Frederick Wollaston Hutton was born, probably on 16 November 1836, at Gate Burton, Lincolnshire, England, and baptised there on 25 January 1837. He was the second son of Henry Frederick Hutton, vicar of Gate Burton, and…
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Mary Edith Clarke was born in Waimate North in the Bay of Islands on 23 September 1888, the daughter of Marsden Clarke, a grazier, and his wife, Frances Emily Stuart. Mary's great-grandfather, George Clarke, had arrived…
Nuka Taipari belonged to Ngāti Hē, a hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi of Tauranga. He was the principal chief of Maungatapu pā in the 1830s and 1840s. He is known mostly from references in missionary journals and in The journal of…
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Te Pehi Kupe was born at Kāwhia. He was the elder son of Toitoi and was descended in the senior line from Toa Rangatira, the eponymous ancestor of Ngāti Toa. His mother was Waipunāhau, a woman of the Ngāti Hinetuhi…
Charles Robert Thatcher was born in Bristol, England, on 21 August 1830. He was the eldest son of Sophia Matilda Hossey and her husband, Charles Robert Thatcher, a conchologist, a dealer in curios and a Methodist deacon…
Wēpiha Apanui (also known as Wēpiha Te Mautaranui) was the son of Apanui Te Hāmaiwaho and Mīria Tārei of Ngāti Awa. He was the first-born of two brothers and two sisters; the date and place of his birth are unknown.…
Charles Mackie Begg was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 13 September 1879, the sixth of nine children of Alexander Campbell Begg, an accountant and Free Church Presbyterian, and his wife, Katherine Clarke, both of…
Walter Lawry Buller was born at the Wesleyan mission, Newark, at Pākanae, Hokianga, New Zealand, on 9 October 1838, the son of Jane Tonkin Martin and her husband, James Buller. He married Charlotte Mair at Whāngārei on…
Alice Annie Kenny, one of New Zealand's most assiduous but least-remembered writers, was born on 31 August 1875 at Newcastle (Ngāruawāhia), the third of eight children of Annie Edgecumbe and her husband, Thomas Nepean…
Tūpaea of Te Whānau-a-Tauwhao hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi was born probably at Tauranga. He was the son of Te Waru and his wife, Hine Te Oro. He could trace his ancestry to Toroa of the Mātaatua canoe, to Tia and Tapuika of…
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,…
John Morgan was born in Dublin, Ireland, probably in 1806 or 1807. His parents' names are unknown. He was employed as a clerk, and then taught at a Church of England adult Sunday school, before entering the Church…
Paratene Ngata was born at Ahikouka, near Waiomatatini, on the East Coast, possibly in September 1849. His father was Wiremu Karaka Te Ito, of Reporua, and his mother was Hera Te Ihi, known also as Ruataupare. He was…
Te Rangiātaahua Kiniwē Royal (Roera) was born on 23 August 1896 at Muhunoa, Ōhau, in Horowhenua, the seventh of ten children of Te Kiniwē Roera Te Ahukaramū and Kēriata Hūnia Te Weu Tukukino. Rangi, as he was known, was…
James West Stack, born on 27 March 1835 in a tent in a Māori pā at Pūriri in the Thames district, New Zealand, was the oldest of seven children of the missionary James Stack and his wife, Mary West. He married Eliza…
Pōmare, originally named Whētoi, the son of Puhi of Ngāti Manu, was born in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was connected by descent to Ngāpuhi hapū Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Rāhiri and Ngāti Hine, and to the…
Ruatara was one of the first Ngāpuhi leaders to become closely associated with Europeans. For most of his life he lived in the vicinity of Te Puna, in the Bay of Islands. His date of birth is uncertain and his parentage…
Albert Ernest Davy was born at Wellington on 17 August 1886, the son of Charley Davy, a constable, and his wife, Selina Williams. The family moved to Thames, Dargaville, and various places in Hawke's Bay and Taranaki…
Tonga Mahuta was born probably in 1897 at his father's home at Hukanui, near Waahi pā, Huntly. He was the fourth surviving son of Mahuta Tawhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, the third Māori King. His mother was Te Marae, a…
Stephenson Percy Smith was born at Beccles, Suffolk, England, on 11 June 1840, the eldest son of Hannah Hursthouse and her husband, John Stephenson Smith, a timber and corn merchant and later a civil servant. When Percy…