Jean François Marie de Surville was born on 18 January 1717 at Port-Louis, Brittany, France. He was the son of Jean de Surville, a government official of Port-Louis, and his second wife, Françoise Mariteau de Roscadec,…
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Te Moananui, sometimes known as Kurupō, was a Ngāti Kahungunu leader of high rank in Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay) in the nineteenth century. His hapū was Ngāti Hāwea. Through his father, Whakatō, he was descended from Te…
Violet May Grainger was born in Napier on 17 May 1887. She was the youngest of eight children of Eliza Jane Fleetham and her husband, George William Grainger, a civil engineer who was employed by the Napier Harbour…
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Thelma Rene Kent was born in Christchurch on 21 October 1899, the younger of two children of Catherine Maude Hales and her husband, John Robert Kent, a bootmaker. She was educated at Addington School and the…
According to family information John Chambers was born at Heanor, Derbyshire, England, on 20 January 1819, the son of John Chambers, framework knitter, and his wife, Hannah Borebank. Raised in a Quaker household, John…
William Henry Skinner was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, on 26 February 1857, the son of Prudence Veale and her husband, Thomas Kingwell Skinner, a butcher. Both were among the pioneer settlers who had emigrated…
Kazimierz Antoni z Granowa Wodzicki, born on 4 February 1900 at Olejów, eastern Poland, was the son of Maria Dzieduszycka and her husband, Count Alexander Louis Wodzicki. Kazimierz’s father spent his life managing the…
Airini Karauria was born at Puketapu in Hawke's Bay, probably in 1854 or 1855. Her mother was Haromi Te Ata, and her father the Ngāti Kahungunu chief Karauria, sometimes known as Karauria Pupu. She was closely related…
Tiakitai was a Ngāti Kahungunu leader of great mana in the Waimārama area of Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay) in the first half of the nineteenth century. Through his father, Te Ōrihau, he was descended from Te Rangikoiānake I…
Golan Haberfield Maaka, also known as Te Kōrana, was born on 4 April 1904 on Ōruawharo station, Takapau, Hawke's Bay. His father was Aritaku Maaka, of Ngāti Hikatoa of Waimārama and Ngāi Tahu of Takapau, hapū of Ngāti…
Mohi Te Ātahīkoia was born probably at Waimārama, Hawke's Bay, in the early 1840s. His mother was Maata Kōtakitaki, whose parents were Ngāti Whakaiti chief Tūāhu and his wife, Meretuhirangi. His ancestor Whakaiti was…
Hauraki was the son of Kaitara, a principal leader of Ngāti Hineira and Te Uri Taniwha, of Ngāpuhi. In his youth Hauraki lived in Pukenui pā, Te Ahuahu, in the Bay of Islands. One wife of Kaitara was Inu, of Ngāti Pou;…
Te Pareihe of Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti in Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay) began his career as a war leader in the early nineteenth century. He was also known as Pareihe Kai-a-te-kōkopu and as Hōri. The identity of his parents is…
Tomoana was born in the 1820s or early 1830s, probably in Heretaunga, Hawke's Bay. He was the third son of Te Rotohenga, also called Winipere, from whom he derived his high rank. Her father was Hāwea of Ngāti Te Whatu-i…