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Vol. 13 Issue #2 MEI/MAY 2006

Special Interest Group No.76 of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc. The MIG formed in 1993 & was ratified by the NZSG at the Christchurch Council Meeting on Saturday the 3rd December 1994

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NEWSLETTER EDITOR : Mr. Bruce MATHERS

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IN THIS ISSUE

IMPORTANT NOTICES—PLEASE READ! 4

HOW I BEGAN—PETER ALLEN Continued... 7

HINEMOA & TUTANEKAI 8

THE MĀORI KING MOVEMENT 9

KING POTATAU 12

INFORMATION OFFERED—THE GREAT NZ MYTH Cont 14

INFORMATION OFFERED—1908 ELECTORAL ROLL 20

AWATAHA CATHOLIC MISSION & ST MARY’S Cont... 22

NZRGO GUIDE TO INFORMATION RECORDED ON

BIRTH & DEATH ENTRIES (RG91)—CENTRE PULL-OUT -

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IMPORTANT NOTICES PLEASE READ!

MIG AGM—HAMILTON 2006 Please have any items for the Agenda and your Proxy or Nomination forms Date: Monday 5th June 2006 to the Secretary before; Venue: Sacred Hearts Girls College th Time: 8:00am—8:40am Saturday 20 May 2006

CONVENOR’S CORNER: well as most of the other Interest Groups of the Society. The speakers, 32 of them, have a great range of topics and as most of us are pursuing several lines at once you can learn more about where to go next. See you there.

The Annual General Meeting will be held at Conference and we need you to attend to show your support for what we are trying to do. Your input is always welcome so if you are not able to attend please forward anything of interest to Brenda. I would like to publicly thank Brenda for being such an excellent secretary and treasurer and Bruce for the awe- some newsletters.

Kia ora Members;

I hope you are all coming to Conference as we have a great line-up to help with your research. Auckland City Library Family Heritage Centre will be represented. This Peter ALLEN repository has a lot of Māori resources. Convenor Our Māori Interest Group will be there as May 2006

EDITORIAL: Kia ora;

Queens Birthday and the NZSG Confer- ence are fast approaching. If you are not attending the Group’s AGM then please don’t forget to have your Nomination, Proxy Voting Forms and any items for the Agenda to Brenda by Saturday 20th May 2006 as your support of the group is important. Apart from this, things in the group have been relatively quiet in recent months, but Peter and Brenda will bring you all up-to-date at the meeting. (Continued on page 6) TE REO PAGE 5 PAGE 6 TE REO

(Continued from page 4) challenging role.

Lastly, don’t forget to have your say at the Reports and hopefully some photos from AGM and get your forms and suggestions Hamilton will be available on the MIG to Brenda by the closing date as your website as soon as they become available show of support and suggestions are most - if any members are attending with their welcome. digital camera, can they please send me a few photos for the next newsletter and We hope you all have a great weekend in online. Hamilton and return home with something new and exciting for your research. Can all members also take a few moments to ensure that they have updated their Haere Ra contact details with Brenda, as a few emails and snail-mail has been returned to the Group recently.

We also extend our congratulations to

Harete PHILLIPS who left the group last Bruce MATHERS year as Convenor and now takes up a Puruhi MATERA position on the NZSG Council in coming Mei/May 2006 months, we wish her well in this new and

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Trivia : LIFE IN THE 1500's

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privi- lege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children! Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actu- ally lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water." And that's the truth... Now, whoever said that History was boring ! ! ! Anon

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Mokoia Island

MY INVOLVEMENT IN went back to school.

GENEALOGY—HOW After we married in 1950 in Matamata I I BEGAN said that she should succeed to her family Land Blocks but she didn’t want to and By Peter ALLEN, Convenor. decided she wanted nothing to do with

