Waikato Committee Report 1860

This report is 194 pages long and I'm not about to go through the whole thing. But I did notice that the biggests issue with courts back then was that if you put a kaumātua in front of people then you best have all the time in the world because custom tells us that you must whaikorero. so one by one the Kingite Kaumātua told their stories and answered their questions after they recited their Whakapapa for the audience in the court.
I would have loved to have been there and see the pakeha lawyers fall asleep and their typists struggle to understand their words so it could be recorded in the court minutes. but as I got through some of the minutes they had people called Land officers and many of them were māori so they didn't struggle as much so the detail of the minutes were correct.

The whakapapa given by all the Kaumatua were recorded and lined up by Te Awataia and on the last 2 pages he placed the whakapapa according to the korero of these kingite kaumātua.as the pedigree of Pōtatau.

This chart is quite large and I'm going to try and enlarge it for the blog. so that you can see where the rest of our whakapapa comes from. but Wētere Te Aho is mentioned as the son of Te keha and Paretaheke and he is the only one that is. Interesting enough Paretaheke and Whariki were sisters. So Te Kapu and Ramarihi were sisters Muriwhenua who is mentioned in the newspaper article of Manuaitu was their brother.
This I suppose is where I take my leap of faith. do I trust that Te Keha is Te Aho? and therefore claim that Paretaheke  is Te Kapu..


Note just as it may help, There is a application that you can download to help you read this chart and it will magnify it for you. in the link below, I used it to help me enlarge the names of this chart.
http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa39-setup.exe


You right click save the image to your computer then download the application Picasa and when you view the saved picture it will enlarge any part of it for you.