When Piripi Rangihana Ngaromutu Tanaha was born about 1818, in Hokianga, New Zealand, his father, Rangihana, was 39 and his mother, Haki, was 29. He married Paretaunu Tanaha Korohia in 1845, in Hokianga, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1899, in Rawene, Far North, New Zealand, at the age of 82, and was buried in Rawene, Far North, New Zealand.
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The town of Paihia, within the inner reaches of the Bay of Islands, experienced growth at the hands of the Church Missionary Society. A mission was established in 1823, which led to the creation of the country's first printing press in 1835. The mission closed in 1850.
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Some characteristic forenames: Japanese Akira, Hiroshi, Kenji, Koji, Satoru, Yoshio, Shigeru, Yukio, Kiyoshi, Yuji, Hideo, Koichi.
Japanese: written 田中 ‘center of the rice paddy’. One of the ten most common surnames in Japan, it is particularly frequent around the city of Ōsaka, and is also found in the Ryūkyū Islands. It is listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku but the surname is borne by many unrelated families.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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