Herman Harry Jekeles was born at Dubauti, in the district of Cernauti, Romania (now Chernovtsy, Ukraine), on 5 August 1908. He was the youngest of five children of Jewish parents Mina Rosa Croon (Corne) and her husband…
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William Herbert Guthrie-Smith was born William Herbert Smith in Scotland, at Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, on 13 March 1862. He was the eldest child of John Guthrie Smith, a wealthy insurance broker, and his wife, Anne…
Hepi Hoani Te Heuheu Tūkino was the seventh paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, part of a line that traced its ancestry to the tohunga of Te Arawa canoe, Ngātoroirangi. His grandfather, Tūreiti Te Heuheu Tūkino V, had…
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Registered at birth and at marriage as Isabel and at death as Isabella, the youngest daughter and fifth child of Robert Thomas Button and his wife, Anna Mary Pymar, was known throughout her life as Bella. She was born…
William Mackenzie Fraser was born at Auckland on 6 April 1878, the son of Simon Fraser, a farmer, and his wife, Margaret Ann McKenzie. His father, who was attributed with finding gold at Taieri, Otago, was born in…
Mavis Davidson was a significant New Zealand mountaineer, a field ecologist and an international authority on sika deer. She made several notable ascents, leading the first all-women ascent of Aoraki/Mount Cook in 1953…
George Franklyn Yerex was born in Wellington on 30 January 1893. His parents, Clara Pinny and her husband, George Manley Yerex, a Canadian-born importer, raised four boys and two girls in a large home on the hills above…
Ernest Bowyer Corbett was born on 7 May 1898 to William Corbett, a labourer, and his wife, Annie Bowyer, at Ōkato, Taranaki, where his parents later farmed. He attended Puniho Native School for four years and later…
Valentine Jackson Chapman was born on St Valentine’s Day (14 February) 1910, at Alcester, Warwickshire, England, the son of Thomas Jackson Chapman, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Amy Evelyn Wynn. He was educated…
Louis Wellington Parore was born at Te Houhanga marae, Dargaville, on 26 December 1888. According to tradition, he was the first of his people born in a European-style house and was known to his family as Te Rūma (the…
John Mackintosh Roberts was born in India, at Bombay, on 31 December 1840, the first child of Mary Mackintosh and her husband, George Roberts, court keeper to the Supreme Court. George Roberts died in 1844, shortly…
John Ernest Holloway was born in Christchurch on 12 February 1881, the son of John Holloway, a bank manager, and his wife, Anna Thorpe. As a child he was influenced by his father, who was a keen churchman, amateur…
Trevor Chute is said to have been born at Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, on 31 July 1816, the son of Francis Chute and his wife, Mary Ann Bomford. He entered the army in 1832, served first in the Ceylon Rifles and then…
James Glenny Wilson was born at Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland, probably on 29 November 1849. His father, George Wilson, was a woollen manufacturer, and his mother, Jane Law, the daughter of a minister in the Church of…
Emilie Monson Wilton was born probably in 1829 or 1830, the daughter of Colonel Wilton, a retired British army officer. The place of her birth is unknown, as is her mother's name. In 1848 probably in London she married…
Jean-Baptiste Rolland was born probably in Sivry, Verdun, France, on 8 December 1834. His parents' names are not known. After his ordination as a Catholic priest in 1861, he joined the Society of Mary (the Marists).…
Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky was born at Königsberg (Kaliningrad), East Prussia, on 15 February 1828. He was the younger son of Julius Louis von Tempsky and his wife, Karoline Henriette Friederike Wilhelmine von…
Henry George Ell is primarily remembered in Canterbury as the tireless promoter of the Summit Road along the crest of the Port Hills, but he also championed many other social and environmental causes. He was born…
Hikawera Te Kurapa was born at Rūātoki in 1907. His father, Te Tuhera Te Kurapa (also known as Te Kurapa Te Ao), was a shearer of Ngāti Tāwhaki hapū; his mother, Matahera Te Hira of Te Urewera hapū, was a grand-daughter…
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…