Would it be too rude to suggest that
perhaps “Captain” Maxwell might have
been promoted from, say, Mr. Midshipman Maxwell,
or Able Seaman Maxwell, by a subsequent
generation? This phenomenon has sent me after
a few red herrings (in search of the Schuyler
ancestor–NOT, it turned out, the General!)
of my own.
However, your Hawaiian Maxwell connection leads
me to ask about my great-great Aunt Lucy Maxwell
(or, it may be, Kernan),
who became a missionary and traveled
to Hawaii, established a school for Hawaiian
children, and, when her term of service was up,
decided to stay for the rest of her life.
I believe that she either never married,
or became widowed early on.
Would you know anything about her?