Birth Name: Nanaia Cybele Mahuta
Place of Birth: Auckland, New Zealand
Date of Birth: August 21, 1970
Ethnicity:
*father – Māori, one quarter Rarotongan (Cook Islander), 1/8th Irish, 1/8th English
*mother – Māori, one quarter English
Nanaia Mahuta is a New Zealand politician. She is best known for being the first female politician with a moko kauae (Māori chin tattoo). She is a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party and currently serves as the 28th Minister of Foreign Affairs. She is affiliated with the Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Manu.
Nanaia Mahuta is the daughter of Sir Robert Te Kotahi Mahuta, also a New Zealand politician, and of Lady Raiha Eliza Edmonds. Nanaia is the adopted (whāngai) granddaughter of the 5th Māori King and cousin to the current Māori monarch. Her father Robert, born as Robert Jeremiah Ormsby, was adopted at a few weeks old by King Korokī Mahuta, the 5th Māori King, and his wife Te Atairangikaahu Hērangi. Robert Mahuta’s biological parents were Robert Ormsby and Te Amohia Vaikai. Nanaia briefly lived in Oxford, England during her childhood before moving back to Huntly in Waikato, New Zealand where she grew up. She has three children, one of whom passed away, with her cousin William Ormsby who is also a grandson of Robert Ormsby.
Nanaia’s paternal grandfather was Jeremiah Robert (Robert) Ormsby. Robert was the son of Jeremiah Ormsby and Ngapaki Ariana Turner. Jeremiah Orsmby was the son of Robert Ormsby, who came from County Meath, Ireland, and of Rangihurihia (Mary Bianca) Te Raku, who was Māori of Ngāti Maniapoto. Ngapaki Turner was the daughter of James Turner and Atiria Hamuera of Ngāti Maniapoto. James Turner was the son of William Turner, an Englishman, and of Ripekatangi Poutukeka, a Māori woman of Ngāti Maniapoto.
Nanaia’s paternal grandmother was Te Amohia Te Nukanuka-o-te-Rangi Vaikai. Te Amohia was the daughter of Kainuku Puretu Tamoko-O-Te-Rangi Ariki Vaikai, who was Rarotongan from Rarotonga, Cook Islands, and of Piupiu Te Wherowhero, daughter of Te Wherowhero Tāwhiao and Tamirangi Ahutiatia Manahi. Princess Piupiu was a leader within the Tainui royal family of Māori Kings and a granddaughter of King Tāwhiao. Kainuku Puretu Vaikai was the son of Kainuku Parapu Ariki Vaikai, member of the Rarotongan Island Council, and his wife Teputiki Tamarua, who were both Rarotongan from Ngatangiia, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
Nanaia’s maternal grandfather was Alfred Hamlin (Aperere Hamorana) Edmonds. Alfred Hamlin Edmonds was the son of John Tucker Edmonds, a stone mason, and of Raiha Arapera (Eliza) Pekama, who was Māori of Ngāti Manu from Ngawha, Northland, New Zealand. John Tucker Edmonds was the son of John Samuel Edmonds and Marianne Stickland who emigrated to New Zealand from Dorset, England in 1834.
Nanaia’s maternal grandmother was Maria/Marie Ada Tipa. Ada’s parents were Hone Tipa and Wharepereki.
(*the geni.com tree is incorrect. Ngere Wynyard was the name of Alfred Hamlin’s first wife (see the familysearch tree). Ada’s surname listed at marriage is Tipa not Wynyard. Jason Scott Wills’ geni.com trees tend to be slightly incorrect)
Sources:
Nanaia Mahuta’s genealogy: https://www.geni.com/people/Nanaia-Mahuta/6000000013136393330 and https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LLMK-D9Z
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