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Te Wharerauaruhe

Posted by Tony Hart <mgtdfan@yahoo.com> on Fri, 21 Aug 2009, in response to Rance family history, posted by Warren Rance on Sun, 20 Oct 2002

I refer to your GenCircles entry for Te Wharerauaruhe concerning Maori ancestors of the Davis family, New Zealand.

Te Wharerauaruhe means the house of bracken or fern and I suspect that the great chief Taiaroa would be somewhat surprised to learn that his mother was a male and his father, Korako, was female! Seriously though, Te Wharerauaruhe is very well documented. She is listed in the Ngai Tahu "blue book" of Kaumatua alive in 1848 (No 1335 file 351). Her whakapapa appears in "Ngai Tahu: A migration history" (ISBN 978-1-877242-39-7 page 216). Korako, her first husband was killed when Capt James Kelly sacked Otakou in 1817. She was married to her second husband, Matthew Hamilton, a whaler, by Rev Charles Creed in Akaroa on 28 September 1845 and bore him 3 children, one of whom was my great grandfather. She is also documented in "The World of John Boultbee" and Gordon Ogilvie's book "Banks Peninsula, Cradle of Canterbury" (ISBN 978-0-9583315-4-8 2007 Page 27.)

May I respectfully suggest that you correct the record you posted on GenCircles.

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