The Christian family
The Christian family, including more than 20 of Glynn’s direct grandfathers, has been established on the Isle of Man since at least 1380 – see Family Tree in FRAGILE PARADISE
From 1511 until the early 20th-century they lived in Milntown, Lezayre, in the north of the Isle of Man.
Milntown is now open to the public and specially welcomes Christian family descendants.
The family moved their principal seat to Ewanrigg in Cumberland after the 1660 Restoration of King Charles II. Fletcher Christian’s father Charles was born and raised there; the house is now demolished but images are in Glynn’s BOUNTY-related books.
Fletcher was born to Charles Christian and his wife Ann Dixon on September 25, 1764, at Moorland Close, Eaglesfield, Cumberland, which still stands.
When Fletcher, other mutineers and their Polynesian companions hid on Pitcairn Island, they created the first British colony in the South Pacific and the Pitcairn Islands are today a British Overseas Territory.
Glynn is descended from Charles, the second son of Fletcher and Mauatua Christian:
- Charles = Sully, a Tahitian who arrived on BOUNTY as an infant
- Isaac =Miriam Young
- Godfrey = Frances Edwards (American)
- William = Evelyn Smith (NZ)
- Royce =Enid Pitman (NZ)
- Glynn, Bruce, Faye, Ross
All Pitcairn Islanders were removed to Norfolk Island in 1856. Glynn’s grandfather William was born there and became a whaling hand-harpoonist aged just 12. He later moved to New Zealand
Archive Deposit
Glynn’s collection of Bounty and Christian Family reference books and related archives plus oil paintings and other images, and his portrait and bronze bust, are now deposited at Milntown, where a dedicated Fletcher Christian/BOUNTY room is planned.
