Harold Bertram Turbott was born in Auckland on 5 August 1899, the son of Alice Dillicar, a native of Yorkshire, and her husband, Henry Turbott, a Pukekohe-born painter and carpenter. Harold attended Remuera School until…
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Mohi Tūrei was born probably about 1830 and was brought up at Te Kautuku, near Rangitukia, in the Waiapu district, where his parents lived on their ancestral lands. His father was Te Omanga Tūrei of Ngāti Hokopū and his…
Turikatuku was the daughter of Mutunga II, and belonged to Te Hikutū and Ngāti Rēhia, who were related to Ngāpuhi; their territories stretched north from Te Puna and Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands towards Whangaroa.…
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Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 14 September 1868, the sixth child and youngest son of Walter Turnbull, merchant, and his wife, Alexandrina Horsburgh. Turnbull's parents, born in…
Elizabeth (Bessie) Turnbull was born at Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand, on 2 May 1885, the youngest of 11 children of Sydney Turnbull, a baker, and his wife, Catherine Armstrong. Both parents were of Scots birth and sailed…
According to family information Thomas Turnbull was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 23 August 1824, the son of Joshua Turnbull, a solicitor, and his wife, Jeanie Marshall. Orphaned at an early age, he was…
Alexander Kingcome Turner was born in Auckland on 18 November 1901, the son of Joseph Hurst Turner, a teacher, and his wife, Gertrude Kingcome Reid, the daughter of a leading Methodist minister. He attended Mount Eden…
Charles William Oakey Turner was born in Cardiff, Wales, on 27 January 1901, the son of William John Turner, a railway inspector, and his wife, Mary Ann Oakey. He won a scholarship to the local grammar school but left…
Francis John Turner was born in Auckland on 10 April 1904, the son of Gertrude Kingcome Reid and her husband, Joseph Hurst Turner, a Latin master at Auckland Grammar School. His father died in 1913, leaving Frank's…
Harvey Turner was born on 11 September 1889 above his father's fruit shop in Karangahape Road, Auckland, the son of Maude Mary Constable and Edward Turner (born Tredgett). He was the third of their nine sons; a daughter…
Bedrich (later known as Frederick) Turnovsky was born in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, on 28 December 1916, the second of two sons of Max Turnovsky, a manufacturing and retail jeweller, and his wife…
Te Peehi Tūroa, who was also known as Te Rākau-ā-Peehi Tūroa Papa-i-ōuru, was born some time in the later eighteenth century. His father was Te Hītaua, the son of Tūkai-ora; his mother was Tinanga. He was descended from…
Tōpia Peehi Tūroa was a chief of Ngāti Patutokotoko hapū of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi of the upper Whanganui River. His influence extended to Lake Taupō. Born probably in the second decade of the nineteeth century, he…
Robert Pānapa Tūtaki (also known as Tūtaki Pānapa Stewart and Robert Tūtaki Pānapa) was born probably in 1887 or 1888 at Ruahāpia on the outskirts of Hastings, the son of Arapera Te Ngaaero and her husband, Pānapa Tuari…
Early life Hone Peneamine Anatipa Te Pona Tuwhare was born on 21 October 1922 at Kokewai, a rural area south-east of Kaikohe, Northland. He was of Ngāpuhi descent, with connections to Ngāti Korokoro, Ngāti Tautahi, Te…
Francis (Frank) Morphet Twisleton was born at Settle in Yorkshire, England, on 17 February 1873. He was the son of Thomas Twisleton, a farmer and businessman, and his wife, Mary Ann Morphet. After attending Giggleswick…
Patrick Joseph Twomey was driven by an intense religious concern to work for the relief of suffering among lepers in the Pacific islands. One of seven children, he was born in Wellington on 22 February 1892, of Irish-…
Arthur Tyndall was born on 12 April 1891 in Dunedin, the eldest of five children of Arthur William Tyndall and his wife, Frances Lawson. He attended Bluespur School (where his father was headmaster), Lawrence District…
Fred and William Tyree were the sons of William Tyree, a master bootmaker, and his second wife, Elizabeth Frances Baker. William, the eldest child, was born on 19 April 1855, in Christ Church, Surrey, England. Two more…
George Henry Frederick Ulrich was born on 7 July 1830 at Zellerfeld in the German kingdom of Hanover, the son of Friedrich Engelhard Ulrich, a miner, and his wife, Catherine Elisabeth Herstell. He was named Georg…