Keteonetea

[EdithCulnane]

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

[Janette]

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

[whiteout7]

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

[EdithCulnane]

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

[MalNZ]

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

[EdithCulnane]

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

[emmygee]

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

[EdithCulnane]

Thanks Maurice.  I'll have a look at this reference.

Kathleen

[miltict]

It is downstream from the Ngawhini bridge.