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Irāia Te Whāiti, also known as Irāia Te Ama and Te Ama-o-te-rangi, was born in south Wairarapa, probably in 1861 or 1862. He was the eldest child of Te Rangihakahaka Te Whāiti and Hine-ki-te-rangi, both of Ngāti…

Part of: Te Whāiti, Irāia Te Ama-o-te-rangiauthored byS. M. Chrisp, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Elizabeth Rowe, daughter of Sarah Netherton and her husband, Henry Rowe, a carrier and later a landowner, was baptised at Bodmin, Cornwall, England, on 6 April 1814. Nothing is known of her until her marriage to Edward…

Part of: George, Elizabethauthored byJanice C. Mogford

According to family information, Maihi Parāone Kawiti was born in the Bay of Islands at Waiōmio, the cradle of Ngāti Hine, in 1807; his name at birth was Te Kūhanga. He was the third and youngest son of the chief Te…

Part of: Kawiti, Maihi Parāoneauthored byKene Hine Te Uira Martin, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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Edward Francis Harris, whose lifelong search for identity finally secured him a place in both Māori and Pākehā society

Patuone was the eldest son of Tapua, leader and tohunga of Ngāti Hao of Hokianga, and the elder brother of Nene. Through his father he was descended from Rāhiri, ancestor of Ngāpuhi; through his mother, Te Kawehau, he…

Part of: Patuone, Eruera Maihiauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Āperahama Taonui was the visionary leader of Ngāpuhi hapū Te Popoto of Utakura in the upper Hokianga, and a founder of the Kotahitanga movement, which evolved into the Māori parliaments of the 1890s. He was born, by his…

Part of: Taonui, Āperahamaauthored byJudith Binney, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

According to family information, Edward Francis Harris, also known as Eruera Paranihi Hārete, was born on 13 May 1834 at Tūranga (Gisborne). He was the elder of two sons of Tukura-ā-Rangi and John Williams Harris.…

Part of: Harris, Edward Francisauthored byR. De Z. Hall, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Kīngi Matutaera Īhaka was born at Te Kao, Northland, on 18 October 1921. His great-grandfather, Parāone Ngāruhe, signed the Treaty of Waitangi on behalf of Te Aupōuri. Kīngi was the 13th of 14 children of Eru Tīmoko…

Part of: Īhaka, Kīngi Matutaeraauthored byKingi Ihaka, 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

Te Roera and Kurupō Tāreha, prominent landowners in Hawke's Bay, were sons of Tāreha Te Moananui, a principal chief of Ngāti Kahungunu. Tāreha had many wives in his youth, but the offspring of these marriages had all…

Part of: Tāreha, Kurupōauthored byAngela Ballara, Taape Tareha-O'Reilly, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Rangikāheke, known also by his baptismal name of Wiremu Maihi (William Marsh), or Wī Maihi, was born in the early nineteenth century, according to his own evidence, about 1815, possibly at Puhirua or Te Awahou, in…

Part of: Te Rangikāheke, Wiremu Maihiauthored byJenifer Curnow, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Hoani Parāone (Brown) Tunuiārangi was born probably in 1843 or 1844 in the Whakatomotomo valley near Palliser Bay in southern Wairarapa. It is thought that his father, John Robert Brown, was a whaler, possibly one of…

Part of: Tūnuiārangi, Hoani Parāoneauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Alfred Thomas Carroll (Kara) was born at Wairoa, in northern Hawke’s Bay, on 24 August 1890, the youngest of three children of Thomas Carroll, a farmer, and his wife, Mako Kaimoana. At an early age he became known as…

Part of: Carroll, Turiauthored byJinty Rorke, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Edward Oliver Haddon, later known as Ōriwa Tahupōtiki Haddon, was born at Waitōtara, South Taranaki, on 7 November 1898, the eldest son of a Māori Methodist minister, Robert Tahupōtiki Haddon of Ngāti Ruanui, and his…

Part of: Haddon, Ōriwa Tahupōtikiauthored byPeter J. Lineham, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Arihia Kane Tāmati, who was to become Arihia Ngata, was born at Whareponga on the East Coast of the North Island, according to family information in 1879. She was the fourth of nine children of Mere Arihi Kākano and her…

Part of: Ngata, Arihia Kaneauthored byRanginui J. Walker, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Wīremu Parata Te Kākākura Waipunaahau was born on Motungārara, a small island off Kāpiti Island, probably in the mid-1830s. He grew up during a time of unprecedented and irreversible social change, of which he…

Part of: Parata, Wīremu Te Kākākura Waipunaahauauthored byHohepa Solomon, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Korou was born in the later eighteenth century. Through his father, Te Raku, he was a descendant of Rangitāne, from Hauiti, the younger sibling of Hamua, ancestor of his principal hapū. His mother was Te Kai, and…

Part of: Te Korou, Te Retimanaauthored byAngela Ballara, Mita Carter, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Wī Whitu was born on 4 December 1908 at Maungapōhatu, at the height of Rua Kēnana’s religious leadership there. His parents were Whitu Te Rangimakā (Makā) Tawa (or Kanuehi) of Hāmua, a Tūhoe hapū in Ruātoki, and his…

Part of: Whitu, Wīauthored byPou Temara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Māui Wiremu Piti Naera Pōmare was one of the generation of Māori leaders educated at Te Aute College in the 1890s who were to assume positions of leadership in both the Māori and Pākehā worlds. His birthplace was Pāhau…

Part of: Pōmare, Māui Wiremu Piti Naeraauthored byGraham Butterworth, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Eliza Jane Webber was born in England, probably on 6 October 1835, the daughter of William Webber, a surgeon, and his wife, Eliza Preston. The precise place of her birth is unknown; it may have been Great Yarmouth,…

Part of: Cowie, Eliza Janeauthored byJudith Bright

Thomas Aubrey Chappé Hall was born at Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England, on 16 June 1873, the son of John Hall, a medical practitioner, and his wife, Margaret Louise Chappé de Leonval. His father was Scottish and his…

Part of: Hall, Thomas Aubrey Chappéauthored byMoira White