Settled Bay of Plenty PTR actually settled Paripari near Te Kuiti, King Country https://teara.govt.nz/en/ngati-maniapoto/page-3
TeAra Encyclopedia of NZ
Diggeress Te Kanawa (Ngati Maniapoto) was a descendant of Louis Hetet (1815-1872). Often described as French, Louis had a French father and an English mother and was raised in England. He settled in New Zealand in about 1842 and married Mata Te Rangituatahi, a daughter of Ngati Maniapoto chief Taonui Hikaka. They had three sons and a daughter. After Te Rangituatahi?s death Louis Hetet married Paeata Mihinoa. Diggeress Te Kanawa was a leader in the revival of Maori weaving that began in the 1950s. Her mother Rangimarie Hetet, who had married Louis Hetet?s grandson, Tuheka Taonui Hetet, was also an expert traditional weaver and passed on her skills while her daughter was still very young.
Louis Hetet was a settler with an English mother and French father who married a Maniapoto woman. He first visited New Zealand around 1835 on a whaling ship, and returned in 1842 to settle at Paripari (near Te Kuiti). He married Te Rangituatahi, daughter of the influential Maniapoto chief, Taonui Hikaka. They had four children: George Ngatai, John Taonui, Henry Mate-ngaro, and Mere Te Wai. The three sons proved themselves as businessmen in the early days of the King Country. Their descendants are well-known members of Ngati Maniapoto. Mere Te Wai married Te Toko Turner, the son of another prominent Pakeha Maori, William Turner, who gave rise to the large Turner family.
LEWIS Reported Murdered! but incorrect.
PPA New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 917, 22 October 1866, Page 5
THE HANGITIKI MURDER.
The following additional particulars relative to tlie murdered man and to his murderer also have been kindly placed at our disposal by a gentleman whose authority is unquestionable : " The name of the murdered man is Lewis, of Paripari, a settler living with the tribe of which Taonui is the chief. He came to New Zealand about 25 years ajco, and has resided at Paripari nearly all that time. Ho was a quiet man, and has lived on terms of goodwill with and toward the natives in that locality. He Œwas fifty years old. The man who is reported to have murdered him is not of very sound intellect, and is generally known among the natives as porangi. It is reported on pretty good authority that Lewis has also been devoured by the natives of the murderer s tribe, but that part of the information received should be conQrmed beforo it is fully credited. Ihc murderer, whose native name is Kanga, took the name of Awaitaia after tlie death of IS aylor, whose native name was the same, and whose atrocities cf many years ago this mail Xanga appears to wish to emulate, to get himself a name. He is a very despicable man in tlio estimation of the Natimalianga tribe.
PPA New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 921, 26 October 1866, Page 4
The reported murder of the European, Lewis, intelligence of which appeared in the Auckland journals on Saturday last, turns out to be entirely incorrect. No European has been murdered, though a man named Henderson narrowly escaped with his life. Louis Hetet immigrated to to Maniapoto about 1842.
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