Paretaunu Tanaha Korohia was born in 1815, in Pirongia, Waipa, New Zealand as the daughter of Karohia and Mapiha. She married Piripi Rangihana Ngaromutu Tanaha in 1845, in Hokianga, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1883, in Waikato, New Zealand, at the age of 68.
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First British missionaries arrive.
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.
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.
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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