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Wiremu Kīngi
Wiremu Kīngi may refer to: * Wiremu Kīngi Maketū (c. 1824 – 7 March 1842), a Ngāpuhi Māori who was the first person executed in New Zealand under British rule * Wiremu Kīngi Moki Te Matakātea ( – 14 February 1893), a chief of the Māori tribe known as Taranaki * Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke, ( – 13 January 1882), a chief of the Te Āti Awa tribe who led Māori forces in the First Taranaki War {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiremu Kīngi Maketū
Wiremu Kīngi Maketū (also known as Maketū Wharetotara or Waretotara) (c. 1824 – 7 March 1842) was the first person executed in New Zealand under British rule. Maketū was also the first New Zealand Māori to be tried and punished based on British sovereignty over New Zealand. The murders on Motuarohia Island Maketū was the son of Ruhe of Waimate, a chief of the Ngāpuhi. Maketū was accused of the murder of 5 people on 20 November 1841 on Motuarohia Island in the Bay of Islands. He was accused of killing Thomas Bull (referred to in the later trial as Tamati Puru) with an adze. The explanation for this killing was that Thomas Bull had been mistreating Maketū. Maketū was accused of then killing his employer Elizabeth Roberton (a widow), her two children and Isabella Brind, who was the granddaughter of Rewa, a chief of the Ngai Tawake hapū of the Ngāpuhi iwi of Kerikeri. Isabella's parents were Moewaka (Rewa's daughter) and Captain William Darby Brind. He was also a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiremu Kīngi Moki Te Matakātea
Wiremu Kīngi Moki Te Matakātea (died 14 February 1893) was a principal chief and warrior of the Ngāti Haumiti hapū (subtribe) of the Māori iwi (tribe) of New Zealand known as Taranaki. Born probably in the Taranaki region in the early years of the nineteenth century, Te Matakātea was first known as Moki. In the 1820s and 1830s he was caught up in his tribe's resistance to a series of Waikato raids. After a Waikato victory at Maru, at the base of Mount Taranaki, in 1826, he became the leader of some 120 men and their families who stayed within the protection of Te Namu pa, near Ōpunake, when the remainder of the Taranaki tribe migrated to the Kapiti coast about 1827. Moki and his people were able to obtain muskets from European flax traders who had settled at Ngamotu, near present-day New Plymouth, in 1828. When in 1833 Waikato laid siege to Te Namu, Moki distinguished himself by his marksmanship and received the name Te Matakātea, the clear-eyed. Waikato retreated bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |