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1832–1912Suffragist, temperance and welfare worker
Elizabeth Russell was born in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 26 April 1832, the eldest child of David Russell, a carpenter, and his wife, Elizabeth Adam. According to family information the Russell family lived in Perth, Perthshire. When Elizabeth was 10 years old the family emigrated to...
Story: Caradus, Elizabeth
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1873–1960Community and welfare worker
Effie Julia Margaret Cardale was well known as a welfare worker in Christchurch, New Zealand, between 1914 and 1955. She was born at Christchurch on 20 May 1873, the daughter of Alfred Cardale, a stock owner, and his wife, Flora Emily Coward. Effie grew up in a large family and was educated...
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1876–1916Waiter, trade unionist, soldier
Elijah Carey was born in the goldmining town of Gympie, Queensland, Australia, on 20 August 1876, a twin son of Catherine Newman and her husband, Elijah Carey, a miner. Elijah junior, who later added the name John and was usually known as Jack, was apprenticed to a local printer but left to...
Story: Carey, Elijah John
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1891–1982Artist, art teacher
Ida Harriet Carey was born at Taonui, near Feilding, on 3 October 1891, the daughter of Elizabeth Keeble and her husband, Richard Octavius Egerton Carey, a farmer. Although she painted from a young age, her first formal training was in music and she initially became a piano teacher. Around 1910...
Story: Carey, Ida Harriet
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1784–1860Soldier, merchant, coloniser, provincial superintendent
William Cargill was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 28 August 1784, the son of James Cargill and his wife, Marrion Jamieson. His father, who died of chronic alcoholism when William was 15, was a lawyer of some standing. His death reduced the family to straitened circumstances and ensured that...
Story: Cargill, William
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1810–1890Trader, newspaper editor, politician, educationalist, writer
Hugh Francis Carleton was the son of Francis Carleton and his wife, Charlotte Margaretta Montgomerie, of both Clare More, County Tipperary, and Greenfield, County Cork, Ireland. He is said to have been born on 3 July 1810, and was baptised on 20 September in London, England. He married Lydia...
Story: Carleton, Hugh Francis
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1902–1982Sports journalist and writer, bookseller, publisher, pacifist, local politician, historian
Arthur Herbert Carman was born in Pāpārangi, Johnsonville, Wellington, on 2 August 1902, the eldest of five sons of Gertrude Matilda Burd and her husband, Walter John Carman. His father, a former compositor with the New Zealand Times, managed a printing works with R. A. Wright in Featherston...
Story: Carman, Arthur Herbert
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1871–1954Teacher, educationalist, community worker
Blanche Eleanor Carnachan was born in Cambridge, Waikato, on 23 November 1871. Her parents, David Carnachan and his wife, Elizabeth Friars, had arrived in Auckland with their first five children on the Helenslee in December 1864. The Carnachans made their way to the military settlement of...
Story: Carnachan, Blanche Eleanor
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1848–1938Dentist, Seventh-day Adventist, social reformer
Margaret Malcolm was born at Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand, on 17 December 1848. She was the youngest of five children of Margaret Barrie and her husband, Andrew Malcolm, a wheelwright. Her parents were Presbyterians who had recently immigrated from Scotland. Margaret was educated in Nelson at...
Story: Caro, Margaret
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1917–1991University tutor in home science, adult educationalist, consumer advocate
Emily Elizabeth Carpenter was born at Scargill, North Canterbury, on 20 January 1917, the daughter of Margaret Elizabeth Fleming and her husband, John Frederick Hyam Carpenter, a farmer. She went to Wharenui School, Christchurch, and Christchurch Technical College, before beginning science...
Story: Carpenter, Emily Elizabeth
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1819/1820?–1891Bookbinder, local politician, bookseller, character
Robert Holt Carpenter was born in England probably in 1819 or 1820, the son of a cabinet-maker, Edward Carpenter, and his wife, Louisa A'Mutie. He trained as a bookbinder, probably in London, and by subsequent repute participated in the 1839 Chartist demonstrations. On 18 September 1841 at Bath...
