2. Whakapapa (Family Tree) of Kehu: ² , ³

Kehu's mother, Matanohinohi, was Ngati Apa, Ngai Tahu, Ngati Mamoe and Ngati Tumatakokiri; she spent the later decades of her life at Kawatiri, near the present town of Westport. Her earlier years were probably more itinerant as her whanau (extended family, tribal members) "beat the bounds" of her tribes' estates. Kehu's father, Tamane, was Ngati Tumatakokiri: unfortunately we have not yet found reliable details of Tamane's antecedents. Kehu is described in all the European colonial journals and the Native Land Court records as being Ngati Tumatakokiri. As near as we can be sure, Kehu was born circa 1798 AD (not 1821, as claimed by some). He is generally known as Kehu but his given names are recorded in Maori Land Court Minutes Books ⁴ as Hone Mokehakeha or Hone Mokekehu: on very rare occasions some European journals referred to his as 'Jackey'.