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… William Sullivan was born on 8 December 1891 in Inglewood, … Sullivan, William …
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… William Sefton Moorhouse was baptised on 18 December 1825 at Knottingley House, Yorkshire, England, the oldest son of William Moorhouse, a magistrate, and his wife, Ann Carter. … On 12 August 1851 William and two brothers, Benjamin and Thomas, sailed on the Cornwall for Canterbury, New Zealand, …
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… William Henry Gummer, the sixth child in a family of eight, was born in Auckland on 7 December 1884, the son of Thomas George Gummer, an accountant, and his wife, Jane … this way. On 21 November 1923 at Moawhango, near Taihape, William Gummer married Edith Oiroa Batley. They were to have …
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… William Arthur Sewell was born on 9 August 1903 in Goole, Yorkshire, England, the son of William John Sewell, a chemist, and his wife, Ada Mary Hill. … Sewell, William Arthur …
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… William Whitehouse Collins was born at Harborne, … Collins, a die-sinker, and his wife, Elleanor Whitehouse. William inherited advanced ideas from his grandfather, John … fellow freethought Liberals John Ballance, Robert Stout and William Pember Reeves . He strongly supported the …
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… journals of her friend Charles Brasch . Harry’s early life Thomas Henry (Harry) Scott was born at Featherston on 10 … born to Marion Louisa (Louise) Burrows and her husband Thomas Scott. Thomas was a civilian worker at Featherston Camp, and at the … Scott, Thomas Henry …
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… or 1852, but it may have been as late as 1856. He was born William Sharman Crawford Nicholl, at Garvagh, County … Company, floated on the London market in 1887 by Thomas Russell, became the most lucrative mine in the … Hamilton hotel. During a visit to Melbourne to see her son William, who was returning from action in the First World …
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… Edward William Stafford was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 23 … suffrage. Stafford married Emily Charlotte, daughter of William Wakefield, at Wellington on 24 September 1846. There … representation in the House of Representatives. Governor Thomas Gore Browne ’s retention of responsibility for Māori …
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… William Alfred Bayly, the son of Constance Ivy Walker and … public petitions committee, Minister of Justice Thomas Wilford declared that because the women's conflicting … Bayly, William Alfred …
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… Archibald George William Dunningham, one of the founders of modern … Zealand, was born in Napier on 26 April 1907, the son of William Dunningham, a club steward, and his wife, Mary … Dunningham, Archibald George William …
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… Alfred William Buxton was born on 17 September 1872 at Hanley, … in 1886. Young Alfred was immediately apprenticed to Thomas Abbott, Canterbury's leading nurseryman. On 19 March … Buxton, Alfred William …
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… Robert William Lowry was born at Paeroa on 17 November 1912, the … Janet (Jessie) Craig Forrest and her Irish husband, Robert William Lowry, a storekeeper, later a farmer and carpenter. … Lowry, Robert William …
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… Thomas Robert Gore Browne was born on 3 July 1807 at … manoeuvres quickly overthrew Sewell and his successor, William Fox , but by 2 June a third ministry was in place, … full co-operation if war should come. The accession of William Fox did not stem the drift to war; but at the same …
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… Willis Thomas Goodwin (Bill) Airey was born in Auckland on 7 … his widow, and her last baby bore their names: Willis, Thomas and Goodwin. For the rest of her life Margaret Airey … Airey, Willis Thomas Goodwin …
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… South Island, looking for sites for settlement. In October, William Wakefield led an advance party across Cook Strait. … Fox and Kehu Another possibility for land was in the south. Thomas Brunner, a young surveyor in the company, had heard … around Lake Rotoiti. In February 1846 he joined Brunner, William Fox and Kehu, an experienced Māori guide, to explore …
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Part of story: European exploration
… William Jackson Barry was born in 1819 in Melbourn, … of this environment comes through, although both Thomas Bracken and 'a gentleman named Douglas' are credited … Barry, William Jackson …
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… William Raymond Fell was born on 26 October 1904 at Melksham, Wiltshire, England, the son of Edward Thomas Abraham Richards Fell, a farmer, and his wife, Mary … Fell, William Raymond …
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… Early life Thomas Allen Monro Curnow (known as Allen) was born in … and met numerous writers, notably the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, whom he visited for a week at Laugharne, … In January 1950 he travelled to the United States, meeting Thomas again, as well as the poets Elizabeth Bishop and …
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… George William Forbes was born in Lyttelton, New Zealand, on 12 … Forbes, George William …
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… Henry Thomas Joynt Thacker was born at Okains Bay, Banks … Thacker, Henry Thomas Joynt …
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