William Lee Rees was born probably on 16 December 1836 at Bristol, England, the son of James Rees, a surgeon, and his wife, Elizabeth Pocock. Rees's father died when he was young, and he was brought up by his mother and…
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Hirini Rāwiri Taiwhanga was born probably at Kaikohe, west of the Bay of Islands, in 1832 or 1833. His mother was Mata Rawa of Te Arawa. His father, a mission worker and farmer, was Rāwiri Taiwhanga, leader of Ngāti…
Taonui Hīkaka was born probably at Paripari (near present day Te Kūiti) in the early 1840s. He could trace his descent from Rakataura of the Tainui canoe. His father was Taonui Hīkaka (also known as Hīkaka) of Ngāti…
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Te Pōkiha Taranui belonged to Ngāti Pikiao of Te Arawa, and was descended from Te Tākinga and Hineui. His mother was Te Huruhuru and his father was Taranui. He was born probably in the Rotoiti district early in the…
William Thomas (Tom) Young was born in Karori, Wellington, New Zealand, on 27 April 1870, the son of Jessie Dykes and her husband, William Young, a farmer. Tom Young began work when he was 11 and went to sea soon after…
Blanche Eleanor Carnachan was born in Cambridge, Waikato, on 23 November 1871. Her parents, David Carnachan and his wife, Elizabeth Friars, had arrived in Auckland with their first five children on the Helenslee in…
John Nicol Crombie was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 11 August 1827, the son of John Crombie, a weaver who later became a grocer and merchant, and his wife, Margaret McKellar. Emigrating to Melbourne, Australia, at the…
John Dickie was born in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on 20 May 1875, the son of Ann Petrie and her husband, John Dickie, a police carter. The family later moved north to farm in the Buchan district of the county,…
Gordon Forlong was the second son of William Forlong, a merchant, and his wife, Crawford Gordon. He was born on 14 February 1819, according to family sources in Pollok Castle, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and raised in the…
Joseph Marie Garavel was born probably in 1823 or 1824 in Balmont Jarvose, near Chambéry in Savoy, while it was still part of the Kingdom of Sardinia. He trained for the priesthood in Paris and was ordained deacon.…
Francis Hart Vicesimus Guinness, generally known as Frank, was born probably in 1819 or 1820 in Dublin, Ireland. He was one of thirteen children born to Hosea Guinness and his wife, Jane Hart. Frank Guinness was an…
David Hay was born at Rhynd, Perthshire, Scotland, on 2 October 1815, the son of Ann McGregor and her husband, John Hay, a weaver. David is said to have trained as a gardener on an estate in Perthshire, where he would…
Hermione Ruth Herrick was the youngest of eight children of Emily Martha Duncan and her husband, Jasper Lucas Herrick, a well-to-do sheepfarmer and an early settler in the Hawke's Bay area. She was born at Forest Gate,…
Olive Emily Jones was born in Onehunga, Auckland, on 20 June 1893. Her parents, Emily Mary Rout and Adam Jones, an English-born builder, had married in 1888. Olive attended Onehunga School, Auckland Girls’ Grammar…
Born in New Plymouth on 19 July 1896, Russell Matthews was the 10th and youngest child of Grace Marshall and her husband, Robert James Matthews, a banker. He was raised in an environment in which business and…
John McCombie was born in Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand, on 15 June 1849. His father, Alexander McCombie of Aberdeen, was a regular soldier who married an Irishwoman, Ellen Schoolan, while on service in New Zealand.…
Alexander McGregor was born at Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, on 20 August 1828. He was of Scottish descent, the son of Alexander McGregor, a farmer, and his wife, Mary McKinnon. As a young man he worked in the…
Henry Monson was born at Cawood, Yorkshire, England, on 25 August 1793, the son of Ann Monson and her husband, Bernard Monson, a labourer. He married Ann Kidall of Swaffham, Norfolk, at St Pancras Old Church, London, on…
Daisy Frances Christina Osborn was born in Christchurch on 27 April 1888, the only child of Emily Jane Turvey and her husband, Alfred Patterson Osborn, an engraver. Her father was Australian and her mother English. She…
It is to Henry Shaw that Auckland City Library owes the distinction of holding more incunabula (books printed before 1501) than any other library in New Zealand. Shaw also gave the library 16 medieval and early…