William Richmond was born at Campbeltown, Argyllshire, Scotland, on 8 August 1869, the son of Thomas Orr Richmond, a farmer, and his wife, Catherine (Kate) Stewart. William left school at the age of 13 and emigrated…
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Energetic and sharp-witted, Cath Vautier was a child who learned quickly and well. As the eldest in a family of 12, she grew up leading by example. This was to be the pattern of her life. A teacher for over 40 years, a…
Born on 16 April 1876 in Grumento Nova, Potenza province, Basilicata, Italy, Giuseppe (Joseph) Vitetta was the eldest son of Antonio Vitetta and his wife, Maria Rosa Giliberti. He had, at least, two young brothers,…
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Jane Norgate was born on 30 May 1839 at Little Plumstead, Norfolk, England, the daughter of Jane Lidle and her husband, Henry Norgate, an agricultural labourer who preached in his spare time. Jane was the second…
Elizabeth Chadd was born on 1 August 1836 at Lymm, Cheshire, England, the daughter of Mary Clayton and her husband, William Chadd, a bricksetter. On 2 May 1859 at St Mary's Church, Manchester, Elizabeth married George…
Mary Muller was one of the earliest advocates for women’s rights in New Zealand. Drawing on her own experiences of a disrupted childhood, a failed marriage and the loss of property, she developed a critique of…
Joseph Burns was born in Liverpool, England, in 1805 or 1806 of Irish parents. He joined the Royal Navy as a ship's carpenter at about the age of 20, and arrived at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, on the Buffalo in…
Annie Isabel McLean was born in Andersons Bay, Dunedin, on 21 September 1868. She was the eldest daughter of George McLean, a merchant and, after Annie's birth, a politician and cabinet minister. Her mother, Isabella…
According to family information Margaret McKinlay was born at Newmains, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 8 September 1844. She was the only daughter of James McKinlay, a colliery manager, and his first wife, Mary McNeil.…
Sarah Miller was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, on 27 November 1870, the daughter of Elizabeth Ann Dixon and her husband, Henry Miller, a cheese factor. Nothing is known of Sarah's early life, but she…
Jennie West was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 6 September 1866, the daughter of George Richard West, a music shop proprietor, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Newman, a music teacher who ran a private school in Moray…
Douglas Mary Dunsmore was born on 20 July 1789, at Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Mary Paterson and her husband, John Dunsmore, an alehouse keeper. After the death of her father in November 1801 her mother married…
Edith Louisa Monteath was born at Edendale, Southland, on 12 January 1890, the second of seven children of Catherine Kavanagh and her husband, Thomas Monteath, a schoolteacher. Although registered as Alice, she was…
Mary Taylor is said to have been born on 26 February 1817 and was baptised on 29 March 1817 at Birstall, Yorkshire, England, one of six children of Joshua Taylor and his wife, Ann Tickell. Joshua Taylor, like many of…
Amelia Bagley was born on 2 October 1870 at Dunedin, New Zealand, to Amelia Prictor and her husband, Benjamin Bagley, a chemist. Both Amelia and her sister, Mary, chose nursing as a career and neither married. Both…
Alice Mary Stanton was born in Auckland on 7 August 1914, the second of five children of Marjorie Aileen McMaster and her husband, Joseph Stanton, a solicitor and ultimately a Supreme Court judge. Educated at Hilltop…
Alfred Augustus Grace was the youngest of 12 children of Agnes Fearon and her husband, Thomas Samuel Grace, a Church Missionary Society missionary who lived among the Māori of the Taupō region. Although Alfred was born…
Cora Mildred Maris Clark was born at Auckland, New Zealand, on 3 March 1885 to Cora Juliett Meurant and her husband, Richard Maris Clark, an insurance manager. From about 1890 the family lived in Dunedin. With her…
William Mason was born at Ipswich, Suffolk, England, on 24 February 1810, the son of George Mason and his wife, Elizabeth Forty. On 1 June 1831 he married Sarah Nichols or Nickless, a Berkshire woman 15 years older than…
Nikola Nobilo was one of New Zealand’s most successful winemakers of the 1960s and 1970s, building a few vines on his Huapai farm into a winemaking dynasty. With his sons, Nobilo was one the leaders of the transition…