Signing
Signature | Sheet | Signed as | Probable name | Tribe | Hapū | Signing Occasion |
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33 | Sheet 8 — The Cook Strait (Henry Williams) Sheet | Pakewa | Pākewa | Te Āti Awa | Puketapu? | Port Nicholson 29 April 1840 |
Pākewa, also known as Paekawa, signed Te Tiriti at Port Nicholson on 29 April 1840. She was a wahine rangatira of Te Āti Awa.
Her parents may have been Ngākoro and Te Hurupoki (of Ngāti Ruanui). She married Rāwiri Nukaiahu and they migrated from Taranaki to Waikanae around the 1830s. Descendants say that Pākewa and Rāwiri had eight children, including two daughters named Mere and Pairoke. Their daughter Pairoke married a settler, William Jenkins.
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