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Tūhawaiki, known as Hone or John Tūhawaiki, and called 'Bloody Jack' by the sealers of Foveaux Strait, was the leader of Ngāi Tahu in Murihiku (the southern part of the South Island) from the death of Te Whakataupuka,…

Part of: Tūhawaiki, Honeauthored byAtholl Anderson, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hikapuhi (Te Hikapuhi) Poihipi was born at Rotorua probably sometime between 1860 and 1871. She was the 10th and youngest child of Wiremu Poihipi and Hārete Ngāputu (also known as Hārete Manuhuia). Her mother, and…

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

Hūria Mātenga was born at Whakapuaka (near Nelson) probably some time between 1840 and 1842. She was named Ngārongoā Kātene at birth, but was also known as Ngā Hota and, in later life, as Hūria Mātenga. Of Te Āti Awa,…

Part of: Mātenga, Hūriaauthored byMary Louise Ormsby, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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Arihia Kane Tāmati, who was to become Arihia Ngata, was born at Whareponga on the East Coast of the North Island, according to family information in 1879. She was the fourth of nine children of Mere Arihi Kākano and her…

Part of: Ngata, Arihia Kaneauthored byRanginui J. Walker, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Wahanui Huatare, also known as Reihana Te Huatare, Te Reihana Whakahoehoe and Te Wahanui, was born probably in the late 1820s. He was the son of Te Ngohiteārau, also known as Te Huatare, of Ngāti Maniapoto. His mother,…

Part of: Wahanui Huatareauthored byManuka Henare, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Wī Pere was born on 7 March 1837 at Tūranga (Gisborne), the son of Poverty Bay trader Thomas Halbert and Rīria Mauaranui, Halbert's fourth wife. Rīria was a woman of considerable mana, predominantly of Te Whānau-a-Kai…

Part of: Pere, Wiremuauthored byAlan Ward, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Charles Oliver Bond Davis was born in Sydney, Australia, probably in 1817 or 1818, one of five children of Irish migrants Ann Calder and her husband, Joseph Davis, a cutler. His parents named him after the Irish patriot…

Part of: Davis, Charles Oliver Bondauthored byAlan Ward

James Basil Wilkie Roberton was born in Auckland on 30 January 1896, the second of four children of Eliza Ann Wilkie and her husband, Ernest Roberton, a prominent medical practitioner. Educated at King’s College,…

Part of: Roberton, James Basil Wilkieauthored byCarol Stevenson

Louis Wellington Parore was born at Te Houhanga marae, Dargaville, on 26 December 1888. According to tradition, he was the first of his people born in a European-style house and was known to his family as Te Rūma (the…

Part of: Parore, Louis Wellingtonauthored byGarry Hooker, Robert Parore, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Materoa Ngārimu was born at Maraeke, Whareponga, on the East Coast, according to family information on 8 August 1881, the first of two children of Tuta Ngārimu, a sheepfarmer, and Mākere Rāiri. She came from the senior…

Part of: Reedy, Materoaauthored byPakariki Harrison, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Tāmati Ngākaho was of Te Whānau-a-Rāhui of Ngāti Porou, from Rākaihoea at Kākāriki, near Waiomatatini on the East Coast. His parents were Hāmure and Huirōhutu (Huirotu). Few facts about his life have been recorded, but…

Part of: Ngākaho, Tāmatiauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Ōtene Pītau is said to have been born in 1834 or 1835. His father, Thomas Halbert, was a trader of English descent who settled at Muriwai, Poverty Bay, with a woman of Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki named Pirihira Konekone.…

Part of: Pītau, Ōteneauthored byR. De Z. Hall, Steven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Haimona (Simon) Pātete (also known as Haimona Turi) was born on Rangitoto (D'Urville Island), in the Marlborough Sounds, probably in 1863 or 1864. Te Putu, his grandfather, and Turi Te Pātete, his father, were among the…

Part of: Pātete, Haimonaauthored byAnthony Patete, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Karauria Tiweka Ānaru (known as Claude) was born on 2 June 1901 at Raukōkore in the eastern Bay of Plenty. He was one of nine children of Tiweka Ānaru, a farmer, and his wife, Paretio Heremia, both of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui…

Part of: Ānaru, Karauria Tiwekaauthored bySidney Takimoana Anaru, 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

Tūhuru Kōkare was born probably in the latter part of the eighteenth century: his son, Tarapuhi, was said to be about 70 years of age in 1864. He spent his early life with his parents, Te Ruahuanui and Tītohi, at…

Part of: Tūhuru Kōkareauthored byMaika Mason, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Rēweti Tūhorouta Kōhere was born on 11 April 1871 at Orutua, Horoera, near East Cape. He was the first of five children of Hone Hiki Kōhere and Henarata Peretō, the daughter of Umutahi, who belonged to Te Whanau-a-…

Part of: Kōhere, Rēweti Tūhoroutaauthored byRarawa Kohere, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Rina Matewai Ruru, better known as Lena, was born in Gisborne on 5 June 1902, the sixth of eleven children of Hēnare Keepa Ruru and his wife, Maata Rewanga Parāone. Her birth coincided with the death of her mother’s…

Part of: Ruru, Lena Matewaiauthored byTum Glover, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hōne Taare Tīkao told the historian Herries Beattie that he was born on Banks Peninsula in or about 1850, just two years after the Crown purchase of Canterbury from Ngāi Tahu, and within months of the arrival of the…

Part of: Tīkao, Hōne Taareauthored byTipene O'Regan, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hoani Parāone (Brown) Tunuiārangi was born probably in 1843 or 1844 in the Whakatomotomo valley near Palliser Bay in southern Wairarapa. It is thought that his father, John Robert Brown, was a whaler, possibly one of…

Part of: Tūnuiārangi, Hoani Parāoneauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team