Thomas Francis O'Byrne was born at Westbury, near Launceston, Tasmania, on 30 August 1871, the son of Irish Catholic immigrants Ellen Esther Ryan and her husband, Thomas O'Byrne, a farmer. Young Tom attended Cluan…
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Sarah Russell was baptised at Mallow, Cork, Ireland, on 21 August 1822. She was one of 13 children of Mary Tarrant and her husband, William Russell, an army officer. The family emigrated to Australia in 1838. On 8 June…
Charles Yelverton O'Connor was born at Gravelmount, Castletown, County Meath, Ireland, probably on 11 January 1843, the son of John O'Connor, a farmer and company secretary, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth O'Keefe. He was…
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Born in Ponsonby, Auckland, on 13 May 1894, Daniel Joseph Augustine O'Connor was the son of Lena Agnes Martin and her husband, Timothy Beehane O'Connor, a contractor. Part of a large Irish Catholic family, he grew up in…
Patrick John O’Connor, known as Pat and sometimes publicised as ‘Irish Pat’ in American wrestling, was born at Raetihi on 22 August 1924, a son of sheepfarming parents John Frederick O’Connor and his wife, Isabella…
According to his own account Eugene Joseph O'Conor was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 23 February 1835. He was the third son of Roderic O'Conor, a barrister, and his wife, Cecilia Macdonnell. He was educated in Ireland and…
Ann McNamara was born sometime between 1857 and 1860, the second youngest of the seven children of Kathy Curry and her husband, Patrick McNamara, a farmer of County Clare, Ireland. When a marriage was arranged for Ann…
John O'Donovan was born at Ross Carbery, County Cork, Ireland, on 22 May 1858, the son of Mary Hegarty and her husband, Florence O'Donovan, a farmer. John grew up in a large Catholic family and later became a teacher…
'Tear them down boys; I will give £100 out of my pocket this minute to prevent them from marching.' Thomas O'Driscoll was said to have incited a riot with these words on 26 December 1879, as members of the local…
Alfred Henry O'Keeffe was born at Long Gully, Victoria, Australia, on 21 July 1858, the son of Edmund O'Keeffe, a miner and amateur painter, and his wife, Eliza Ellen Vickers. The family came to New Zealand and settled…
Humphrey Francis O'Leary was born at Redwoodtown in the Wairau Valley, Marlborough, on 12 February 1886, the son of Irish parents Mary Falvey and her husband, Humphrey John O'Leary, a blacksmith. Before he reached…
William O'Leary, known as Arawata Bill, was born at Tuapeka, New Zealand, on 28 October 1865, the second child in a family of eight. His father, Timothy O'Leary, had emigrated from Prince Edward Island when gold was…
Charles Gordon O'Neill was born in Glasgow, Scotland, probably in 1827 or 1828, the son of Mary Gallagher and her husband, John O'Neill, a hotel proprietor. He studied civil engineering and mechanics at the University…
Patrick Joseph O'Regan was born in New Zealand on 6 February 1869 at Charleston, on the West Coast, the son of Irish immigrants Patrick O'Regan, a goldminer, and his wife, Mary Burke. Three years later he and his family…
Patrick O'Reilly was born at Rosscarberry, County Cork, Ireland, and baptised there on 24 February 1843, the son of Peter O'Reilly, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Keane. Peter and Mary O'Reilly brought their family to…
George Maurice O'Rorke was born on 2 May 1830 at Moylough, County Galway, Ireland, the third son of John O'Rorke, an Anglican clergyman and large landowner, and Elizabeth Dennis, his third wife. George O'Rorke received…
The man who more than anyone else came to symbolise Federated Farmers was born in Dunedin on 29 December 1902. Alexander Paterson O’Shea was the youngest of 10 children of John O’Shea, a law clerk, and his wife, Alice…
John O’Shea occupies a decisive position in the development of the New Zealand film industry. He was responsible for the only feature production in New Zealand between 1940 and the early 1970s, and singlehandedly…
Thomas O'Shea was the son of Edmond Shea and his wife, Johanna Sullivan. Both born in Ireland, they married in 1869 in Charleston on the West Coast of New Zealand where Shea was a miner. The couple emigrated to…
Richard James Sullivan (later known as O'Sullivan) was born at Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland, and baptised there on 10 January 1826. He was the son of Richard Sullivan, a merchant, and his first wife, Catherine…