Māui (early Christian convert in New Zealand)

Māui (Mowee in traditional orthography)[1] was a pioneering traveller from the southern Bay of Islands, who also lived on Norfolk Island, with Samuel Marsden at Parramatta, and in London. Literate and very interested in religion and mathematics, Māui enthusiastically engaged with British culture and Christianity until his death in London in December 1816.[2]

He was the first Māori person to be baptised as Christian, following the arrival in New Zealand of missionaries such as Marsden. He was aged 8 or 9 when he was baptised.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Kendall, Thomas. "Letter: Reverend Thomas Kendall to Reverend Josiah Pratt, 5 March 1815". Marsden Online Archive. University of Otago. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  2. ↑ Ballantyne, Tony. "Cast of Characters". Marsden Online Archive. University of Otago. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Ballantyne, Tony (2015). Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body. Auckland: Auckland University Press.
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