Hart, Philip2017-09-122016-06-152017-06-122017-09-122016Hart, P. (2016). William Nicholls, Hera Te Whakaawa, and their children. (Te Aroha Mining District Working papers, No. 23), Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato, Historical Research Unit.2463-6266https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10332Two years after arriving in New Zealand in 1840, William Nicholls married Hera Te Whakaawa, who had an illustrious whakapapa. For the rest of his life he lived as a Pakeha Maori, trading and farming on land owned by his wife. Like other Pakeha, he was excited by the discoveries of gold, and was involved in a minor way with the Coromandel and Thames goldfields and at Te Aroha, near where he was living, where he and one of his sons did some prospecting. The penultimate Pakeha Maori to die in the Te Aroha district, he was a well-respected member of the community. Nicholls ensured that his children were well educated, and in most cases they did well in Pakeha society and made ‘good’ marriages: the daughters to Pakeha and the sons to Maori. The lives of three of his children are summarized; the others are dealt with in other papers.application/pdfen© 2016 Philip HartWorking Paper