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…
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Ernest Chitty was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 6 December 1883. There is some mystery over his birth, and he did not know the names of his parents. Blind from birth, he was apparently sent to the Victorian Asylum…
Ruth Mason was born in Auckland on 7 November 1913, the eldest of four children of Dulcia Martina Rockell and her husband, Henry Greathead Rex Mason, a solicitor. Rex was active in the early days of the New Zealand…
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George Thomas Murray, the son of Agnes Currie and her husband, George Murray, a farmer, was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 4 November 1859. The family farmed at Green Island Bush. Murray attended Oamaru Grammar School…
Richard James Sullivan (later known as O'Sullivan) was born at Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland, and baptised there on 10 January 1826. He was the son of Richard Sullivan, a merchant, and his first wife, Catherine…
Ivy Margaret Copeland was born in Auckland on 15 June 1888, one of five children of English-born parents John Copeland, a mechanic, and his wife, Eliza Ann Barlow. At the age of 10 she took lessons from C. F. Goldie at…
The matriarch of the Wong Doo clan in Auckland, New Zealand, was born sometime between 1873 and 1875 in Xinhui county, Guangdong province, China. Her given name was Chan Yau-nui, which was later simplified to Unui. She…
Ida Gertrude Eise was born on 9 September 1891 in Auckland, the daughter of Emma Mary Ann Cox and her husband, Frederick George Eise, a warehouseman. Nothing is known of her life until she was admitted to Elam School of…
Arthur Owen Jensen was born in Auckland on 5 August 1907, the son of Olaf Jensen, a motorman, and his wife, Elizabeth Ellen Burfoot. Owen was educated at Grey Lynn School and Seddon Memorial Technical College, where he…
Eve Maria Langley was born Ethel Jane Langley in Forbes, New South Wales, Australia, on 1 September 1904, to Arthur Alexander Langley, a carpenter, and his wife, Myra Davidson. She left school at 14 and worked in…
Edward Ker Mulgan was born at Ballynahinch, County Down, Ireland, probably in 1857 or 1858, the son of Arabella Maria Stringer and her husband, the Reverend William Edward Mulgan, later rector of Dunaghy, County Antrim…
Erima Harvey Northcroft was born in Hokitika on 2 December 1884, the son of Leonard Northcroft, a sharebroker, and his wife, Louisa Pellow James, who had come to New Zealand from Victoria. Erima attended Hokitika School…
Theodorus Johannes Schoon was born on 31 July 1915 at Kebumen, Java, in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), the son of Dutch parents Johannes Theodorus Schoon and his wife, Barbara Isabella Maria Steegemans. His father…
Freda Beatrice Stark was born on 27 March 1910 in Kaeo, Northland, the daughter of James William Stark, a storekeeper, and his wife, Isabella Matilda Bramley. Soon after, her parents moved to Auckland, where Freda…
Ward George Wohlmann was born on 4 August 1872 in a cottage at the Invercargill police station. His parents were Rebecca McDonald and her husband, George Alfred Wohlman, a police constable and later a farmer. Little is…
Henry Gilbert Bennett (better known as Harry Scott Bennett) was born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, on 1 June 1877, the son of a radical carpenter, James William Bennett, and his equally radical wife, Charlotte Mary…
The eldest child and only son of Archibald Patrick Delargey and his wife, Kathleen May Fitzgerald, Reginald John Delargey was born on 10 December 1914 in Timaru. His father’s job as a bank manager involved several…
Communist and trade unionist Bill Andersen was one of the best-known figures in New Zealand’s radical left in the middle decades of the twentieth century. An influential union leader in the 1950s and 1960s, he…
Fanny Malcolm was born at Auckland, New Zealand, on 29 January 1852, the second of 13 children of Emilie Monson Wilton and her husband, Neill Malcolm, a barrister. When Fanny was six years old the family moved to Great…
Margaret Beveridge Stevenson was born in Onehunga, Auckland, on 30 November 1865, the daughter of Margaret Turnbull and her husband, William Stevenson, a storekeeper who was later a photographer. Nothing is known of her…