This is a short series introducing Peter Māori culture. So I said I would do it for to our members—similar brief accounts her. Her relatives wouldn’t tell me any- of your own research and experience thing but I heard bits-and-pieces through would also be welcome from our mem- conversations so I went to the Māori Land bers. Part Two was in the previous Court, looked up these blocks I had heard newsletter BM about and succeeded her to them. By searching the Māori Land Court records I PART THREE—FINAL: I married my have got many more Blocks for her. We wife, a three-quarter Māori, Rangi. now go to Land Court Meetings and she Her father was Aperama WIHAPI from doesn’t mind it. I have written up her Te Puke born in 1881. her mother Whakapapa on both sides of her parents was Te Rarangi WAAKA from Te Poi at and back to the canoes. It was a hard job the foot of the Kaimai Ranges. My and has taken many years to do but it wife’s mother died giving birth to twin was worth it in the long run. girls. One twin died at birth and the other is my wife. Shortly after this On her mother’s side she is connected to her father moved away. The two the Māori King movement. I still have a tribes involves, Ngati Raukawa and Christmas card she received in 1946 from Touhourangi of Tw Arawa, disap- King Te Rata Mahuta and his wife Te Ata proved of the marriage - a tribal Mahuta. thing. In the 1960’s in talking to On her father’s side she is related to Hi- some of the Wihapi family I was able nemoa and Tutanekai. They [Rangi’s fa- to get this feeling between the tribes ther’s family] all resided at Mokoia Island. cancelled and get them to look to the At Awhata in Rotorua at the end of the future, not what happened in the beach road there is a monument to Hi- past. nemoa and a Marae related to her and a

Rangi was brought up by her aunties small wooden church. Tutanekai Marae and uncles at Te Toi and had a rough is in Rotorua itself. PA time from her other siblings who did- For those members new to genealogy, this is a n’t recognize her as a part of them. good example of ‘Oral Family History’. All fami- When she called her aunt Mum the lies have some legend handed down through children would say, “that’s not your the generations and although most become Mum. You don’t have a mother.” embellished or understated over time, they should not be entirely discounted during the One day the children took Rangi to course of your research—as most family stories school. Because she talked Māori in have at least one grain of truth in them. The fun the classroom the teacher came up part is separating fact from and slapped her face so she never fiction! BM PAGE 8 TE REO

A Māori Maiden HINEMOA & TUTANEKAI

Tutanekai lived on Mokoia Island, Lake Roto- rua, where of an evening he and his friend Tiki used to play – the one on a “horn”, the other on a “pipe”. The sound of this music could be heard across Lake Rotorua at Owhata and it charmed the beautiful and noble-born Hinemoa who lived there. When Tutanekai visited the mainland with his people, he met Hinemoa and they fell in love. The young man had perforce to return to his village, but the lovers arranged that every night he would play and that Hinemoa would follow the sound of his music to join him.

Tutanekai kept up a nightly serenade but Hinemoa's people, suspecting something was afoot, had hidden all the canoes. The maiden, however, was not to be deterred and, selecting six large, dry, empty gourds as floats, she decided to swim to the island. Guided by the strains of her loved one's music, Hinemoa safely reached the other shore and landed near a hot spring, Waikimihia, in which she warmed and refreshed herself – the pool is on Mokoia Island to this day.

Just at that moment Tutanekai sent his servant for water. This man disturbed the girl who, pretending to be a man, spoke in a gruff voice and, when she learnt his er- rand, begged for a drink from the calabash which she smashed as soon as she had had her fill. The servant then went back and reported to Tutanekai what had happened. He was ordered back again and again, each time with the same result, until all the calabashes were broken. The now irate young man himself went down to the pool and to his joy discovered Hinemoa.

Like all good stories, the legend has a conventional ending – they lived happily ever after.

by Judith Sidney Hornabrook, M.A., National Archives, Wellington.  Polynesian Mythology, Grey, Sir G. Legends of Rotorua and the Hot Lakes, Reed, A. W., 1958. 'HINEMOA, LEGEND OF', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 11-Jul-2005

URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/1966/H/HinemoaLegendOf/en

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THE MĀORI KING patriotic or ambitious motives, initiated MOVEMENT— a Maori King movement in the South. His friend Tamihana Te Rauparaha had A BRIEF HISTORY just returned from England, and it is

