rebecca was born in Hawaii, to Chun Ahung, a Chinese merchant from Macau, who co-founded Honolulu’s Hungtai Co., and Louisa/Luika Nahili “Chu Chu” Neddles Gilman. Kaiwi’s great-great-great-grandmother Louisa was of Native Hawaiian descent, and was the biological daughter of Kaniliaulaninui Nahili and Kamoku; she was adopted by John Anthony Needles “Chu Chu” Gilman, a Cherokee Native American, and Louisa Pi’ilani Po’Okui, who was Native Hawaiian.
Kaiwi’s great-grandmother Charlotte was born in Canada, to Irish parents, Robert Armstrong and Jane Mooney.
Kaiwi’s maternal grandmother was Marion P. Webster (the daughter of Ernest Charles Webster and Marion Rawling Mix). Kaiwi’s grandmother Marion was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to parents from Connecticut. Ernest was the son of Wilbur F. Webster and Jennie A. Wooster. Marion was the daughter of Arthur Hendrick Mix and Emelia Louisa Rawling, whose parents were English.
Sources: Kaiwi’s paternal grandfather, Arthur Mersereau, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Arthur on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Kaiwi’s maternal grandmother, Marion P. Webster, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Kaiwi’s great-grandmother, Margaret Lucinda “Maggie” McRae, on the 1881 Canada Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Kaiwi’s great-grandmother, Marion Rawling Mix, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Kaiwi’s maternal grandmother, Marion P. Webster – http://archives.starbulletin.com
Genealogy of Kaiwi’s maternal grandfather, David “Bel” Belden Lyman – https://www.ancestry.com.au
Genealogies of Kaiwi’s great-grandfather, David Belden Kua’ana Lyman (through his own brother, Albert Kuali’i Brickwood Lyman) – https://www.geni.com
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