Haurongo - Karuwhā Trust

Marianne Williams

"I was born in 1793 in Norwich, England. My father, Wright Coldham, later became a prominent Nottingham politician and business owner. My mother died when I was 16 years old and I supported the running of my father’s household until he passed away in 1816..."

Elizabeth Colenso

"I was born in 1821 at the Kerikeri mission station, Northland. My parents, Sarah and William Fairburn, were lay missionaries with the CMS. Around two years after my birth, we all moved to the new mission settlement at Paihia, established with the Williams family..."

Heke Pōkai, Hōne Wiremu

"I was born at Pākaraka, near the maunga Pouērua, inland from Pēwhairangi – what the Pākehā call the Bay of Islands. I was given the name Pōkai after my mother’s brother..."

Henry Williams

"I was born in 1792, in Gosport, south England, near Britain’s main naval base at Portsmouth. My parents were Thomas Williams, a hosiery merchant, and Mary..."

Rāwiri Taiwhanga

"I do not know when I was born in terms of the years since our Lord’s birth “A.D.”. When I died in the 1870s, however, some Pākehā thought I was 100 years old..."

William Colenso

"I was born and raised in the town of Penzance, Cornwall, in the south-west corner of England. My father was a town councillor and earned his living making and..."

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