Jack, Robert

Robert Jack was born at Quarter, near Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 4 November 1877, the son of Janet Park and her husband, Hugh Jack, a schoolmaster. He was educated at...

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Laird, Jack Denis

Jack and Peggy Laird founded and operated the innovative Waimea Pottery craft studio, a juggernaut of New Zealand pottery during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as Richmond Pottery...

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Jacks, Harry

Herman Harry Jekeles was born at Dubauti, in the district of Cernauti, Romania (now Chernovtsy, Ukraine), on 5 August 1908. He was the youngest of five children of Jewish parents...

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Newman, Jack

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...

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Hēmi, Jack Raharuhi

Jack Raharuhi Hēmi was born on 23 August 1914 at Te Whiti-o-Tutāwake, east of Masterton, the eldest surviving son of Hineipikitia-ki-te-rangi (Piki) Reiri, of Te Whiti, and her...

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Underwood, Harold Jack

Harold Jack Underwood, known as Jack, was born in Wellington on 24 January 1908, the son of Sydney Houghton Underwood, a builder, and his wife, Louise Maude Batley. After...

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Hunn, Jack Kent

Jack Kent Hunn, the eldest of three children, was born on 24 August 1906 in Masterton to Annie Peterson and her husband, Frederic John Hunn, a carriage painter by trade, who was...

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Webber, George William Wallace

George William Wallace Webber was born on 15 August 1875 at Nelson, New Zealand, the first child of Maria Elizabeth Wells and her husband, Wallace Thomas Webber, a sheepfarmer of...

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Seabrook, John

The company formed and managed by John Seabrook helped shape the motor car market in the Auckland province during the years when the automobile irrevocably changed the social...

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Meltzer, Jacob

Jacob (Jack) Meltzer was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 21 October 1898, to Jewish parents Naphtali Meltzer, a travelling draper, and his wife, Deborah Peisachson. He...

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Diamond, Ann

Ann Gleeson was born in the village of Adare, County Limerick, Ireland, probably some time between 1827 and 1831, to Ann Roberts and her husband, Patrick Gleeson, a farmer. The...

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Musgrave, John Oliver

John Oliver Musgrave was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, on 10 April 1895, the youngest of eight children of Charlotte Sophia Pells and her husband, John Keenan Musgrave, a...

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Sullivan, John Lorraine

John (Jack) Lorraine Sullivan was born on 30 March 1915 at Tahora, near Whangamomona, Taranaki. He was the son of Violet Anna Roos, who was New Zealand-born but of Danish and...

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Lowry, Robert William

Robert William Lowry was born at Paeroa on 17 November 1912, the eldest child of Janet (Jessie) Craig Forrest and her Irish husband, Robert William Lowry, a storekeeper, later a...

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Roberts, John William

John William Roberts was born on 3 September 1885 at Holbeck, Yorkshire, England, to Annie Elizabeth Townsend and her husband, Charles Roberts, a dyer and stuff finisher....

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Barrett Crumen

Barrett Crumen (or Krumen) was perhaps the last of New Zealand's old-time swaggers. He was reportedly born in Latvia on 26 March 1878, and was a member of the Lutheran church...

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Carey, Elijah John

Elijah Carey was born in the goldmining town of Gympie, Queensland, Australia, on 20 August 1876, a twin son of Catherine Newman and her husband, Elijah Carey, a miner. Elijah...

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Fluerty, Joseph

Joseph (Hōhepa) Fluerty was born at Arahura, near Greymouth, on 1 May 1903 to Toihi Te Koeti of Poutini Ngāi Tahu and Robert Fluerty, a goldminer of European and Ngāi Tahu...

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Locke, Elsie Violet

Elsie Locke was a writer, environmentalist, historian, peace activist, one-time communist, and a battler for women’s rights. She is best known as a writer for children,...

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Holloway, John Thorpe

John Thorpe Holloway was born at Oxford, in rural North Canterbury, on 15 November 1914, the son of Margaret Brenda North and her husband, John Ernest Holloway, an Anglican vicar...

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