According to family information Charlotte Griffith Wynne was born in 1821, probably at Voelas, Denbighshire, North Wales. Her father, Charles Wynne Griffith Wynne, grandson of the third Earl of Aylesford, had assumed…
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John Robert Godley, founder of the Canterbury settlement, is said to have been born in Dublin, Ireland, on 29 May 1814, the eldest son of John Godley, a prosperous landowner of Killegar and his wife, Katharine Daly. On…
Ernest Robert Godward was born in London, England, on 7 April 1869, the son of Henry Robert Godward, a fireman, and his wife, Sarah Ann Pattison. Family tradition has it that Ernest ran away to sea at 12, reaching east…
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James Gowing Godwin was the only New Zealander to serve as an investigator with the Australian War Crimes Sections in the Pacific, and was instrumental in the controversial conviction and execution of a high-ranking…
Henry Charles Goffin was born at Plymouth, England, on 8 March 1885, the son of Harriet Amelia Bickle and her husband, Henry Goffin, a barge owner. His father had been converted when the Salvation Army first arrived in…
Charles Emilius Gold is said to have been born at Woolwich, London, England, into an army family, on 6 January 1809. His parents' names are unknown, but his father served as a senior artillery officer at Waterloo, and…
Charles Frederick Goldie was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 20 October 1870. The second of eight children born to David Goldie and his wife, Maria Partington, he was second-generation colonial on both sides. His…
Samuel Aaron Goldstein, son of Woolf Goldstein, a jeweller, and his wife, Sarah, was born in London, England, by his own account on 12 June 1852. He received his rabbinical training at Jews' College, London, and was…
William Goodfellow’s acumen, vision and energy contributed significantly to the shape and direction of the New Zealand dairy industry in the twentieth century. One of six children of Thomas Goodfellow, a farmer, and his…
Bridget Goodwin, also known as 'Little Biddy', 'Biddy of the Buller', and 'Biddy the Fossicker', was a goldminer, who worked mainly in the Buller Gorge area of the West Coast, New Zealand. Female goldminers were an…
Rudolf Gopas was born on 13 December 1913 in Siluté, near Memel (Klaipeda), then part of Germany, the son of Pranas Gopas, a machinery merchant, and his wife, Marte Plauschin. He is often regarded as an expressionist…
Annie Elizabeth Gordon was born at Timaru, New Zealand, on 20 July 1873, the daughter of Anna Eglington and her husband, George Granville Sutherland Gordon, a boatman. When Annie was two her father was accidentally…
Arthur Hamilton Gordon was born in London, England, on 26 November 1829, the youngest son of George Hamilton Gordon, fourth earl of Aberdeen, and his second wife, Harriet Douglas, daughter of the Honourable John Douglas…
Doris Clifton Jolly was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 10 July 1890, the daughter of Lucy Clifton Crouch and her husband, Alfred Jolly, a clergyman. Her family emigrated to New Zealand in 1894, settling first in…
Eliza (known as Leilah) Urquhart was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 29 January 1877, daughter of Margaret Wright and her husband, Robert Maurice Urquhart, a ship's steward. In 1880 Robert Urquhart brought his family to…
John Eldon Gorst is said to have been born at Fishergate, Preston, Lancashire, England, on 24 May 1835 and was baptised on 30 May. He was the second son of Elizabeth Nesham and her husband, Edward Chaddock Gorst (later…
George Gould was born at Christchurch on 6 April 1865, the son of George Gould and his second wife, Elizabeth Lewis. His father, one of the Canterbury pioneers of 1850, was a leading landowner and businessman, and a…
John Graham Gow was born at Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, on 5 May 1850, the son of Janet Graham and her husband, Peter Gow, a coal agent. Graham, as he was known, received commercial training in Glasgow, and was…
George Wallington Grabham was born in Rochford, Essex, England, on 1 September 1836, the son of John Grabham, a surgeon, and his wife, Sarah Fry. George and three brothers all studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital,…
Alfred Augustus Grace was the youngest of 12 children of Agnes Fearon and her husband, Thomas Samuel Grace, a Church Missionary Society missionary who lived among the Māori of the Taupō region. Although Alfred was born…