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    Rangihoua Bay is a bay at the southern end of the Purerua Peninsula, on the north-west shore of the Bay of Islands in Northland, New Zealand. It is 10 km...
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    from the Church Missionary Society who were welcomed onto the beach at Rangihoua Bay in December 1814. It soon became the predominant belief amongst the...
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    land in New Zealand was preached by Marsden at Oihi Bay (a small cove in the north-east of Rangihoua Bay) on Christmas Day, 1814. The service from the Church...
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  • first European birth in New Zealand was Thomas Holloway King at the Rangihoua Bay settlement on 21 February 1815. The first child born to European parents...
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    New Zealand land on Christmas Day in 1814, at Oihi Bay, a small cove in Rangihoua Bay in the Bay of Islands, at the invitation of chiefs Te Pahi and...
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    and Te Hikutū iwi (tribes). Waikato's primary residence was the pā at Rangihoua Bay. As a young man, Waikato travelled to England in 1820 alongside the...
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    Te Pahi (category People from the Bay of Islands)
    from New Zealand. He was from the Ngāpuhi iwi and lived in the Rangihoua Bay area of the Bay of Islands. In 1805, Te Pahi decided to seek out Lieutenant...
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  • Hannah King Hansen (later Letheridge, then Clapham) is born at Oihi, Rangihoua Bay. She is the second female European child born in New Zealand. Her gravestone...
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    by the Rev. William Williams. The first European settlement was at Rangihoua Bay, the land purchased on 24 February 1815, where the first full-blooded...
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  • Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay. 1815 – The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing...
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  • Te Atahoe (category People from the Bay of Islands)
    Te Hikutu and Ngati Rua. Te Atahoe lived at Te Puna in the Rangihoua Bay area of the Bay of Islands and was also known as Mary Bruce. As a teenager,...
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    founded the first mission station in Oihi Bay (a small cove in the north-east of Rangihoua Bay) in the Bay of Islands in 1814 and over the next decades...
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    died the following year, leaving Hongi as protector of the mission at Rangihoua Bay. Other missions were also established under his protection at Kerikeri...
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    peninsula. Communities on the peninsula are Purerua, Te Tii and Taronui Bay. Rangihoua Bay is at the southern end of the peninsula. Te Tii has two marae, belonging...
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  • arrive at the end of the year and the first mission is begun at Rangihoua Bay in the Bay of Islands. A small number of sealing vessels are operating/visiting...
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  • has spoken directly to her. The party launched at Marsden Cross in Rangihoua Bay (site of the first Christian service in New Zealand, in 1814) in June...
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  • daughter and possibly the aboriginal cabin boy William Evans, are left at Rangihoua Bay. Hegarty and Badger are the first pākehā women to stay voluntarily in...
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  • heard the story of the Boyd from a local woman, attack Te Pahi's pa pn Rangihoua Bay. About 60 Māori are killed and Te Pahi is wounded (he dies a few weeks...
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  • European born in New Zealand, dies, and is buried at Rangihoua. Undated Thomas Kendall's school at Rangihoua closes. Kendall sends a manuscript spelling book...
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  • The first Christian mission is established at Rangihoua. The Hansen family, the first non-missionary family also settles there. Samuel Marsden explores...
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  • Ruatara (chief) (category People from the Bay of Islands)
    Christian missionary, Samuel Marsden. Ruatara's pā was at Rangihoua on the northern shore of the Bay of Islands. Ruatara's father was Te Aweawe of the Ngati...
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  • related to Ngāpuhi; their territories stretched from Te Puna and Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands north towards Whangaroa. She and her younger sister Tangiwhare...
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  • they grew up, Te Okuratawhiti took the two of them to the village of Rangihoua, on the west side of the Wairoa River mouth and divided the river valley...
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    by the late 18th century. In December 1814, the Māori children at Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands were "no less eager to see the packaha than the grown...
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    founded its first mission at Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands in 1814 and over the next decade established schools in the Bay of Islands, the first being...
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  • Kuni Kaa Jenkins (category People from Hawke's Bay)
    various archives and libraries. An example is a letter to the chief of Rangihoua pā, Ruatara, in 1814 by Samuel Marsden. In 2012 this book won Best Book...
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  • teleportation. It is possible that he attended the Anglican missions at Rangihoua, where he learned to read and developed his understanding of the Bible...
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  • by New Zealand Maori chief Hongi Hika and the younger chief Waikato of Rangihoua. Her return to Gravesend in 1820 is the last mention of New Zealander...
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    in November 1814 and arrived in the Bay of Islands on 22 December. They established the mission there at Rangihoua. Kendall learned the Māori language...
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  • mission agencies Faith2Share. The CMS founded its first mission at Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands in 1814 and over the next decade established farms and...
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