Phebe Clothilde Chloe Coe was born in Samoa to Jonas Mynderse Coe and Princess Le'Utu Taletale Malietoa. Phebe married Richard Heinrich Robert Parkinson and the couple had 10 children. They moved to New Britain to help her sister, Emma Eliza Coe, also known as Queen Emma, establish coconut plantations on the Gazelle Peninsula. After Richard Parkinson died in 1907, Mrs Parkinson continued to work the Kuradui plantation; but the estate was confiscated from her after World War I by the Australian Expropriation Board. From then until her death in Japanese-occupied New Ireland in 1944, Mrs Parkinson led a wandering life, staying from time to time with one or another of her children, and occasionally with her grandson, Rudolph Diercke. It was through Diercke that Mrs Parkinson (then in her seventies) went to live in the Tingwon Islands.

In the 1980s, Nic Maclellan was a trade union activist and member of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement. He also travelled regularly to New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Marshall Islands, documenting struggles around US and French colonialism and nuclear testing. Between 1986-1995, Maclellan worked as a field officer for the Pacific program of the Overseas Service Bureau, in Papua New Guinea and Fiji, and then went on to establish the Australian Volunteers Abroad (AVA) program in Marshall Islands, Palau and Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). During his travels, Maclellan took hundreds of Kodachrome slides, which capture images of daily life in PNG and Micronesia during the 1980s, as well as unique moments in the rise of the Kanak independence movement during the 1984-1988 conflict known as 'Les evenements' or 'the events'. In the 2000s, Maclellan has worked as a correspondent for Islands Business magazine and contributor to Pacnews, Inside Story and other regional media.

Father Pierre Chauvel, S.M., Marist missionary.

A British consul, born in Papeete, Tahiti, to George Pritchard and Eliza Aileen. He was educated in Britain before returning to join his father, the British consul in Samoa. There he acquired an exceptional knowledge of the Polynesian languages and traditions. In 1858, Pritchard was appointed the first British consul at Fiji, and in the same year traveled to England with an offer from Seru Epenisa Cakobau to cede Fiji to the British crown. He was dismissed from his post in 1863.

William Henry was born in Sligo, Ireland, in 1770. He was a carpenter and joiner before joining the London Missionary Society. He married Sarah Maben and together they had four surviving children. In August 1796, they joined a group of missionaries aboard the 'Duff' in sailing for Tahiti. After deciding it was too dangerous, the missionaries continued on to Sydney, Australia aboard the 'Nautilus'. Along with shipmate James Fleet Cover, Henry established three congregations in Sydney, including at Parramatta, Toongabbie and Kissing Point, which later became St Anne's in Ryde.

In 1811, the family returned to Tahiti and Henry was inducted as a minister in a Tahitian church. His wife, Sarah, died in 1812. On a return visit to Sydney in 1813, he remarried, to Ann Shepherd. They went on to have ten children together. They remained in the islands until retiring to Sydney in 1848. William continued to preach at Kissing Point. He died in 1848, and Sarah in 1882.

Amy Constance Heussler (nee. Henry) was a prominent feminist and a founder of the United Associations (the association formed by the merging of Women's League of N.S.W. and the New South Wales Women Voters' Association). She was married to William James Heussler on 23 November 1892. They had two sons and two daughters. Amy is the granddaughter of London Mission Society (LMS) minister Revered William Henry.