George Marshall McCall Smith was born on 13 November 1882 at Nairn, Scotland, the second son of Ann Mein Andrews and her husband, Samuel McCall Smith, who farmed at Laggan, Speyside. He was educated at Laggan School,…
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James Teer was born in Newcastle, County Down, Ireland, probably in 1826 or 1827. His father was Thomas Teer, a fisherman; his mother's name is not known. The family earned their living in a poverty-stricken fishing…
Jane Coutts was born at Kaiapoi, New Zealand, on 18 May 1858 to Donald Coutts, a farmer, and his wife, Anne Mackay. On 26 December 1879 at Pātea she married John Thomson, a civil engineer. They were to have one son.…
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Thomas Jervis Ryan was born in Ireland, probably some time between 1834 and 1837, the son of Thomas Ryan. His mother's name is not known. In November 1861 he joined the police force in Otago, New Zealand, as a mounted…
Jane Winstone was born at Wanganui on 24 September 1912, the daughter of Lina Storme Clapham and her husband, Arthur George Winstone, a chemist. The eldest of three sisters, she grew up in the family home on Durie Hill…
Charles John Ayton was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, on 24 February 1846, the son of Ann Maria Gales and her husband, John Featherstone Ayton, a corn factor. Otago legends say that Charles had a…
William Brassington, Canterbury's most notable early stonemason and craftsman, was born at Nottingham, England, in 1840 according to family information, the son of Mary Walker and her husband, mason William Brassington…
Grace Ellen Cumming was born on 23 December 1886 at Richmond Grove, Invercargill, the daughter of Jane Cameron and her husband, William Forbes Cumming, a carter and contractor. After her father's death in 1889, the…
Joseph Henry Cock was born at Calstock, Cornwall, England, on 25 January 1855, the son of Joseph Cock and his wife, Mary Ann Honeycomb. His connection with Nelson, New Zealand, began in 1864 when his father, a copper…
Elsie Low was born on 25 July 1875 at Horndon on the Hill, Essex, England, the youngest of five children of Sabine Susanna Harris and her husband, Benjamin Low, general storekeepers. The family left England for…
Lewis Edward Harris was born in Woodville, Hawke’s Bay, on 25 March 1900, the son of Mabel Eldridge Lewis and her husband, Joseph Henry Harris, a farmer. The family moved to Napier when Lewis was four, and later to…
Basil Bramston Hooper was born in Lahore, India, on 17 April 1876, the youngest of nine children born to William Hooper and his wife, Charlotte Elizabeth (Elisabeth) Candy. William Hooper, an Anglican priest and Church…
Thomas Henry Johnston was born in Richmond, Victoria, Australia, on 26 August 1880, the sixth of nine children of Waldron John Johnston, a chemist, and his wife, Elizabeth Nelson. His father died when he was eight years…
Cyril Eyton Kay was born in Auckland on 25 June 1902 to David Kay, an accountant, and his wife, Mary Butts. He lived as a child in Devonport before moving to Mangere. His first flight with one of the early barnstormers…
George Edward Mannering was born on 31 July 1862 at Birch Hill station in North Canterbury, New Zealand. He was the son of Theophilus Samuel Mannering, a sheep farmer, and his wife, Annie Buckham, who ran a girls'…
Mary Sadler Powell was born on 14 December 1854 in Methwold, Norfolk, England, the daughter of Mary Sadler and her husband, William Powell, a Wesleyan minister. Mary's father died when she was a child and Mary…
Selina Sutherland (whose name at baptism was Sutherland Sutherland) was born on 26 December 1839 at Culgower, Sutherlandshire, Scotland, the third child of Jane McDonald and her husband, Baigrie Sutherland, a farm…
Horace Henry Ayres (Ayers), better known as Harry Herbert Ayres, was born on 31 July 1912 in Christchurch, the son of Ellen Matthews and her husband, Henry Ayres, a gardener, carpenter and plasterer. Harry attended…
John Boultbee was born on 3 September 1799 at Bunny, Nottinghamshire, England. He was the ninth and youngest son of Sarah Elizabeth Lane and her husband, Joseph Boultbee, minor Nottinghamshire gentry. A rover from…
Walter Clarke Buchanan was born on 20 June 1838 at Auchenbreck in the parish of Kilmodan, Argyllshire, Scotland, the son of Donald McChananich, a farmer, and his wife, Janet Clarke. (He was baptised under his father's…