Elizabeth Oman was born in Caithness, Scotland, probably sometime between 1840 and 1848, the elder daughter of George Oman and his wife, Eleanor Lannigan. She arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, around December 1853 with…
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Oscar Thorvald (Thorwald) Johan Alpers was born on 28 January 1867 at Copenhagen, Denmark, the only son of Søren Thorvald Alpers and his wife, Frederikke Emilie Philipsen. His education began in Copenhagen, but after he…
Charles Nalder Baeyertz was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 15 December 1866, the son of Emilia Louisa Aronson and her husband, Charles Baeyertz, manager of the National Bank of Australasia at Colac, Victoria. After…
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James Prendergast, New Zealand's third chief justice and the first appointed by a New Zealand ministry, was born in London, England, probably on 10 December 1826 and was baptised there on 3 October 1827. He was the…
Philip Randal Woodhouse was born in Dunedin on 9 February 1886, the son of John Frederick Churton Woodhouse, a solicitor, and his wife, Edith Bathgate. Randal (as he was known) was educated at Otago Boys' High School…
William Henry Barnes was baptised on 8 April 1827 at Manchester, Lancashire, England. He was the son of Jane Bonsell and her husband, George Barnes, a labourer. William, also known as Bill or Billy, had some education;…
Born at Tumai in Otago, New Zealand, on 9 May 1878, Jessie Lillian Buckland was one of seven children of Caroline Fairburn and her husband, John Channing Buckland. Her father was a farmer, and from 1884 to 1887 the…
Timothy Patrick Cleary was born in Meeanee, Hawke’s Bay, on 27 April 1900, the son of Patrick Cleary, a labourer, and his Irish-born wife, Margaret McCartin. He spent his early life in Mangaweka, where his family became…
Duncan Macfarlane was born on 15 January 1827 in Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He was the son of John Macfarlane, a carpenter, and his wife, Margaret McLauchlan. Nothing is known of his early life, although it is…
Born in Dunedin on 4 May 1911, the son of James Sinton, a butcher, and his wife, Louisa Matilda Hellyer, Walter James Sinton was educated at Albany Street School and Otago Boys’ High School. For the first 10 years after…
Caroline Harriet Hudson was born at Wanlip Hall in Leicestershire, England, and baptised at Wanlip on 1 July 1809. She was the daughter of Harriet Pepperell and her husband, Charles Thomas Hudson, who changed his name…
Sarah Maria Style was baptised on 10 August 1823 at Wraysbury, near Windsor, England. She was the daughter of Robert Style, a farmer, and his second wife, Elizabeth Haines. Sarah Style married Charles Decimus Barraud,…
Born in Wellington on 8 July 1866, Byron Paul Brown was the seventh of fourteen children of Jane Winton and her husband, Arthur Brown, a carpenter who later became a cabinet-maker and shipwright. He attended Mount Cook…
Robert George Deans was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 19 February 1884, one of nine children of Catherine Edith Park and her husband, John Deans. His paternal grandfather, John Deans, was one of the Deans…
Arthur Anderson Martin was born in Milton, Otago, New Zealand, on 26 March 1876, the son of Thomas Martin, a labourer, and his wife, Jessie Anderson. Educated at Lumsden School and Lawrence District High School, in 1893…
Alexander Shand was born on 15 November 1840, at Petone, New Zealand, to Archibald Watson Shand and his wife, Elizabeth Alexandrina Greig Kilpatrick, who were among the first group of New Zealand Company immigrants.…
Ivan Tomasevic was born on 10 March 1897 in Kosarnido, Croatia, then part of Austria–Hungary. He was the son of Antun Tomasevic, a farm labourer, and his wife, Ane Trobok. His early life is obscure, but he qualified as…
James Mackay, who was of Scots descent, was born in London, England, on 16 November 1831 to James Mackay and his wife, Ann. He arrived at Nelson, New Zealand, on 26 January 1845 on the Slains Castle in the company of…
Patrick Alphonsus Buckley was born probably in 1840 or 1841 near Castletownsend, County Cork, Ireland. The names of his parents are not known. He was educated at Queen's College in Cork, in Paris, and at the Université…
Laurel Amy Eva Doyle was born on 15 March 1902 in Doyleston, the Canterbury town named after her grandfather, Joseph Hastings Doyle. She was the eldest of two daughters and two sons of William John Doyle, a storekeeper…