Robert Park and Terenui

 ROBERT PARK

http://vernon.npdc.govt.nz/search.do?view=detail&page=1&id=269882&db=object :  (Puke Ariki) - Biographical notes for Robert Park (1812-1870)

Robert Park was born in 1812.  Robert was apprenticed to a Glasgow surveyor and completed seven years surveying.  He married Mary Anne Morgan, 6 August 1837.  On 8 July 1839, Robert became assistant surveyor to the New Zealand Company, sailing, from Gravesend on the Cuba, 1 August 1839. Mary Anne followed on the Aurora, 22 September 1839, accompanied by her sister Jane Emily Morgan'.   On 7 January 1841, his employment with the New Zealand Company ceased and he became a private contractor.  In 1842 Robert Park became the Town Surveyor for the Wellington Municipal Council.  Robert travelled to Otakou 1846, as assistant surveyor to Charles Kettle to prepare Dunedin for the arrival of Scottish settlers. This work terminated in 1847, as the New Zealand Company once again ran short of funds. The Park family returned to Wellington, where Mary Anne died  December 1850.  

TERENUI (? – 1850)= ROBERT  PARK  (1812-1870) 

Terenui was the daughter of  Te Rangiahuta and Te Angiotau.  At some point, Robert Park began a relationship with Terenui.   A daughter, Anihaka Park was born 1848-49, but Terenui died giving birth to a son, Huta Pamariki, December, 1850.  Robert Park was surveying to the north in areas such as Rangitikei and Ahuriri. When he returned to Wellington, Terenui had died and the children had been taken into the care of their mother’s whānau.   Robert Park’s third marriage was to Marion Hart, and their children were: Robert George Park, Catherine Edith Park, and Elizabeth Marion Park.  

Terenui was closely related to Riwha Titokowaru and also to Te Whetowheto, a  wife of  Ngatata-i-te-rangi.[1].

ANIHAKA  PAAKA  (1849/50-1898) = PAATI  MATENE  TAUWHARE (1856-1897)

o Ripeka Wharawhara = Wi Hapi Love

HUTA PAMARIKI  PAAKA:  (1850-1927) = MERENAKO  KITAKITA  (1860-1938)

After his mother died at his birth, Huta spent some years at the Otaki Mission School before venturing north to be with his uncle Titokowaru, around 1856 and resided there until he reached 18 years of age. He went south to Otakou to find his sister Anihaka, about 1869 and worked as an assistant pilot in Otago Harbour They returned to Te Whanganui-a-Tara 1875/76. 

(four children of Huta and Mere)

o Hana Te Unuhi, (1879-1909) = Frederick Augustus Bennett (1872-1950)

o Henry (Harry) Selwyn (1886-1950) = Ewa Wirepa

o Wikitoria Te Amohau (1888-1975) = Henry Dargaville Bennett

o Rawiri (Dave) Raukawa = Dulcie Fisher

Wikitoria Te Amohau Bennett