said that Matini's ambition was fired by the accounts he heard of England's King. Gathering a few other chiefs around him who sympathized with the project, they formed a deputation, and went forth to visit Rotorua, Maketu, and Waikato, ostensibly for the purpose of exhorting the chiefs of the interior of the Island to submit to the authority of the Governor, but really on a mission of King-making. Their principal motto was “Whakakotahitanga,” “Union.” They proposed a confederacy of all the tribes, and that one chief should be appointed as King or Governor. It was commonly thought that Matini aspired to the king- dom. They returned from Rotorua and Maketu, having met with no sympathy The Māori King’s Flag from the chiefs of those districts, who addressed a letter to the chiefs of Wan- Hongi Hika, the renowned Warrior of ganui and Taranaki expressive of their the Ngapuhi tribe, was probably the desire to live in peace with all, in sub- first New Zealand Chief that entertained stance as follows:—“We salute you all. the idea of a Maori King. In 1820 Hongi This is our word to you, New Zealand is visited England; “To see King George the house, the Europeans are the raf- and bring back Missionaries, Carpen- ters on one side, the Maori are the raf- ters, Blacksmiths, Europeans, and ters on the other side, God is the ridge- twenty soldiers,” was the declared in- pole against which all lean, and the tention of his visit. He was invited dur- house is one.” ing his stay in England to Carlton Pal- A number of tribes supported the move- ace by George IV. He saw the King's ment, but it became centered on the greatness, and heard of his power; he Waikato region and people. The desire saw the Guards, the Tower, and Military to retain land was a central concern of Stores; he received a present of a suit of the movement, repeated in sayings, armour, and a supply of arms; he lis- songs and hake. tened to stories of the sieges and battles Tribes from all over the country, includ- of Napoleon; and Hongi said, “There is ing the South Island, debated who but one King in England, there shall be should be offered the kingship. They only one King in New Zealand.” finally agreed upon Pōtatau Te Wherow-

The next attempt in this direction was hero, the Waikato chief, who became made by Matini Te Whiwhi, of Otaki, in first king in 1858. Pōtatau was suc- 1852. He is described by Rev. R. Taylor, ceeded by his son Tāwhiao in 1860. in his work on New Zealand, as “the Tāwhiao’s reign coincided with the Wai- nephew of Rangihaata, a very shrewd kato war of 1863–64, after which he led intelligent man, who speaks a little Eng- his people into exile in the lands south lish, and lives in European style in a (Continued on page 12) very good house.” This chief, either from PAGE 10 TE REO TE REO PAGE 11

Reference source:

Maori Kings information below taken from:

Te Kingitanga – The people of the King Movement. AUP. Biographies from DNZB

There were 5 Maori Kings. Where dates are missing I could not find them or they are not known.

1. Te Wherowhero installed 1858 when he took the name Potatau. Died 1860.

2. Tawhiao Installed 1860. Died 1894.

3. Mahuta Born 1854/5 Died 1912.

4. Te Rata Born 1877/1880. Installed 1912 and took the name Po- tatau Te Wherowhero. Died 1933.

5. Koroki Installed 1933. Died 1966.

After him the first Maori Queen;

Dame Te Atairangikaahu. Installed 1966. Living 2006 BJ

Acknowledgements; Myth, Maori King, Tutanekai articles.

Left: “Preparatory sketch for carved upright of Cotrocenti ‘Maori’ hut. Unsigned, undated. (Cotrocenti Palace Archive). The 'Maori' Huts of Queen Marie of Roma- nia” http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issue114/huts.htm PAGE 12 TE REO

(Continued from page 9) tive Council and the Executive Council of Parliament during his reign. He was suc- of Te Awamutu. This area is now known ceeded by his son Te Rata in 1912. as the King Country. Tāwhiao, who was Te Rata continued the work of his father also a prophet, sustained the King move- by negotiating with the New Zealand gov- ment in trying times and was succeeded ernment and the British Crown, and by by his son Mahuta in 1894. seeking redress for grievances. He was King movement leaders succeeded by his son Korokī in 1933. Korokī was a quiet man but nevertheless Pōtatau Te Wherowhero (1858–1860) a leader of mana. During his time he was Tāwhiao (1860–1894) aided by his aunt, Te Puea Hērangi. Mahuta (1894–1912) Korokī was followed in 1966 by his daughter Te Ātairangikaahu. Te Rata (1912–1933) Korokī (1933–1966) http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BudMaor-t1- body.html Te Ātairangikaahu (1966– ) http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/ Mahuta became a member of the Legisla- MaoriNewZealanders/Waikato/4/en

TE WHEROWHERO, Potatau, or Potatau I (c. 1800–1860).

Paramount chief of the Waikato tribes and first Māori King.

