Maraea Te Inutoto & Stephen Lupton Wrathall (Mangonui, NZ) Cira 1820

[Puha_Muncher]

Kia ora koutou,

Just wondering if anyone has any information on "Maraea Te Inutoto", and in particular her parents.
There are conflicting opnions on her father being either Hongi Hika, Toro, Pororua, and Wiremu Toto.

We know her husband is "Stephen Lupton Wrathall".

Any help appreciated.

[Puha_Muncher]

I have found this record on Archives:
https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE60467599
From: R Hobbs MHR, Pokeno Date: 29 May 1889 Subject: Forwards letter from native woman named Maria Wrathall asking names of natives who sold lands known as Rangitoto and Kaiaraara situated in Mangonui Harbour

[shanreagh]

There is some activity on the Maori Land Court Panui earlier this year under the Wrathall name eg succession etc. 

If this is you I won't look further......

Using successions from the MLC you can get back older land issues.  This then can go back to pre 1840 to the era of the missionaries and early traders.  The early land purchases were examined after the Treaty was signed.  Failing a BDM index from the era prior to 1840 land purchases and successions may provide clues.

You might find something here

https://natlib.govt.nz/collections/a-z/new-zealand-electronic-text-collection-nzetc

Also Papers Past may have some snippets.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/

I did a search for Wrathall thinking that there might have been some indication that land belonging to Mrs Wrathall was being used.  Stephen Wrathall seems to have been a storekeeper at Kaeo.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01tbl/

Children of this era with Pakeha/Maori parents usually/often carried two names.   Do you know any of the Maori names of the children?  I thought these may give a clue as to family names in Maraea Te Inutoto' wider family.

I have not yet pored through the Archives link to see if more info can be gleaned.  Nor looked on Papers Past for her possible father

I have not looked to track whakapapa of the men you have mentioned:
Hongi Hika, Toro, Pororua, and Wiremu Toto.

If you can establish who their decendants are independent of Maraea's possible connection this might help. 

Happy to help further.....

[garstonite]

this tree has a different surname for her - not all trees are correct
Stephen Lupton Wrathall (jnr)
Married in 1833, Rawene, Northland, New Zealand, to
 Marae-Hinetoto Whatarau 1815-1896 - her parents as
Parents
father - ?? Whatarau †
mother - Sophia Kotiro

if the tree is correct Marae had her 1st child at 15-16

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hope it helps 

Stephen and Maraes children

M Thomas William Wrathall 1831-1896
F Ann Wrathall 1835-1875
M Henry Wrathall 1837-1921
M Henry George Wrathall 1840-1913
F Jane Wrathall 1844-1927
M Stephen John Wrathall 1846-1931
F Mary Ann Wrathall 1848-1896
F Charlotte Wrathall 1850-1941
F Maraea Kerehi Wrathall 1850-
M William Edward Wrathall 1857-1889
M William Edward Wrathall 1857-1893
M Richard Wrathall 1859-1886
M Lupton Wrathall 1859-1893
F Maria Catherine Wrathall 1861-1929
F Ellen Wrathall 1863-1881
.......................................................

https://gw.geneanet.org/waihibeachsue?n=wrathall&oc=&p=stephen+lupton

[garstonite]

Whatarau family connections ?

https://en.geneanet.org/fonds/individus/?size=10&sexe=&nom=whatarau&ignore_each_patronyme=&prenom=&prenom_operateur=or&ignore_each_prenom=&place__0__=&zonegeo__0__=New+Zealand&country__0__=NZL&region__0__=&subregion__0__=&place__1__=&zonegeo__1__=&country__1__=&region__1__=&subregion__1__=&place__2__=&zonegeo__2__=&country__2__=&region__2__=&subregion__2__=&place__3__=&zonegeo__3__=&country__3__=&region__3__=&subregion__3__=&place__4__=&zonegeo__4__=&country__4__=&region__4__=&subregion__4__=&type_periode=between&from=&to=&exact_month=&exact_day=&exact_year=&go=1

[garstonite]

Might be nothing -
Marae Whatarau born Bay of Plenty 1815
Te Rere Whatarau born about 1800 -  Lower Waiawa, Opotiki, Bay of Plenty

[Coalskuttle]

Kia ora
Mararea is my great great grandmother.
Her history is complicated and it has taken soem time to unravel it.
So let's begin:
Maraea did not use that name until after she married Stephen Lupton Wrathall in the Bay of Islands in February 1833.
Her name on their wedding record is not Maraea Te Inutoto.
'Maraea' was not born to koroua Hongi Hika and kuia Tangiwhare.
She was whangai.
Unlike pākeha adpotion, whangai is the complete transfer of mana.
So, we can rightly say that we descend from her.
As a very young child 'Maraea' was placed with our grandparents for two reasons;
One: A gift of aroha because of the grief of Hongi and Tangi after the death of their infant daughter.
Two: To strengthen ties between two significant hapū.
'Maraea' was the second name our kuia had after her placement.
This has made tracing her background very very difficult.
After the death of Tangi and then Hongi, 'Maraea' still young at 13 years, was placed into the guardianship of her birth parents.
She also relocated to live near them.
For those of us who descend from her, the impact is profound.
We are products of her bloodline.....
and that of her 'whangai' parents Hongi and Tangi.
Resat easy now.
You have bought 'Maraea' out of the darkness and into the light!
This also explains why, after her death, Maraea's body was removed.
You see, her birth parents did not have any other children.
She was and always remained a 'princess' of her birth hapū.
And she rests with them      
Te tuku aroha.