After leading the life of a wandering sailor, Alexander Fyffe founded a shore whaling station at Kaikōura. When whaling declined he turned to shipping and farming, before his early death by drowning in 1854.

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When Scottish adventurer David MacNish ended up in New Zealand in the 1830s, he married a Māori woman, Te Ani, and turned his back on his Scottish family. The couple’s own large family produced many descendants.

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Gilbert Mair’s father, also named Gilbert Mair, was a Scotsman who had worked as a merchant trader in Northland in the 1820s. Gilbert Mair junior was born in Whāngārei, and began his career as an interpreter of Māori. He cultivated close ties with the Te Arawa people, and played a dramatic role in the New Zealand wars as a soldier in the Waikato Militia.

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Born in Scotland, Agnes Carmont arrived in Wellington in 1850. Four years later she married Hector McDonald, who was also Scottish. On his arrival he had met Te Rauparaha, and at some point he had married Te Kopi, a niece of Te Rauparaha. He established a shore whaling station on Kapiti Island and became a trader once Wellington was founded. After his marriage to Agnes the pair settled in Horowhenua.

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Nine of the 13 children of Wharetutu and a Scottish sealer, George Newton, who arrived in Foveaux Strait in 1827, survived into adulthood. From their marriage sprang one of the largest Māori-Pākehā families in southern New Zealand.

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