Peter Smith

This Hachem Smith family website is dedicated to our ancestors Hachem Johann Schmidt or John Smith or John Mete, and his wife Tauarai Parapara Kurekure TeMau Smith. The recantation of these genealogies allows us to remember these ancestors and to celebrate our own birth.
“Ma te Atua tieke mo ake ake ake tonu atu.”

PETER SMITH BORN 15 OCT 1840 DIED 4 NOVEMBER 1920

MARRIED EMMA HARETE ELLIS ABOUT 1850, DIED 6 NOV 1920

CHILDREN

1. RUIHA  SMITH BORN 18 JAN 1868  DIED 1 JAN 1937

2. HANA SMITH BORN 20 OCT 1870 DIED IN INFANCY

3. RAIHA SMITH BORN 1 MAY 1873 DID IN INFANCY

4. JAMES HARETE SMITH BORN 28 JAN 1875 DIED 28 JUL 1933

5. HENERIATA SMITH BORN 25 SEP 1877 DIED 29 JUN 1929

6. CHARLES SMITH BORN 29 0CT 1879 DIED 15 JUL 1950

7. WIREMU SMITH BORN 20 MAR 1882 DIED 20 MAY 1936

8. REWI SMITH BORN 16 OCT 1884 DIED 30 MAR 1951

9. TUEHU SMITH BORN 26 DEC 1886 DIED 18 AUG 1945

10. HEMAIMA SMITH BORN 4 DEC 1889 DIED MAY 1892

11. HARE SMITH BORN 25 MAR 1894 DIED MAY 1904

12. JOSEPH SMITH BORN 27 APR 1896 DIED 30 NOV 1974

NOTES

PETER WAS THE 6^TH CHILD OF HACKEN AND PARAPARA. AND WAS BORN IN NUHAKA ON THE 15^TH DECEMBER 1850.  THEIR FAMILY L IVED CLOSE TO THE SEA AND RELIED ON ITS HARVEST FOR THEIR SUSTENANCE AND BECAUSE OF THEIR CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE OCEAN FATHER AND SON KNEW THE MOODS OF THE RESTLESS SEA.

PETER SMITH MARRIED VERY YOUNG AND HIS WIFE EMMA ELLIS GAVE BIRTH TO THEIR FIRST CHILD RUIHA 18^TH APRIL 1868 BEFORE  HER HUSBAND’S 18^TH BIRTHDAY.

EMMA’S PARENTS WERE CAPTAIN JAMES ELLIS (OR OTHER FAMILY RECORDS HAVE HIS NAME AS WILLIAM ELLIS), A SHIP’S CAPTAIN AND OWNER AND HIS WIFE TAPEKA OF OPOTIKI.  BECAUSE TAPEKA REFUSED TO ACCOMPANY HER HUSBAND BACK TO THE BRITISH ISLES THEIR ONLY CHILD EMMA WAS ADOPTED BY HIMIONA, A TOHUNGA, AND OF COURSE A CLOSE RELATION. HIMIONA AND HIS ADOPTED DAUGHTER TRAVELLED SOUTH TO NUHAKA BECAUSE HE HAD A JOB THERE WITH THE PEOPLE.

HIS JOB WAS A SUCCESS AND IN THAT SPACE OF TIME, HE HAD TO RETURN ALONE BECAUSE EMMA MARRIED PETER SMITH AND BECAME THE MOTHER OF 12 CHILDREN.

PETER TAUGHT HIS SONS THE LORE OF THE SEA AND THEY IN TURN TRIED TO PASS IT DOWN TO THEIR SONS. 

PETER AND EMMA LOVED EACH OTHER SO MUCH THAT EVEN DEATH SEPARATED THEM BY ONLY A COUPLE OF DAYS.

PETER’S PARENTS WERE THE FIRST TO BE BURIED IN KAITAMURE CEMETERY IN TAHAENUI AND PETER AND EMMA WERE BURIED CLOSE TO THEM

IN THE BOOK “OLD WAIROA” IT STATES THAT CAPTAIN ELLIS CAME TO MAHIA WITH THREE SHIPS, AFTER WHALING IN THE BAY OF ISLANDS.   ON BOARD ONE OF THOSE SHIPS WAS JOHN SMITH  OR HACHEN SCHMIDT (PAGE 370).  IT WAS PROBABLY AROUND THE YEARS 1834 – 1836 AS HIS ELDEST SON JOHN WAS BORN ABOUT 1837.

IN THE YEAR 1836, DURING THE FIRST 6 MONTHS ALONE, THERE WERE 151 WHALING SHIPS RECORDED AS ARRIVING IN THE BAY OF ISLANDS.

