When Taniwha Christy was born in 1830, in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, his father, William Hooper Christy, was 33 and his mother, Rawinia Te Apatu O Te Rangi, was 24. He married Kuao Patehepa Pakuku about 1871, in Heretaunga, Upper Hutt, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 13 sons and 6 daughters.
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A confederation of Maori tribes was convened in 1834 by James Busby, a British Resident who had been sent to New Zealand to set up a framework for trade between the Māori and Europeans. The Flag which they used was a mix between the St. George’s Cross and in the top left corner another smaller St. Georges Cross with four eight pointed stars representing the Holy Cross stars in the Southern Hemisphere. This design is still being used today as the official flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand.
Province: Hawke's Bay Province was founded in 1858 as a province of New Zealand, after being separated from the Wellington Province following a meeting in Napier in February 1858. The Province was abolished in 1876 along with all other provinces in New Zealand. It was replaced with a Provincial District.
After discovery of gold in Gabriel's Gully, hundreds of miners and precious metal hunters flocked to New Zealand to be a part of the frenzy. This influx of people caused new settlements to pop up and different innovation techniques to begin. After a few years of steady success, the gold began to be more difficult to find. While some stayed, most of the prospectors left until most of the settlements, which they had founded, became Ghost Towns with only a few residents staying around.
English and northern Irish: variant of Christie .
American shortened and altered form of the Scandinavian patronymics Christiansen and Christianson .
Indian and Indonesian: variant of Christi 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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