Signing
Signature | Sheet | Signed as | Probable name | Tribe | Hapū | Signing Occasion |
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27 | Sheet 1 — The Waitangi Sheet | Taurau Kukupa | Taurau Kūkupa | Ngāpuhi | Te Parawhau | Bay of Islands 13? May 1840 |
Taurau Kūkupa and his older brother, Te Tirarau Kūkupa. signed the Treaty of Waitangi on 13 May 1840 at the Bay of Islands.
Taurau later became an assessor for the Native Land Court. In 1888 a significant land quarrel between Taurau Kūkupa and Eru Hiri led to some deaths in the Far North. When Taurau Kūkupa died on 18 December 1896 he was said to be over 91 years old.
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