Te Wherowhero was born about 1800 and was the son of Te Rauangaanga, who at this time had just become the principal war chief of the Waikato tribes. His mother was Te Parengaope, a high chief- tainess of the Ngati Koura. At the time of his son's birth Te Rauangaanga was famous as a fighting chief. In the summer of 1790 he had led combined Waikato and Maniapoto forces against the Ngati Toa chief Pikauterangi whom he defeated at the Battle of Hingakaka (near Ohaupo). This battle was said to have been the greatest ever fought on New Zealand soil. Some 20 years later Te Rauangaanga commanded 1,600 picked Waikato warriors who captured Te Rauparaha's pa at Te Wherowhero is installed as the first Māori king, Hikuparea. Potatau I, in 1858 Portrait of Te Wherowhero, Te Wherowhero belonged to the Ngati Ma- Potatau I, from: Garran, Andrew, The Picturesque huta hapu of the Waikato tribe and was a Atlas of Australasia, vol 3, 1886 descendant, in the senior chiefly line, http://tpo.tepapa.govt.nz/ViewImageFileDetail.asp? from the semi-legendary Hoturoa. His Image-home was at Kaitotehe pa, which was FileID=TPO_TTY066&Language=English&dumb (Continued on page 13) yparam=search TE REO PAGE 13

(Continued from page 12) the defenders' casualties of 50. In 1833 situated on the Waikato River bank he unsuccessfully attacked Te Namu, opposite to Taupiri. Matakatea's stronghold near Cape Eg- mont. During 1834 he forayed to Tan- From 1820 onwards the Waikato tribes gahoe and Waimate (South Taranaki) suffered in raids launched by the mus- and began a long siege of Te Namu. By ket-bearing Ngapuhi under their fight- this time the Ngati Awa had also ac- ing chief Hongi Hika. This caused them quired muskets and were able to meet to retreat upon tribes living further to the Waikatos with more advantage. At the south and led to a further outbreak Te Namu, where Matakatea made a in the war between the Waikato and most determined defence, Te Wherow- Ngati Toa tribes. Te Rauangaanga cap- hero was obliged to make peace and so tured Te Totara pa on Kawhia Harbour end his campaigns. By this time, too, in 1819. In the following year Te missionary influence was extending Wherowhero led a force of 3,000 Waika- among the Waikatos, and the tribes tos and Maniapotos overland against were more inclined to peace. Te the Ngati Toa positions on the south Wherowhero, himself, attended church side of Kawhia Harbour. This force was services regularly, although he never augmented by 1,500 warriors who submitted to baptism. came by sea from Whaingaroa (Raglan) and who captured Ngati Toa's strong- In 1840 Governor Hobson sent emissar- points on Kawhia. Meanwhile Te ies to the Waikato, hoping to obtain the Wherowhero's force systematically re- signatures of the leading chiefs to the duced Ngati Toa's landward defenses. Treaty of Waitangi. But, in spite of the Finally the Waikatos besieged Te many blandishments that were offered, Arawai pa and, after several days heavy neither Te Wherowhero nor the other fighting, Ngati Toa survivors – a mere principal chiefs would sign. Although remnant of the tribe and their fighting he refused to cede sovereignty to the chief Te Rauparaha – withdrew by sea British Government, Te Wherowhero towards Taranaki. was not hostile to the presence of Euro- peans in his district. Te Wherowhero pursued the fleeing Ngati Toa overland to Taranaki and in Sir George Grey, who always made it this way involved himself in war with his policy to cultivate influential native the Ngati Awa. Although Te Wherow- chiefs, took great pains to cultivate Te hero was never forced to retreat, his Wherowhero. The Governor built him a sieges in Taranaki were sometimes un- cottage at Mangere and for some years successful and were costly in human the Waikato chief was consulted upon life. At Te Motunui he lost several hun- many questions of Māori affairs. In dred men and after the three months 1848, when Grey was knighted, he ap- siege of Pukerangiora the defenders pointed Te Wherowhero and Waka Nene retreated, leaving 1,200 dead upon the to be his squires. When Te Rauparaha field. Māori tradition credits Te was released these same chiefs stood Wherowhero with killing no less than surety for his good behaviour and, later 180 of these with his own mere. In in the year, accompanied the Governor 1832 he returned to Taranaki at the to Kapiti to satisfy themselves that the head of 4,000 warriors and besieged Ngati Toa chief had indeed been freed. the Ngati Awa on an island just outside The Government often negotiated with New Plymouth. Barrett, Love, and eight Te Wherowhero at Mangere. In cases of whalers fought in the defense, manning grave offences committed against Euro- four carronades which did deadly exe- peans by Waikato natives Te Wherow- cution. Te Wherowhero withdrew after hero was invariably prepared to sup- losing 350 of his best warriors against (Continued on page 14) PAGE 14 TE REO

