Editing Likelike (section)

== Early life and family ==
Likelike was born on January 13, 1851, in [[Honolulu]] on the island of [[Oahu|Oʻahu]], to [[Keohokālole|Analea Keohokālole]] and [[Kapaʻakea|Caesar Kapaʻakea]].{{sfn|Kam|2017|pages=121–126}} Her full name was Miriam Likelike Kekāuluohi Keahelapalapa Kapili.{{sfn|Forbes|2003|page=235}} Two of her namesakes were [[Likelike (wife of Kalanimoku)|Likelike]] (an earlier Hawaiian chiefess and wife of [[Kalanimoku]]) and [[Kekāuluohi|Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi]], [[Kuhina Nui]] (premier) and the mother of King [[Lunalilo]] (r. 1873–74).{{sfn|Kapiikauinamoku|1955}}{{sfn|Kam|2017|pages=8, 50–51}}

Her parents were political advisors to King [[Kamehameha III]] (r. 1825–54) and later to his successor, [[Kamehameha IV]] (r. 1855–64). Likelike's mother was the daughter of [[ʻAikanaka (father of Keohokālole)|ʻAikanaka]] and Kamaʻeokalani, and her father was the son of [[Kamanawa II]] (half-brother of ʻAikanaka) and [[Kamokuiki]]. Their family belonged to the [[aliʻi]] class of Hawaiian nobility and were [[Lineal descendant#Collateral descendant|collateral relatives]] of the reigning [[House of Kamehameha]], descended from the 18th-century ''aliʻi nui'' (supreme monarch) [[Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku]]. Likelike was descended from [[Keawe-a-Heulu|Keaweaheulu]] and [[Kameʻeiamoku]], two of the five royal counselors of [[Kamehameha I]] (r. 1782–1819) during his conquest of the [[Hawaiian Kingdom]]. Kameʻeiamoku, her parents' grandfather, was depicted with his royal twin [[Kamanawa]] on the Hawaiian coat of arms.<ref>{{harvnb|Liliuokalani|1898|pages=1–2, 104–105, 399–409}}; {{harvnb|Pratt|1920|pages=34–36}}; {{harvnb|Allen|1982|pp=33–36}}; {{harvnb|Haley|2014|page=96}}; {{harvnb|Gregg|1982|pages=316–317, 528, 571, 581}}</ref>

The youngest daughter and [[wikt:penultimate|penultimate]] child of a large family, her biological siblings included [[James Kaliokalani]], [[Kalākaua|David Kalākaua]], [[Liliʻuokalani]], [[Anna Kaʻiulani]], [[Kaʻiminaʻauao]], and [[Leleiohoku II|William Pitt Leleiohoku II]].{{sfn|Liliuokalani|1898|page=399}} They were ''[[hānai]]'' (adopted) by other family members. The Hawaiian custom of ''hānai'' is an informal form of adoption in extended families.{{sfn|Kanahele|1999|pages=1–4}}
Because Likelike was not healthy as a child, she was sent to live in the dry climate of [[Kona District, Hawaii|Kona]] on the island of [[Hawaii (island)|Hawaii]].<ref name="Memoriam" /> The 1892 obituary of Hawaii Supreme Court Justice [[Lawrence McCully]] noted that he was her teacher while he resided in Kona.{{sfn|The Pacific Commercial Advertiser|1892}} According to historian [[George Kanahele]], she was raised in [[Hilo, Hawaii|Hilo]] on the wetter [[Windward and leeward|windward]] side of the island of Hawaii: "Little is known about her early years".{{sfn|Kanahele|1979|pages=225–226}}

The identities of Likelike's hānai parents are unknown.{{sfn|Kanahele|1979|pages=225–226}} According to historian Sammy Amalu, Likelike was brought up in the household of Peleuli (daughter of High Chief [[Kalaʻimamahu]], half-brother of Kamehameha I) with Peleuli's granddaughter [[Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi Crowningburg]], a second cousin of King Lunalilo.{{sfn|Kapiikauinamoku|1955}}{{sfn|Kapiikauinamoku|1956}} According to newspaper columnist [[Clarice Taylor]], Likelike was raised by her mother and then cared for by [[Queen Emma of Hawaii|Queen Emma]] after her death.{{sfn|Taylor|1951b}}