Jacky Marmon

John Marmon, known as Jacky Marmon (1798-1800?–1880), was an Australian sailor, who became one of the first Europeans to live as a Pākehā Māori. His occupations included interpreter, shopkeeper, sawyer, carpenter and soldier. He went to sea again at the age of 11, and sailed in merchant vessels throughout the Pacific and between the Australian colonies.

In 1823 he was convicted of theft and sentenced to serve two years on government ships. From one of these he escaped while it was berthed in the north of New Zealand. with Marmon himself recovering the bodies of the Europeans slain during the Battle of Ohaeawai.

He died at Rawhia on 3 September 1880 and the next year many newspapers serialised his autobiography as "The life and adventures of John Marmon, the Hokianga Pakeha Maori, or, seventy-five years in New Zealand". Marmon's final resting place is unknown, but believed to be on Rawhia Point. Now lined with pine trees, now considered somewhat of a sacred area and locals have refused to log the area.