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… as a housemaid at Mataura for a short period. Martha’s marriage, to Whare Īhaka Whakaka Hūtana in Wellington on 7 … at Martha’s own birthplace at Stewart Island. After their marriage Joe assisted Martha on her farm and also worked for … died of cancer aged 39, leaving five children from two marriages. Martha had already taken in the two children of …
Type: Biography
… warriors whose conquests in battle, along with strategic marriage alliances, subdued many of the competing forces in … arrived with his wife Āraiara in the Nukutere canoe. Their marriage is commemorated in ‘Paikea’, the anthem of Ngāti … a dispute with his brother. Taua was the son of the famous marriage of Hingangaroa to Iranui (Kahungunu’s sister), both …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Porou
… trials and imprisonments. In 1942 they wrote Sex, love and marriage , while Joan gave lectures throughout the country … Joan espoused a woman’s right to sexual pleasure within marriage and advocated contraception and divorce, views that … thorough elaboration of their ideas on sex and Christian marriage. In 1945, as juvenile delinquency became a pressing …
Type: Biography
… Anti-Asian prejudice While intermarriage between Māori and Europeans became widely … late 19th-century scientists theorised that intermarriage with other peoples would create a race of ‘hybrids’ … of inquiry into the issue. This found only three ‘legal marriages’ between Māori women and Chinese men and an …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Intermarriage
… sex during the teenage years (often with the sanction of marriage) has been the norm throughout recorded history. … first sexual experience during their teens and outside marriage. Perceptions that teenagers are having sex earlier … new mental, physical and social skills. Teen pregnancy Teen marriages were relatively uncommon in the 21st century, yet …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Teenagers and youth
… Except for puhi (high-born women set aside for a political marriage), sex before marriage carried no stigma. English and French explorers … a feature of these early encounters. Children born outside marriage were still considered part of their tribe. Māori …
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Part of story: Hōkakatanga – Māori sexualities
… was born probably about 1800, for she was a young woman of marriageable age when the expedition of northern tribes led … then announced that he would take Te Pikinga in a chiefly marriage alliance. By this action Te Rangihaeata was bound …
Type: Biography
… be married at once.' According to one family tradition, the marriage was designed to prevent her abduction and marriage to a local Māori. After her marriage Ann Boyce continued to live at Port Underwood. She …
Type: Biography
… support and information for women leaving heterosexual marriages for lesbian relationships who risked losing … which provided legal consistency for same-sex couples the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Act 2013, which …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Lesbian lives
… committee in September 1893. Baker's negative experience of marriage was reflected in Alice's letter column. Her first … their own minds?', cautions young women not to rush into marriage. Although she did not divorce her husband, they … should be able to choose celibate separatism instead of marriage. However, Wheat in the ear (1898) rejects the …
Type: Biography
… time Blamires made contact with the newly emerging National Marriage Guidance Council and its Home and Family Weeks. In … that there was interest in Christchurch in setting up a marriage guidance council. A meeting on 19 February 1948 …
Type: Biography
… Māori love stories combined a focus on passion and the way marriages connected whānau, hapū and iwi. They are still … and Tūtānekai fell in love, but her family resisted the marriage of the beautiful and high-born Hinemoa to someone …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Love and romance
… with a woman called Puna, a close relative of Taiaroa . The marriage was later solemnised by the Reverend James Watkin … of Anthony Remond and Esther (or Hester) Leah Pura. The marriage ceremony was conducted by the Reverend J. F. H. … at Jackson Bay, and in 1843 he was in Waikouaiti for his marriage to Puna. During that year he piloted the schooner …
Type: Biography
… and sending produce to New South Wales, Australia. The marriage was advantageous to the Māori people of Tauranga … at Tauranga and was buried in the mission cemetery. By her marriage she had forged a bond between Māori and European in the Bay of Plenty. This was furthered by the marriages of several of her children with those of leading …
Type: Biography
… Three Kings in Auckland. Little is known of Sophia's first marriage in the north to a man whose name is recorded as … 1851, and they are said to have had 14 children. Her second marriage, said to be in 1870, was to Hōri Taiāwhio, with … Lake Tarawera. There were three children of the second marriage. Sophia had been guide to the Pink and White …
Type: Biography
… the daughter of a London watchmaker. Shortly after their marriage Rosa and Samuel Moreton moved to Invercargill, New … in Wellington in 1885. In 1890 or 1891, in debt and his marriage having failed, Moreton moved to Christchurch, and … he had previously taught; there were no children of this marriage. Amelia Moreton published a volume of poems and a …
Type: Biography
… The marriage of Kahungunu’s daughter The principal pā of … his brother to accept the peace offerings – the weapon and marriage to Tauheikurī. Some time later, Tauheikurī and … of the coastal area between Waihua and Mōhaka. Through his marriages, and later the strategic positioning of his sons …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… their names. Whakamoe, taotahi Whakamoe includes the intermarriages on the lines of descent, whereas taotahi gives the … line of descent from an ancestor, without showing intermarriages, or giving other kin on the line. This is the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… for the survival of his people and culture – was arranging marriage partners for the remaining Moriori. As Tapu had … Rotia (Roger), Ruea, Meri (Mary), Joe and Rīria. The marriage ended in the early 1900s, apparently as a … was heard. She never again saw the children from her first marriage and they were fostered out among other Moriori …
Type: Biography
… these groups focused on: the status of women within marriage, particularly their economic independence seeking … Women and Children (SPWC) were domestic: conditions within marriage, including desertion, domestic violence, adoption, … neglect and abuse of children, and divorce. Rewriting marriage Like its overseas equivalents, the New Zealand …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Women’s movement