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Ottavio Barsanti was born in Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy, probably in 1825 or 1826, the son of Lorenzo Barsanti, a farmer, and his wife, Maria Silionni. His gravestone in Sydney records him as J. O. Barsanti but his…

Part of: Barsanti, Ottavioauthored byHazel Riseborough

Kereopa Te Rau was one of the five original disciples of Te Ua Haumēne, the founder of the Pai Mārire faith. He was a member of Ngāti Rangiwewehi of Te Arawa. The date and place of his birth are not known, nor the names…

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

Hirini Te Kani, also known as Hirini Tuahine, was of Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Rongowhakaata. He lived at Kaitī at Tūranga (Gisborne). He was the son of Rāwiri Te Eke and his principal wife, Riria Taheke. He was…

Part of: Te Kani, Hiriniauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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Īhaka Whaanga, born perhaps late in the eighteenth century, was the son of Te Rātāu of Ngāti Rākaipaaka and Ngāti Kahungunu. Te Rātāu was killed and eaten in a conflict with Whakatōhea at Ōhiwa and his own relative…

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

Maraea Mōrete, also known as Maria Morris, is said to have been born on 24 July 1844 at Whakaari, near Tāngōio, Hawke's Bay, although she may have been born at Waikōkopu, Māhia. She was the eldest child of Puihi and…

Part of: Mōrete, Maraeaauthored byR. De Z. Hall, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hēnare Pōtae was possibly born in the late 1820s. He belonged to Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare hapū of Ngāti Porou. His father was Te Pōtaeaute, also known as Ēnoka Pōtae, who signed a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi on 9 June…

Part of: Pōtae, Hēnareauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Matutaera Nihoniho, in his narrative of the fighting on the East Coast, states that he was born on 30 October 1850 at Whareponga, near Waipiro Bay. He belonged to Te Aowera and Te Aitanga-a-Mate of Ngāti Porou. His…

Part of: Nihoniho, Matutaeraauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Huiatahi Barrett was born at Waiharakeke, Kāwhia, probably in 1873 or 1874. His grandfather was an Englishman, Nathaniel Barrett, who arrived in New Zealand in the 1840s. He worked as a teacher in the Kāwhia district,…

Part of: Barrett, Huiatahiauthored byTutahanga Douglas, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

'Tangohia mai te taura i taku kakī kia waiata au i taku waiata.' (Take the rope from my throat that I may sing my song.) These words were spoken by Mokomoko, a chief of Te Whakatōhea of the eastern Bay of Plenty, as he…

Part of: Mokomokoauthored byTairongo Amoamo, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Tūpaea of Te Whānau-a-Tauwhao hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi was born probably at Tauranga. He was the son of Te Waru and his wife, Hine Te Oro. He could trace his ancestry to Toroa of the Mātaatua canoe, to Tia and Tapuika of…

Part of: Tūpaea, Hōri Kīngiauthored byAlister Matheson, Steven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Raharuhi Rukupō of Rongowhakaata is said to have been born at Ōrākaiapu pā, Manutūkē, in Poverty Bay, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was the second son of Te Pohepohe (also known as Pītau) of Ngāti Maru…

Part of: Rukupō, Raharuhiauthored byPakariki Harrison, Steven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Carl Sylvius Völkner was born in Kassel, Hesse, Germany, probably in 1819; his parents' names are unknown. Trained at the missionary college at Hamburg, Völkner was one of several missionaries sent to New Zealand by the…

Part of: Völkner, Carl Sylviusauthored byEvelyn Stokes

James Francis Fulloon, also known as Hēmi Te Mautaranui, is said to have been born on 12 August 1840 at Whakatāne, the son of John Fulloon and his wife, Koka Te Mautaranui. John Fulloon, of Anglo-French parentage, had…

Part of: Fulloon, James Francisauthored byW. T. Parham

Te Houkāmau, of Ngāti Porou, was descended from Te Rangi-i-pāia I, and from Tūwhakairiora and his wife, Ruataupare. His father was Whakataha-te-rangi and his mother Kākahutangohia. Te Houkāmau was born probably in the…

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

Waitoa is said to have been of Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Maru and Te Arawa descent. The names of his parents are not known. He is thought to have been born at Waitoa, near present day Morrinsville, and to have gone south to…

Part of: Waitoa, Rotaauthored byG. J. Dempsey, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Fanny Rose Porter (Poata), who was best known by her stage name, Te Rangi Pai, was born at Tokomaru Bay, according to family sources on 11 January 1868. She was the eldest of nine children of Herewaka Porourangi Pōtae (…

Part of: Howie, Fanny Roseauthored byTony Chadwick, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Āperahama Tama-i-parea was by the 1850s the principal chief of Ngā Rauru of the Waitōtara Valley in South Taranaki. Born in the early nineteenth century, he was a youth in 1822 when Te Rauparaha occupied Te Ihupuku, the…

Part of: Tama-i-parea, Āperahamaauthored byIan Church, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Tāwhiao, of Ngāti Mahuta in the Tainui confederation of tribes, was the son of Waikato leader Pōtatau Te Wherowhero and Whakaawi, Pōtatau's senior wife. He was born at Ōrongokoekoeā on the upper Mōkau River towards the…

Part of: Tāwhiao, Tūkāroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowheroauthored byR. T. Mahuta, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Hura was the chief of Ngāi Te Rangihouhiri, once a powerful hapū of Ngāti Awa, which occupied several villages in the region of Te Awa-a-te-Atua and Ōtamarākau, in the Bay of Plenty. Te Hura's main base in Te Awa-a-…

Part of: Te Hura Te Taiwhakaripiauthored byHirini Mead, Miria Simpson, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Mohi Tūrei was born probably about 1830 and was brought up at Te Kautuku, near Rangitukia, in the Waiapu district, where his parents lived on their ancestral lands. His father was Te Omanga Tūrei of Ngāti Hokopū and his…

Part of: Tūrei, Mohiauthored byJ. T. Tamahori, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team