Airini Ngā Roimata Grennell was born on 11 February 1910 at Waitangi in the Chatham Islands, the eldest of five children. Her father, William Henry Grennell, was a farmer and fisherman at Matarakau on the northern side…
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Frank Haydn Haigh, born at Lower Hutt on 2 May 1898 and reared in Invercargill, brought radical liberal substance and style to the practice of law in Auckland over five decades. Registered at birth as Francis, he was…
Amy Merania Harper was born in Paeroa on 23 May 1900, the eldest child of Ada Agnes Nalder and her husband, William Septimus Harper, an engineer. Amy grew up with her family (she had two brothers and two sisters) in…
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William Edgar Hazlett was a dominant figure in farming, thoroughbred breeding and racing in Southland for more than 30 years. His father, William Thomas Hazlett, a merchant with extensive land holdings, had married Kate…
Thomas Hickman was born in France – according to his own account at Ponto de Mare – on 13 January 1848, the son of Thomas Edward Hickman, an ironworker, and his wife, Ellen Bond. In 1850 or 1851 his parents returned to…
Laura May Cook Ingram was born on 11 June 1912 in Murchison, the daughter of Garden Ingram, a Scot, and his wife, Flora Agnes Matilda Cook, from Riwaka. Her father was employed as a blacksmith, but the family later…
Hilda Kate Smith was born at Riccarton on 10 July 1886, the third daughter of ten children of Mary Jane (Jennie) Cumberworth and her husband, William Sidney Smith, a printer. Later the family changed their name to…
Born in New Plymouth on 19 July 1896, Russell Matthews was the 10th and youngest child of Grace Marshall and her husband, Robert James Matthews, a banker. He was raised in an environment in which business and…
Alice Heron Maxwell's dedication to the preservation of the historic Te Papa mission station, at a time when few Pakeha New Zealanders realised the value of such sites, was both far-sighted and courageous. She was born…
John McCaw was born on 4 October 1849 at Morriston, Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of Alexander McCaw, a farmer, and his wife, Hughina McLachlan. McCaw was educated at the Kirkoswald parish school and at the Ayr Academy.…
Monica Beatrice McKenzie was born on 23 October 1905 at Wellington, the daughter of Ida Grace Kenny and her husband, Alexander McKenzie, a schoolmaster. Educated at Karori School and Wellington Girls’ College, she…
Born in Christchurch on 17 March 1904, Neta Doris Billcliff was the daughter of Arthur Billcliff, a Yorkshire-born grocer, and his American wife, Thomasina Emily Jocelyn Corcoran. Educated at Elmwood School and…
Edward Newman was born in Partick, Glasgow, Scotland, on 4 July 1858, the son of a Royal Navy surgeon of the same name and his wife, Annabella Smith. According to his own account, Edward came to New Zealand about 1875,…
Edith Lucy Morfett was born at Kamo, Whangarei, on 26 May 1888, the fourth daughter of Mary Puttenham, a seamstress from Kent, and her husband, George Morfett, a farm manager. The Morfetts had emigrated to New Zealand…
Raymond Paul Olds was born at Linwood, Christchurch, on 28 November 1922, the younger of twin boys of English-born parents James Olds, a tailor, and his wife, Ida Annie Saraski, who was of Polish Jewish descent. Paul…
Amelia Mary Randall, although quiet and unassuming, was during the early twentieth century one of the wealthiest women in Hawke's Bay, and an important public benefactor. Born Amelia Mary Davenport at Boulogne-sur-Mer,…
James Basil Wilkie Roberton was born in Auckland on 30 January 1896, the second of four children of Eliza Ann Wilkie and her husband, Ernest Roberton, a prominent medical practitioner. Educated at King’s College,…
Ernest Valentine Sanderson was born in Dunedin on 8 February 1866, the second of five children of Jane Sanderson and William Walter James Spreat, a lithographic draughtsman. By 1874 the family had moved to Wellington,…
John Llewellyn Saunders was born in Dunedin on 12 January 1891, the son of Scottish-born Jeanie Hutchison and her husband, William Saunders, a Congregationalist minister from Wales. After leaving Otago Boys' High School…
Alfred Seifert was born on 26 June 1877 in Loburn North, Canterbury, New Zealand, the seventh child in a family of seven boys and three girls born to John Herman Seifert, a native of Germany, and Mary Jane Brown, of…