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Te Rongo, -1843

Wahine Māori of Ngāti Rangatahi and Ngāti Toa, also known as Te Rongopamamao. Married to Te Rangihaeata. Te Rongo had been identified as Te Rangiuira (E. Ranguera), however this is likely to another of Te Rangihaeata's wives.

Te Rongo died during the Wairau Affray, Tuamarina, Marlborough, 17 June 1843. Her death was said to have triggered the violence at Tuamarina and to have been the reason for the killing of Pākehā prisoners, as utu. Is often refered to as a daughter of Te Rauparaha, but is likely to be a niece. In the 1830s, Rauparaha arranged her marriage at the Cloudy Bay whaling station to a whaling captain, Captain John William Dundas Blenkinsop (d 1837). After his death, she married Te Rangihaeata. Was also married to Te Whaiti, with whom she had a daughter, Erenora.

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Miscellaneous manuscripts relating to Te Rongo

Date: 1938

From: General Assembly Library : Miscellaneous manuscripts

Reference: MS-Papers-10077-2b

Description: Photographic prints showing the skull of Te Rongo, killed at Wairau valley, 1843. The photographs, taken by W E Redman in 1938, are mounted on card with annotations. Also includes related newspaper clippings. Hei whakamōhio: He whakaahua o ngā kōiwi tangata i roto i tēnei kōpaki. Please be aware this folder contains images of human remains. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. 1 folder(s) newspaper clippings. Transfers: Separated from MS-Papers-10077-2a for reasons of tikanga and cultural sensitivity.. Processing information: The original folder, labelled “Te Rongo Portrait”, has been retained.

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Black, Dorothy fl 1947-1959? : Early New Zealand women of note

Date: 1950

By: Black, Dorothy, active 1947-1989

Reference: qMS-0235

Description: Series of short talks about women who came to New Zealand prior to the emigration schemes of the 1840s. Includes accounts of the lives of missionaries Ann Turner, Mary Stack, Susan Maunsell, and Hannah Watkin. Also Betty Guard who first came to New Zealand with her whaler husband in 1828 and settled at Te Awaiti. In 1834 Betty and her children were taken captive by Maori when their ship ran aground off the Taranaki coast. Two women who settled with their families at Banks Peninsula, Elizabeth Sinclair and Mrs Ebenezer Hay, are also included. There is also information about three Maori women: the wife of Captain Blenkinsopp of Cloudy Bay (she is unnamed); Kuika Rangiawa who married a Dutchman named Wynen who had settled at Cloudy Bay; and Te Rongo of Ngati Toa who was wife of Te Whaiti and then of Rangihaeata. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (some carbon) with annotations (37 cm, blue pam case)

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