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… Hotel, where she and Shaw apparently lived before the marriage. The last reference to their living in Dunedin or …
Type: Biography
… Simpson, a schoolmaster. There were no children of the marriage. They spent a year in England and Europe before …
Type: Biography
… January 1870; she had travelled alone from Scotland for the marriage. A whaleboat brought her ashore at Gore Bay. The …
Type: Biography
… to sell sweets in the surrounding countryside. After their marriage Phomen Singh had remained a Sikh and Margaret an …
Type: Biography
… was accorded the status of a puhi (ceremonial virgin). The marriages of such women were particularly important in …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… on 24 November 1857. There were eight children of the marriage. Weldon emigrated to Australia in the early 1850s …
Type: Biography
… Elizabeth's widowed mother; there were no children of the marriage. Michael Yates, a member of the Onehunga Borough …
Type: Biography
… contributions to this was headed 'The morality of marriage' and concluded, in words borrowed from Max Nordau, that marriage was 'A deeply immoral relation, fraught with the …
Type: Biography
… absconded to San Francisco in 1905, effectively ending his marriage to Mary Milligan Cargo. She brought up her son in … criticism. Cresswell acted as best man at Finlayson's marriage to Ruth Evelyn Taylor in Auckland on 3 June 1936. …
Type: Biography
… second wife, two sons and the adopted daughter of his first marriage, and a son and a daughter of his second marriage. …
Type: Biography
… grant a wage order of five per cent. In 1956 Grant’s second marriage had been dissolved and later that year, on 29 … He was survived by his wife, and children from his first marriage. A radical socialist to the end, he requested that …
Type: Biography
… were always involved. There were no children of this marriage, and later she remarried. Her second husband was … children by him. She was to have six children by her third marriage, which took place at Pariroa pā, Pātea, on 23 …
Type: Biography
… Johnson had married Lois Elaine Hunter in Wellington. The marriage lasted only a short time before the couple … of media commentary, ‘Column Comment’. In late 1968, his marriage to Patricia having ended, he went overseas with a …
Type: Biography
… she was her father's heir. Consequently, a customary marriage was arranged, but in 1890 she eloped with William … in infancy. All these children, and those of Hīria's first marriage, were brought up at Waipōpō. She spoke Māori to …
Type: Biography
… in early 1919, he cabled Doris from Bombay proposing marriage. She accepted, and the couple were married in … men who had been skylarking, swearing or drinking too much. Marriages between inmates or with outsiders had to be …
Type: Biography
… drowned in February 1852; she had three children by this marriage. She and Pātuki had a son, Walter Tama-i-hara-nui, … Kate Kairo died in November 1876, and in February 1881 the marriage between Pātuki and Madeleine Kurukuru was …
Type: Biography
… she was brought up as a puhi (a treasured virgin until marriage) by her mother's people of Tūhourangi, a branch of … to strengthen the ties between related tribes. During their marriage, Maata and Te Hāroto built homes for their children …
Type: Biography
… appointments as deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages for the district of Foveaux Strait, and officiating minister under the Marriage Ordinance. Wohlers's arrival at Ruapuke coincided …
Type: Biography
… Church, Caversham, Dunedin. There were no children of the marriage. They retired to Masterton where George died aged …
Type: Biography
… at Kaiapoi in North Canterbury. From the record of the marriage it is evident that Georgina could write but her …
Type: Biography