Post date: Oct 19, 2017 1:21:22 AM
Many of us also have other blood ties to Tolaga Bay that are being brought to light now that we are back in contact with the home people. We encourage whanau to make contact with them, to discover your own unique blood connections.
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We are yet to discover much of our family history in Tolaga Bay, but what we do know is that our common blood connection here comes from the marriage between our tipuna Hori Patihana and Ani Patene in the early 1800's which produced a family including daughter Taraipine (b.1841).Taraipine went on to marry Papa Charles Priestley in 1869, and the rest as they say, is history.