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Kiritapu marena Himi Te Nana Clendon [6138] [MRIN: 2062].
Na Tamariki o te Marena:
407 F i. TeAira Ida Rewa Te Nana Clendon [6137].
Rapunga Kupu Akoako: Refer RIN4765.
TeAira marena Samuel Wiremu Maioha [4763] [MRIN: 1746].

Te Aira Clendon

Rapunga Kupu Akoako: this is a "blank" entry to avoid duplication. Refer RIN5606.
408 M ii. Henare Poutawera Clendon Tenana [6162].
Henare marena Taurangi Warana Matene [6234] [MRIN: 2094],
daughter of Kuru Warana Matene [6235] and Iwa Rewha [6236].

Henare Tenana

409 F iii. Te Tii Puatea Te Nana [6163].
410 F iv. Ripeka Te Nana [6164].
411 M v. Wire Paaka Te Nana [6165].

412 M vi. Hetaraka Te Nana [6166].
413 M vii. Henare Poutawhera Clendon-Tenana [6167].
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283. Eruera Maihi Patuone [9119] (TeKawahau , TeTua , TePatu ,
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TeNgawa , TeWairua , TeRehu Ngahue , Mahiapoake , Taurapoho ,
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Kaharau , Whakaruru , Waiora , Tokatu , Whaiputuputu , Paparangi ,
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Ruatapu , RUANUI ) was born about 1762, died on 19 Sep 1872 aged about 110, and
was buried in Mt Victoria Cemetry, Devonport.
Rapunga Kupu Akoako: (korero taken from "The Encyclopedia of NZ")
Patuone: signed the Declaration of the Independence of Aotearoa in 1836
(which asked for British protection). A visit to the north in 1840 enabled him
to be present in February at the signing of te Tiriti O Waitangi. He had been
baptised on 26 January by Henry Williams according to Church of England
rites. He took the names Eruera Maihi (Edward Marsh) and his wife the name
Patuone
Riria (Lydia), both Williams family names. At the Waitangi debate on 5
February Patuone, now an old man, played a supportive role to his younger
brother, Nene, whose intervention was crucial for the acceptance of the treaty. Patuone had met
William Hobson, the lieutenant governor, on Hobson's earlier visit. After the signing on 6 February
Patuone presented him with a mere for the Queen and was taken on board the Herald to dine.
In the early 1840s Patuone lived and traded at various places around the Hauraki Gulf, including
Matiatia on Waiheke Island and Takapuna. In 1841 his wife had sold to the Crown 9,500 acres of
what was to become Auckland's North Shore, but Patuone continued to live at Te Katu by Lagoon
Bay (on the harbour side of Takapuna). No doubt because of his age he played only a marginal part in
the northern war of the 1840s. In Auckland, in May 1845, he was a member of a deputation which
interceded with Governor Robert FitzRoy for the release of Pomare II, seized by Colonel William
Hulme at the Bay of Islands. But the next year Patuone was arrested in the streets of Auckland by
the police magistrate, Thomas Beckham, to be questioned about a rumoured attack by Hone Heke.
This illegal act angered the new governor, George Grey, who had Beckham demoted.
Grey valued Patuone's presence in Auckland. It gave some assurance of safety to the unprotected
town. When Riria died in 1849, Patuone's relatives urged him to return to Hokianga. Grey dissuaded
him with a gift of 110 acres at Waiwharariki (Takapuna Beach), although the grant was only for his
lifetime. Patuone lived his last two decades on this land, and in a small pa, called Riria after his wife,