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Nireaha Tāmaki was born at Te Pākawau on the Manawatū River probably between 1835 and 1837. His father was Matiu Tāmaki, a descendant of high rank of Rangitāne and Hāmua; Nireaha was sometimes known as Nireaha Matiu.…

Marmaduke George Nixon was born probably in 1813 or 1814, in Valetta, Malta, the son of Henry Nixon, an army officer, and his wife, Elizabeth Browne. After graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was…

Nikola Nobilo was one of New Zealand’s most successful winemakers of the 1960s and 1970s, building a few vines on his Huapai farm into a winemaking dynasty. With his sons, Nobilo was one the leaders of the transition…

Noda Asajiro is said to have been born on 17 January 1868 at Tomioka, a small fishing village on the island of Amakusa-Shimo-shima, near Nagasaki, Japan. His father was Noda Kakashi, a carpenter and shipbuilder. His…

Patrick and William Denis Nolan were born at Arawata River, Jackson Bay, south Westland, on 19 September 1875 and 18 November 1877 respectively. They were the fourth and fifth children of Andrew Nolan and his wife, Mary…

Heinrich Arnold Nordmeyer, later known as Arnold Henry Nordmeyer, was born at Dunedin on 7 February 1901, the son of Arnold Nordmeyer, a German seaman who worked on a gold dredge at Alexandra, and his wife, Martha Dunn…

Hensleigh Carthew Marryat Norris, known as Car, was born in Hunterville, Rangitikei, on 12 March 1893, the son of land agent John Hensleigh Norris and his wife, Ida Helen Carthew. He was educated at Hunterville School…

John James North was born at Dukinfield, Cheshire, England, on 26 July 1871, the son of Emma Heritage and her husband, Alfred North, a Baptist minister. The family settled in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1882 when Alfred…

Lawrence Alfred North was born in Ghum, near Darjeeling, India, on 5 November 1903, the son of Charles North and his wife, Emily Jessie Wiseman, who were Baptist missionaries. He entered a family uniquely active and…

Anna Holmes Northcroft, known as Nancy, was born in Hamilton on 23 March 1913, the second daughter of Violet Constance Mitchell and her husband, Erima Harvey Northcroft, a barrister. He was later a distinguished Supreme…

Erima Harvey Northcroft was born in Hokitika on 2 December 1884, the son of Leonard Northcroft, a sharebroker, and his wife, Louisa Pellow James, who had come to New Zealand from Victoria. Erima attended Hokitika School…

Hilda Margaret Northcroft was born in Hamilton on 22 April 1882, the daughter of Henry William Northcroft, a resident magistrate, and his wife, Margaret Henderson. Her father was English and her mother Canadian. Hilda…

Catherine Elizabeth Nowland was born on 16 June 1863 at Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia, the eldest daughter of Robert Nowland, a butcher, and his wife, Julia Leary. The family were devout Catholics and as a young…

Nuku, said to have been called Nuku-pewapewa because his moko was in the style called pewapewa, was born probably in the late eighteenth century in Wairarapa. He was descended from the ancestors Kahungunu, Rangitāne, Te…

Kathleen Mary Nunneley was born on 16 September 1872 at Little Bowden, Leicestershire, England, the daughter of John Alexander Nunneley, a wholesale grocer, and his wife, Kate Young. She began her tennis career at a…

Emily May Nutsey was born in Christchurch on 9 June 1887, the daughter of Sophia Regnault and her husband, Joseph Nutsey, a warehouseman. The family moved to Northcote, Auckland, during Emily's childhood and she was…

George O'Brien is said to have been born at Dromoland Castle, County Clare, Ireland, and was baptised in the parish of Kilnasoolagh (Newmarket-on-Fergus) on 16 September 1821. He was the fifth son of nine children of…

James O’Brien belonged to the cluster of Australian labour activists who reached New Zealand in the first decade of the twentieth century, as the nation’s trade union movement was beginning to assert itself industrially…

Margaret Kathleen O’Brien was born in Wellington on 7 April 1906, the youngest of six children of Margaret O’Brien, a domestic servant, and her husband, Thomas O’Brien, a bootmaker. Her parents, both from County Clare,…

Thomas Alexander O'Brien was born in Thames on 11 June 1888, the son of Thomas O'Brien, a local police constable, and his Scottish-born wife, Rose Ann Gray. Details of his early life are sketchy, but it appears he went…