As the heading suggests, you help is required.
To be able to collect, compile and insert information of the Stanaway family and get this record somewhere near complete, we need your help.
Some of the listed family members we have a lot of information on, and other ‘s very little to none. We are therefore asking descendants of the Stanaway’s to help us fill in the blanks. We have already made contact with some of you but we are in search of more as gems of information and records we know are scattered amongst you, in a box under the bed or in the attic.
So have a dig around and send any information you may have – no matter how small you may think it is it may unlock a lot more, or provide the clue we need to unlock more family history.
Captain John James Stanaway 1813 - 1874 
Hi i am the Great grandaughter of Erina Hamiora Manukura, who married Tatana Hamiora Manukura ( i have just recently found this first name of his out)my grandfathers name is Pene Te Hau Hamiora Manukura and my mother is Ani Herana Hamiora Manukura who married Roberts Burns. I would like to commend you on this site Awesome!! can’t wait to see more. Just would like to comment on the last edition of the Tide of Times, it was done in to much haste and we have found alot of errors in this book. We find the 1st edition more helpful. looking forward to seeing more, again awesome work 🙂
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Hi Dawn – I’m glad you like it, there is more to come, I am working my way through slowly. You happen to be in one of the branches of the Stanaway’s I want to get in touch with. I will send you an email off line
Greg
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Hi Dawn, I’m sorry to hear at this late stage, about your concerns re the updated book. Rest assured every care was taken and thousands of hours were spent on phone calls to people to make sure I had correct information. I could only complete details as were provided. I have kept all communications, even to this day, and after nearly 3 years of 11-12 hr days phone calling, and collating information it was all done to the best of my ability. With anything of this nature, and the sheer magnitude of information, there are bound to be some errors, but I was relying on everyone to let me know in the first instance. Perhaps you could email me with those errors now, so that any future books are corrected.
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Hi Wendy, This is not a stab at you for the magnitude of work that you have done, and i’m sorry if i have offended you. I did talk on the phone with you, and the information that i gave for my children was not the information in the book, but i do not want to stand on your Mana. I applaud the effort that you have put into our Whakapapa and please don’t take this the wrong way we can only make it better with our information put together. I have been listening to whanau in general about mistakes but i will only point out my own.
Kia Ora you have a blessed day Wendy, and again sorry if i offended you.
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Hi Wendy and Dawn – I can understand completely – I am currently bracing myself for the thousands of corrections yet to be posts by all – on the content of this web site – what we all want is for everyone to contrabute to this so we can get it both correct and as complete as possible – sometimes its the old “wood for the trees”.
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Cool Wendy and Greg i can’t wait to see the work in fruition, 🙂
Nau te rourou naku te rourou, ahakoa iti, he pounamu (Your basket and my basket, although small it is of greenstone) 🙂 Manaaki e rua koutou e te Atua (God Bless you Both)
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No offense taken Dawn, just good to know so that corrections can be made. I’m in total agreement with Greg and between all of us we will hopefully get everything correct………one day. 🙂
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Hi how are you? My name is James Carey I am writing in regards to Emma Paraone (Brown) Kataraina Te Rimi Stanaway’s Daughter. I was wondering if you had any information on her yet please as I have been researching for quite some time also if there could be a possibility of being the same person I am looking for ??. My Second Great Grandparents on my mothers side names were Timoti Rikihana also known as (Timothy Dixon) From Kaihu,Kaipara (Wiremu Rikihana’s Son). Emma Brown was Timoti’s Wife/Partner and they had 6 children together as far as i know, one being my Great Grandfather Tangaroa Max Rikihana also known as (Max Rikihana/Dixon).
From what I know Timoti, Emma and their daughter Bertha (Wuna) died at Norsewood 1918 from the Influenza pandemic and were buried there. On record at Norsewood there names were Timothy Dixon & Emma Dixon they were both 28 years old at the time of death which would make Emma’s date of birth around 1890 and their daughter was 3 yrs old. There is a Memorial for all three of them at Kaihu Cemetery on the headstone her name is (Emma Brown) although their remains are buried at Norsewood Cemetery Plot PB1-E9 Unmarked Grave at this stage I am unsure what Emma’s middle name is or parents names or as to why they were down at Norsewood at time of Death whether it be on a holiday or living. There is not much on record of them both and alot of their history as far as I know has been lost. I thought that it may been the same person because of the close living regions around that era and the same name. Any help would be greatly appreciated. At some stage I plan to do a dna test that may help in my endeavours to track down my lineage until then thankyou for your time and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
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