George Thomson Chapman (baptised George) was born in Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Scotland, on 14 June 1824, the son of Charles Chapman, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Wood. He became an apprentice in a general store and…
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Lucy Mansel was born in County Clare, Ireland, probably in 1830 or 1831, the elder daughter of Maria Armstrong and her husband, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Mansel of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons. She was brought up in…
Ann West was born at New Scone, Perthshire, Scotland, on 17 May 1825, the daughter of Mary Brough and her husband, John West, a cotton handloom weaver. Ann may also have worked as a weaver before migrating to the…
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John Rutherfurd Blair (baptised John) was born on 8 February 1843 at Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, the son of Jane Rankin and her husband, Robert Blair, a miner. John entered the office of a large Glasgow paper…
One of New Zealand’s most prolific and widely published poets, William Kendrick Smithyman was born on 9 October 1922 in Te Kopuru, a milling town near Dargaville, Northland. He was the only child of William Kendrick…
According to family information Charlotte Griffith Wynne was born in 1821, probably at Voelas, Denbighshire, North Wales. Her father, Charles Wynne Griffith Wynne, grandson of the third Earl of Aylesford, had assumed…
Margaret Ralph settled with her husband and children in Waikato, New Zealand, in 1865 and began a pioneering venture that was to influence the region for the next 70 years. She was born at Strabane, County Tyrone,…
Charles Christopher Bowen is said to have been born at Milford, County Mayo, Ireland, on 29 August 1830. He was the elder son of Charles Bowen and his wife, Georgiana Lambert. The Bowens were an Anglo-Irish gentry…
Hopeful Gibbons, the founder of one of New Zealand's largest family businesses, was born at Launceston, Tasmania, on 4 October 1856, the sixth of twelve children of Robert George Gibbons, a shipbuilder, and his wife,…
Hugh Francis Carleton was the son of Francis Carleton and his wife, Charlotte Margaretta Montgomerie, of both Clare More, County Tipperary, and Greenfield, County Cork, Ireland. He is said to have been born on 3 July…
Henry Blundell was born in Dublin, Ireland, probably in 1814 or 1815. The names of his parents are not known. He worked for the Dublin Evening Mail for 27 years, becoming manager, before he resigned over a disagreement…
Jeanie Collier was born probably in 1791 or 1792, at Monimail, Fife, Scotland, one of a family of seven children. Her father, Robert Collier, was a soldier, who had served in Holland with the 94th Regiment of Foot. His…
Catherine Augusta Jupp was born near Oxford Circus, London, England, on 16 September 1836. She was one of nine children of Catherine Healy and her husband, Edward Jupp, a tailor. On emigrating to South Australia with…
Alexander Shand was born on 15 November 1840, at Petone, New Zealand, to Archibald Watson Shand and his wife, Elizabeth Alexandrina Greig Kilpatrick, who were among the first group of New Zealand Company immigrants.…
Laura Eyre was born on 1 January 1840 in Greasbrough, Yorkshire, England, the only child of Abel Eyre, a plumber, and his wife, Mary Lee. In 1862 she arrived in New Zealand and settled in Dunedin, where she married…
Henry Despard, who commanded British forces in the northern war in New Zealand in the 1840s, was born probably in 1784 or 1785. His military family had Huguenot and Irish connections. His father was Captain Philip…
Maurice Noel Duggan ranks with Katherine Mansfield and Frank Sargeson as one of New Zealand’s greatest short-story writers and literary stylists. He was born in Auckland on 25 November 1922 and grew up on the North…
Stuart Newall (baptised as Stewart) was born in the parish of Durrisdeer, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, on 9 May 1843, the son of Thomas Newall, a tailor, and his wife, Anne Dalziel. Nothing is known of his early life. In…
Wilfrid Joseph Sim was born in Dunedin on 3 November 1890, the son of William Alexander Sim and his wife, Frances Mary Walters. His father was a solicitor and later became a judge of the Court of Arbitration and the…
Īhāia Te Kirikūmara was a chief of the Ōtaraua hapū of Te Āti Awa. He was born in Taranaki; his father was Piriraukura. During his early life Te Kirikūmara took part in many of the intertribal wars involving his people…