Robert Clinton Hughes was born in Auckland, New Zealand, probably in July 1847, the son of Robert Hughes and his wife, Mary Ann Madden. Around 1850 the family moved to New Plymouth where Robert senior tried his hand at…
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Euphemia (Effie) Johnstone was born probably in 1849 or 1850 in Kilmeny parish on the island of Islay, Argyllshire, Scotland. She was the daughter of Susanna Newbigging and her husband, Robert Johnstone, a farmer. Effie…
William (Bill) Edward Parry was born at Orange, New South Wales, in 1878. He was one of 13 children of John Parry, a goldminer and prospector, and his wife, Emily Wright. The hardships faced by his family were to be a…
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David Tannock was born at Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland, on 23 September 1873, the son of William Tannock, a ploughman, and his wife, Jane McCall. Tannock was educated at the public school at Mauchline and at Glasgow…
Universally known as Johnny or John, Giovanni Cataldo was born at Island Bay, Wellington, on 18 November 1927. He was the fifth child and second son of Francesco Cataldo and his wife, Gelsomina Gargiulo, immigrants from…
Ellen Elizabeth Aley was born in Auckland on 13 September 1869 to Ellen Beck and her husband, Alfred Aley, a watchmaker and jeweller. Nothing else is known of Nellie’s life until she married James Ferner, a bill poster…
Percy Rolfe Sargood was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 26 September 1865, the son of Marian Australia Rolfe and her husband, Frederick Thomas Sargood, a drapery and softgoods merchant. By 1890 the business established…
Jane (known as Jean) Stevenson was born in Dunedin on 7 November 1881, the eldest of 13 children of William Stevenson, a grocer, and his wife, Barbara Irvine. Her father was a successful businessman, who went into…
Edward Raymond Horton was born Edward Ray Gill at Blenheim on 28 July 1928, the son of Muriel Doreen Gill, also known as Amuri Fredreka Doreen Gill. His father, a married man, was Herman Edward Hermansen, a truck driver…
Public servant Bing Lucas was responsible for developing New Zealand’s modern national park system from the early 1970s, balancing conservation and recreational values. Under his direction its workforce was…
Samuel Haywood Mirams was born on 28 August 1837 in Minster, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England, the son of Elizabeth Cole and her husband, James Mirams, a clergyman. He was educated at private schools at Blackheath…
Fanny Malcolm was born at Auckland, New Zealand, on 29 January 1852, the second of 13 children of Emilie Monson Wilton and her husband, Neill Malcolm, a barrister. When Fanny was six years old the family moved to Great…
Robert Wilson was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, probably on 16 December 1832 and educated at the local school. His parents, Robert Wilson and his wife, Margaret Allen, farmed flax for the linen trade at Omagh.…
Joseph William Allan Heenan, one of New Zealand's most able and imaginative public servants, was born on 17 January 1888 at Greymouth, the son of a bootmaker, William Joseph Heenan, and his wife, Mary Poynton, a…
Alexander Gillies was born in Ravensbourne, Dunedin, on 26 September 1891, the son of Scottish parents Gilbert Wilson Gillies, a boilermaker, and his wife, Agnes Gibson. He attended Otago Boys’ High School and went on…
Mary Louise Roberts was born at Roslyn, Dunedin, on 17 February 1886, the daughter of Elizabeth Fletcher and her husband, Edward Roberts, a distinguished mechanical engineer. She attended Kaikorai School and entered St…
Frederic Wanklyn Williams was born at the Tūranga mission station at Whakatō, Poverty Bay, New Zealand, probably on 13 October 1854, the eldest of 10 children of the CMS missionary William Leonard Williams and his wife…
William Mackenzie Fraser was born at Auckland on 6 April 1878, the son of Simon Fraser, a farmer, and his wife, Margaret Ann McKenzie. His father, who was attributed with finding gold at Taieri, Otago, was born in…
Linden Charles Mansell Saunders was born in Christchurch on 5 December 1908, the son of Violet Mary Georgina March and her husband, Charles Mansell Saunders, a cordial manufacturer. As music critic of the New Zealand…
Patrick Joseph Twomey was driven by an intense religious concern to work for the relief of suffering among lepers in the Pacific islands. One of seven children, he was born in Wellington on 22 February 1892, of Irish-…