Wahawaha, Rāpata, approximately 1820-1897 (Personal Name)

Ngāti Porou leadership, 2000 t.p. (Rāpata Wahawaha) p. 18 (Confusion regarding Wahawaha's Christian name ... According to his long time companion, Thomas Porter, he preferred Rōpata and he signed himself as Rōpata in letters to non-Ngāti Porou acquaintances. Among Ngāti Porou, however, he was always known as Rāpata and his communications with Ngāti Porou correspondents carried the latter spelling) p. 53 (b. ca. 1820) p. 54 (confusion as to the date of Rāpata Wahawaha's birth ... In Porter's estimation, Wahawaha was born about 1807)

NZ database, July 4, 2001 (hdgs.: Wahawaha, Rāpata, 1807-1897, Wahawaha, Rāpata, 1820?-1897, Wahawaha, Rōpata, 1820?-1897; usage: Rāpata Wahawaha, Rōpata Wahawaha)