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… proving the murder of the child of Margaret Mary McLeod and William Welsh, the only baby whose age and time of …
Type: Biography
… in the family’s fortunes, and it was only on the urging of William Thomas, rector of Timaru Boys’ High School, where Walter …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand Company ship Tory arrived at Kāpiti. Colonel William Wakefield wanted to buy vast tracts of land. … All land sales were declared void by Lieutenant Governor William Hobson after his arrival in 1840, and a commission … He signed another copy of the treaty on 19 June, when Major Thomas Bunbury insisted that he do so. Te Rauparaha resisted …
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… the fourth of seven children of Irish Catholic immigrants Thomas Hickey, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Jane Hodgens. Thomas was killed by a falling tree while bushfelling in … on 11 March, after taking 90 minutes for lunch, Judge William Sim lectured the miners on their 'high-handed, …
Type: Biography
… responded with a proposal, made to the visiting governor, Thomas Gore Browne , to establish a town at Kawakawa. He … further trouble in 1880. In September Maihi clashed with William Sims, the contractor in charge of constructing the …
Type: Biography
… the Independence of New Zealand. In 1840, therefore, Major Thomas Bunbury deemed it important to obtain his agreement … satirical or laconic. He delighted to tease the missionary William Colenso when the behaviour of the latter's sometimes … 400 Māori and Pakeha; the service was conducted by Samuel Williams . He was buried in a vault, 12 feet deep, 200 feet …
Type: Biography
… attempt at a historical work was a biography of his uncle, William Adam of the Taieri Plain. As a young man, Adam had …
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… he was eventually appointed as a junior shipping clerk with Thomas Cook and Son, where he remained for two years. When …
Type: Biography
… or assistant teacher first for Skevington and then for William Hough at Pātea, where he was living in 1850. His … with Hōri Kiwi, led the raiding party which killed Captain William Cutfield King near New Plymouth on 8 February 1861. … of 1865–66, when Duncan Cameron , Trevor Chute and Thomas McDonnell tore South Taranaki apart, is unknown. The …
Type: Biography
… Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 21 March 1813, the son of Thomas Featherston, a wealthy retail grocer and his wife, … in the Independent , Featherston fought a duel with Colonel William Wakefield, the company's principal agent. When …
Type: Biography
… that it should unequivocally support the striking miners. William Massey 's Reform government, elected in July, and … In prison Fraser was well supplied with books provided by Thomas Hunter from Victoria University College, whom he had …
Type: Biography
… Allen Curnow and Denis Glover , and reading Rimbaud, Dylan Thomas and Hart Crane. The publication, in 1948, of his …
Type: Biography
… The trilogy was abbreviated by her publisher, Bridget Williams, into Lauris Edmond: an autobiography (1994). …
Type: Biography
… son the culture and whakapapa of her race. His father was Thomas Jackson Bennett, a storekeeper, who had emigrated to … a post at Pūtiki, Whanganui, as lay reader under A. O. Williams at the Māori mission. Anxious that others should …
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… His closest mate was a man he had known in Pentridge, Thomas Kelly (alias Noon). When in March three policemen … Burgess had already sent for a professional 'fence', William (alias Philip) Levy, to dispose of the proceeds of a …
Type: Biography
… on 6 March 1919, the son of Doris May Dodds and Walter William Knox, who married in 1921. He grew up in the tough, …
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… Karaka, Poverty Bay, the seventh of nine children of farmer Thomas James Gedye and his wife, Dagmar Martha Melville … 25 August 1939, in Wellington, she married public servant William Ernest (Bill) Davidson, the Tararua Tramping Club’s …
Type: Biography
… in London she became an agent for the French designer F. Williams Gobeaux, and slowly established a foothold in the …
Type: Biography