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  • Hori Kerei (Huriwhenua) Taiaroa (b. - 1905)
    Tini also brought up her eldest son's children. Their father, Te One (known as John), drowned in 1907 and their mother, Rakapa Potaka, had died giving birth in 1904. Tini's third son, Riki (later known...
  • John Wiwi Taiaroa (1862 - 1907)
    John Grey "Jack" Taiaroa (16 September 1862 – 31 December 1907), of Ngāi Tahu descent, was a New Zealand rugby union player. A halfback, he played nine matches for the New Zealand national team in 1884...
  • Riki Taiaroa (1866 - 1954)
    Tini's third son, Riki (later known as Poua Dick), also lived at Te Awhitu. He adopted and brought with him his niece's son, Riki Ellison, who was one of many other children raised by Tini in her later...
  • Te Matenga Taiaroa (1790 - 1863)
    Te Matenga was born about the 1790s at Waikakahi, at the northern end of Lake Waihora in Canterbury.16 He lived a very full life, one marked by conflict and turmoil within his own people and with Pākeh...
  • Tini Pana (Jane) Taiaroa (Burns) (1840 - 1934)
    Tini Kerei Taiaroa (1846–1934) was a notable New Zealand founding mother and community worker. Of Māori descent, she identified with the Ngai Tahu iwi. She was born in Moeraki, North Otago, New Zealand...

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