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Doris Gertrude Sheppard was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on 7 February 1902, the daughter of Georgiana Baker and her husband, Charles Valentine Sheppard, a builder. The family later lived in Sydenham, London. In…

Elizabeth (Bessie) Turnbull was born at Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand, on 2 May 1885, the youngest of 11 children of Sydney Turnbull, a baker, and his wife, Catherine Armstrong. Both parents were of Scots birth and sailed…

Charles Stuart Curtis was born on 15 December 1850 at Ōmatā, Taranaki, New Zealand, the son of George Curtis and his wife, Eliza Newsham. The Curtis family, originally from London, had emigrated to New Zealand on the…

Sophia Hinerangi, sometimes known as Te Paea (Tepaea), was the principal tourist guide of the Pink and White Terraces at Lake Rotomahana before the eruption of Mt Tarawera in 1886, and later guided at Whakarewarewa. As…

Samuel Horatio Moreton was born probably in London, England, sometime between 1843 and 1845, the son of Ann Spence and her husband, Samuel Moreton, said to have been a captain in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Joining…

During her long career as a country school teacher, Mabel Whitaker made a lasting impression on many hundreds of pupils. Born Mabel Wilson at Belfast, near Christchurch, New Zealand, on 11 May 1884, she was the daughter…

Miriam Bridelia Cummings was born at Thames on 15 June 1879, one of eight children of Irish-born Matthew Cummings, a carpenter, and his Scottish wife, Annie Cunningham. The couple solved the problem of their different…

Margaret Malcolm was born at Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand, on 17 December 1848. She was the youngest of five children of Margaret Barrie and her husband, Andrew Malcolm, a wheelwright. Her parents were Presbyterians…

Elsie Mary Griffin was born on 1 November 1884 at Lawrence, Otago, New Zealand, the daughter of Mary Brown, a Canadian by birth, and her husband, Cornelius Griffin, a Wesleyan minister. The Griffins moved around the…

Alice Woodward was born on 3 February 1871 near Auckland. She was the eldest of four children of Laura Young, a schoolteacher, and her husband, William Woodward, a farmer who was also for a time a schoolteacher. After…

Edward Raymond Horton was born Edward Ray Gill at Blenheim on 28 July 1928, the son of Muriel Doreen Gill, also known as Amuri Fredreka Doreen Gill. His father, a married man, was Herman Edward Hermansen, a truck driver…

Kaihau Te Rangikakapi Maikara Āporo was born, according to family information, in 1863, probably in the lower Wairarapa Valley. She was the eldest child of Maikara Paranihia and her husband, Hōhepa Āporo, who was the…

Friedrich Baume, later called Frederick Ehrenfried Baume, was born at Dunedin, New Zealand, on 13 June 1862, the son of Joseph Baume, a photographer, and his wife, Emilie Ehrenfried. He was educated at Thames and at the…

Lavinia Jane Kelsey was born in South Hackney, London, England, on 23 February 1856, one of three children of Lavinia Owen and her husband, Thomas Kelsey, a braid manufacturer. Her mother died when she was three and her…

Christina Allan Paul was born in Forbes, New South Wales, Australia, on 11 January 1863, the eldest of four children of Scottish immigrants Christina Allan and her husband, Walter Paul, a miner. The family settled in…

Minarapa Rangihatuake (also known as Minarapa Te Atua-kē) was the Wesleyan lay preacher responsible for the first church in Wellington. He was of Ngā Māhanga and was born, probably early in the nineteenth century, in…

Anne Titboald was born, probably in 1825 or 1826, at Exeter, Devonshire, England, the daughter of Thomas Titboald; her mother's name is not known. She arrived on the Cordelia at Wellington, New Zealand, on 29 September…

Hanorah (Nora) Philomena FitzGibbon was born at Arrow Junction near Arrowtown, Otago, on 19 March 1889, the fourth of nine children of Mary Lynch and her husband, Edmond FitzGibbon, a farmer. While attending the convent…

Janet Martin was born in Wigtownshire, Scotland, probably some time between 1819 and 1825, to Hannah Martin and her husband, Andrew Martin, a farmer. On 19 September 1835 at Glasgow she married John Main. Her married…

Te Aitū-o-te-rangi, the daughter of Te Whatahoronui and his first wife, Aromea, was born about 1820. She belonged to Ngāti Moe at Papawai, in Wairarapa, a hapū of Rangitāne and of Ngāti Kahungunu in Wairarapa. Her…