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Heremia Te Wake belonged to Ngāti Manawa, a hapu of Te Kaitūtae and Te Rarawa. He was born at Te Karaka in the Hokianga district, probably in the 1830s, the son of William Hoard (known to his Māori family as Pire Hoa),…

Part of: Te Wake, Heremiaauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

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…

Part of: Parata, Katherine Te Rongokahiraauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

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.…

Part of: Te Taiawatea Rangitūkehu, Maataauthored byTania Rei, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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Katarina Kuini Wharerauaruhe Ellison (Erihana) was born on 29 December 1899 at Puketeraki, north of Dunedin. Both her parents, John Matapura Ellison and his wife, Hera Parata, were of Ngāi Tahu; their main hapū were…

Part of: Te Tau, Katarina Kuini Wharerauaruheauthored byAngela Ballara, Katarina Te Tau, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hoani Te Whatahoro Jury, also known as John Alfred Jury, John Alfred Te Whatahoro Jury, Te Whatahoro Jury, and Hoani Turi Te Whatahoro, was born on 4 February 1841 at Rākaukākā, Poverty Bay. He was the eldest son of Te…

Part of: Jury, Hoani Te Whatahoroauthored byM. J. Parsons, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Pūrakau Maika was the son of Maika Pūrakau, a pro-King movement chief of Hurunuiorangi pā at the junction of the Tauheru and Ruamāhanga rivers. His father was of Ngāti Hikarāhui hapū, which combined lines of descent…

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

Bishop Wiremu Nētana Pānapa, known affectionately as Barney, was the second bishop of Aotearoa. He was born in Ahikiwi, north of Dargaville, on 7 June 1898. Pānapa’s grandfather, Pānapa Hōhāpata, of Ngāti Ruanui, was…

Part of: Pānapa, Wiremu Nētanaauthored byManuka Henare, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Matiu (Matt) Te Hau was born at Ōmarumutu, near Ōpōtiki, on 11 July 1912, the son of William Turakiuta Cooper of Ngāti Kahungunu, a licensed interpreter, and Kōparepare Matiu, of Ngāti Ruatakenga hapū of Te Whakatōhea.…

Part of: Te Hau, Matiu Te Auripoauthored byRanginui J. Walker, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

In 1828, when Ngāti Maru of Thames destroyed Ōtamataha pā at Te Papa, Tauranga, they left intact only the dwelling of the renowned and greatly feared tohunga Tahu. Nothing is known of Tahu's birth and parentage, but he…

Part of: Tahu, Matiu Parakatoneauthored byAlister Matheson, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Mātenga Tāmati, sometimes known as Hia, was born probably in the late 1830s. His main affiliation was Ngāti Rongomaiwahine, but the names of his parents are not known, and nothing is recalled of his early life. He…

Part of: Tāmati, Te Mātengaauthored byBronwyn Elsmore, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Wiremu Hākopa Toa Te Āwhitu, the first Māori to be ordained as a Catholic priest, was born at Ōkahukura, near Taumarunui, on 28 July 1914. He was the third of 10 children of Tamakaitoa (Toa) Te Āwhitu and his wife,…

Part of: Te Āwhitu, Wiremu Hākopa Toaauthored byMax T. Mariu, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Film buff, archivist, award-winning radio producer and film critic Jonathan Dennis had a sardonic wit, a brutal honesty and a genuine passion for his work. As founding director of the New Zealand Film Archive he…

Part of: Dennis, Jonathan Spencerauthored byEmma-Jean Kelly

Te Wheoro, who was later also known as Wiremu Te Mōrehu (William Morris) or Rehu, and also as Maipapa, was born in Waikato. His mother was Ngāpawa, and his father was Te Kanawa. Through Ngāpawa, Te Wheoro was descended…

Part of: Te Wheoro, Wiremu Te Mōrehu Maipapaauthored byGary Scott, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

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

Te Rangihiwinui, also known as Taitoko and later as Te Keepa, or Major Kemp, is thought to have been born in the first half of the 1820s at Tūwhakatupua, on the Manawatū River, near Ōpiki. His mother was Rere-ō-maki,…

Part of: Te Rangihiwinui, Te Keepaauthored byAnthony Dreaver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Tōpia Peehi Tūroa was a chief of Ngāti Patutokotoko hapū of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi of the upper Whanganui River. His influence extended to Lake Taupō. Born probably in the second decade of the nineteeth century, he…

Part of: Tūroa, Tōpia Peehiauthored byIan Church, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Harry Delamere Barter Dansey was born in Greenlane, Auckland, on 1 November 1920, the eldest of four children of Harry Delamere Dansey and his wife, Winifred Patience Barter. His father was a civil engineer, and is…

Part of: Dansey, Harry Delamere Barterauthored byH. R. Dansey, Te Rina Dawn Dansey, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Pinepine Te Rika was born probably in 1857 or 1858 at Rāhitiroa, an old settlement of Ngāti Kuri just east of Te Waiiti, in the Bay of Plenty. Her father was Te Rika Te Wheura (sometimes known as Te Mīkaera Te Rika or…

Part of: Pinepine Te Rikaauthored byPou Temara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hepi Hoani Te Heuheu Tūkino was the seventh paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, part of a line that traced its ancestry to the tohunga of Te Arawa canoe, Ngātoroirangi. His grandfather, Tūreiti Te Heuheu Tūkino V, had…

Part of: Te Heuheu Tūkino VII, Hepi Hoaniauthored byAlex Frame, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Pahi was by 1800 one of the senior chiefs of the north-western Bay of Islands. He was the son of Wharerau, a descendant of the ancient ancestral Ngāti Awa, the original people of the area, and of their Ngāpuhi…

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