Rangimarie Hetet (nee Hursthouse)
24 May 1892 - 14 June 1995 (aged 103)
Ngāti Kinohaku, Ngāti Maniapoto (Te Rongopamamao Aubrey)
Pākeha - Leicester England (Charles Wilson Hursthouse)
Married Tuheka Taonui Hetet (Ngāti Rora, Ngāti Maniapoto)
Rangimarie had four children and raised a grandson, Maharanui Hetet
Dame Rangimārie Hetet DBE was a New Zealand Māori tohunga raranga
Dr Rangimārie Hetet awarded an Honorary Doctorate University of Waikato
Rangimārie Hursthouse was born on 24 May 1892 at Oparure, near Te Kūiti. Her parents were Charles Wilson Hursthouse and Mere Te Rongopāmamao Aubrey. Charles Hursthouse had emigrated with his family from England in 1843. Te Rongopāmamao had an English father, and her mother, Ingoingo (also known as Mākereta Pēpene Poharama), belonged to Ngāti Kinohaku, a hapū of Ngāti Maniapoto. Both parents had had previous relationships: Rangimārie was the youngest half-sister to four siblings on her mother’s side and had seven siblings by her father’s marriage. Her tall and fair appearance indicated her mostly European ancestry. READ MORE
Whanau
Wirihana Charles Hetet ( married Lillian Smallman) Deceased
Atawhai Victoria Hetet (died aged 18 )
Diggeress Rangituatahi Hetet (married Tana Tangitehau Te Kanawa) Deceased
Steven Tipne Edgar Hetet (married Nita Barton )
The story goes that Rangimārie was destined (tono) to marry Tuheka’s cousin Matengaro Duke Hetet. Apparently, on the day of the hui to discuss the tono, Tuheka arrived on horseback at the same time she had disembarked from the buggy. She has been known to recall that when she looked up at him on horseback, it was ‘love at first sight.’ She duly refused to go along with plans to marry Duke, who by her own admission she could hardly look at during the hui. Rangimarie spent more years as a widow than a married woman. She nevertheless sent her sons to St Stephens Māori Boys College, farmed the land at Oparure, picked hops in the South Island, was a matron at the Pendennis Hostel in Wellington before building a new home in Te Kuiti.
Steven (Tipene) Edgar & Wirihana Charles Hetet
Atawhai Hetet
Diggeress Rangituatahi Hetet
Useful links to Rangimarie
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