Philip Wilfred Robertson was born in Ponsonby, Auckland, on 22 September 1884, the son of Edith Martin and her husband, Donald Robertson, a postal clerk who was to become public service commissioner. He was educated at…
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Alfred William Robin, incorrectly registered at birth as Robbin, was born on 12 August 1860 at Riddles Creek, Victoria, Australia. He was the son of James Robin, then working as a baker, and his second wife, Anne…
Īhakara Te Tuku Rāpana, widely known as Ike Robin, was born, according to family information, on 8 November 1886 at Wairoa. His mother, Riripeti Te Auē Roberts (or McRobert), was of Scots and Ngāti Kahungunu descent.…
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Christabel Elizabeth Robinson was born in Lower Riccarton, Christchurch, on 28 March 1898, the daughter of Dora Jane Henderson and her husband, William Robinson, a commercial traveller who sold clothing for J. Beath and…
One of New Zealand’s most popular and colourful local politicians, Dove-Myer Robinson was the longest-serving mayor of Auckland city, holding office for 18 years between 1959 and 1980. He was born Mayer Dove Robinson on…
John Perry Robinson was born probably in Surrey, England, in 1810 or 1811. He became a wood and ivory turner, and took an active interest in politics. He moved to Birmingham and during the 1830s became closely…
William Robinson was born near Warrington, Lancashire, England, on 4 May 1814 according to family information. He was the eldest son of Thomas Robinson, a tenant farmer, and his wife, Elizabeth Lyons. Robinson emigrated…
Frank Robson was the first person in New Zealand to study the phenomenon of whale strandings and dedicated much of his life to the conservation of whales and dolphins. Born on 29 September 1912 at Greenmeadows, Hawke’s…
John Lochiel Robson was born at Halcombe, near Feilding, on 4 June 1909, the son of John Templeton Robson and his wife, Margaret Catherine O’Brien. His father was a teacher, as was his mother before her marriage. After…
Violet Augusta Roche was born on 17 June 1885 in Te Awamutu, the daughter of Constance Gertrude Malcolm and her husband, Robert Warren Roche. Robert Roche had a varied career as a journalist, accountant, settler,…
John Rochfort was one of the great surveyor-engineers who explored, mapped and opened up the young colony of New Zealand for European settlement. He was born on 21 May 1832 in London, England, to Sarah Button and her…
Jean-Baptiste Rolland was born probably in Sivry, Verdun, France, on 8 December 1834. His parents' names are not known. After his ordination as a Catholic priest in 1861, he joined the Society of Mary (the Marists).…
Elizabeth Mary Brittan, known as Mary Brittan, was born into an Anglican medical family in Castleton, near Sherborne, Dorset, England, on 30 March 1845. After her mother, Elizabeth Mary Chandler, died in 1849, her…
William Rolleston was born at Maltby Hall, Yorkshire, England, on 19 September 1831, the ninth child and youngest son of the Reverend George Rolleston and his wife, Anne Nettleship. He married Elizabeth Mary Brittan (…
Emma Hilda Keane was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 18 May 1873, the eldest of six children of Elizabeth Hancock and her husband, Henry Keane, a hotel-keeper. The family moved to Christchurch, probably in the late…
Kahupāke (Kahupaake) Rongonui, also known as Hāriata Whareiti and Kahupāke Potatau, was born in Tāmaki-makau-rau (the Auckland isthmus), probably in 1868 or 1869. She was a member of Te Akitai, a subtribe of Te Wai-o-…
Grace Alexandra Rood was born on 27 November 1893 at Hampden (Tikokino), Hawke's Bay, the daughter of Elizabeth Paterson Begg and her husband, Albert Rood, a farmer. She attended Hampden and Hatuma primary schools, but…
Caesar Roose lived his life on the Waikato River. The elder son of English-born Mary Ashley and her German husband, Ceasar (Caesar) Henry Roose, he was born on 29 July 1886 at Mercer, on the 67-acre Tuoro Island, which…
Tipi Tainui Rōpiha was of Ngāi Toroiwaho of Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne. He was born in Waipāwa on 8 August 1895, the second child of Reginald Pinckney, an English-born clerk, and Mihi Mere Pānapa, the daughter of…
Ellen Alma Rose was born in Riverton, Southland, on 27 April 1907 to Edward Thomas Rose, a Tasmanian labourer, and his Scottish wife, Janet Weatherstone Millar. Nell, as she was known, received her initial education at…