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Kiriora whakapapa



Tuiti, son of Tupoto & Kauwae (or Kauae) is the great-great grandson of Rahiri and his wife Whakaruru. Tuiti had two wives: Marohawhea (Ngati Pou) and Moengaroa. The Kiriora/Ohehi line is through Moengaroa. Names of direct descendants have been placed first in the below whakapapa; this is not necessarily indicative of their being the eldest.





Marohawhea begat RANGIHANA (m).
Rangihana married Kuiawai (Ngati Ue) and begat TE WHAREUMU (m) and Tarahape (m).
Te Whareumu married Huia of Te Roroa who begat Kohu (his brother Tarahape married her sister Kie). Te Whareumu also married Whakakati who begat Hori Kingi Tahua; he also married Moehuri Tawhai who begat Kohu Katerina (f), Toihaumaku (m), Wharepoke (m), Rauruhaea (m) and HINE TE WAIROA (f).
Moengaroa begat RIUTAIA (m).
Ruitaia married Huia and begat TE MAIRANGA (f), Tike (m), Te Rahui (m), Perepere (m) and Niutahia (m). Note some other whakapapa attribute Hine Te Wairoa (bottom left-hand column) as being born to Huia.
Te Mairanga married Tiro (m) of To Roa (later, he married Taratu of Ngati Kawa). Their ten children consisted of seven boys: PAEKORAHA, Te Waiata, Te Maunga, Te Toko, Te Maara, Tonganui and Te Hamua and three girls: Huia, Pakinga and Waitarehu (who married the renowned Toa).
Paekoraha married Koerere (f) the daughter of Takitake; they begat MARO (f).
Maro went on to marry Te Waenga (or "Waianga") Tuoro – also known as Te Manene – the famous tohunga of Omapere. They begat KIRIORA (f) or Kate also known as Maori Kate, Kate Te Waenga and Punga; she went on to marry John Martin (1796-1863). Maro & Waenga also begat Hoani Tuoro (m) who went on to marry Marara Tuoro (1807-1900); and Marara Mahuhu (f) who married Tiopira Kinaki (their youngest child, Piipi Raumati Tiopira, passed away in 1952).
Kiriora & John Martin

Kiriora and John Martin begat MARY MARTIN (b.1828) who later married John Rowe; Maria Martin (b.1839) who later married William Wells; and George Martin (b.1840) who later married Elizabeth Ann Chapman, daughter of Alexander Chapman and Rora (also known as Auroroa Matilda Pahihi or Paheke).
Mary Rowe nee Martin & John Rowe

Mary and John Rowe begat James Rowe, Emma Rowe, Arthur Rowe, Maria Jane Rowe (who married Alfred Spry Andrewes), John Rowe, William Rowe and Mary Rowe.
Mary Rowe nee Martin & Daniel Titipa Boyce

After the death of John Rowe, Mary Martin remarried to Daniel Titipa Boyce, grandson of Te Paepae & Hakona. Now Mary Boyce, she begat ELIZA JANE BOYCE who married Walter William Muir Ogilvy; Matthew Daniel "Te Hau" Boyce and Amelia (Ella) Alice Boyce.