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… Mary McKenzie and Walter Ormiston, a shepherd. She married Robert Mackay, a shepherd, at Dalharald, Strathnaver, … dray to Double Hill station in central Canterbury, where Robert was employed to manage the Redcliff part of the run. … in attendance. Two more children were born in the hut. Robert Mackay was often away for days at a time, especially …
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… She was the daughter of Elizabeth Ross and her husband, Robert Cooper, a farmer. On 3 July 1830 she married Robert Forbes at Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire. Margaret and Robert Forbes and their six children arrived in Wellington, …
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… Emma Brignell Roberts was born in Westham, Essex, England, probably in … 1849, the daughter of Mary Griffith and her husband, Thomas Roberts, a clergyman. In 1852 her parents emigrated to …
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… in her diaries. On 23 September 1888 at Ōkārito she married Robert Adamson, a farmer, butcher and flaxmiller. They were to have five children. Robert's family had taken up some of the first land in the … times of illness, childbirth and other hardships. She and Robert were esteemed members of their community and were …
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… Four years later, on 4 June 1868, Elizabeth Budge married Robert Mackay; they are not known to have had any children. Robert and his brother, Thomas, had bought land in the … by the chauvinistic remarks of a Waimea county councillor, Robert Pattie, she argued that a woman should receive the …
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… a 32-year-old hat trimmer at the time of her marriage to Robert Addison, a carpenter, in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 19 … Joseph Broomfield. Little else is known of her early life. Robert offered good prospects to Agnes, the daughter of a … and sent her daughters to the local primary school. After Robert's death at Hokitika on 26 November 1885, ownership of …
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… death as Isabella, the youngest daughter and fifth child of Robert Thomas Button and his wife, Anna Mary Pymar, was … were born. The family moved to Kaiapoi in 1859, and Robert Button found employment as a carpenter. Soon after … Rangitata district in South Canterbury, around 1870. Here Robert Button bought 800 acres of Peel Forest bush, and …
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… Zealanders. The early-20th-century Antarctic expeditions of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton visited the South …
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… third of eight children of Margaret McLay and her husband, Robert Logan, a boat builder. In the early 1870s Robert, who was foreman of a boat-building firm on the River … service on Waitemata Harbour and have it shipped there. Robert Logan and his family subsequently emigrated to New …
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… Courtauld's factory. Eliza Jane Matthews became engaged to Robert Leaper Pudney, a fellow Quaker from Earls Colne, who … at the Royal Agriculture College, Cirencester. In 1885 Robert went to Victoria, Australia, where he became the … and corn growing in New Zealand. Eliza Jane and Robert were married at the Friends' Meeting House, Mount …
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… joined the New Zealand Alliance of Labour, led by 'Big Jim' Roberts . The following year Cook became president of the …
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… he intended to return to England. However, in Sydney he met Robert FitzRoy , the governor elect of New Zealand. The two … 1856 Sinclair served as colonial secretary under Governors Robert FitzRoy and George Grey , Acting Governor Robert …
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… until, in Dunedin on 27 December 1876, aged 18, she married Robert Stout , a 32-year-old barrister and member of the House of Representatives. Robert, a fellow Scot, had been a frequent visitor and had …
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… by George and three other brothers. The main activities of Robert Heaton Rhodes had been in Australia until he came to … licence' to graze unoccupied land, and the following year Robert Heaton Rhodes crossed from Australia and took over … Sam Williams, is said to have taken George, and possibly Robert, to explore South Canterbury in 1850. In 1851 George …
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… marriage or its ending. It was Helen's second marriage, to Robert Sheriff Black, at Dunedin on 3 December 1924, which … point in her life. It certainly added to her social status. Robert was a prominent fur merchant and exporter, nearly 30 … our minds, would have acted had we been in their position?' Robert Black lost the mayoralty in 1933. However, Helen …
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… 1813. About 1830 he emigrated to Tasmania with his friend Robert Quayle Kermode. Moore worked as a cadet on Mona Vale, the sheep run of William Kermode, Robert's father. On 9 July 1839 Moore married William …
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… went from Whanganui to Pātea in March 1840. In August, Robert Park, Robert Stokes and Charles Heaphy surveyed the land from …
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Part of story: European exploration
… but after Kirk they were younger, averaging 47 years. Only Robert Muldoon and Bill English (both 54) and Jim Bolger … carve out significant post-prime-ministerial careers. Only Robert Muldoon and David Lange remained in Parliament for … Jack Marshall – ‘Gentleman Jack’ Norman Kirk – ‘Big Norm’ Robert Muldoon – ‘Piggy’ Jim Bolger – ‘Spud’, ‘The Great …
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Part of story: Premiers and prime ministers
… After Tītokowaru's campaign Manaia met Civil Commissioner Robert Parris in October 1869 and co-operated in the … to the west coast commissioners in 1880, preferring that Robert Parris speak for him. In 1882 and 1883 Crown grants …
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… Christchurch on 6 June 1878, the sixth of nine children of Robert Haswell Wood, a merchant, and his wife, Margaret … 1899 and then worked for two years as a draughtsman for Robert Ballantyne and William Clarkson. In March 1901 Wood … in the offices of two prominent Arts and Crafts architects, Robert Weir Schultz and Leonard Stokes. With his horizons …
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