Herbert Ellery Gilbert was born in Whanganui on 20 July 1916. His New Zealand-born father, Ellery George Gilbert, imported musical instruments; his mother, Nellie Gilbert (née Hall), was English-born. After attending…
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Mary Isabella Taylor was born in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 18 June 1871, the first child of Alison (Alice) McDonald and Alexander Taylor, a railway porter. In 1877 she emigrated with her parents from Glasgow…
Alfred Kingcome Newman was born at Madras, India, on 27 April 1849 to Alfred Newman, commander of an East India Company ship, and his wife, Isabella Soames. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1853 and farmed the 13,…
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Jack Newman was the eldest son of Christina Thomson and her husband, Thomas (Tom) Newman, a mail contractor and a co-founder of Newman Brothers coaching firm. He was born on 3 July 1902 at the family farm, Naumai, at…
Marion Beatrice Thomson, founding principal of Solway Girls' College, was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 22 November 1877, the sixth of seven children of Andrew Thomson and his wife, Margaret Hamilton. Scottish by…
The man who more than anyone else came to symbolise Federated Farmers was born in Dunedin on 29 December 1902. Alexander Paterson O’Shea was the youngest of 10 children of John O’Shea, a law clerk, and his wife, Alice…
Frederick Edward Maning was born in Dublin, Ireland, probably on 5 July in 1811 or 1812, the eldest son of moderately wealthy, Protestant, Anglo-Irish parents. His father, Frederick, married his mother, Mary Barrett, in…
Freeman Wright Holmes was born on a farm near Ashburton, New Zealand, probably on 6 June 1871, the son of Henrietta Wright and her husband, Thomas Holmes, a farmer. He began his lifelong involvement with horses and…
William Magee Hunter was born probably in 1833 or 1834 to a family of landed gentry in County Antrim, Ireland. He was educated at Enniskillen and Trinity College, Dublin, but cut short his studies to take part in the…
William Francis MacWilliams, born McWilliams and better known as Daldy MacWilliams, was born at Papakura, south of Auckland, New Zealand, on 23 July 1860. He was one of eight children of Martha Letitia Tullkin and her…
Alfred James Murdoch was born at Onehunga on 18 April 1877, one of at least five children of Mary Ann Nealis and her husband, John Murdoch, a clerk. The family lived at Ōpua, Bay of Islands, from 1886 and eight years…
Mary Bertha Rawlinson’s rich contralto voice and splendid acting skills made her a familiar name in New Zealand music and theatre for nearly 40 years. She was born in Geraldine, South Canterbury, on 1 June 1910, the…
Johannes Carl Andersen was born on 14 March 1873 at Klakring, a village in Jutland, Denmark, the second child of Jørgen Andersen, a watchmaker, and his wife, Johanne Marie Hansen. The family arrived at Lyttelton, New…
Frederic Truby King, the fifth of seven children, was born in New Zealand on 1 April 1858 on the Mangorei farmstead, just outside New Plymouth. Both his mother, Mary Chilman, and his father, Thomas King, were among the…
Early yearsJanet Frame was born on 28 August 1924 at St Helen’s Hospital, Dunedin, to Lottie Clarice Godfrey (who had worked as a maid in the Picton home of Katherine Mansfield’s family, the Beauchamps), and her husband…
Carmen Rupe was a trailblazing transgender woman and entertainer, a larger-than-life personality, sex worker, and celebrated LGBTIQ+ icon. Proprietor of several notorious Wellington nightspots and one-time mayoral…
Janet Speed was born on 31 January 1864 in Whanganui, New Zealand, the fifth of eight children of James Speed and his wife, Janet Montgomery. James had business interests and land at Whanganui, but soon after Janet's…
William Riddet was born on 16 March 1896 in Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland, one of five sons and two daughters of Lillias Tweed Miller and her husband, Robert Lang Riddet, a farmer who was active in kirk and community…
Heremia Te Wake belonged to Ngāti Manawa, a hapu of Te Kaitūtae and Te Rarawa. He was born at Te Karaka in the Hokianga district, probably in the 1830s, the son of William Hoard (known to his Māori family as Pire Hoa),…
Crosbie Ward is said to have been born on 10 February 1832 at Killinchy, County Down, Ireland, and was baptised there on 11 August 1833. He was the third son of Henry Ward, rector of Killinchy, and his wife, Anne Mahon…