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Horomona Pōhio claimed descent from the major lines of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe and Waitaha. His hapū were Ngāi Taoka, Ngāti Huirapa, Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, Ngāi Te Rakiāmoa and Ngāi Tūāhuriri. His father was Tohu, his…

Part of: Pōhio, Horomonaauthored byTe Maire Tau, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hōri Kerei Taiaroa was born at Ōtākou, on the Otago peninsula, probably in the 1830s or early 1840s. His father was the prominent Ngāi Tahu chief Te Mātenga Taiaroa, of Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, and his mother was Mawera of…

Part of: Taiaroa, Hōri Kereiauthored byHarry C. Evison, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Kaikōura Whakatau was the leader of Ngāi Tahu in the Kaikōura district throughout the first 25 years of European whaling, and pastoral settlement commencing in the 1840s. The date and place of his birth are not known.…

Part of: Kaikoura Whakatauauthored byHarry C. Evison, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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William Daniel Barrett was born on 27 October 1878 at Riverton, Southland, the fourth of eleven children of Louisa Hunter and her husband, Henry Barrett, a labourer. His paternal grandparents were Richard Barrett, a…

Part of: Barrett, William Danielauthored byAroha H. Reriti-Crofts, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Weretā Tainui Pītama, also known as Te Ruapōhatu or ‘Stone’, was born, probably in 1881, at Rāpaki, just south of Christchurch. His father was Teoti Pītama Karatiti, a farmer, of the Canterbury Ngāi Tahu hapū, Ngāi…

Part of: Pītama, Weretā Tainuiauthored byAngela Ballara, Te Maire Tau, 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

Pāora Taki belonged to Ngāi Te Rakiāmoa hapū of Ngāi Tahu. He was born probably in the early nineteenth century. His father, Rakiāmoa, and his mother, Kere, claimed further descent from Te Ātawhiua hapū of Canterbury…

Part of: Taki, Pāoraauthored byTipene O'Regan, 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

Wharetutu Te Aroha Solomon Score was born at Lyttelton on 28 January 1924, the daughter of Miriama Te Ahi Pūhia Pītini-Morēra (Beaton-Morel) and her husband, Rangi Wāwāhia Solomon Score. Although she was of chiefly…

Part of: Stirling, Wharetutu Te Arohaauthored byTipene O'Regan, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

John Hopere Wharewiti Uru and Henare Whakatau Uru were two of twenty-one children born to Hoani Uru, a farmer, and his wife, Kataraina (Kata) Kaiparoa. They were born at Kaiapoi: Hopere probably on 26 March 1868, Henare…

Part of: Uru, Henare Whakatauauthored byChristine Elizabeth Lock, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Taiaroa, the son of Kōrako and Wharerauaruhe, belonged to Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki and Ngāti Moki hapū of Ngāi Tahu, both of them centred on Taumutu, at the southern end of Waihora (Lake Ellesmere). His ancestor, Te…

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

Tiramōrehu was born at Kaiapoi pā, probably early in the nineteenth century, into a high-ranking family of the prominent hapū Ngāi Tūāhuriri of Ngāi Tahu. His father was Kāraki. Tiramōrehu was a descendant of Tūāhuriri…

Part of: Tiramōrehu, Matiahaauthored byHarry C. Evison, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Alexander Mackay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, probably on 11 May 1833. His father was Alexander Mackay, a lawyer; his mother's name is unknown. At the age of five he left Scotland to attend school at Southsea, in…

Part of: Mackay, Alexanderauthored byDavid A. Armstrong

Hōri Ngātai was from Ngāti Hē hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi, and was born at Maungatapu, near Tauranga. His ancestry can be traced to both the Mātaatua and Te Arawa canoes. He was the son of Tūtahi, who signed the Treaty of…

Part of: Ngātai, Hōriauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Rāwiri Puhirake, also known as Rāwiri Tuaia and Whakatauhoe, was one of the leaders of Ngāi Te Rangi of Tauranga from the 1850s until his death in 1864. He was the son of Te Muna, and grandson of Whakapā and Hinerangi…

Part of: Puhirake, Rāwiriauthored byJinty Rorke, 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

Tini Pana (Jane Burns) was born at Moeraki, North Otago, probably in 1846 or 1847. She was the third of four children of Pukio Iwa, of Ngāi Tuahuriri hapū of Ngāi Tahu (descendants of Tautahi), and Richard Burns (Riki…

Part of: Taiaroa, Tini Kereiauthored byJenny Lee, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Huruhuru (or Huruhuru) of Ngāi Tahu was born probably about 1800. He was one of eight children. His father was Nuku and his mother was Te Whakaaro. His hapū were Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki and Ngāi Taoka. Little is recorded…

Part of: Te Huruhuruauthored byAtholl Anderson, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Frank David Winter (registered as Francis David Charles) was born at Waipukurau on 5 January 1906, the first child of Caroline Blanche Thomas and her husband, David Horatio Winter, a telegraph linesman. His grandmother…

Part of: Winter, Frank Davidauthored byJanet Winter, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Tama-i-hara-nui, also known as Te Maiharanui, was the leader of Ngāi Tahu in the northern part of the South Island in the early nineteenth century. He was born well before the close of the eighteenth century in the area…

Part of: Tama-i-hara-nuiauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team