Henrietta Catherine Angus, known as Rita, was born in Hastings on 12 March 1908. She was the eldest of seven children of Ethel Violet Crabtree and her husband, William McKenzie Angus, who began his working life as a…
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Anna Paterson Logan was born at Ferntree Cottage, Royal Terrace, Dunedin, New Zealand, on 29 September 1858, the daughter of Jessie Alexander Pollock and her husband, John Logan. Her Scottish parents had settled in…
Mary Anne Stewart was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, on 29 May 1831, the eldest daughter of Walter George Stewart, Jamaica's last island secretary, and his wife, Susan Hewitt. Mary Anne Stewart seemed destined for a…
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Wilhelmina Sherriff (registered as William Sherif) Bain was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 5 September 1848, the daughter of Elizabeth Middlemass and her husband, John Bain, a spirit merchant. She came to New Zealand…
Thomas Chaseland was born probably in Australia in 1802 or 1803. His surname may have been Chasland, Chaseling or Chasling, but Chaseland is the form which occurs most commonly in contemporary records of him. Chaseland…
Abner Clough, also known as Amura, was born and baptised on 13 September 1840 at Akaroa, New Zealand. His father, James Robinson Clough, also known as Jimmy Robinson, had arrived at Akaroa several years before. He acted…
Helen Iris Crooke was born in Lawrence, Otago, on 14 December 1895, the daughter of Jane Duthie Smith and her husband, Alfred Crooke, a lawyer and magistrate. Iris (as she was known) and her three sisters spent most of…
Ruawahine, of Ngāi Tūkairangi hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi, was the daughter of Tāwaho and Parewhakarau. Also known as Puihi, she was born probably in the early nineteenth century and became an important link between Māori and…
Marianne Hobbs was born on 31 July 1830 at the Wesleyan mission station, Mangungu, Hokianga, New Zealand, the second daughter of John Hobbs, a missionary, and his wife, Jane Brogreff, a lay missionary. In 1833 the…
According to her own account Mary Ann Greaves was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1834; her parents' names and occupations are not known. In 1859 she moved to Canterbury, New Zealand, from Tasmania. By 1864 Greaves…
Catherine Hill was born on 28 August 1893 at Brunnerton, a coalmining town near Greymouth, Westland. She was the fifth daughter of William Hill, a blacksmith from Lancashire, England, and Ann Jane Matthew Josephine…
Kate Kirby was born in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland, on 9 July 1863, the daughter of John Kirby, a clerk, and his wife, Kate Synan. Kate Kirby grew up in a close-knit Catholic family and was educated primarily by…
John Lawn, the third child of Jenefer Webster and her husband, James Lawn, a miner, was born on 4 November 1840 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England. John, his seven brothers and three surviving sisters were raised in the…
Catherine Hester Ralfe, whose reminiscences vividly illustrate the lives of colonial women, was born at Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland, probably in 1831 or 1832. She was the daughter of Ann Susannah Lamothe and her…
Esther Coster was the fifth child in a family of eight daughters and one son of Miriam Curtis and her husband, Thomas Coster, a farmer near Charfield in Gloucestershire, England. She was baptised at Charfield on 6…
Mariano Vela was born probably on 15 February 1855 at Macarsca, Dalmatia. He was the son of Matthaea Miličić and her husband, Andreas Vela, a farmer. Mariano left his home village and became a sailor, voyaging around…
William Arthur Satchell was born on 1 February 1861 in London, England. He was the son of Hannah Mordey and her husband, Thomas Satchell, a civil servant who became surveyor general of the Inland Revenue. Thomas…
Mary Ann (known as Marion) Hanover was born in Preston, Somersetshire, England, probably on 8 September 1835, the daughter of Elizabeth Stenner and her husband, Robert Hanover, a licensed victualler. She was working as…
Amy Grace Kane was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 9 December 1879, the daughter of Martha Lydia Warburton and her husband, Robert William Kane, a bank accountant. The family lived in Australia from 1885 to 1899,…
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…