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… He later travelled down the east coast, making a series of marriage alliances with high-born women as he went. He … Hawke’s Bay through a combination of warfare and strategic marriage. However, existing hapū (sub-tribes) maintained …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… poet. She produced several collections of poetry after her marriage. Vicarage life was not easy, especially in the depression of the 1930s, but the marriage was happy. There were three sons and one daughter. …
Type: Biography
… access to the lake, while also forging connections through marriage and war alliances. Ngāti Kahungunu’s claim on Lake Waikaremoana is derived from marriages between the children of the eponymous ancestors …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… forces, was killed at Passchendaele (Passendale) in 1917. Marriage to his friend, a New Zealand serviceman, Charles Le … She and Charles sailed together on a troop ship after their marriage at Eastbourne on 21 December 1918. While her …
Type: Biography
… Numerous notable Maniapoto families grew from other mixed marriages – the Searanckes, Barretts, Ormsbys, Bells, …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… in definitions of ethnicity used in the census. Conception, marriage and sole parenthood The baby-boom epoch is often … conception was actually much higher in the early 1970s. Marriage, especially at young ages, was frequently a …
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Part of story: Families: a history
… a separation, which she did: there were no children of the marriage and Whina was pregnant to William. There was considerable opposition to the proposed marriage from the community at Panguru where Whina lived: … and the Catholic church found grounds to annul their marriage. William had previously been an Anglican and now …
Type: Biography
… years’ hard labour and declared a ‘habitual criminal’. His marriage to Evelyn was dissolved in January 1941. On 11 July … At the time Horry was working as a tailor and on the marriage register he gave his marital status as bachelor. … of Eileen’s money into Horry’s hands immediately after the marriage and his demonstrably false and self-contradictory …
Type: Biography
… Act 1894 legitimated children on the subsequent marriage of their parents, and the Divorce Act 1898 extended … for judicial separation. MacGregor defended his position in Marriage and divorce: the ecclesiastical and the …
Type: Biography
… Registered at birth and at marriage as Isabel and at death as Isabella, the youngest … her junior and with a reputation for indebtedness. The marriage did not last, and a considerable portion of Bella's …
Type: Biography
… Sarah Wilson; Henry also had six children from his first marriage. The family later moved to the Auckland suburb of … were married in Whitianga; there were no children of the marriage. After settling in Warkworth in 1924 Collins went …
Type: Biography
… to each other and how they fit into whānau. Cross-cultural marriage Cross-cultural marriage added a different dimension to whānau. There was …
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Part of story: Whānau – Māori and family
… children. Alick reluctantly accepted the dissolution of his marriage, moving first to Masterton and later to Australia. … sons and a daughter, Margaret (also known as Maggie). The marriage was not always an easy one; Bill Johnston was …
Type: Biography
… 1960, survived by his wife, four sons of his first marriage and an adopted son and adopted daughter of his second marriage. A man of diverse interests with a 'fertile and …
Type: Biography
… James Duff Hewett in her father's house in Nelson; the marriage had been arranged by her mother. The Hewetts farmed … age of 12 while her mother returned to England for a year; marriage to a virtual stranger and the move to a remote farm …
Type: Biography
… Melbourne on 29 December 1857, to Mary Agnes Balston. The marriage produced one son but ended with the mother's death … in London, he married Elizabeth Anne Clover. This second marriage produced two sons and four daughters. He died on 14 …
Type: Biography
… supplemented by official documents such as birth, death and marriage certificates and military and migration records. In … database programs there are add-ons that can map births, marriages and deaths (and other events) and show …
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Part of story: Genealogy and family history
… organisations responding to social or attitudinal changes. Marriage Guidance, formed in 1949, recognised the growing rate of marriage breakdown, exacerbated by wartime conditions. The …
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Part of story: Voluntary welfare organisations
… Beatrice Anso in Auckland. The couple had two sons but the marriage was dissolved in December 1960. Before the end of his marriage to Tina, Crump began a liaison with student Jean … married in Alexandra on 9 July 1993. In addition to his marriages, Crump had other relationships. He had a son with …
Type: Biography
… wife embarked on the Tainui for Tasmania soon after their marriage. Intending to return within 12 months, Barnett was … second wife and by two of the three daughters of his first marriage, a son having been killed at Gallipoli during the …
Type: Biography