Tatai Rangi Eileen Harris

Brief Life History of Tatai Rangi Eileen

When Tatai Rangi Eileen Harris was born in 1896, in Hokianga, New Zealand, her father, Hone Tamati Harris, was 34 and her mother, Makareta Maihi, was 23. She married Tony Huaki Kire in 1931, in Hokianga, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1939, in her hometown, at the age of 43.

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Family Time Line

Tony Huaki Kire
1917–1988
Tatai Rangi Eileen Harris
1896–1939
Marriage: 1931
Mr Joseph Kire
1925–
Mr Tamatohia Thomas Dorsey Kire
1932–2021
Hine Te Kapuarangi Kire
1933–1986

Sources (3)

  • Legacy NFS Source: Huitau Wharemate - Individual or family possessions: birth: 23 April 1943; Kawakawa, Far North, Northland, North Island, New Zealand
  • Legacy NFS Source: Tony Huaki Kire - Individual or family possessions: male
  • Legacy NFS Source: Ripeka Kainamu - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Ripeka Kainamu

World Events (5)

1896 · National Council of Women

The National Council of Women of New Zealand was created as an organization after women won the right to vote. Today works to help achieve gender equality in New Zealand and in 2017 introduced Gender Equal NZ, which is fighting for Zealanders to have the freedom and opportunity to determine their own future no matter which gender they are.

1907

The country becomes a dominion, or self-governing community, within the British empire.

1914

Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.

Name Meaning

English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.

American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).

Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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