Signing
Signature | Sheet | Signed as | Probable name | Tribe | Hapū | Signing Occasion |
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14 | Sheet 8 — The Cook Strait (Henry Williams) Sheet | Mohiroa | Te Ropiha Moturoa | Te Āti Awa | Te Matehou | Port Nicholson 29 April 1840 |
Te Ropiha Moturoa signed Te Tiriti at Port Nicholson on 29 April 1840.
His two brothers came to Te Whanganui-a-Tara with Ngāti Mutunga in 1827. Moturoa held land near Aro Street and at Pipitea Pā but he mainly lived on a section in Moturoa Street in Thorndon, where he had a weatherboard house and grew potatoes. He took the name Te Ropiha (Hobbs) after his baptism.
Moturoa and his first wife Ahinga had one daughter, who married a whaler and lived in England.
See also Wellington City Council, Nga Tupuna o Te Whanganui-a-Tara: Volume 1, Wellington City Council & Wellington Tenths Trust, 2005, p. 13
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