Cannibal
Jack,
the
first
Pakeha (white) Settler
in
the
Hokianga
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Photo:
Marmon
Point
is
just
across
the
waters
from
Horeke. |
| By 1825, the Hokianga Harbour had its first white settler. Jack Marmon, known as Cannibal Jack, was the son of a Sydney stonemason. He jumped ship, married a Maori woman and settled near Horeke, across the river at Marmon's Point. There was no white man nearer than the missionaries at Kerikeri. A man of slight build, aggressive manner and quick mind, he lived as a Maori joining in their intertribal fights. He was popularly believed to have 'joined the Maoris in their cannibal feasts'. He died in 1880 and was buried at Marmon's point after a drunken Irish wake. |
Chapel at Mangungu
Wairere
Boulders
Buildings over Water
in
Horeke