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… to live in San Francisco. There were no children of this marriage. The loss of his ship, the Ellenita , off Samoa in … pregnant and went to live with Hayes as his wife. No formal marriage took place, and in any case Hayes's first wife was … Butler. Although he described himself as a widower, the marriage may have been bigamous. Twin daughters, Leonora …
Type: Biography
… in the 1890s and later; her mother was Hana Tēra. Hana's marriage to Rē Te Tai was her second; three children had been born of her first marriage, to a member of the Parore family. Meri was the eldest of the four children of Hana's second marriage. Family tradition suggests that Meri Te Tai was …
Type: Biography
… and the next 16 years of a very happy, but childless, marriage saw some of her best children's writing. George … often overtly didactic. All of them show a reverence for marriage, which she sees as offering protection for women. … virginity from predatory males. In the later stories marriages themselves are threatened, and resolution of the …
Type: Biography
… protection afforded by this woman’s genitals. Peacemaking marriages In addition to their role as mediators, high-ranking women were often given in marriage to their former adversaries, to show good faith in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… Prosperity and peace underlaid this era of almost universal marriage and the ‘baby boom’. Women’s and men’s lives were … dimensions of health – was emphasised in the notion of marriage as a career. Most New Zealand women made a large … By the 1960s many women were beginning to question whether marriage and family life was sufficient – as a career, or as …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Women and men
… Kate died of tuberculosis. There had been two sons of the marriage, the younger dying the same year as his mother. … they married at Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Wilding's second marriage was not recognised in England, where it was illegal … wife and seven children, six of whom were from his second marriage. …
Type: Biography
… a whaling station at Kaikōura. Scottish and Māori intermarriage Nicol and McDonald were two of many early settlers … of Picton and Wellington traces its ancestry back to the marriage of Mere Rere Te Hikanui to a Scottish whaler, John Agar Love. In the far south, George Newton’s marriage to Wharetutu (Anne) produced a very large family. …
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Part of story: Scots
… Church in Wellington. There were no children of the marriage. He remained active in management until his final … Walter Edward Reid, a merchant, on 21 January 1914, and the marriage was childless. She died on 1 July 1934. Thomas …
Type: Biography
… January 1840. His first wife died in 1866. After his second marriage Henry Meech continued to work as a shipwright, and … For a time the family, including children from previous marriages and a daughter born to Henry and Matilda in 1869, …
Type: Biography
… Aarons. There were four daughters and two sons of this marriage, although two daughters died in infancy. Rosetta … Nathan was deeply committed to the Jewish faith. His marriage to Rosetta Aarons was the first Jewish service held …
Type: Biography
… Patrick McNamara, a farmer of County Clare, Ireland. When a marriage was arranged for Ann she strongly opposed it. … Hokitika River. Edward had a gold claim there. Their happy marriage ended tragically on 15 September 1894 when Edward …
Type: Biography
… 1852. He first married Ann May; there was a son from this marriage. He later married Jane Stoddon (formerly Dunsford); a son and daughter were born of this marriage. Odgers served in the steam corvette Niger during …
Type: Biography
… they wanted in wills. From 1878 children born outside of marriage could claim support from their deceased father’s … support. It was extended to cover children born outside of marriage (1936), parents in certain circumstances (1943), …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Inheritance
… established a tribal armistice. This was cemented in two marriages. The first was between Raki-ihia of Ngāti Māmoe … and Kohuwai, the daughter of Raki-ihia. These marriages were arranged at Kaiapoi and confirmed at Taumata …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… had many wives in his youth, but the offspring of these marriages had all died by 1850; Te Roera and Kurupō were the … Karauria and Paku Potaka of Ngāti Porou. Kurupō had several marriages. His first wife was Paranihia Pānapa, who was part …
Type: Biography
… he married 17-year-old Veda Alice Davis in Auckland; the marriage lasted only a month and they divorced in 1940. By … public profile, it contributed to the failure of his third marriage. A divorce was issued in 1959, and on 15 June that … and some found his working-class origins, his many marriages, his flamboyance and his Jewishness repellent. As …
Type: Biography
… York on 23 May 1868. This was the first of at least nine marriages, the rest of which were bigamous. In October 1870 …
Type: Biography
… with his wife, Mary, the four children from his first marriage and Mary's first child, Edith Martha. There were … to Sydenham and with help from the three sons of his first marriage, William, Albert and Francis, Adams built a kiln …
Type: Biography
… In the 1960s the divorce rate and rate of births outside of marriage both rose, and the number of households without a … initiatives improved women’s position as earners and when marriages ended, women’s overall economic position reflected …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Family welfare
… (Raglan Harbour). There he entered into a common law marriage with Te Ani (later baptised Katerena), daughter of … Another version is that the local people arranged MacNish's marriage to Te Ani in order to retain for the family the …
Type: Biography