Story: Carpenter, Robert Holt
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1886–1962Clerk, Methodist and Congregationalist minister, politician, editor, writer
Clyde Leonard Carr was born in Ponsonby, Auckland, on 14 January 1886, the son of Thomas Goodwill Carr, a Methodist minister, and his wife, Matilda Frame Thorne. He grew up to be a tall, lean, gangling fellow who, after early forays into commerce and the ministries of two Protestant churches,...
Story: Carr, Clyde Leonard
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1880–1973Ngāti Kahungunu; land court judge and administrator
Harold Herbert Williams was born at Wairoa, northern Hawke’s Bay, on 25 January 1880, one of several children of Elizabeth Carroll and her Welsh-born husband, Herbert Joseph Williams, a county clerk and former constable in the Armed Constabulary. Harold was informally adopted at a young age by...
Story: Carr, Harold Herbert
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1842–1935Waikato and Ngāti Pukeko; founding mother, midwife
Catherine McKay was born probably at Putataka, Waikato Heads, New Zealand, in 1842, the third child of John Horton McKay, a storekeeper, and Irihapeti, whose tribal connections were with Waikato and Ngāti Pūkeko of Whakatāne. She was baptised by Bishop G. A. Selwyn on 28 June 1846, along with...
Story: Carran, Catherine
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1898–1960Te Āti Awa; policeman, assistant commissioner of police
William Carran was born on the family property at Bell Block, Taranaki, on 3 August 1898, one of at least 12 children of Ngārongo Kāhau (Kāhou), also known as Mary Bruce, and her farmer husband, Rāniera Kārena (Daniel Carran). Both parents were of the Puketapu hapū of Te Āti Awa. His father was...
Story: Carran, William
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1808?–1901Surveyor, public administrator, politician, provincial superintendent
Frederic Alonzo Carrington was born in Chelmsford, Essex, England, and baptised there on 26 July 1808. He was the third son of Elizabeth Peters and her husband, William Henry Carrington, Royal Marine barrack master at Douglas on the Isle of Man. He married Margaret Gaine in London on 3 December...
Story: Carrington, Frederic Alonzo
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1895–1974Farmer, racehorse trainer, rugby union and league player
Alphonsus John Carroll was born in Mataura, Southland, on 20 April 1895, the youngest of 10 sons of Margaret Kearney, a tailoress, and her husband, Robert Carroll, a mill worker. Both of his parents were born in County Cork, Ireland. Known as Phonse, he was educated at the convent school in...
Story: Carroll, Alphonsus John
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1852/1856?–1930Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki leader
Hēni Materoa, also known as Te Huinga, was born at Makauri, a few miles to the north-west of Tūranga (Gisborne); her birth date could have been either 27 October 1852 or 29 October 1856. Her father was Mīkaera Tūrangi of Ngāi Tāwhiri and Ngāti Maru hapū of Rongowhakaata; he was the son of the...
Story: Carroll, Hēni Materoa
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1857–1926Ngāti Kahungunu; farm worker, interpreter, politician
James Carroll was born at Wairoa, northern Hawke's Bay, probably on 20 August 1857, one of eight children of Joseph Carroll and his Ngāti Kahungunu wife, Tapuke, a woman of mana. His father, a Sydney-born Irishman, had come to the Bay of Islands in the early 1840s and began whaling, timber-...
Story: Carroll, James
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1890–1975Ngāti Kahungunu leader, farmer, local politician
Alfred Thomas Carroll (Kara) was born at Wairoa, in northern Hawke’s Bay, on 24 August 1890, the youngest of three children of Thomas Carroll, a farmer, and his wife, Mako Kaimoana. At an early age he became known as Turi, after an ancestor, Turipārera. His father was one of eight children of...
Story: Carroll, Turi