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…
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Helen Connon was born in Melbourne, Australia, probably in 1859 or 1860. She was the second child of George Connon, a carpenter from Wales, and his wife, Helen Hart, who came from Scotland. Around 1862 the family moved…
Edward John von Dadelszen is among those who shaped New Zealand's national institutions, but even at the height of his public service career more attention was paid to his brief, albeit romantic, adventures as a…
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John Fuller was born at London, England, on 26 June 1850, the son of Mary Walter and her husband, Benjamin Fuller, a cabinet-maker. After leaving school he worked as a compositor for various newspapers. On 7 October…
Poul Rudolph Gnatt, who was to establish ballet as a theatre art in New Zealand, was born at Baden, near Vienna, Austria, on 24 March 1923, the son of Kaja Olsen and her husband, Kai Gnatt, a floral merchant. The family…
John Grigg was baptised in the parish of Duloe, Cornwall, England, on 23 May 1828. He was the eldest of the three sons and one daughter of Christiana Nattle and her husband, John Grigg, a yeoman farmer. His mother died…
Edith Howitt Searle was born on 8 September 1863 at Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, the fourth child and third daughter of Mary Ann Beeby and her husband, George Smales Searle, a newspaper editor. The family came to…
Arthur Paul Harper, known for much of his life as AP or APH, was born in Christchurch on 27 June 1865, the eldest child of Joanna Dorothea Dyke Acland-Troyte and her husband, Leonard Harper, a barrister, explorer and…
Ākenehi Hei, occasionally called Agnes by her Pākehā employers, was born probably in 1877 or 1878 into a leading Te Whakatōhea and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui family at Te Kaha, Bay of Plenty. Her mother was Maria Nīkora; her…
Frederick William Hilgendorf was born at Waihola, Otago, New Zealand, on 23 January 1874, the youngest of four children of Elizabeth Benstead and her husband, Charles Augustus Gustavas Hilgendorf. His father was a…
Hubert Reginald Holdaway was born at Lower Moutere, near Motueka, on 18 January 1896, the 10th of 12 children of Henry Oscar Holdaway and his wife, Jane Edwards. His parents were farmers and orchardists, and the family…
Joseph William Kemp was born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England, on 16 December 1872, the son of Joseph Kemp, a police constable, and his wife, Mary Hopkin. Orphaned at nine and then separated from his five…
Robert James Kerridge was born in Christchurch on 30 October 1901, the son of Frederick Thomas Kerridge, a tram driver, and his wife, Ellen Maude Bell. At the age of five his parents gave him a magic lantern, with which…
James Scott Maclaurin was born on 8 November 1864 at Unst, the northernmost of the Shetland islands, Scotland. He was one of eleven children of Robert Campbell Maclaurin, a minister of the Church of Scotland, and his…
Jean Michel Camille Malfroy, usually known as Camille, was born at Macornay, Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France, on 23 March 1839. He was the son of Jean Baptiste Malfroy, a miller, and his wife, Josephine Vuidard. With his…
James McCombs was born on 9 December 1873 at Mohill, County Leitrim, Ireland, the elder child of Kate Rourke and her husband, George McCombs, a farmer. The family emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand, on the Waimea in…
Alfred Kingcome Newman was born at Madras, India, on 27 April 1849 to Alfred Newman, commander of an East India Company ship, and his wife, Isabella Soames. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1853 and farmed the 13,…
Jack Newman was the eldest son of Christina Thomson and her husband, Thomas (Tom) Newman, a mail contractor and a co-founder of Newman Brothers coaching firm. He was born on 3 July 1902 at the family farm, Naumai, at…
Wiremu Nēra (William Naylor) Ngātai introduced Christianity to South Taranaki in the late 1830s. Although probably born in Taranaki, his parents are not known. In the 1820s he was taken by Ngāpuhi raiders to Hokianga,…
Tame Haereroa Parata was born on Ruapuke Island in Foveaux Strait, probably between 1832 and 1838. His father, Captain Trapp, known as Kāpane Terapu, was an American whaler from Massachusetts. His mother was Koroteke, a…