Charles Reginald Ford was born in London on 4 February 1880, the son of Charles Matthew Ford, a butler, and his wife, Ellen Catherine McDonald. Little is known of Reginald’s early life. It is thought that he joined the…
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Flora McMillan Ive was born at her parents’ farm near Wyndham, Southland, on 9 June 1883, the daughter of Catherine Stalker and her husband, Henry Ive, who later became a baker and master butcher. Little is known of her…
James David Morton (Mortie) Foreman was born at Pendleton, near Manchester, England, on 24 April 1902, the son of James Somerville Foreman, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Agnes Morton. After serving his…
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Gordon Forlong was the second son of William Forlong, a merchant, and his wife, Crawford Gordon. He was born on 14 February 1819, according to family sources in Pollok Castle, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and raised in the…
Thomas Forrester was born in Glasgow, Scotland, probably on 16 May 1838, the son of Janet Watt and her husband, George Forrester, a modelling and decorative plasterer. Thomas attended the Glasgow Government School of…
Emily Sophia Brittan was born in Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England, on 18 December 1842, the eldest of six children of Louisa Chandler and her husband, William Guise Brittan, a newspaper editor. In 1850 the family…
Thomas Scholfield Foster was born in London, England, on 13 September 1853, the son of Thomas Wilberfoss Foster, a silk mercer, and his wife, Marian Wilkinson. The Fosters emigrated to Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1856…
George Fowlds was born at Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, on 15 September 1860. He was the youngest son of Agnes Craig and her husband, Matthew Fowlds, a Covenanter descendant and one of the last of the hand-loom weavers,…
Percy Leo Fowler was born at Litherland, Lancashire, England, on 14 December 1902, the son of Percy Nason Fowler, a clothing collector, and his wife, Christina O’Sullivan, a schoolteacher. In 1910 the family emigrated…
Francis John Fox was born in County Westmeath, Ireland, probably on 20 September 1857, the son of Dorothea West and her husband, Jemmett George Fox, an army officer. Educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he…
William Fox was born at Westoe, Durham, England, and was baptised on 2 September 1812 at South Shields. He was the third of five surviving sons of George Townshend Fox and his wife, Ann Stote Crofton. His father was a…
William Fox, generally known as Bill, was born in Ireland probably in 1826 or 1827. Little is known of his early life other than that he received some formal education, that he was a sailor, and that he was on the…
Annie Isabel McLean was born in Andersons Bay, Dunedin, on 21 September 1868. She was the eldest daughter of George McLean, a merchant and, after Annie's birth, a politician and cabinet minister. Her mother, Isabella…
Early yearsJanet Frame was born on 28 August 1924 at St Helen’s Hospital, Dunedin, to Lottie Clarice Godfrey (who had worked as a maid in the Picton home of Katherine Mansfield’s family, the Beauchamps), and her husband…
Helena Ruth Henderson was born on 12 June 1913 at Leithfield, Canterbury, the third of six children in a Catholic family. Her mother, Helena Jane Hayes, wrote prolifically; the Christchurch Press published many of her…
Catherine Augusta Jupp was born near Oxford Circus, London, England, on 16 September 1836. She was one of nine children of Catherine Healy and her husband, Edward Jupp, a tailor. On emigrating to South Australia with…
One of New Zealand's first professional women photographers, Rosaline (Rose) Margaret Frank was born in Nelson, New Zealand, on 21 December 1864 to Emma Sophia Haslam and her husband, Christopher Joseph Frank, a…
Charles Fraser was baptised in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 29 July 1823, the son of Hugh Fraser, a merchant, and his wife, Christina McAllan. Educated at the Grammar School of Aberdeen from 1833 to 1838 and then at Marischal…
George Fraser was born at Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, probably on 28 June 1832, the son of Rachel Gray and her husband, George Fraser, an iron moulder. After attending a local school he was apprenticed at the age…
Isabella Fraser was born at Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, on 15 November 1857, the daughter of Charles Fraser, a chemist and surgeon dentist, and his wife, Mary Lyle. Educated at Belmont Private Academy, Greenock, she…