Mary Lye was born in Martock, Somersetshire, England, and baptised there on 25 December 1822; she was the sixth of 11 children of Grace Rodd and her husband, John Lye, a farmhand on an estate. The squire's daughter…
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Samuel Lawry was born at St Mabyn, Cornwall, England, on 22 August 1854, the fifth child of Gertrude Robins and her husband, Walter Lawry, a farmer. The Lawrys emigrated to New Zealand on the Queen of the Mersey in 1862…
Lucy Mansel was born in County Clare, Ireland, probably in 1830 or 1831, the elder daughter of Maria Armstrong and her husband, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Mansel of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons. She was brought up in…
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Edith Emily Hopson was born on 6 December 1895 in Hougham, Kent, England, the daughter of Emily Elizabeth Whittingstall and her husband, Edward Richard Hopson, a grocer’s assistant. The family later moved to Finchley,…
Emma Brignell Roberts was born in Westham, Essex, England, probably in 1848 or 1849, the daughter of Mary Griffith and her husband, Thomas Roberts, a clergyman. In 1852 her parents emigrated to Melbourne, Australia,…
Ann West was born at New Scone, Perthshire, Scotland, on 17 May 1825, the daughter of Mary Brough and her husband, John West, a cotton handloom weaver. Ann may also have worked as a weaver before migrating to the…
Enga Margaret Washbourn was born in Collingwood, Golden Bay, on 1 March 1908, the eldest child of Sydney Laing Sinclair and her husband, Henry Everly Arthur Washbourn, a medical practitioner in Nelson and later…
William Barbour Wilson was born, on 2 April 1819, at Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, the eldest child of Jane Thomson and her husband, William Wilson. William Barbour Wilson was apprenticed as a nurseryman…
Patrick Hodgens Hickey was born on a backblocks farm at the junction of the Wangapeka and Motueka rivers in Nelson, New Zealand, on 19 January 1882. He was the fourth of seven children of Irish Catholic immigrants…
Lindsay Poole was a forester and senior public servant who guided the New Zealand Forest Service, first as assistant director then as director, during the middle decades of the twentieth century. His career followed an…
Kura Ensor was an Auckland-based Māori fashion entrepreneur who was part of a renaissance in Māori-influenced design during the 1970s. She ran a successful nationwide fashion business, selling garments which often…
Jack Kent Hunn, the eldest of three children, was born on 24 August 1906 in Masterton to Annie Peterson and her husband, Frederic John Hunn, a carriage painter by trade, who was managing a coach-building factory.…
Gilbert Mair is said to have been born at Whāngārei, New Zealand, on 10 January 1843, the eighth of twelve children of Elizabeth Gilbert Puckey and her husband, Gilbert Mair, a merchant trader. Gilbert Mair senior was…
Arthur Saunders Thomson is said to have been born on 29 December 1816, and was baptised on 2 January 1817 at Arbroath, Angus, Scotland. He was the son of Margaret Saunders and her husband, James Thomson. Arthur Thomson…
William Fox was born at Westoe, Durham, England, and was baptised on 2 September 1812 at South Shields. He was the third of five surviving sons of George Townshend Fox and his wife, Ann Stote Crofton. His father was a…
Maud Ruby Taylor was born in London, England, on 30 August 1879. Known as Daisy from soon after her christening, she was the daughter of Eliza Taylor and her husband, Robert Taylor, a carpenter, who died when she was…
Caroline and Nicholas Chevalier visited New Zealand several times during the 1860s. Their impressions of the country, which they recorded in writings and in works of art, are of considerable historical interest.…
George William Clinkard was born on 17 September 1893 in Auckland, the son of English parents Cecil Henry Clinkard and his wife, Julia Letitia Hooper. His father, a farmer at Makarau on the Kaipara Harbour, was later a…
Alexander Hatrick was born at Smythesdale, Victoria, Australia, on 29 August 1857, the second of ten children of Scottish parents Alexander Hatrick, a carpenter, and his wife, Margaret Sinclair. In 1875, at the age of…