Andrew Auld was a native of Linlithgow

Linlithgow

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, Scotland

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. He was the best friend of Captain Alexander Adams

Alexander Adams

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, who commanded Kamehameha I

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's navy. He was a ship's carpenter and wheelwright

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. He arrived in the Hawaiian Islands

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 in 1816. and became a close friend of Adams for 40 years and is buried next to Alexander Adams in Nuuanu at the Oahu Cemetery. Their joint tombstone contains the following couplet in the Scots dialect

Scots language

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: "Twa croanies frae the land of heather / Are sleepin' here in death th'gether."

His son William Auld was an aide to King Kalākaua

Kalakaua

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. He married Mary Adams, the daughter of Captain Alexander Adams in 1859. He was also a member of the Hui Aloha Aina, and was one of three delegates who took a large petition protesting Hawaii's annexation to America to Washington D.C. Auld was also a successful businessman in Honolulu, and owned several businesses. Auld Lane in Honolulu is named after William Auld.

Another son, James Auld, was a member of the Hawaii Liberal Party.

Another son, Alexander Auld married Loika.