IT IS UNKNOWN, BUT VERY LIKELY, THAT HACKEN MAY HAVE ARRIVED IN NEW ZEALAND ON ONE OF CAPTAIN ELLIS’S SHIPS.  AT THAT TIME IT WAS NOT UNCOMMON FOR THE WHALERS TO REMAIN IN VARIOUS PORTS AFTER FINDING A BEAUTIFUL BROWNED SKINNED WOMAN TO START A NEW LIFE.

AFTER ALL MANY OF THE NAMES WHOM WE ARE FAMILIAR WITH IN NUHAKA, WHAKAKI ETC ARE DESCENDANTS OF WHALERS SUCH AS THE GREENINGS, BARLETTS, MUNROES, ROBINSONS AND OF COURSE THE SMITHS.

 

THE CHILDREN OF PETER SMITH

A.RUIHA -  MARRIED ROPITINI MATAWHIUA BORN ABT 1864 AND DIED IN SEPT 1945. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN

1. WILLIAM  EPARAIMA MATAWHIUA -  BORN 4 OCT 1894 DIED 7 FEB 1983.

2. RAIHA MATAWHIUA -  BORN ABT 1890. MARRIED WILLIAM MORARO WALKER IN 1910. HE WAS BORN 23 FEB 1890 AND DIED 22 JUN 1974

3..HERATA NARE MATAWHIUA -  BORN ABOUT 1891.

 

B. JIMMY OR TIEMI MARRIED NGAWINI MORRELL BORN IN879 AND DIED 1910, 2^ND MARRIAGE TE AROHA MAERE.

 

C. HENERIATA MARRIEDHENARE GEMMELL ABT 1892. HE WAS BORN ABT 1875 AND DIED 1 OCT 1943. FIVE CHILDREN -

1. VIOLET GEMMELL -  BORN 9 SEPT 1894 WHO MARRIED PITA PENE IN 1917.BORN 17 JUL 1882 AND DIED IN 1974.

2. MARY  GEMMELL-  BORN ABT 1896 WHO MARRIED JOHN MC ANDREW IN 1918. BORN 1891 DIED 1973.

3. SAMUEL WILLIAM  GEMMELL -  BORN 28 SEPT 1897 WHO MARRIED EDNA MADGE 43 JUL 1930. BORN 9 JUL 1908 AND DIED 1992.

4. PETER GEMMELL  -  BORN 1904 WHO MARRIED WIKI HAMLIN IN 1930. BORN 1 NOV 1909 AND DIED 29 JUNE 1938.

5. KUINI  GEMMELL -  BBORN 6 NOVEMBER 1909 WHO MARRIED JIM ADSETT 22 OCT 1930. BORN 31 AUG 1910 AND DIED 1 OCT 1977.

 

D. CHARLIE MARRIED RIRIA IHAPERA NOHINOHI 20 MAR 1903. HE WAS BORN 18 MARCH 1881 AND DIED 18 MAY 1945.  FIVE CHILDREN –

1.       TE WAIMATAO  SMITH -  BBORN 26 JULY 1904. DIED 25 JUL 1961. MARRIED TAMAHOU HARONGA ABT 1920. HE WAS BORN 27 JUL 1894.

2.       TANGI SMITH -  BORN 13 JANUARY 1907. DIED AUG 1907

3.        HARIATA SMITH  - BORN 9 NOVEMBER 1909.DIED OCT 1912

4.        MERE SMITH -  BORN 18 DECEMBER 1911.DIED 29 JUN 1968

5.        WIREMU – MARRIED TE AO REUPENA ON 21 MAR 1903. SHE WAS BORN ON 16 JANUARY.

6.       VERA SMITH -BORN 26 SEPTEMBER 1926. DIED 20 NOV 1927

E. WIREMU  MARRIED MERE TE AO RUEPENA ON 21 MAR 1903. SHE WAS BORN ON 16 JAN 1885 AND DIED IN FEBRUARY 1923. THEY HAD ELEVEN CHILDREN.

1.       WIREMU SMITH -  BBORN 25 JULY 1905 BUT DIED 21 JULY 1906

2.        DAVID SMITH - BORN 17 NOVEMBER 1906 DIED 28 FEB 1970. MARRIED REBECCA RAURETI.

3.        PEREA  SMITH -  BORN 2 JANUARY 1908 DIED 7 SEPT 1984.

4.        EMMA SMITH -  BORN 6 MARCH 1909 DIED 25 MAR 1980.

5.        PARE SMITH  - BORN 13 JAN 1912 DIED 13 JAN 1935.

6.        MATENGAHERE  SMITH -  BORN 22 SEPTEMBER 1913. DIED 5  NOV 1983. MARRIED ANDREW GORDON ORMOND 2 NOV 1952. DIED 30 JAN 1970.

