Hinewairaki (married Kuru Kuru). Kiori had no children. Mary TAMAIRAKI (see below)x te RAUPARAHA is not THE te Rauparaha who terrorised parts of the North and South islands, and he did not have children x Kautawa te KAIHERAKI had no children I know of. x te Oti MAUHE m Wikitoria ? and descendants are unknown. This information comes from Sheet 196 in official Ngai Tahu whakapapa records.

Haumai te Kaiheraki is also known as Tamairaki Haumai and that is the name which appears as No 1263 in what is known as The Blue Book, the official Ngai Tahu document, "Ngai Tahu Kaumatua Alive In 1848, As Established By The Maori Land Court in 1925 And The Ngai Tahu Census Committee in 1929".

Nothing is known of Haumai and wife Hine but it is assumed they were Moriori /Maori living on the Chatham Islands when their six children were born. Nothing is known by ME that is! There could be descendants in Chathams/Southland who I have never spoken to who can recite their whakapapa.

There are three trees on this page with descendants from Tamairaki's three liaisons, Tamairaki with Whitehouse, Owen and Holmes. So you need to do a bit of scrolling to see them all.

TAMAIRAKI, third born of Haumai and Hine

It has been established that Tamairaki was Moriori but not a lot is known of her hokopapa (whakapapa). Tamairaki belonged to a hapu known as Wheteina which is located on the North West corner of Rekohu (Chatham Island), from the top of Te Whanga lagoon to it's opening 'Te Awapatiki'. Also in the Wheteina rohe is a place called Hapupu which is the area with some of the most comprehensive groves of karapuna which are trees carved with ancestral figures. Few carvings remain.

In his magnificent and widely lauded book, Moriori, historian Michael King mentions Mary Tamairaki in this passage about her grand daughter Kiti Riwai -- îKiti Karaka, also known as Catherine, Kate or Kitty Clark, was born on Ruapuke Island in Foveaux Strait on 12 September 1870. Her father, Arapetere Karaka (Albert Clark), nicknamed Chathams Islands Willy, was born in the Chathams of Moriori and Ngati Mamoe ancestry. Her mother, Mary Owen, was the daughter of *John Owen (a pakeha) and Mary Tamairaki who were also of Moriori and Maori (Ngati Hinetewai) descent. Mary Tamairaki had been with the Maori-Moriori settlement in the Auckland Islands in the 1850s and had apparently settled in Foveaux Strait to avoid returning to slavery in the Chatham Islands.î (* Owen was her step father because Whitehouse has been established as her actual father).

Precisely when and how Mary Tamairaki managed to escape slavery and arrive at Rakiura (Stewart Island) is unclear but it was certainly before the collapse of the Auckland Islands experiment. What is known is that she was at Stewart Island when the census was taken in 1844. The census recorded that John Owen and wife Tamiraki (sic) and children, 2 boys and one girl, were living at Smoky Cave (?) at Murrayís River (Otakou).

In her book ìIn The Grip Of An Island -- Early Stewart Island Historyî, Olga Sanson wrote the following in the section dealing with Smoky Beach -- ìIn a dry cave at Smoky, John Owen and his wife Tamairaki and two children lived for a time until they settled at The Neck where both family and fortune increasedî.

Tamairaki and Whitehouse, ( Hawkers)

Tamairaki and Holmes

Tamairaki and Owen

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