Margaret Olrog Stoddart was born on 3 October 1865 at Diamond Harbour, Canterbury, New Zealand, the daughter of Anna Barbara Schjött and her husband, Mark Pringle Stoddart. Margaret came from a prosperous and cultured…
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Gerald Stokell was born on 20 June 1890 at Prebbleton, south of Christchurch, the son of Edmund Stokell, a farmer, and his wife, Jane Eliza Pasche. His whole life was spent at Prebbleton, where he lived in the family…
Wilfred Stanley Wallis was born at Opawa, Christchurch, on 15 May 1891, the son of Eliza Hart and her husband, John Wallis, a 53-year-old carpenter who hailed originally from London. Stan, as he was generally known,…
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Eileen Hope Lewis was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, on 16 October 1884, the daughter of Thomas Hope Lewis, a surgeon, and his wife, Ellen Fenton. Both her parents were enthusiastic golfers and she learnt to play at an…
Adela Mary Roche was born at Te Awamutu on 3 April 1878, the second child of Emily Adela Malcolm and her Irish-born husband, Hungerford Roche, a farmer and local politician. Her aunt, Fanny Osborne, was a well-known…
Stephen Shepherd Allen was born at Cheadle, Staffordshire, England, on 2 August 1882, the seventh of ten children of MP William Shepherd Allen and his wife, Elizabeth Penelope Candlish, herself the daughter of an MP.…
Albert Ernest Davy was born at Wellington on 17 August 1886, the son of Charley Davy, a constable, and his wife, Selina Williams. The family moved to Thames, Dargaville, and various places in Hawke's Bay and Taranaki…
Norman Vazey Douglas was born in Hikurangi, Northland, on 15 March 1910, the son of Ellen Margaret Vazey and her husband, George Nicole Douglas, a police constable. Transfers for his father saw him raised in several…
John Dobrée Pascoe was born at Christchurch on 26 September 1908, the elder of twin sons of Effie Denham and her husband, Guy Dobrée Pascoe, a prominent solicitor. After primary education at Sumner School, John attended…
Merekotia Amohau was born at Ōhinemutu, Rotorua, on 16 April 1898, the youngest child of prominent Te Arawa leader Hēnare Mete Amohau and his wife, Tūkau Te Hira of Ngāti Pikiao. Known as Mere, she was educated at…
Hugh Fraser Ayson was born in Toiro, near Balclutha, Otago, on 16 November 1884, the son of Lake Falconer Ayson, a rabbit inspector, and his wife, Alice Dabinett. Educated at Masterton School, Wellington College and…
Peter Barr, son of Dunedin's first chief postmaster, Archibald Barr, and his second wife, Sarah Hepburn, was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 9 July 1861. He was educated at Middle District School and then at the High…
Alice Henrietta Gertrude Basten was born in Auckland on 24 January 1876, one of five children of Rachel Lang and her husband, George John Basten, a coachbuilder. Her father died in 1893 and her mother supported the…
Gordon Bridson was born on 2 December 1909 in Wellington, the son of Agnes Jessie Gordon and her husband, William John Bridson, a company manager. The family later moved to Auckland, where Gordon attended Auckland…
One of New Zealand's greatest aviators, Keith Logan Caldwell was by his own account born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 16 October 1895. He was the son of David Robert Caldwell, a merchant, and his wife, Mary Dunlop…
Betsy Robertson Walter was born in Nelson on 28 November 1911, the eldest child of Mary Jane Mitchell and her husband, John (Jock) Sinclair Walter. Her father, from Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands, had been a silk…
One of New Zealand's first professional women photographers, Rosaline (Rose) Margaret Frank was born in Nelson, New Zealand, on 21 December 1864 to Emma Sophia Haslam and her husband, Christopher Joseph Frank, a…
William Mackenzie Fraser was born at Auckland on 6 April 1878, the son of Simon Fraser, a farmer, and his wife, Margaret Ann McKenzie. His father, who was attributed with finding gold at Taieri, Otago, was born in…
Reginald Bedford Hammond was born on 10 September 1894, at Te Kopuru, North Auckland, the son of Lucy Gertrude Masefield and her husband, Horace Hammond, a civil engineer. He trained and worked as an architect and…
Amy May Scott was born on 2 July 1888 in Islington, London, the daughter of William Scott, a silversmith's salesman, and his wife, Clara Rosina Charlotte Hawkins. She won a scholarship to the Mary Datchelor School for…