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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: EdithCulnane on Saturday 03 January 15 03:50 GMT (UK)
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Can anyone pinpoint the location of Keteonetea on the North Island please.
A relative of mine earned a Campaign Medal for his action there in the Maori conflict in the period 1863 to 1866. Old newspaper references show that it was somewhere near Normanby, and that there was a settlement named Keteonetea in 1864 which still existed in 1882.
Kathleen
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Hi Kathleen,
This implies that the Keteonetea pa was in the Patea district
http://www.mocavo.com/The-Defenders-of-New-Zealand-Being-a-Short-Biography-of-Colonists-Who-Distinguished-Themselves-in-Upholding-Her-Majestys-Supremacy-in-These-Islands/187181/190
Cheers Janette
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If you look on the map there is a Ketemarae road leading out of Normanby
There is a picture of Keteonetea:
http://www.digitalnz.org/records?tab=Images&text=Keteonetea&view=gallery
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Thank you. I did see the Ketemarae Road - and the drawing of Keteonetea is great (unfortunately none of men pictured is my relative) But the Google map does not show Keteonetea as far as I can see.
Does anything still exist of the place, even under another name? Keteonetea was important to the Maori in the 1800s.
The Defenders... looks interesting and I see it's available at my State Library.
Kathleen
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Hi Kathleen,
You are in luck as a detailed history of that area has recently been published with a map of the local Pa in South Taranaki. Map 2 in the following book. Keteonetea should be just a few km est of Normanby.
Ngati Ruanui: A History
Author Tony Sole
ISBN 186969 180 6
Perhaps contact Ngati Ruanui Management group : www.ruanui.co.nz/
Cheers
MalNZ
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Thanks Mal. Google Books has uploaded many pages from this book with lots of references to Keteonetea including the military campaign in 1866 involving my relative.
Kathleen
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Hi,
Not sure if you have found your marae yet or not, if you have, where was it?
I found this article on Mocavo
http://www.mocavo.com/The-Defenders-of-New-Zealand-Being-a-Short-Biography-of-Colonists-Who-Distinguished-Themselves-in-Upholding-Her-Majestys-Supremacy-in-These-Islands/187181/190
which suggests that Keteonetea and Ketemarae were different places.
Cheers
Maurice
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Thanks Maurice. I'll have a look at this reference.
Kathleen
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It is downstream from the Ngawhini bridge.