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Te Ao-kapurangi was born probably in the late eighteenth century. One of her parents was Parepūwhenua and the other possibly Te Whangongo. Descended from Tamatekapua of Te Arawa canoe and from Hoturoa of the Tainui…

Part of: Te Ao-kapurangiauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Murupaenga, leader of Ngāti Rongo, a hapū of Ngāti Whātua, was born, according to one calculation, about 1770. His parents were Ahiwera and Tūaea. In the period of his most important activity his home was near Makarau,…

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

Turikatuku was the daughter of Mutunga II, and belonged to Te Hikutū and Ngāti Rēhia, who were related to Ngāpuhi; their territories stretched north from Te Puna and Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands towards Whangaroa.…

Part of: Turikatukuauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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Kawiti was born, probably in the 1770s, in northern New Zealand. He was descended from Nukutawhiti, commander of the Ngā-toki-mata-whao-rua canoe, which made its landing at Hokianga. He was the 11th generation from…

Part of: Kawiti, Te Rukiauthored byKene Hine Te Uira Martin, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hikairo is thought to have been born in the late eighteenth century, probably between 1780 and 1790, probably at Puhirua or Te Awahou, on the northern shores of Rotorua. He became leader of Ngāti Rangiwewehi, one of the…

Part of: Hikairo, Wiremuauthored byJenifer Curnow, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Wherowhero was born in Waikato towards the end of the eighteenth century. He was the eldest son of a Waikato warrior chief, Te Rauangaanga, and Parengāope of Ngāti Koura. He belonged to the senior chiefly line of…

Part of: Te Wherowhero, Pōtatauauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Himiona Tūpākihi Kāmira, sometimes known as Tākou, was born in 1880 at Reena in north-western Hokianga. He was to live there, or at Mātihetihe, on the coast south of Mitimiti, most of his life. His father, Tūpākihi…

Part of: Kāmira, Himiona Tūpākihiauthored byHenare Arekatera Tate, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

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

Te Rangi-i-pāia II was a woman of rank of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui. She was probably born at Tokomaru Bay; her father was Te Pori-o-te-rangi and her mother, Hinerori. Her grandmother was Te Rangi-i-pāia I. She…

Part of: Te Rangi-i-pāia IIauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hōne Heke Ngāpua was born at Kaikohe, according to family information on 6 June 1869, the first of 12 children of Niurangi Pūriri and Hōne Ngāpua. A direct descendant of Rāhiri, he was connected to the major tribes of…

Part of: Ngāpua, Hōne Hekeauthored byFreda Rankin Kawharu, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Parore Te Āwha, of the hapū Te Kuihi, was born at Mangakāhia, probably sometime in the 1790s. Through his father, Toretumua Te Āwha, he was descended from the high chief Toa of Te Roroa, kin of Ngāti Whātua, whose…

Part of: Parore Te Āwhaauthored byGarry Hooker, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hāmiora Wiremu Maioha, of Ngāi Tawake hapū of Ngāpuhi resident in the Bay of Islands, was often known as Hāmi, as Tahi to his intimates, and as Sam Maioha junior to his Pākehā business associates. He was the son of…

Part of: Maioha, Hāmiora Wiremuauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Pōmare, originally named Whētoi, the son of Puhi of Ngāti Manu, was born in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was connected by descent to Ngāpuhi hapū Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Rāhiri and Ngāti Hine, and to the…

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

Maketū, also known as Maketū Wharetōtara, the son of Ngāpuhi chief Ruhe, was born in the hinterland of the Bay of Islands. In 1841, when he was about 16 years of age, he was employed to do farm work on Motuarohia, in…

Part of: Maketū, Wiremu Kīngiauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hongi Hika was born near Kaikohe, in northern New Zealand: he told French explorers in 1824 that he had been born in the year of Marion du Fresne's death, which was in 1772; and he was a mature man at the height of his…

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

Hinematioro was a woman of high standing among the East Coast peoples from Whāngārā to Ūawa (Tolaga Bay), about the time that James Cook first visited New Zealand, in 1769. Her mana and tapu derived from her father…

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

Minarapa Rangihatuake (also known as Minarapa Te Atua-kē) was the Wesleyan lay preacher responsible for the first church in Wellington. He was of Ngā Māhanga and was born, probably early in the nineteenth century, in…

Part of: Rangihatuake, Minarapaauthored byJohn H. Roberts, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Taumata-ā-Kura belonged to Te Whanau-ā-Tinatoka, Te Whānau-ā-Haemata and Te Whānau-ā-Te-Uruahi of Ngāti Porou. He was born at Whakawhitira, near the Waiapu River, probably in the late eighteenth century. In 1823 he was…

Part of: Taumata-ā-Kura, Piripiauthored byApirana T. Mahuika, Steven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Tiakitai was a Ngāti Kahungunu leader of great mana in the Waimārama area of Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay) in the first half of the nineteenth century. Through his father, Te Ōrihau, he was descended from Te Rangikoiānake I…

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

Kirihi Te Riri Maihi Kawiti was born, according to family information, on 17 April 1877 at Waiōmio, Kawakawa, in the Bay of Islands. He was the second son of Maihi Parāone Kawiti and his third wife, Hēningārino, and the…

Part of: Kawiti, Kirihi Te Riri Maihiauthored byKene Hine Te Uira Martin, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team