James Ernest Strachan was born on 20 April 1883 in Dunedin, New Zealand. He was the son of James Cochrane Strachan, a tailor, and his wife, Helen Moir. Nothing is known of his early life, but at the age of 15 he became…
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Alfred Rowland Chetham was born at Fareham, Hampshire, England, on 10 May 1823. He was baptised Alfred Chetham in 1823 and Alfred Rowland Chetham in 1828. Alfred was the third son of Margaret Kezia Dean and her husband…
Ann Monroe Gilchrist was born on 29 July 1875 in Carthage, Illinois, USA, the daughter of Lucy Ellen Walker and her husband, Charles Allen Gilchrist, a civil engineer. She was educated at schools in Texas, Maryland and…
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Frederick Strouts was born, probably in 1834, at Hothfield, Kent, England, the son of Susannah Philpott and her husband, Edward Strouts, a farmer; he was baptised on 5 February 1835. He was educated at Wye College,…
Bathia (known as Bathie) Howie Stuart was born on 10 May 1893 in Hastings, the daughter of Ellen Elizabeth Downie and her husband, Alexander Stuart, a draper. Her parents divorced when she was a child and from around…
Donald McNaughton Stuart was the first of twin sons born to Alexander Stewart, a farmer, and his wife, Janet McNaughton, at Stichs (Stix), Perthshire, Scotland. He was baptised Donald on 2 February 1819. Educated at the…
Wilhelmina Magdalene Stuart was born in Dunedin on 9 August 1895, the daughter of Wilhelmina Catherine Bohning, a tailoress, and her husband, Abraham Francis Stuart, a compositor for the Otago Daily Times. Always known…
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Sturm was born in Germany or Austria, probably in 1810 or 1811, the son of an army officer. His mother's name was Eliza Kuhne. According to family tradition Sturm received his education at…
J.C. Sturm, also known as Te Kare Papuni and Jacquie Baxter, was a pioneering writer of poetry and short stories. Long overshadowed by her first husband, the poet James K. Baxter, Jacquie emerged in later life as a…
Sophia Lois Anthony was born on 12 August 1893 in Bondi, Sydney, Australia, the daughter of Stephen Anthony (formerly Nowinsky), a Polish draughtsman, and his wife, Clara Emma Ackland. She travelled to New Zealand in…
Laura Eyre was born on 1 January 1840 in Greasbrough, Yorkshire, England, the only child of Abel Eyre, a plumber, and his wife, Mary Lee. In 1862 she arrived in New Zealand and settled in Dunedin, where she married…
Daniel Giles Sullivan was born on 18 July 1882 at Waltham, Christchurch, the son of Florance (Flurence) Sullivan, from County Kerry, Ireland, and his wife, Mary Dow, from Dundee, Scotland. They had a large family and…
John (Jack) Lorraine Sullivan was born on 30 March 1915 at Tahora, near Whangamomona, Taranaki. He was the son of Violet Anna Roos, who was New Zealand-born but of Danish and Norwegian descent, and her husband, George…
Martin Gloster Sullivan was born in Auckland on 30 March 1910, the son of Dennis Sullivan, a stationer, and his wife, Ellen Connell. Both parents were from County Kerry, Ireland. After attending Auckland Grammar School…
William Sullivan was born on 8 December 1891 in Inglewood, Taranaki, the sixth and youngest child of Samuel John Sullivan and his wife, Sarah Maria Acton. His parents, both of southern Irish farming stock, had emigrated…
Essie Summers, New Zealand’s most celebrated writer of romantic fiction, was born Ethel Snelson Summers in Christchurch on 24 July 1912. She was the daughter of Ethel Snelson and her husband, Edwin Summers, a butcher.…
Jean François Marie de Surville was born on 18 January 1717 at Port-Louis, Brittany, France. He was the son of Jean de Surville, a government official of Port-Louis, and his second wife, Françoise Mariteau de Roscadec,…
William Ball Sutch was born in Southport, Lancashire, England, on 27 June 1907, the third of five children. He arrived in New Zealand at the age of eight months, when his family migrated to Wellington. His father,…
Herbert Sutcliffe was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, England, on 19 October 1886, the son of Elizabeth Easter Allen and her husband, John James Sutcliffe, an engineer. A lifelong love of singing came from involvement in…
Andrew Burn Suter was born in London, England, probably on 30 November 1830, and baptised on 29 December 1830. From his father, Richard Suter, an architect, he inherited an interest in art. His mother, Ruth Anne Burn,…