Name |
Isabelle Davis nee McGregor |
Hapu Iwi |
Ngāti Porou/Ngāti Maru |
Date of Birth |
21 January 1929 |
Date of Interview |
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Researcher |
Jim Nicholls |
Transcriber |
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Profile |
Whaea Isabel talks of being born in Paritu, (Opoutere) on the wooden floor of a tent. She talks of the family (the third of 13 children) and how they moved around the country because her father was a forestry worker and a farmer. She talks of her parents being fluent Maori speakers but she was not taught Maori as a child. She talks of her life as a child learning from her father: bush craft and food gathering, growing their own gardens and the different ways of cooking seafood and mutton birds. She refers to Pauanui and how they lost their land there and the bulldozing of their gravesites for a subdivision. She refers to her teachers wanting her to go teaching and of her father’s initial disapproval. At Matata her first teaching position she met her husband to be Mackie Davis. They moved between Waihi and Opotiki to stay in touch with both sets of parents. |
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Family
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Early Childhood
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