James Francis Fulloon, also known as Hēmi Te Mautaranui, is said to have been born on 12 August 1840 at Whakatāne, the son of John Fulloon and his wife, Koka Te Mautaranui. John Fulloon, of Anglo-French parentage, had…
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Horonuku was born probably in the 1820s at Te Rapa, near Tokaanu, on the south-western side of Lake Taupō, the son of Mananui Te Heuheu Tūkino II and his wife, Te Mare. In his youth and early manhood he was known as…
William Garden Cowie was born on 8 January 1831 at St John's Wood, London, England. His parents were Alexander Cowie, an advocate, and his wife, Elizabeth Garden, both originally from Aberdeenshire, Scotland. William…
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Thomas McDonnell, eldest son of Thomas McDonnell and his wife, Anna Patterson, was born probably some time between 1831 and 1833, possibly at Manila in the Philippines while his parents were on a trading voyage. His…
Thomas Simson Pratt is said to have been born in 1797, the son of Captain James Pratt and his wife, Anne Simson. Probably in 1827 he married Frances Agnes Cooper. The places of his birth and marriage are unknown. Thomas…
Te Rata Mahuta was the fourth leader of the Māori King movement. He inherited many of the leadership qualities of his predecessors, with the added support of 50 years of widespread Māori recognition of the special…
George Stoddart Whitmore was born on 30 May 1829 in Malta, the son of George St Vincent Whitmore and his wife, Isabella Maxwell Stoddart. His father was a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers stationed at Malta; his mother…
Thomas Russell was arguably the outstanding commercial figure in nineteenth century New Zealand. He is said to have been born in Cork, Ireland, in 1830, the son of Thomas Russell and his wife, Mary Roberts. In 1833…
Frederick Wollaston Hutton was born, probably on 16 November 1836, at Gate Burton, Lincolnshire, England, and baptised there on 25 January 1837. He was the second son of Henry Frederick Hutton, vicar of Gate Burton, and…
Nuka Taipari belonged to Ngāti Hē, a hapū of Ngāi Te Rangi of Tauranga. He was the principal chief of Maungatapu pā in the 1830s and 1840s. He is known mostly from references in missionary journals and in The journal of…
Tohi Te Ururangi was a renowned warrior and leader of Ngāti Whakaue section of Te Arawa. He was born probably in the early nineteenth century. Through his father, Te Piere II, he was descended from Whakaue, through…
Frederick Whitaker was born at Manor House, Bampton, Oxfordshire, England, on 23 April 1812, the son of a magistrate, Frederick Whitaker, and his wife, Susanna Humfrey. He married Jane Augusta Griffith, stepdaughter of…
Harry Borrer Kirk was born at Coventry, Warwickshire, England, on 9 March 1859, one of nine children of Sarah Jane Mattocks and her husband, Thomas Kirk, a timber merchant's clerk who was to become well known in New…
Āperahama Tama-i-parea was by the 1850s the principal chief of Ngā Rauru of the Waitōtara Valley in South Taranaki. Born in the early nineteenth century, he was a youth in 1822 when Te Rauparaha occupied Te Ihupuku, the…
A pioneer in women's education in New Zealand, Sarah Sophia Stothard, known as Sophia, was born in London, England, probably in 1825 or 1826. She was the daughter of a sculptor, Thomas Stothard; her mother's name is…
Āperahama Taonui was the visionary leader of Ngāpuhi hapū Te Popoto of Utakura in the upper Hokianga, and a founder of the Kotahitanga movement, which evolved into the Māori parliaments of the 1890s. He was born, by his…
Stephenson Percy Smith was born at Beccles, Suffolk, England, on 11 June 1840, the eldest son of Hannah Hursthouse and her husband, John Stephenson Smith, a timber and corn merchant and later a civil servant. When Percy…
Te Whenuanui was born in the early nineteenth century at Maungapōhatu, near Lake Waikaremoana, the son of Te Umuariki and Tīkina. He belonged to the Tūhoe hapū, Te Urewera, and to Ngāti Rongo. He married Te Ākiu of…
Tītokowaru was born near Ōkaiawa, in South Taranaki, probably about 1823. He belonged to Ngāti Manuhiakai hapū of Ngā Ruahine, a section of Ngāti Ruanui. He traced his descent from Turi and Rongorongo, and from…
Donald Sutherland was born at the port town of Wick, Caithness, Scotland, probably in 1843 or 1844, the son of Isabella Strachan and her husband, Donald Sutherland, a ropemaker. Of an adventurous temperament, by the age…