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Elizabeth Russell was born in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 26 April 1832, the eldest child of David Russell, a carpenter, and his wife, Elizabeth Adam. According to family information the Russell family lived in…

Effie Julia Margaret Cardale was well known as a welfare worker in Christchurch, New Zealand, between 1914 and 1955. She was born at Christchurch on 20 May 1873, the daughter of Alfred Cardale, a stock owner, and his…

Elijah Carey was born in the goldmining town of Gympie, Queensland, Australia, on 20 August 1876, a twin son of Catherine Newman and her husband, Elijah Carey, a miner. Elijah junior, who later added the name John and…

Ida Harriet Carey was born at Taonui, near Feilding, on 3 October 1891, the daughter of Elizabeth Keeble and her husband, Richard Octavius Egerton Carey, a farmer. Although she painted from a young age, her first formal…

William Cargill was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 28 August 1784, the son of James Cargill and his wife, Marrion Jamieson. His father, who died of chronic alcoholism when William was 15, was a lawyer of some standing…

Hugh Francis Carleton was the son of Francis Carleton and his wife, Charlotte Margaretta Montgomerie, of both Clare More, County Tipperary, and Greenfield, County Cork, Ireland. He is said to have been born on 3 July…

Arthur Herbert Carman was born in Pāpārangi, Johnsonville, Wellington, on 2 August 1902, the eldest of five sons of Gertrude Matilda Burd and her husband, Walter John Carman. His father, a former compositor with the New…

Blanche Eleanor Carnachan was born in Cambridge, Waikato, on 23 November 1871. Her parents, David Carnachan and his wife, Elizabeth Friars, had arrived in Auckland with their first five children on the Helenslee in…

Margaret Malcolm was born at Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand, on 17 December 1848. She was the youngest of five children of Margaret Barrie and her husband, Andrew Malcolm, a wheelwright. Her parents were Presbyterians…

Emily Elizabeth Carpenter was born at Scargill, North Canterbury, on 20 January 1917, the daughter of Margaret Elizabeth Fleming and her husband, John Frederick Hyam Carpenter, a farmer. She went to Wharenui School,…

Robert Holt Carpenter was born in England probably in 1819 or 1820, the son of a cabinet-maker, Edward Carpenter, and his wife, Louisa A'Mutie. He trained as a bookbinder, probably in London, and by subsequent repute…

Clyde Leonard Carr was born in Ponsonby, Auckland, on 14 January 1886, the son of Thomas Goodwill Carr, a Methodist minister, and his wife, Matilda Frame Thorne. He grew up to be a tall, lean, gangling fellow who, after…

Harold Herbert Williams was born at Wairoa, northern Hawke’s Bay, on 25 January 1880, one of several children of Elizabeth Carroll and her Welsh-born husband, Herbert Joseph Williams, a county clerk and former constable…

Catherine McKay was born probably at Putataka, Waikato Heads, New Zealand, in 1842, the third child of John Horton McKay, a storekeeper, and Irihapeti, whose tribal connections were with Waikato and Ngāti Pūkeko of…

William Carran was born on the family property at Bell Block, Taranaki, on 3 August 1898, one of at least 12 children of Ngārongo Kāhau (Kāhou), also known as Mary Bruce, and her farmer husband, Rāniera Kārena (Daniel…

Frederic Alonzo Carrington was born in Chelmsford, Essex, England, and baptised there on 26 July 1808. He was the third son of Elizabeth Peters and her husband, William Henry Carrington, Royal Marine barrack master at…

Alphonsus John Carroll was born in Mataura, Southland, on 20 April 1895, the youngest of 10 sons of Margaret Kearney, a tailoress, and her husband, Robert Carroll, a mill worker. Both of his parents were born in County…

Hēni Materoa, also known as Te Huinga, was born at Makauri, a few miles to the north-west of Tūranga (Gisborne); her birth date could have been either 27 October 1852 or 29 October 1856. Her father was Mīkaera Tūrangi…

James Carroll was born at Wairoa, northern Hawke's Bay, probably on 20 August 1857, one of eight children of Joseph Carroll and his Ngāti Kahungunu wife, Tapuke, a woman of mana. His father, a Sydney-born Irishman, had…

Alfred Thomas Carroll (Kara) was born at Wairoa, in northern Hawke’s Bay, on 24 August 1890, the youngest of three children of Thomas Carroll, a farmer, and his wife, Mako Kaimoana. At an early age he became known as…