Frederick Archibald de la Mare (universally called 'Froggy') was born on 6 August 1877 at Christchurch, New Zealand. His parents were William Henry de la Mare, a grocer, who had emigrated in 1864 from Guernsey in the…
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Born on 24 March 1908 in Campbelltown (Bluff), Southland, Dorothy May De Lany was the daughter of Mary Josephine Kett and her husband, James Patrick Leo De Lany, a labourer. Her Catholic parents, both born in Victoria,…
Joseph Wladislas Edmond Potocki de Montalk, known in New Zealand as Edmond de Montalk, was born in Paris, France, on 14 February 1836. His father, Józef Franciszek Jan Potocki, was a Polish émigré of noble descent who…
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Minnie Dean was born Williamina McCulloch on 2 September 1844, at West Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, the fourth in a family of eight girls of Elizabeth Swan and her husband, John McCulloch, an engine driver with the…
According to family information, Jane McIlraith was born at Auchenflower, Ayrshire, Scotland, on 21 April 1823, the eldest child of Agnes Caldwell and her husband, James McIlraith. Auchenflower, 'field of flowers', lay…
William and John Deans, first and third of four sons of John Deans, a notary, and his wife, Catherine Young, were born in the parish of Kirkstyle, Riccarton, Scotland. William was baptised on 31 January 1817; John was…
Robert George Deans was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 19 February 1884, one of nine children of Catherine Edith Park and her husband, John Deans. His paternal grandfather, John Deans, was one of the Deans…
Gilbert Thomas Pinfield (later known professionally as Gilbert Dechelette or Gil Dech) was born at Yardley, near Birmingham, England, on 3 February 1897 to Clara Ann Davies and her husband, William Pinfield, a…
James George Deck was born on 1 November 1807, in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, the son of Mary Welch and her husband, John Deck, who were members of the Church of England. James received a military training in…
Muriel Helen Easterfield was born in Wellington on 26 February 1900 to Thomas Hill Easterfield and his wife, Anna Maria Kunigunda Büchel, who came from Bavaria. Her father, who was English, was foundation professor of…
Mōnita (Mō) Eru Delamere was born on 17 June 1921 at Ōmāio, Bay of Plenty, the fifth of at least eight children. His parents were Hannah Te Au and her husband, Pāora (Paul) Kīngi Delamere, a farmer and leader of the…
Pāora (Paul) Kīngi Delamere was born, according to family information, in May 1889 at Whitianga, near Ōmāio on the eastern shore of the Bay of Plenty, and was first given the name Te Rata. His father was Te Kohi Edward…
The eldest child and only son of Archibald Patrick Delargey and his wife, Kathleen May Fitzgerald, Reginald John Delargey was born on 10 December 1914 in Timaru. His father’s job as a bank manager involved several…
Charles Stewart Dempster was born to a Scottish master mariner, Charles Dempster, and his wife, Eliza Jemima Weavers, in Wellington on 15 November 1903. He lived much of the first 30 years of his life close to…
Rangitīaria Dennan, better known as Guide Rangi, achieved wide recognition as a cultural ambassador. With charm, insight and wit she imparted the essentials of Māori tradition to the tourists she guided around the…
Film buff, archivist, award-winning radio producer and film critic Jonathan Dennis had a sardonic wit, a brutal honesty and a genuine passion for his work. As founding director of the New Zealand Film Archive he…
Thomas Denniston was born at Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, on 28 March 1821, the son of John Denniston, a merchant, and his wife, Jean Fairrie. Thomas's parents died when he was young, and he was brought up by an…
John Denvir was born at Glasgow, Scotland, on 5 May 1913, the son of Michael Joseph Denvir, a dock labourer, and his wife, Jeanie Ambrose. He came to New Zealand around 1925 and attended the Marist brothers’ school in…
Arthur Desmond was unknown to the electors of Hawke's Bay when he stood for Parliament in 1884. 'We only know that Mr Desmond is a cattle-drover, and that he is of Radical tendencies', the editor of the Hawke's Bay…
Henry Despard, who commanded British forces in the northern war in New Zealand in the 1840s, was born probably in 1784 or 1785. His military family had Huguenot and Irish connections. His father was Captain Philip…