The whakapapa relation between the person for whom the hapū is named derrives from the marriage of Poutangi and Te Aute. Poutangi of Ngāti Maru descent married a women from the Te Arawa tribe.

For reasons beknown to themselves, the descendants of Tamatepō, took the tribal name of Ngāti Maru as priorities to them, then residing from Thames, Parawai, Totara, Kupata, Kirikiri to Warahoe, Matatokl, Puriri, Omahu and Hikutaia.

Then for further purposes transpired later, Tamatepō's descendants of Kirikiri of Ngāti Maru again took a new name by adopting the Chieftainess's name of Te Aute who married Poutangi, of Tamatepō’s lineage to come down to the our whānau the Watene's, Mare Teretiu, Hori More, Hoani Nahe, Eruini Taipari and other families residing in Kirikiri.

Ngāti Te Aute remained to this day, as the main sub-tribe of Hauraki in conjunction with Ngāti Maru more effectively.

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