Francis George Cumming was born at Marnoch, Banffshire, Scotland, on 18 November 1861 to Catharine Horne and her husband, William Cumming, a farm servant. When in their teens he and his brother Robert ran away to sea…
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Alison Edith Hilda Craig was born on 22 January 1903 at Waitekauri on the Coromandel Peninsula, the eldest of six children of George Craig, a physician and surgeon, and his wife, Hilda Johnstone Gudgeon. Alison was the…
James Hutton Kidd was born on 12 September 1877 in Hexham, Northumberland, England, the son of Harriet Alice Lee and her husband, James Hutton Kidd, a tailor. The family emigrated to New Zealand when he was a child,…
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Falconer Larkworthy spent only a few years in New Zealand but was a significant figure in the country's economic development. His career illustrates the importance of New Zealand's links with the London financial…
James Little was born on 22 October 1834 into a farming family at Powbeat, Midlothian, Scotland. He was the son of Margaret Tait and her husband, Henry Little, a shepherd descended from early Presbyterian Covenanters…
William Victor McIntyre (better known as Victor or Mac) was born on 24 May 1887 at Pleasant Point, South Canterbury, New Zealand. He was the son of Robert McIntyre, a labourer, and his wife, Eliza Ann Cochrane. McIntyre…
Elizabeth Mary Brittan, known as Mary Brittan, was born into an Anglican medical family in Castleton, near Sherborne, Dorset, England, on 30 March 1845. After her mother, Elizabeth Mary Chandler, died in 1849, her…
Tipi Tainui Rōpiha was of Ngāi Toroiwaho of Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne. He was born in Waipāwa on 8 August 1895, the second child of Reginald Pinckney, an English-born clerk, and Mihi Mere Pānapa, the daughter of…
William Swainson was born at Lancaster, England, probably on 25 April 1809, the eldest son of the merchant William Swainson. His mother's name is not known. He was educated at Lancaster Grammar School, admitted to the…
Taonui Hīkaka was born probably at Paripari (near present day Te Kūiti) in the early 1840s. He could trace his descent from Rakataura of the Tainui canoe. His father was Taonui Hīkaka (also known as Hīkaka) of Ngāti…
Margaret Gordon Huie was born on 22 March 1825, at Edinburgh, Scotland, the eldest child of Eliza Gordon Edgar and her husband, Alexander Huie, an accountant. After private tuition Margaret attended Circus Place School…
Born on 8 August 1909 in Kensington, London, Charles John Lyttelton was the son of Violet Yolande Leonard and her husband, John Cavendish Lyttelton, who in 1922 was to become the ninth Viscount Cobham. The family had…
John Dickie was born in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on 20 May 1875, the son of Ann Petrie and her husband, John Dickie, a police carter. The family later moved north to farm in the Buchan district of the county,…
Francisco Rodrigues Figueira, popularly known as Don Buck, was an intriguing character of early west Auckland. He was born in Madeira, probably in 1869 or 1870. Nothing is known of his parents, early life or date of…
Samuel Aaron Goldstein, son of Woolf Goldstein, a jeweller, and his wife, Sarah, was born in London, England, by his own account on 12 June 1852. He received his rabbinical training at Jews' College, London, and was…
George Gould was born at Christchurch on 6 April 1865, the son of George Gould and his second wife, Elizabeth Lewis. His father, one of the Canterbury pioneers of 1850, was a leading landowner and businessman, and a…
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…
David Hay was born at Rhynd, Perthshire, Scotland, on 2 October 1815, the son of Ann McGregor and her husband, John Hay, a weaver. David is said to have trained as a gardener on an estate in Perthshire, where he would…
Ellen Valpy was born in Hummeripore (Hamirpur), India, on 12 February 1827, the second daughter of William Henry Valpy and his wife, Caroline Jeffreys. Ellen came from a talented family: there is evidence that her…
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…