7.       TUSSIE SMITH BORN 16 JUL 1915.

8.       WILLIAM GARDNER SMITH -  BORN 14 JULY 1917. DIED 20 DEC 1987

9.        HENI PARANAHI SMITH -  BORN 5 MARCH 1919. DIED 26 APR 1990.

10.     HEBER KUREI SMITH -  BORN 23 FEBRUARY 1920. DIED 18 MAY 1990. MARRIED MEREKETE EDWARDS ON 23 FEB 1949. SHE WAS BORN ON 13 JAN 1928 AND DIED 28 SEP 1981.

11.     HYRUM HATAREI SMITH -  BBORN 29 DECEMBER 1921. DIED 14 FEB 1922.

 

F. REWI MARRIEDAMIRIA KARANGAROA ABOUT 1909. BORN ABOUT 1890 AND DIED 13 OCT 1940.  ONE CHILD –

1.       MOREHU SMITH -  BORN 8 JANUARY 1919.

 

G.TUEHU-MARRIED TEPORA KARANGAROA 1905. SHE WAS BORN 14 OCTOBER 1884 AND DIED        27 DECEMBER 1938.  ELEVEN CHILDREN –

1.       MARY SMITH -  BORN 17 SEPTEMBER 1907 DIED 27 DECEMBER 1938 AND MARRIED TO DAVID LEWIS ON 16 JANUARY 1937. HE WAS BORN 29 JANUARY 1918 AND DIED 27 APRIL 1964.

2.        SARAH SMITH (MY MOTHER) -  BORN 11 SEPTEMBER 1910 AND DIED 18 SEPTEMBER 2003. SHE MARRIED MY DAD GEORGE HARVEY ON 15 JANUARY 1938. HE WAS BORN 16 MARCH 1911  AND DIED 23 DECEMBER 1992.

3.       NAOMI SMITH  - BORN 21 DECEMBER 1911 AND DIED 8 MARCH 1950.

4.     MATARIKI PEKA SMITH     - BORN 17 APRIL 1913 AND DIED 16 NOVEMBER 1989.

5.        MIRIAMA SMITH  -  BORN 18 OCTOBER 1914 AND DIED 29 JULY 1919.

6.        MIRINOA GLADYS SMITH  -  BORN 3 MAY 1916 AND DIED 6 DECEMBER 1989 AND MARRIED ADAM HIKU MITCHELL BORN 29 MARCH 1909 AND DIED 17 MARCH 1987.

7.        CLEO RONALD SMITH -  BORN 19 OCTOBER 1918 AND DIED 16 DECEMBER 1994. HE MARRIED HANA HAWKINS BORN 27 JULY 1933(STILL LIVING).

8.        EDGAR AKUHATA SMITH  -  BORN 6 MAY 1920 (STILL LIVING) AND MARRIED HERA WALKER WHO DIED 28 SEPTEMBER 1979.

9.        RAWINIA STELLA SMITH - BORN 15 SEPTEMBER 1921 AND DIED 12 APRIL 1972. SHE MARRIED CHARLIE TIHEMA ON 13 JULY 1946 WHO WAS BORN ON 31 DECEMBER  1921 AND DIED 13 MAY 1999.

10.     STANLEY SMITH -  BORN 22 OCTOBER 1922 AND DIED 8 NOVEMBER 2000.  HE MARRIED MYRA KARANGAROA BORN 26 APRIL 1931 AND DIED 20 FEBRUARY 1999.

11.    TIPUNA ARNOLD SMITH -  BORN 1920 WHO MARRIED HELEN BUT NO CHILDREN.

 

H. JOSEPH SMITHMARRIED HENI TE KAURU ON 7 JANUARY 1920.  SHE WAS BORN ABOUT 1900. ONE CHILD RECORDED

1. PETER SMITH -  BORN 3 AUGUST 1926.

 

GO to Peter Smith site                        This page courtesy of Hori Harvey son of George and Sarah Harvey

 

 

 

Extract from email Hori Harvey 06.01.2006;

"The biographical sketches on each of those above were actually provided for our family by my mother but her brother Riki Smith actually compiled most of the information for our use. ....I would appreciate it if Uncle Riki could be identified together with my mother as being the compilers of these biographies".

 

Note ‘those above’ refers to 1.Jimmy Smith paper (this page)

                                        2. William Smith paper

                                        3.Tom Smith paper

                                        4.Peter Smith (this page)