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… on 21 August 1903, the second son and fourth child of Robert Garden, a merchant from Orkney, and his wife, Rebecca …
Type: Biography
… Edward Ward noted in his diary that steerage passenger Robert Wilson knitted during the voyage to New Zealand …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sewing, knitting and textile crafts
… Stephen's Church, Ashburton, William had married Ina Mary Roberts; they were to have three daughters. On William's …
Type: Biography
… over the roadless plains and difficult, unbridged rivers. Robert Heaton Rhodes, who had taken part in the southward …
Type: Biography
… James Hight , Carl Straubel, David Macmillan and librarian Robert Cameron Lamb. Macdonald exhibited lateral thinking …
Type: Biography
… Shortland. Martin attended the welcome to Governor Robert FitzRoy on 23 December 1843 and was complimented on …
Type: Biography
… 1867 and 1872, the son of Jane Ayton and her husband, Robert McLaren, a baker. As a child David was delicate and …
Type: Biography
… McLintock was born in Gore on 14 April 1903, the son of Robert Alexander Hare McLintock, a Glasgow-born engineer, …
Type: Biography
… to New Zealand. On 12 September 1949 she married Clive Robert Moody, a public servant, in Wellington. They …
Type: Biography
… approach each other most closely. Mid-19th-century settler Robert Blaymires regularly carried his boat from Torea to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marlborough places
… party and bonfire. After repeated cheering for Captain Robert FitzRoy, the new governor, ‘three groans – most …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Parades and protest marches
… to follow him to New Zealand. In partnership with brothers Robert Heaton and George, William Barnard Rhodes established …
Type: Biography
… Scouting Robert Baden-Powell held the first Scout camp at Brownsea …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Youth organisations
… skating. Record-breaker In 2007 and 2008, New Zealander Robert Thomson travelled through Europe, the United States …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Roller skating and skateboarding
… attracted the attention of noted American iris hybridiser Robert Schreiner, who introduced a selection of her …
Type: Biography
… tribe. In 1848 he bought the schooner Highlander , built by Robert Darroch of Auckland. In 1848 he and Hōri Kīngi Tūpaea …
Type: Biography