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Takaanui Tarakawa was born, according to his own account, in 1852. His mother, Te Whakaumata, also known as Patumoana, of Ngāi Te Rangi, was one of three or four wives of Te Ipututu Tarakawa, Takaanui's father. Takaanui…

Part of: Tarakawa, Takaanui Hōhaiaauthored byPaul Tapsell, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Rāhera Te Kahuhiapō was born probably in the 1820s at Motutawa pā at the southern end of Lake Rotoiti. Her father was Te Nia, a chief of Ngāti Pikiao; her mother, Rangiāwhao, a woman of high rank, was of Ngāti Pūkenga,…

Part of: Te Kahuhiapō, Rāheraauthored byJohn Aramete Wairehu Steedman, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Robert Agrippa Moengaroa Waitiri (later Whaitiri), commonly known as Bob, was born in Bluff, Southland, on 9 May 1916. Through his parents, Robert Agrippa Waitiri, an oysterman, and his wife, Mariam (Miriam) Effie Te…

Part of: Whaitiri, Robert Agrippa Moengaroaauthored byReina Ann Whaitiri, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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Te Kooti was born into Ngāti Maru, a hapū of Rongowhakaata, at Pā-o-Kahu, overlooking the Awapuni lagoon in Poverty Bay. According to the traditions he was born in 1814. However, when in 1866 he was banished to the…

Part of: Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūrukiauthored byJudith Binney, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team