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Tāraia Ngākuti, sometimes also known as Te Tumuhuia, was born in the late eighteenth century. He was the son of Te Kaharunga and of Rewa, daughter of Te Rangitūmamao. His mana derived from his descent from Hineipu,…

Part of: Tāraia Ngākuti Te Tumuhuiaauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

The father of Te Waharoa was Tangimoana of Ngāti Hauā. His mother was Te Kahurangi. The brother of Tangimoana, Taipōrutu, was killed at the gateway of Te Kawau pā, near the mouth of the Tongapōrutu River, in the late…

Part of: Te Waharoaauthored byEvelyn Stokes, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Eruini (Edwin) Heina Taipari was born probably in 1889 or 1890 at Thames. He was the younger son of Hauāuru Tīkapa Taipari, later baptised as Wīrope Hōtereni (Willoughby Shortland) Taipari, the chief of Ngāti Maru, who…

Part of: Taipari, Eruini Heinaauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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By his own account Hoani Nahe was born at the time the mission house at Parāwai (near Thames) was being built. This was probably in 1833 or 1834. His birthplace may have been at Te Poho, near the Kirikiri Stream. His…

Part of: Nahe, Hoaniauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Tukumana was born in the Thames district probably in 1862 or 1863. He was the son of Reihana Poto of Ngāti Maru, and Karukino Te Taniwha of Ngāti Puku and Te Mateawa hapu of Ngāti Whanaunga. Taiwiwi was another of his…

Part of: Te Taniwha, Tukumanaauthored byTe Ahukaramu Charles Royal, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Puti Tīpene Wātene, popularly known as Steve, was born in Kirikiri, Thames, on 18 August 1910, the only child of Rose Maria Savage (Hāwete) of Te Arawa and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, and her second husband, Toke Wātene, a…

Part of: Wātene, Puti Tīpeneauthored byManuka Henare, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Horetā, also known as Te Taniwha, was a leader of Ngāti Whanaunga, one of the Marutūāhu confederation of Hauraki Gulf and Coromandel Peninsula tribes. The names of his parents are not recorded. He may have been born…

Part of: Te Horetāauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Nuka Taipari belonged to Ngāti Hē, a hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi of Tauranga. He was the principal chief of Maungatapu pā in the 1830s and 1840s. He is known mostly from references in missionary journals and in The journal of…

Part of: Taipari, Nukaauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Pōmare, originally named Whētoi, the son of Puhi of Ngāti Manu, was born in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was connected by descent to Ngāpuhi hapū Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Rāhiri and Ngāti Hine, and to the…

Part of: Pōmare Iauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

James Mackay, who was of Scots descent, was born in London, England, on 16 November 1831 to James Mackay and his wife, Ann. He arrived at Nelson, New Zealand, on 26 January 1845 on the Slains Castle in the company of…

Part of: Mackay, Jamesauthored byHarry C. Evison

Wēpiha Apanui (also known as Wēpiha Te Mautaranui) was the son of Apanui Te Hāmaiwaho and Mīria Tārei of Ngāti Awa. He was the first-born of two brothers and two sisters; the date and place of his birth are unknown.…

Part of: Apanui, Wēpihaauthored byHirini Mead, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Pareihe of Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti in Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay) began his career as a war leader in the early nineteenth century. He was also known as Pareihe Kai-a-te-kōkopu and as Hōri. The identity of his parents is…

Part of: Te Pareiheauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Pāora Kaiwhata's father, Tareahi, of Ngāti Hinepare and Ngāi Tākaha, hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu in Hawke's Bay, was living at Te Rae-o-Tahumata near Ōmāhu when Kaiwhata was born. The tribes of the Heretaunga plain were…

Part of: Kaiwhata, Pāoraauthored byPatrick Parsons, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Turikatuku was the daughter of Mutunga II, and belonged to Te Hikutū and Ngāti Rēhia, who were related to Ngāpuhi; their territories stretched north from Te Puna and Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands towards Whangaroa.…

Part of: Turikatukuauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Wherowhero was born in Waikato towards the end of the eighteenth century. He was the eldest son of a Waikato warrior chief, Te Rauangaanga, and Parengāope of Ngāti Koura. He belonged to the senior chiefly line of…

Part of: Te Wherowhero, Pōtatauauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Rangiātaahua Kiniwē Royal (Roera) was born on 23 August 1896 at Muhunoa, Ōhau, in Horowhenua, the seventh of ten children of Te Kiniwē Roera Te Ahukaramū and Kēriata Hūnia Te Weu Tukukino. Rangi, as he was known, was…

Part of: Royal, Te Rangiātaahua Kiniwēauthored byTe Ahukaramu Charles Royal, Tom Jamison, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Rauparaha was the son of Werawera, of Ngāti Toa, and his second wife, Parekōwhatu (Parekōhatu), of Ngāti Raukawa. He is said to have been a boy when James Cook was in New Zealand. If so, it is likely that he was…

Part of: Te Rauparahaauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Matekoraha Te Peehi Rangihika, commonly known as Bessie, was born on 27 February 1902 at Whiritoa, a small Ringatū settlement between Waihī and Whangamatā. Her father was Rangihika Kereopa of Ngāti Maru, whose parents…

Part of: Jaram, Matekoraha Te Peehiauthored byE. M. Tutua, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Nene was born probably in the 1780s. He was the second son of Tapua, leader and tohunga of Ngāti Hao of Hokianga, and the younger brother of Patuone, the inheritor of their father's mana. By descent and marriage this…

Part of: Nene, Tāmati Wākaauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team