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The little chiefess had been offered, as was the custom, to her mother's sister, Grace Kamaikui Rooke and her husband, Dr. T.C.B. Rooke. Unable to have children of their own, the Rookes adopted Emma.
Dr. Rooke was a young English surgeon who had arrived in Hawaii in 1830 and was serving as the court physician. He doted on the baby girl, a small, pretty child with a fair complexion and delicate features. As she grew, her nature was fun-loving, sensitive, bright and a little stubborn.
While Dr. Rooke raised Emma to be very British, her aunt Grace raised her to be Hawaiian as well. She learned about the world from her scholarly father, with the help of many letters from her paternal grandmother in England who instructed Dr. Rooke on how to raise Emma properly.
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