When Moetekaunuku Motekaviu TAGIHIA was born in 1880, in Hikueru, French Polynesia, her father, Tahuka TAGIHIA, was 52 and her mother, Kahuragi Maria Tetopata, was 50. She married Teariki RUA on 31 January 1917, in Hikueru, French Polynesia. She died on 8 March 1963, in her hometown, at the age of 83.