(Continued from page 13) cords that the name “Te Wherowhero” port authority. means “redman” and that the great Wai- kato chief got this title from being the first After 1848, when the land question began among his people to obtain and wear a to press upon the Māori, Te Wherowhero scarlet blanket. “Potatau”, meaning “he gradually turned against the Government that counts by night”, was given to him at and in his old age reluctantly accepted the the death of his wife, for whom his love position of Māori “King”. In 1857, at Pu- was so great that he sat sleepless for kawa, on the south-eastern shores of many nights while she lay dying – Taupo, he was “erected” as “King”. He was “counting”, as the Māori put it, “her last installed in this office, amid great ceremo- hours”. nies, at Ngaruawahia in April 1858. As events proceeded and as his supporters by Walter Hugh Ross, Journalist, Taupo. grew increasingly hostile to the incursions of Europeans, Te Wherowhero inevitably The Māori King, Gorst, J. E. (1959) lost the Governor's confidence. He died on King Potatau – an Account of the Life of 25 June 1860, and was succeeded by his Potatau Te Wherowhero, Jones, P. te H. son Matutaera Tawhiao. (1959) History and Traditions of the Māori, Gud- Potatau Te Wherowhero stood over 6ft tall geon (1885) and was one of the most famous warriors Māori Wars of the Nineteenth Century, of his day. He was an eloquent orator and, Smith, S. P. (1910). as high priest of Tainui, was well versed in the traditions of his own race. Gorst re-

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EASTERN MAORI ELECTORAL ROLL 1908 TE ARAWA TRIBE MEMBERS LIVING IN THE EASTERN MAORI ELECTORATE INCLUDING TE PUKE AND DISTRICT.

This is the List of Maori Electors who voted at the General Election in the Eastern Maori Electorate in 1908. It was printed by the Government Printer in 1911 and is the earliest Maori Electoral Roll to survive. There appears to have been some trouble with the order that the names were recorded so please check under both surname and Christian names. Unfortunately some of the pages are very hard to read so I apologize for any spelling mistakes during transcribing—Queries marked with a “?”. CC

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In this issue we continue with the series of als until at least 1869. fascinating sort stories on the settlements of the Māori people in the Auckland area from the After the 1856 gunpowder incident on early 1800’s to the first quarter of last century Kawau, when a large amount of gunpow- as kindly submitted by the MIG Convenor BM der was stolen, Te Tawera and his Hau- raki people sought refuge at Awataha and from 1856 to 1858 that there were "about 120 (Maori) living on the Glebe of the college" (7). Some were still there in March 1863, when their teacher William Coveney confirmed most of his pupils were from Manaia, and had converted to Catholi- cism. Note that Hira Tepuketawiro was from Manaia.

On 9 July 1863 Maori in the vicinity of Auckland were put under a curfew, and those in Mangere and surrounding areas ordered to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen and hand in any weapons, or depart for the Waikato. On 11 July there was a curfew introduced on Maori vessels on the Waitemata and Manukau harbours outside the hours of daylight. Conse- quently all but 6 out of 500 in the Man- gere area left and around 50 left the De- vonport area. Some at Awataha may have also left, but others remained.

From 1863 to the 1880's there were six different Pakeha lessors of different parts of the property. In 1869, at least, the re- maining 55 to 60 acres were leased to THE AWATAHA CATHOLIC Maori at 10 Pounds per annum (8). There MISSION & ST MARY'S is no mention of Maori here at the 1878 Census, but George Graham claimed COLLEGE. PART SEVEN: Maori were at Awataha from at least 1882

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There were at least two other burials in Handwritten transcript by Peter ALLEN "St Mary's burial ground on the college Hamilton, WKT, NZ.

Glebe" (6). Pipirini, a sixteen year old from www.cel-software.co.nz/images/BHS/Jun03/ Rotorua, likely also Te Arawa, was buried ONEWA.htm

6 August 1862, while Ho Hira Tepuket- Selected Bibliography awiro, aged between 45 and 50 from GRAHAM, George Samuel “History of Kauri Point” 1910 GRAHAM, George Samuel “History of Orewa (Northcote Manaia, likely Hauraki, was buried 19 Point)” 1908 August 1862. Two other burials in 1863 Hauraki Maori Land Trust Board Hauraki Treaty and 1865 were at the "North Shore Ceme- Claims Vol.6 1880-1980 (1997) tery". This is now the called the Pompal- The Mercy Sisters & St Joseph’s Takapuna 1893-1993 lier cemetery and is at the top of Pupuke

Road. The Catholic section of Mount Vic- (Continued next issue…) toria cemetery in Devonport had no buri-

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