Ratu Josefa Celua (7th Vunivalu of Bau)

Ratu Josefa Celua (c. 1855 – 1886) was a Fijian chief from the island of Bau. He was the youngest son of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau (often spelt phonetically as Thakambau), King of Fiji, 6th Vunivalu of Bau, King of Bau, and his first wife, Adi Litia Samanunu, daughter of the Roko Tui Bau. In reporting official occasions he was referred to by Australian newspapers as Prince Joseph Celua of Fiji.

His date of birth is unknown but he was said to be 17 in 1872, and 19 in 1874, suggesting an 1855 birth date although at the time of his death, in 1886, he is said to be 26 which suggests an 1860 birth. Celua had four older siblings and three younger half-siblings from his father's second marriage. His brother one above him, Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua (Timothy) was born in 1847. His father had unified all the tribes of Fiji (up for debate) under his reign in the mid-1800s and subsequently ceded the islands to the United Kingdom in 1874.

In 1872 Celua came to Australia and was in the care of the Rev Francis Tait until he was enrolled at Newington College under the Presidency of the Rev Joseph Horner Fletcher. Newington had already become a school for students from Fiji as a son, and two grandsons, of Alexander Salmon and the brother, and two nephews, of Queen Marau had been educated there from 1869 until 1871. At the time the college was still at Newington House and Celua arrived with "two native servants and a huge outrigger canoe, which became for the boys a source of great fun" on the Parramatta River. "Almost as much of a sensation [was] the concertina which he played at request at any hour of the night – hymn tunes being his speciality."

Source: Wikipedia/ Pinterest/ Akusitino Vulakouvaki.
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