# Teio

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**Teio**, also known as **Te'o**, **Mary**, and **Sore Mummy**, (died March 14, 1829) was a [Tahitian](/source/Tahitians) woman who settled on [Pitcairn Island](/source/Pitcairn_Islands) with the [*Bounty* mutineers](/source/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty). Alongside [Mauatua](/source/Mauatua) and [Teraura](/source/Teraura), she is one of the island's six original matriarchs.[1][2]

The Tahitian-born Teio's first connection to the *Bounty* crew was as the consort of [Thomas McIntosh](/source/Complement_of_HMS_Bounty), who brought her to [Tubuai](/source/Tubuai).[3][4] McIntosh was a loyalist and did not join the mutineers, remaining in Tahiti.[3] However, Teio sailed with the mutineers to Pitcairn in 1789, although it is unknown whether she went willingly or was brought by force.[3] She brought her daughter with a previous Tahitian partner, a 10-month-old known as Sully, Sarah, or Susannah by the mutineers, to the island, becoming the only woman in the party to arrive with a child.[3][4][5][6]

On Pitcairn, Teio partnered with [William McCoy](/source/William_McCoy_(mutineer)), with whom she had two children: Daniel, born in 1792, and Kate or Catherine, born in 1799.[3][7] McCoy died by suicide in 1798, shortly before their daughter's birth.[3][4] Teio remained on the island, and a little over a decade later she began a relationship with [John Adams](/source/John_Adams_(mutineer)), whose consort Vahineatua had died.[3][4][7][8] Teio and Adams, who were formally married by the visiting [Frederick William Beechey](/source/Frederick_William_Beechey) in 1825, had one son, [George Adams](/source/George_Adams_(magistrate)), in 1804.[3][4][9]

Teio grew blind later in life, and she died in 1829, less than two weeks after her husband.[3][10][11] Hers is one of very few marked graves on the island from this period.[12]

Teio's descendants contributed significantly to the population of Pitcairn: Sarah had eight children with Charles Christian, including [Charles Christian II](/source/Charles_Christian_II) and [Fletcher Christian II](/source/Fletcher_Christian_II); Daniel had nine children with Sarah Quintal, including [Matthew McCoy](/source/Matthew_McCoy_(magistrate)); Catherine had nine children with [Arthur Quintal I](/source/Arthur_Quintal_I), including [Arthur Quintal II](/source/Arthur_Quintal_II); and George had three children with Polly Young.[4]

## See also

- [Teraura](/source/Teraura)
- [Mauatua](/source/Mauatua)

## References

1. Albert, Donald Patrick (May 2021). ["Teehuteatuaonoa aka 'Jenny', the most traveled woman on the Bounty: Chronicling female agency and island movements with Google Earth"](https://islandstudiesjournal.org/files/ISJAlbertWomenBounty.pdf). *Island Studies Journal*. **16** (1): 190–208. [doi:10.24043/isj.153](https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.153). [ISSN 1715-2593](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1715-2593). [S2CID 234260181](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:234260181)

1. Mesenhöller, Peter & Stauffer, Annemarie (2016-11-14). [*Made in Oceania: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Social and Cultural Meanings and Presentation of Oceanic Tapa*](https://books.google.com/books?id=3wr5DAAAQBAJ). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-8772-4.

1. ["Pitcairn Island Encyclopedia: TEIO ("Te'o," "Mary")"](https://library.puc.edu/pitcairn/pitcairn/encyclopedia6.shtml). *Pacific Union College Pitcairn Islands Study Center*. Retrieved 2023-02-28.

1. ["Who Are the Pitcairners?"](https://library.puc.edu/pitcairn/pitcairn/Pitcairners/index.shtml). *Pacific Union College Pitcairn Islands Study Center*. Retrieved 2023-02-28.

1. Langdon, Robert (2000). ["'Dusky Damsels': Pitcairn Island's Neglected Matriarchs of the "Bounty" Saga"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/25169464). *The Journal of Pacific History*. **35** (1): 29–47. [doi:10.1080/713682826](https://doi.org/10.1080/713682826). [ISSN 0022-3344](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0022-3344). [JSTOR 25169464](https://www.jstor.org/stable/25169464). [PMID 18286752](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18286752). [S2CID 38078038](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:38078038)

1. Laycock, Donald C. (2012-06-25), ["The Status of Pitcairn-Norfolk: Creole, Dialect, or Cant?"](https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110860252.608/html), *Status and Function of Languages and Language Varieties*, De Gruyter, pp. 608–629, [doi:10.1515/9783110860252.608](https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110860252.608). ISBN 978-3-11-086025-2, retrieved 2023-02-28

1. Mühlhäusler, Peter (2020-10-12). [*Pitkern-Norf'k: The Language of Pitcairn Island and Norfolk Island*](https://books.google.com/books?id=lFk8EAAAQBAJ). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-1-5015-0143-2.

1. Gough, Barry M. (2017-05-15). [*To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey: The Journal of Lieutenant George Peard of HMS Blossom, 1825–1828*](https://books.google.com/books?id=qgckDwAAQBAJ). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-01002-9.

1. Nicolson, Robert B. & Davies, Brian F. (1997). [*The Pitcairners*](https://books.google.com/books?id=7P6HlYJwy0gC). University of Hawaiʹi Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1921-7.

1. ["History of Pitcairn Island"](https://library.puc.edu/pitcairn/pitcairn/history.shtml). *Pacific Union College Pitcairn Islands Study Center*. Retrieved 2023-02-28.

1. Ross, Alan Strode Campbell (1964). [*The Pitcairnese Language*](https://books.google.com/books?id=G_UkAQAAMAAJ). Oxford University Press.

1. Round, Sally (2016-08-25). ["Mutineers' pigtails and bones under scrutiny"](https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/311812/mutineers%27-pigtails-and-bones-under-scrutiny) (in en-nz). *[RNZ](/source/RNZ)*. Retrieved 2023-02-28.

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