	Puketapu married Amiria Ake Ake, in Hawera about 1907, but she died in 1916. He remarried Pākehā [Vera May Yeates (1904–1991) on 15 March 1930, at Wellington. They had many children, including Ihakara Puketapu and Erenora Puketapu-Hetet.