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Arthur Skinner and his brother Lewis both had lengthy careers in the New Zealand Police Force. Although their talents were quite different, each made a distinctive contribution to the maintenance of law and order in the…

Henry Devenish Skinner (known as Harry or HD) was born at New Plymouth on 18 December 1886, the youngest of three children of Margaret Bracken Devenish and her husband, William Henry Skinner. His father, a surveyor for…

Thomas Edward Skinner was born in Mangaweka on 18 April 1909, the eldest son of Alice Chalk and her husband, Thomas Edward Skinner, a tinsmith and plumber. He had two elder sisters and two younger brothers. Skinner’s…

William Henry Skinner was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, on 26 February 1857, the son of Prudence Veale and her husband, Thomas Kingwell Skinner, a butcher. Both were among the pioneer settlers who had emigrated…

Bernard Sladden was born in Oxford, North Canterbury, on 28 October 1879, the eighth child of Dilnot Sladden, a sawmiller, and his wife, Elizabeth Letitia Coster. The eight brothers and three sisters in the family were…

Edmond (Ned) Slattery, also known as 'The Shiner', was born in County Clare, Ireland, probably in 1839 or 1840. The names of his parents are not known. After working as a herdsman and ploughman he emigrated with his…

Joe Small was born probably in England in 1830 or 1831; the identity of his parents is not known. The Small family emigrated to Australia in 1836 and settled in Sydney. Joe Small seems not to have married and the date…

Mary Elizabeth Philpott, the daughter of a gardener, was born in Hawkhurst, Kent, England, probably in 1812 or 1813. She married Stephen Small on 17 October 1841 in London, and about 1849, with her husband and three…

Maxwell James Grant Smart was born in Wanganui on 16 April 1896, the son of David William Smart, a commercial traveller, and his wife, Isabella Ritchie Joss. After attending Wanganui Technical College he was employed as…

Frederick Horace Smirk was born on 12 December 1902 in Accrington, Lancashire, England, the son of Thomas Smirk and his wife, Betsy Ann Cunliffe. He attended Haslingden School, where his father was assistant…

David Stanley Smith was born in Dunedin on 11 February 1888, the first child of John Gibson Smith, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Ann Gibb. His primary education began in Dunedin, but was completed at the Middle…

Edward Metcalf Smith was born probably on 10 January 1839 at Bradley, Staffordshire, England, the son of Charles Smith, a monumental sculptor, and his wife, Maria Joiner. He began work in the local iron industry and…

Elsie Smith was born in Kingstone Lisle, Berkshire, England, on 8 September 1881, the daughter of Charles Collins Smith, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Ann Danse. She was educated at Hemdean House School, Caversham. In…

Frances (Fan) Hagell Every was born at Oamaru on 13 February 1877, the fifth of ten children of Henrietta Jeffreys and her husband, Frederick Every, a builder and later farmer. The Every children and their Fulton,…

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,…

George William Smith was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 20 September 1874. He was the eldest of 10 children of Caroline Pell and her husband, William Smith, an engineer. Registered as William George, Smith later…

Helen Hay Smith was born at McMaster's Flat, South Otago, on 29 August 1873, a daughter of Jessie Haigie and her husband, James Smith, a farmer who had come to New Zealand from Ayr, Scotland. Helen was educated at…

John Burns Smith was born on 25 September 1922 at Kaikohe, Northland, one of three children of Nīria Tākiwira (Dargaville) and her husband, Leslie John Smith. His father, a baker who had settled in the town after…

Fisherman Stewart Smith transformed the ecology of New Zealand’s freshwater lakes and rivers through his many introductions of exotic fish, some of which prospered as pests and permanently damaged native ecosystems. He…

Lillian Rita Hampton was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 9 May 1912, the sixth child in a family of five girls and two boys. Her farming parents, Ann Bawden Moses and Henry Hampton, had married in New Zealand in…