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… to Wellington where he became a railways audit clerk. His marriage, on 24 January 1900 at Wellington, to May Watson, … three months later. There were no children of this marriage and Davy did not marry again. In 1871 Edwin Davy …
Type: Biography
… in Sydney on 14 October 1885, he had a son, Charles. The marriage ended in divorce. Fitzsimmons then married Rose … States probably in 1893. There were three children from the marriage: Robert, Martin and Rosalie. (Fighting as 'Young …
Type: Biography
… March 1875; there were four daughters and three sons of the marriage. Two of the sons, Herbert and Andrew, were to make … sons, as well as four daughters and a son from his first marriage. …
Type: Biography
… compiled a central Auckland business directory. Her first marriage ended in divorce in 1935. On 16 February 1937 she … in Auckland; she supported reform of the laws relating to marriage and matrimonial property. Esther James and Edward …
Type: Biography
… to have assumed that this relationship would result in marriage. In 1914 she became pregnant to West, and spent all … and furnishing a house for the family to live in when the marriage and birth had taken place. On 1 January 1915, …
Type: Biography
… by his second wife, two daughters and two sons of his first marriage, and a son of his second marriage. …
Type: Biography
… and Stout. William already had two daughters by his first marriage and the couple were to have one more. Margaret's … education for parenthood. She fought for the reform of the marriage and divorce laws, and maintained that prostitution …
Type: Biography
… hākari included tohi (baptisms), tomo (betrothals), pākūhā (marriages), tangihanga (funerals), hahunga (exhumations) and … or ceremonial, as an exhumation of bones of the dead, or a marriage feast, or a baptismal rite, but secondarily it …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Leisure in traditional Māori society – ngā mahi a te rēhia
… songs waiata whakautu tono pākūwhā – songs to answer marriage proposals waiata mō te moe punarua – songs for marriage to two wives waiata nā te tūrehu – songs from the …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori songs – waiata tawhito
… Weddings begin and celebrate marriage. Unlike christenings, society debuts, or formal mourning, despite the falling rate of marriage, weddings continued to be an important event in New …
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Part of story: Marriage and partnering
… to an event which occurred within the first year of her marriage, possibly the loss of a pastoral property interest, … / Which treacherous hands had heaped upon my heart.' Her marriage came under strain, but survived as a source of …
Type: Biography
… from his pay. His financial plight was not eased by his marriage to Ellen Catherine Keogh, a widow, who had arrived … of English settlers. According to family information this marriage took place at Akaroa on 22 June 1850. Nor did …
Type: Biography
… to sexual health were shaped by a commitment to sex within marriage and a lack of effective treatments for venereal … prevention would be achieved by abstaining from sex outside marriage. When HIV/AIDS became the focus of activism in the … of prostitution allowed ‘vice’ (sexual activity outside marriage) among men to flourish unpunished. After decades of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sexual health
… community at Whakapuaka. In 1858 Hūria made an arranged marriage to Hēmi Mātenga Waipunāhau. There were to be no children of the marriage, but they had one adopted daughter named Mamae. … part in family decisions, naming children and arranging marriages. After the death of her father in April 1880 she …
Type: Biography
… his reign. It was probably Te Marae who arranged Piupiu's marriage to Kainuku Vaikai, a kinsman of the Mākea Nui ariki family of Rarotonga. Piupiu made a second marriage to Hīroka Hetet, also known as Hīkaka Hetet, whose … often known as Piupiu Hetet. There were children of both marriages. While living among Ngāti Maniapoto, Piupiu came …
Type: Biography
… From the early years of colonial settlement there was intermarriage between European settlers and Māori. Sometimes inter-ethnic marriage was associated with specific occupations and …
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Part of story: Workforce composition
… able to strengthen the identity of the hapū by political marriages, or if they were known for their fighting prowess. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tribal organisation
… constant, skilled nursing. She resigned shortly before her marriage on 12 June 1925 to William John Brown, a veteran … had been one of her patients. There were no children of the marriage. The Browns lived in Christchurch where William …
Type: Biography
… sweated labour of Christchurch dressmakers; deplored child marriage in India and the wearing of sealskin coats; and … this time. Seven step-children from her husband's previous marriage, his career which entailed shifts to Greymouth …
Type: Biography
… from the 1840s brought with them an ideal of Christian marriage and family in which wives respected and obeyed … one lacking social comfort. Women were in short supply as marriage partners, as servants, and as a ‘civilising’ …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Women and men