Helen Clyde Inglis, the daughter of Jane Anne Eames and her husband, John Inglis, a merchant, was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 15 November 1867. She was educated at private schools and at Christchurch Girls'…
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George Jobberns was born on 2 June 1895 near Te Moana in rural South Canterbury, the son of John Jobberns, a farmer, and his wife, Elizabeth Helem. His primary education at Te Moana was followed by secondary schooling…
Thomas William Kirk was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, on 30 June 1856, one of nine children of Sarah Jane Mattocks and her husband, Thomas Kirk, a timber merchant's clerk. His family emigrated to Auckland,…
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Alfred James Murdoch was born at Onehunga on 18 April 1877, one of at least five children of Mary Ann Nealis and her husband, John Murdoch, a clerk. The family lived at Ōpua, Bay of Islands, from 1886 and eight years…
George Turnbull Niccol was born in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, on 17 August 1858, the son of Sarah McLarty and her husband, the leading Auckland shipbuilder Henry Niccol. Educated in Devonport, George found that his…
James Alexander Pond was born on 27 September 1846 in London, England, the son of Frances Sophia Beacon and her husband, James Alexander Pond. His father was a dyer, introducing him to chemistry at an early age.…
John Lishman Potter was born in Sunderland, County Durham, England, on 25 July 1834, the son of Matthew Potter, brewer, and his wife, Catharine Lishman. Apprenticed as a stonemason, he migrated to Victoria, Australia,…
Samuelene Purcell was born in Gundry Street, Newton, Auckland, on 25 July 1898, the daughter of Irish immigrant parents Michael Joseph Purcell and his wife, Jane Galbraith, who both worked in the tailoring trade.…
Olive Rose Sutherland was born on 6 August 1894 at Masterton. She was the daughter of Rose Julia Clarke and her husband, Robert Sutherland, a labourer who became a printer’s machinist for the Wairarapa Daily Times.…
Gladys Elinor Watkins was born in Akaroa on 20 October 1884, the 11th child of English-born parents Elizabeth Ellen Pavitt and her husband, Stephen Watkins, a gardener. She was educated at Miss Freeman's ladies' school…
James Edward FitzGerald is said to have been born in 1818 at Bath, England. He was the youngest son of Gerald FitzGerald, landowner, of Kilminchy, Queen's County, Ireland, and his second wife, Catherine O'Brien. Though…
Don Merton’s pioneering conservation efforts brought three threatened New Zealand bird species back from the brink of extinction and inspired similar conservation programmes around the world. From the early 1960s ‘the…
Norman Vazey Douglas was born in Hikurangi, Northland, on 15 March 1910, the son of Ellen Margaret Vazey and her husband, George Nicole Douglas, a police constable. Transfers for his father saw him raised in several…
Hōne Heke Ngāpua was born at Kaikohe, according to family information on 6 June 1869, the first of 12 children of Niurangi Pūriri and Hōne Ngāpua. A direct descendant of Rāhiri, he was connected to the major tribes of…
Roy Parsons sold books in Wellington for nearly 50 years, changing the intellectual climate of the city and opening the minds of several generations of New Zealanders to the world of books and ideas. The son of a…
Peter Barr, son of Dunedin's first chief postmaster, Archibald Barr, and his second wife, Sarah Hepburn, was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 9 July 1861. He was educated at Middle District School and then at the High…
Elizabeth Viola Bell was born on 4 June 1897 at San Francisco, California, the daughter of English parents Elizabeth Brown and her husband, John William Bell, a boilermaker. The family moved to Canada, Australia and…
Kathrine McAllister Stewart was born at Manchester, England, on 13 May 1895, the eldest of three children of Andrew Stewart, a commercial traveller, and his wife, Jane Vallance Davidson. When Rena, as she was known, was…
Alfred William Buxton was born on 17 September 1872 at Hanley, Staffordshire, England, the son of Ann Johnson, a painter of pottery, and her husband, Alfred Buxton, a labourer. The family arrived in New Zealand probably…
Mads Christensen was born at Egvad, Aabenraa county, Slesvig, Denmark, on 10 May 1856, the son of Hagen Iversen Christensen, a farmer, and his wife, Marine Callesen. He received his education at a village school. His…