Pōmare I

Pōmare, originally named Whētoi, the son of Puhi of Ngāti Manu, was born in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was connected by descent to Ngāpuhi hapū Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Rāhiri and Ngāti Hine, and to the independent tribe Ngāti Wai. In October 1814 Samuel Marsden, the chaplain of New South Wales, told Bay of Islands people of the conversion to Christianity of Pōmare of Tahiti; Whētoi at once adopted the name Pōmare as his own. His elder sister, Haki, was the mother of Whiria, later known as both Whētoi and Pōmare II. Source: Angela Ballara via Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.

Sources

1. Angela Ballara. 'Pōmare I', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1p19/pomare-i (accessed 16 January 2022)