In the first 40 years of the twentieth century James Cowan was one of New Zealand's most widely read non-fiction writers. He wrote over 30 books and hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines, mainly about New…
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According to reliable sources Samuel Marsden was born on 25 June 1765, at Farsley, Yorkshire, England, the eldest of the seven children of Bathsheba Brown and her husband, Thomas Marsden. He was baptised at Calverley,…
Charles John Wright Barton was born, according to family information, on 6 February 1852 at Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, and was baptised there on 2 March. He was the son of Charlotte Kinder and her husband,…
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Walter Godfrey Bowen was born in Hastings on 13 February 1922, the son of Catherine Wall and her husband, Walter Eugene Bowen. His father had been a station manager in Hawke’s Bay before moving to Hastings to become a…
George Douglas Hamilton was born on 15 July 1835, in Antwerp, Belgium, and lived there as a child. The son of Mary Wilkinson and her husband, William Hamilton, a merchant, George was a member of a prominent Scottish…
John Rodolphus Kent, known to his Maori friends as Amukete, is of obscure origin, neither his parents' names nor his date and place of birth being known. An officer in the Royal Navy, serving the government of New South…
Ōtene Pāora was born, probably in the 1860s or early 1870s, at Rēweti, south of Helensville, the third son of Pāora Kāwharu and his wife, Rāhera Uruamo of Te Taoū, Ngā Oho and Te Uringutu hapū of Ngāti Whātua. He was…
Born on 10 January 1856 at Boghall, a 400-acre farm at Kingsbarns, Fife, Scotland, Alexander Peebles was the second child of George Peebles, a farm labourer, and his wife, Janet Turnbull. George was offered a contract…
Ethel Watkins was born on 17 March 1880 in Onehunga, the daughter of Madeline (Magdaline) Rātahi Cochrane and her husband, Bazett (Barrett) Watkins, a millhand. Her mother was the grand-daughter of early Hokianga…
George McCullagh Reed was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, probably in 1831 or 1832, the son of James Reed, a farmer, and his wife, Jane Ann Lewis. Little is known of his early life. He graduated from Queen's College,…
Henry Chidley Reynolds was born on 26 May 1849 at Beeny, St Juliot, Cornwall, England, the third son of Elizabeth (Betsy) Chidley and her husband, William Reynolds, a farmer. With members of his family he arrived in…
Violet Augusta Roche was born on 17 June 1885 in Te Awamutu, the daughter of Constance Gertrude Malcolm and her husband, Robert Warren Roche. Robert Roche had a varied career as a journalist, accountant, settler,…
William Alexander Sim achieved distinction in disparate fields of the law. He was a leading barrister in Dunedin, first full-time president of the Court of Arbitration and chairman of two royal commissions. And he…
Elsie Smith was born in Kingstone Lisle, Berkshire, England, on 8 September 1881, the daughter of Charles Collins Smith, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Ann Danse. She was educated at Hemdean House School, Caversham. In…
Charles Ernest Statham was born in Dunedin on 10 May 1875, the son of Ann Sutton Hemsley and her husband, Charles Hadfield Statham, a merchant's clerk, who was to be ordained an Anglican priest at the age of 70. Charles…
Martin Gloster Sullivan was born in Auckland on 30 March 1910, the son of Dennis Sullivan, a stationer, and his wife, Ellen Connell. Both parents were from County Kerry, Ireland. After attending Auckland Grammar School…
Hīria Kokoro Tiratahi was born, according to family information, on 3 June 1870, possibly at Tuahiwi in Canterbury. Her father was Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe chief Hēnare Kokoro Tiratahi of Waipōpō, near Temuka, and her…
Andreas Reischek was born on 15 September 1845 at Linz, Austria, the son of Barbara Danzer and her husband, Andreas Reischek, a collector of shipping fees. His mother died soon after he was born and Andreas was raised…
Hōne Mohi Tāwhai was the son of Mohi Tāwhai and his wife, Rāwinia Hineikoaia (also known as Hārata). His father belonged to Te Māhurehure, a hapū of the Ngāpuhi confederation, and the family was also connected with Te…
Robert Pānapa Tūtaki (also known as Tūtaki Pānapa Stewart and Robert Tūtaki Pānapa) was born probably in 1887 or 1888 at Ruahāpia on the outskirts of Hastings, the son of Arapera Te Ngaaero and her husband, Pānapa Tuari…