Joni Madraiwiwi I

Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi (1859 – December 1920) was a Fijian Ratu and early colonial administrator in what was then the British Crown Colony of Fiji.

Ratu Madraiwiwi was a Bauan chief, and the son of the Bauan chief and rebel Ratu Mara Kapaiwai (who was executed by his cousin Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau).

His mother, Adi Loaloakubou was half-sister of Ratu Cakobau the Vunivalu of Bau, and had been promised first to the Tui Nakelo in return for support against one of many campaigns between Bau and Rewa; this promise was reneged upon and she was given to Ratu Gavidi, Komai Nadrukuta (Chief of the village of Lasakau - the second village on Bau Island). She was widowed on 26 April 1850 when Gavidi was shot in the back during a skirmish with the rival vanua of Verata. Their descendants are still the ruling family in Lasakau.

It is unclear when Madraiwiwi's parents began their relationship because they were first cousins: Ratu Mara's father Ratu Vuibureta and Adi Loaloakubou's father Ratu Tanoa were half-brothers - and in Fijian custom they were parallel cousins and considered siblings; therefore a sexual relationship would have been quite improper and kept discrete (as opposed to if their respective parents were of different genders, and they would therefore be cross cousins or "vei-tavaleni" - in which case the match would be considered highly desirable).

In 1886, Ratu Madraiwiwi married Adi Litiana Maopa, a granddaughter of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the King who ceded Fiji to the United Kingdom in 1874. They had 6 children: Ratu Sir Josefa Vanayaliyali Lalabalavu Sukuna, Adi Kacaraini Loaloakubou, Adi Kuini Vuikaba, Ratu Tiale Wimbeldon Vuiyasawa, Adi Salote Mokoiwaqa and Ratu Dr. Jione Atonio Rabici Doviverata.

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