Tāmihana
1. (loan) (personal name) Thompson.
I a Haunui ka pakeke ka hiahia ia ki te moe i a Meri Tāmihana, he wahine nō Ngā Puhi, arā i te hōhipera o Pārāwai e ako ana hei nēhi (TTR 1996:233). / When Haunui grew up he wanted to marry Meri Thompson, a Ngā Puhi woman who was training to be a nurse at Thames Hospital.
Kēnara, Tāmihana
1. (loan) (personal name) Thomas Kendall (1778?-1832) Early missionary in the northern Bay of Islands, arriving in 1814. Published the first book in Māori and together with Professor Samuel Lee of Cambridge University laid the orthographic foundations of written Māori.
Engari i te tau 1820, ka hoki atu a Te Kēnara ki Ingarangi… (TP 6/1908:1). / But in 1820, Mr Kendall returned to England…
