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…
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Kathleen Todd believed passionately that the important role of any doctor is ‘sometimes to cure, often to relieve, but always to console’. This dictum came to have a very personal resonance for this gifted, warm and…
Eily Elaine Gurr was born in Thorndon, Wellington, on 8 November 1896. She was the only child of Norman Leslie Gurr, an insurance agent, who was later a manager with the New Zealand Insurance Company, and his wife, Eily…
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Nina Catherine Howard was born in Dunedin on 20 October 1900, the eldest of six daughters of English emigrant Ernest Henry Howard, a Baptist minister, and his New Zealand-born wife, Georgina Matheson Lindsay. By the…
Constance Helen Frost was born in England, probably in 1862 or 1863, one of ten children of Mary Ann Antwis and her husband, Thomas Frost. When she was about 17 years old she came to New Zealand with her parents, who…
Alfred Charles Barker was born in Hackney, London, England, on 5 January 1819, the fifth child and fourth son of Joseph Gibbs Barker and his wife, Sarah Pritchett Bousfield. Barker was descended from a fifteenth century…
Joan Donley was a midwife whose advocacy of home births and natural childbirth helped shape modern midwifery in New Zealand. She argued that women should have the right to reject medicalised maternity care, and helped…
Margaret Barnet (Barnett) Cruickshank was born on 1 January 1873, the eldest, with her twin sister, of seven children of George Cruickshank, a contractor and farmer, and his wife, Margaret Taggart. During this period…
Doris Clifton Jolly was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 10 July 1890, the daughter of Lucy Clifton Crouch and her husband, Alfred Jolly, a clergyman. Her family emigrated to New Zealand in 1894, settling first in…
Arthur George Harvey was born on 28 December 1866 at Steyning, Sussex, England, into a comfortable middle-class family. His father, Bache Wright Harvey, was a distinguished graduate in mathematics from St John's College…
Born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 23 May 1879, Elizabeth Catherine Gunn was the daughter of William Gunn and his wife, Elizabeth Jane Melton. William was an ironmonger at the time of her birth and later became a chemist…
Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett was born on 24 June 1872 at Neutral Bay, Sydney, Australia, the sixth of seven children of William Christopher Bennett, an exceptionally able engineer and commissioner of roads and bridges…
William Henry Hosking, born on 26 December 1841 at Redruth, Cornwall, England, was the son of Elizabeth Phillips and her husband, William Hosking, an ironfounder. He was educated at schools in Falmouth and Taunton, then…
Emily Hancock Siedeberg was born on 17 February 1873 at Clyde, New Zealand. She was the third child of Irish Quaker Anna Thompson and her German architect husband, Franz David Siedeberg, who, lured by gold, had…
Alexander McGregor Grant was born on 29 July 1888 at Casterton, western Victoria, Australia, the eldest of four children of hotel-keeper George Grant and his second wife, Louisa Jeffreys. His mother died when he was…
Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman was born in Dunedin on 27 November 1896, the youngest of five children of Clara Jane Cook and her husband, Frederick Revans Chapman, a barrister, who in 1903 was to become the first New…
Helen Stephen Baird was born on 29 September 1875 at Hampden, Otago, New Zealand, the daughter of Elizabeth Stephen and her husband, James Baird, a Presbyterian minister, who had emigrated to New Zealand from Scotland…
Courtney Nedwill was born at Ballyronan, County Londonderry, Ireland, probably on 14 August 1837, the second son of John Nedwill, a farmer; his mother's name is unknown. He was educated in Belfast, and entered Queen's…
Ellen Alice Anderson was born in Eketahuna on 22 June 1882, the sixth child of Swedish immigrants Johanna Manson and her husband, Anders Anderson, a farmer. Her parents had arrived in the district in 1873 and her father…
New Zealand's first Plunket nurse, Joanna MacKinnon was born in Balmeanach, on the island of Skye, Scotland, on 12 November 1878. She was the daughter of Jane Finlayson and her husband, John MacKinnon, a fisherman. It…