Tūreiti Te Heuheu Tūkino, the fifth paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, was born in 1865 or 1866, probably at Waihī, near Tokaanu, the eldest son of Horonuku Te Heuheu Tūkino IV and Tahuri Te Tuaki (whose name is also…
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Hēni Te Kiri Karamū, also known as Hēni Pore (Jane Foley) and as Jane Russell, belonged to Ngāti Uenukukōpako and Ngāti Hinepare of Te Arawa. She was descended from Ngātoroirangi of Te Arawa canoe. She was born probably…
Maata Te Taiawatea Rangitūkehu was born in 1848 or 1849, probably near Lake Tarawera, where she was brought up as a puhi (a treasured virgin until marriage) by her mother's people of Tūhourangi, a branch of Te Arawa.…
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Katherine Te Rongokahira Asher was born on 21 November 1873 at Tauranga. Her father was David Asher, eldest son of Jewish immigrants Hannah Keesing and her husband, Asher Asher, a trader. Her mother was Katerina Te…
Taiāwhio Tikawenga Te Tau was a leader of the major Māori political and religious movements in Wairarapa in the 15 years following 1910. He was the younger son of Kaipāoe, a high-ranking woman of Ngāti Rākairangi, and…
Ānaha Kēpa Te Rāhui, also known as Ānaha Mātao, is thought to have been born in the early 1820s, at Te Koutu pā on Lake Okataina. He was descended from Te Rangi-takaroro by his first wife, Rangipare. His father was Te…
Hōne Wētere Te Rerenga was born, probably in the 1830s, at Māniaroa or Rangitoto in the Awakino district. His father was Waitara, a direct descendant of Hoturoa and Maniapoto; his mother was Mākareta Hakahaka, also…
Wī Te Tau was the third in a succession of Anglican Māori ministers from the Huata family, their careers spanning most of the history of Christianity in New Zealand. His father, Hēmi, and his paternal grandfather,…
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,…
Meri Te Tai was of Ngāti Te Rēinga, Ngāti Manawa and Te Kaitūtae, three hapū of Te Rarawa. She is said to have been born on 22 May 1868, near Whakarapa (Panguru) on the Hokianga Harbour. She was the great-grandchild of…
Edward Thomas Te Whiu was one of the last four people to be hanged for murder in New Zealand, and his 1955 execution was to give impetus to the campaign to abolish capital punishment. He was born at Waipapakauri,…
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…
At the time of her death, Witarina Harris was described by politician Tariana Turia as a ‘cherished kuia of Ngāti Whakaue o Te Arawa waka; darling of the silver screen; and one of Aotearoa’s original movie stars’. 1…
Mabel (Mēpara) Te Aowhaitini Mangakāhia was born on 4 September 1899 at Whangapoua on the north-eastern coast of the Coromandel Peninsula. She was the youngest of four children of Hāmiora Mangakāhia and his third wife,…
Hōne Te Kāuru Taiapa, one of 14 children and also known as John Taiapa, was born at Tikitiki on 10 August 1912. His parents were Tāmati Taiapa and Maraea Te Iritawa of Te Whānau-ā-Hinerupe and other closely related hapū…
Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngārimu was born into Te Aitanga-a-Mate of Ngāti Porou at Whareponga, on the East Coast, on 7 April 1919, the son of Hāmuera Meketū Ngārimu, and his wife Maraea. He had strong connections to Te Whānau…
John (Hoani) Te Rangiāniwaniwa Rangihau, known to his hapū and iwi as Te Nika and in the wider Māori world as Te Rangihau, was born at Kūhā, south of Waikaremoana, on 5 September 1919, to Karu Rangihau, a labourer, and…
Pahikore Te Koeti Tūranga was born at Makawhio pā, south Westland, on 18 November 1883 to Rīpeka Tūtoko (also called Patiere Tūtoko) and Te Koeti Tūranga, both of Poutini Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe. He was baptised John…
Kīngi Te Ahoaho Tāhiwi was born on 1 December 1883 and baptised Te Kīngi on 30 December at Rangiātea church, Ōtaki. His father, Rāwiri Rota Tāhiwi, a Native Land Court assessor, was of Ngāti Raukawa, and of the hapū…
Te Kumeroa Ngoingoi Ngāwai was born on 29 December 1921 at Tokomaru Bay, East Coast. She was the eldest of five children of Hōri Ngāwai of Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare of Ngāti Porou of Tokomaru Bay, and his wife, Wikitōria…