Henry Monson was born at Cawood, Yorkshire, England, on 25 August 1793, the son of Ann Monson and her husband, Bernard Monson, a labourer. He married Ann Kidall of Swaffham, Norfolk, at St Pancras Old Church, London, on…
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William Mowbray was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, on 25 December 1835, the son of William Mowbray, a lace manufacturer, and his wife, Anne. He received some of his education under Canon William Fry, and…
Annie Lee Rees was born at Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, on 24 April 1864, the eldest of seven children of Hannah (Annie) Elizabeth Staite and her husband, William Lee Rees, a congregational minister who was…
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Murray Beresford Roberts was born at Wellington on 10 August 1919, the only child of Andrew Murray Roberts, a surveyor, and his wife, Annie Isabelle Huckstep. He was brought up in a well-to-do Auckland home. His father…
Anton Seuffert, known before 1869 as Anton Seufert, and sometimes mistakenly referred to as Antoine Siefert, was born in Bohemia probably in 1814 or 1815, the son of Anton Seufert and his wife, Anna Bower or Bauer.…
Edgar Fraser Stead was born in Christchurch on 22 October 1881, the son of George Gatonby Stead and his wife, Lucie Maria Wilkinson. His father was a grain and export merchant, president of the local chamber of commerce…
Isabel Annie Michaelsen was born on 18 March 1887 in Waipawa, Hawke's Bay. Her early family life was marred by tragedy. Her father, Harald Michaelsen, a Danish clerk, committed suicide by poisoning himself three months…
Elizabeth Joan Batham was born at Dunedin on 2 December 1917, the daughter of Guy Symonds Meacham Batham, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Ethel Mary Gibbs. Betty attended Archerfield College, a private school for…
Although Maggie Briggs's deeds as a show-jumper have been exaggerated and romanticised by her biographers, she was undoubtedly an outstanding horsewoman. Born Margaret Jane Briggs on 17 April 1892 at Ōtākeho, near…
Maxwell Bury was born on 28 July 1825, at East Retford in Nottinghamshire, England, the son of William Bury, an Anglican clergyman, and his first wife, Harriet Fowler. He spent part of his childhood in Cambridgeshire,…
Eric Henry Compton was born at Hastings on 14 March 1902, the son of Harriett Morgon and her husband, William Henry Compton, a cook. Educated at Hastings District High School, he became a rifle marksman and left to…
There was nothing in the early life of Francis Peter Cusack to suggest he would become one of Southland’s most eccentric sons. Sam Cusack, as he was nicknamed, was born at Winton in central Southland on 4 February 1919…
The most controversial pioneer of the Pentecostal movement in New Zealand, Arthur Henry Dallimore was born in Penshurst, Kent, England, on 14 September 1873, the son of an inland revenue officer, John Holmes Dallimore,…
James Duncan was born on 1 February 1813 at Airdrie, near Glasgow, Scotland, the son of a Lanarkshire baker, James Duncan, and his wife, Marrian Hill. After studying at Glasgow University from 1836 to 1838, he attended…
Hugo Friedländer (Friedlander) was born probably in January 1850 at Kolmar, Prussia (Chodziez, Poland). His father, Jonas Friedländer, and his mother, Röschen Buck, were Jewish. As a teenager Hugo emigrated with his…
Lewis Edward Harris was born in Woodville, Hawke’s Bay, on 25 March 1900, the son of Mabel Eldridge Lewis and her husband, Joseph Henry Harris, a farmer. The family moved to Napier when Lewis was four, and later to…
Richard Hellaby was born in Thurvaston, Derbyshire, England, according to family information on 5 January 1849, the son of William Hellaby, a farmer, and his wife, Eleanor Audenwood. After minimal schooling Richard was…
James Armour Johnstone was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 25 June 1859, the son of a Congregational minister, David Johnstone, and his wife, Jessie Baird Thomson. In 1868 the Johnstones emigrated with their four children…
Thomas Lambert was born on 3 December 1854 in Oughterard, County Galway, Ireland, the eldest of nine children of William Lambert, a schoolmaster, and his wife, Mary Jane Bingham, formerly a schoolteacher. He was…
John James Meikle was born in Linlithgow, Scotland, probably in 1844 or 1845, the son of John Meikle, a general labourer, and his wife, Jannet Jamieson. Nothing is known of Meikle's early life. In October 1869 he and…