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According to reliable sources Samuel Marsden was born on 25 June 1765, at Farsley, Yorkshire, England, the eldest of the seven children of Bathsheba Brown and her husband, Thomas Marsden. He was baptised at Calverley,…

Part of: Marsden, Samuelauthored byG. S. Parsonson

Paraire Hēnare Tomoana, known familiarly as Friday, was born probably in 1874 or 1875 at either Pākōwhai or Waipatu in Hawke's Bay. He was the eldest of the surviving children – 13 in all – of Hēnare Tomoana and his…

Part of: Tomoana, Paraire Hēnareauthored byAngela Ballara, Ngatai Huata, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Mihi Kōtukutuku was born, according to family information, on 30 October 1870 at Pōhaturoa, a point near Raukōkore in the Bay of Plenty. She was the third daughter of Maaka Te Ehutū of Te Whanau-a-Maruhaeremuri, a hapū…

Part of: Stirling, Mihi Kōtukutukuauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team
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Kawiti was born, probably in the 1770s, in northern New Zealand. He was descended from Nukutawhiti, commander of the Ngā-toki-mata-whao-rua canoe, which made its landing at Hokianga. He was the 11th generation from…

Part of: Kawiti, Te Rukiauthored byKene Hine Te Uira Martin, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Pahi was by 1800 one of the senior chiefs of the north-western Bay of Islands. He was the son of Wharerau, a descendant of the ancient ancestral Ngāti Awa, the original people of the area, and of their Ngāpuhi…

Part of: Te Pahiauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Te Rangi-taka-i-waho was born in Wairarapa. His baptismal name may have been Mānihera (Maunsell); the missionary William Colenso, with whom he had a close connection, knew him as Maunsell Te Kehu and he was commonly…

Part of: Te Rangi-taka-i-waho, Te Māniheraauthored byAngela Ballara, Mita Carter, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

One of the great international aviators of the 1930s, Jean Gardner Batten was born on 15 September 1909 in Rotorua, the only daughter of a dentist, Frederick Harold Batten, and his wife, Ellen (Nellie) Blackmore. She…

Part of: Batten, Jean Gardnerauthored byIan Mackersey

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…

Part of: Parore, Louis Wellingtonauthored byGarry Hooker, Robert Parore, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

Richard John Seddon was born at School Brow, Eccleston, near St Helens, Lancashire, England, on 22 June 1845. His father was Thomas Seddon, headmaster of Eccleston grammar school, who had married Jane Lindsay, a Scot…

Part of: Seddon, Richard Johnauthored byDavid Hamer

Edward James Te Āika Tregerthen, later known as Eruera Tīhema Tirikātene, was born on 5 January 1895 at Te Rakiwhakaputa pā near Kaiapoi. His father, a carpenter, later a skipper of boats, wheat farmer and minister of…

Part of: Tirikātene, Eruera Tīhema Te Āikaauthored byAngela Ballara, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team

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…

Part of: Douglas, Norman Vazeyauthored bySwitzer Hudson

Te Rauparaha was the son of Werawera, of Ngāti Toa, and his second wife, Parekōwhatu (Parekōhatu), of Ngāti Raukawa. He is said to have been a boy when James Cook was in New Zealand. If so, it is likely that he was…

Part of: Te Rauparahaauthored bySteven Oliver, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography team