Alfred Nesbit Brown served as a Church Missionary Society missionary in New Zealand from 1829 to 1884. He was born on 23 October 1803 in Colchester, Essex, England. His parents were Ann and Joseph Brown. Alfred attended…
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Harriet Louisa Campbell was born on 1 July 1829 probably at Edinburgh, Scotland, the daughter of Grace Elizabeth Hay and her husband, James Campbell. On 4 June 1851 at St Quivox, Ayrshire, Harriet married Thomas Robert…
Thomas Lindsay Buick was born in Oamaru on 13 May 1865, the son of John Walker Buick, a tailor, and his wife, Margaret Petrie, both of whom had arrived at Port Chalmers from England in 1860. Lindsay was educated at…
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Charles Rooking Carter was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, on 10 March 1822, the second son of John Carter, a builder, and his wife, Hannah. An older brother, John, died in 1832. Charles's early education was by…
Victor George Cavanagh was born at Caversham, Dunedin, on 19 June 1909, the only son in a family of four children of Alice Foster and her husband, Victor George Cavanagh, a cloth cutter who became manager of Ross and…
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, on 8 June 1845, one of five children of Eliza Cawkwell and her husband, Thomas Cheeseman, a Methodist minister. The family emigrated to Auckland, New…
Shirefie Lettoof was born in the village of Bsharri, on the western flank of the Lebanon Mountains, probably in 1864 or 1865. She was a member of the Fakhry tribe whose roots are thought to lie in fourteenth century…
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…
Jessie McAulay was born in Glasgow, Scotland, probably on 4 June 1828. Her parents were Elizabeth Renfrew and her husband, William McAulay, a mariner. Nothing is known about her early life. In 1849 or early 1850 she…
James Dilworth, the son of Mary Bell and her husband, John Dilworth, a farmer, was born probably at Donaghmore, County Tyrone, Ireland, on 15 August 1815. After a sound education at the nearby Royal Dungannon School,…
James Mackay Drummond was born in Thames, New Zealand, on 17 October 1869, the son of John Drummond, a surveyor, and his wife, Annie Mackay. He received his secondary education at Napier Grammar School, was apprenticed…
William Raymond Fell was born on 26 October 1904 at Melksham, Wiltshire, England, the son of Edward Thomas Abraham Richards Fell, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Blanche Collett. The family came to New Zealand in 1912 and…
Joseph Firth was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 25 March 1859, the son of Aaron Firth, a stonemason from the north of England, and his wife, Ann Priestnell. Gold fever took the family to Cobden on the West Coast…
Arthur Hadfield Fisher was born at Nelson, New Zealand, on 11 February 1871, the son of Thomas Richard Fisher, a merchant, and his second wife, Frances Anne Hadfield. Thomas Fisher joined the Standard Fire and Marine…
John Anderson Gilruth was born on 17 February 1871 at Auchmithie, near Arbroath, Forfarshire, Scotland, the son of Ann Anderson and her husband, Andrew Gilruth, a farmer. A schoolteacher before marriage, his mother…
Rudolf Gopas was born on 13 December 1913 in Siluté, near Memel (Klaipeda), then part of Germany, the son of Pranas Gopas, a machinery merchant, and his wife, Marte Plauschin. He is often regarded as an expressionist…
Ngāpiki (Maggie) Waaka was born on 4 May 1888 at Kai Iwi, north of Whanganui. She belonged to Ngāti Pūkeko, a hapū of Ngā Rauru, and to Ngāti Apa. Her parents were Waaka Hākaraia and his wife, Ngāpiki Rēweti Pāponga.…
Alice Gwendoline Rhona Haszard was born at Thames on 21 January 1901, the daughter of Alice Elizabeth Vaughan Wily and her husband, Henry Douglas Morpeth Haszard, a surveyor with the Lands and Survey Department. Rhona,…
Joseph Hatch was born in London, England, probably in 1837 or 1838, the son of Josiah Joseph Hatch, a furrier and alderman in the City of London, and his wife, Mary Ann Cover. He was educated first by his uncle, the…
Margaret Jane Scott was born at Carnafane near the town of Cavan, County Cavan, Ireland, on 17 January 1869, the daughter of Anne Kenny and her husband, Henry Scott, a farmer. Little is known of Margaret's early life…