Maria Susan Rye is said to have been born in London, England, on 31 March 1829, the eldest in a family of nine children. She was named after her mother, Maria Tuppen, a woman of Quaker descent, from Brighton, who had…
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Mary Anne Rymill was baptised on 1 June 1817, the second youngest daughter of William Rymill, carrier, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, and his wife, Mary Herbert. She was orphaned when quite young, and went to live…
Abraham Walley (Wali) Mahomed Salaman was born in Amritsar, Punjab, India, probably in 1885 or 1886, the son of Muslim parents, whose names he recorded in New Zealand as Asher Karrambox and her husband, Futha-Din, a…
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George Samuel Sale was born at Rugby, Warwickshire, England, probably in 1831, and baptised on 17 May that year. He was the third son of Mary Anne Hewitt and her husband, John Shaw Sale, writing master at Rugby School…
John Salmon was one of the most active New Zealand scientists of the mid-twentieth century. Working as an entomologist at the Dominion Museum and later Victoria University College, Salmon organised and led many…
James David Salmond was born in Queenstown on 1 May 1898, one of eight children of Sarah Cockburn and her husband, John Salmond, a carpenter. His parents were active in the Presbyterian church and the community, setting…
John William Salmond's contributions to many branches of the law in New Zealand, together with his international eminence as a legal theorist, entitle him to be regarded as New Zealand's most eminent jurist. He was born…
Sarah Cockburn was born on 7 August 1864 in the parish of Abbey St Bathans in Berwickshire, Scotland, the seventh and youngest child of John Cockburn and his wife, Elizabeth Liddle. John Cockburn was a farm worker who…
William Salmond was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 9 February 1835, the son of John Salmond, a grocer, and his wife, Agnes Reid. He studied in Edinburgh, graduating BA in 1853, and then MA. After four years studying…
Jean Mary Sandel was born at Kaiti, Gisborne, on 26 December 1916, to Mary Jessie Gow and her husband, Arthur Sandel, a licensed surveyor. The family soon moved to Taumarunui. From there Jean was sent to board at New…
John Oswald Sanders was born in Invercargill on 17 October 1902, the son of Alfred Sanders, an accountant, and his wife, Margaret Menzies Miller. Oswald was educated at Southland Boys' High School, and at the age of 15…
William Edward Sanders, the only New Zealander to win the Victoria Cross in a naval action, was born at Auckland, New Zealand, on 7 February 1883, the son of Edward Helman Cook Sanders, a bootmaker, and Emma Jane Wilson…
Ernest Valentine Sanderson was born in Dunedin on 8 February 1866, the second of five children of Jane Sanderson and William Walter James Spreat, a lithographic draughtsman. By 1874 the family had moved to Wellington,…
Rosa Olga Jensen was born at Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island, on 3 June 1900, the third child of Mary Elizabeth Leask and her husband, Newton Julius (Hans) Jensen, a fisherman and later a farmer. Educated at Halfmoon Bay…
Norris Frank Davey, who would in adult life change his name to Frank Sargeson, was born in Hamilton on 23 March 1903, the second of four children. His father, Edwin John Davey, had taken over his father's general store…
Percy Rolfe Sargood was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 26 September 1865, the son of Marian Australia Rolfe and her husband, Frederick Thomas Sargood, a drapery and softgoods merchant. By 1890 the business established…
Henry Sarjeant was born on 19 November 1829 at Rangeworthy, Gloucestershire, England, the son of Sarah Williams and her husband, William Sarjeant, a farmer. Henry emigrated to New Zealand in the late 1850s or early…
William Arthur Satchell was born on 1 February 1861 in London, England. He was the son of Hannah Mordey and her husband, Thomas Satchell, a civil servant who became surveyor general of the Inland Revenue. Thomas…
Alfred Saunders was baptised on 13 August 1820 at Market Lavington, Wiltshire, England. He was the sixth of ten children of Mary Box and her husband, Amram Edwards Saunders, a miller. He was educated at schools in…
Garnet Hornby Saunders was born in Hamley Bridge, South Australia, on 14 June 1880, the son of Caroline Charlotte Sparshott and her husband, Richard Saunders, a brickmaker. He was educated at an Adelaide public school…