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… whalers such as Dicky Barrett, George Fyfe, Paddy Gilroy, Thomas Halbert, Happy Jack Greening, William Haberfield, John Hughes, Manuel Lima, Jacky Love, William Morris, James Spencer, Phillip Tapsell and Edward …
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Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… late 1820s on the coast. In the early 1830s flax traders Thomas Ralph and Amos Kent, employees of Sydney-based … the King Country in the 21st century included Louis Hetet, William Turner, William Searancke, Nathaniel Barrett, Thomas Anderson and …
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Part of story: King Country region
… There were attempts to remedy this inconsistency. In 1815 Thomas Kendall's A korao [ korero ] no New Ze a land , or, … by Church Missionary Society missionaries, particularly William Williams and Robert Maunsell. In 1844 the first edition of …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language
… London, England, on 9 May 1822, the 10th child (of 12) of William Francis Barraud and his wife, Sophia Hull. Barraud … branches in Napier and Whanganui. After his eldest son, William Francis (Frank), entered the business, Charles was … of Otaké Church', reproduced as a lithograph by R. K. Thomas, shows the interior of Rangiātea. From his many …
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… There was the constitutional issue of whether Governor Thomas Gore Browne should persist in reserving native … initiatives to introduce 'new institutions' in 1861 after William Fox became premier and Grey returned as governor. … clear from evidence given before the Waikato Committee by William Martin , the chief justice; Bishop G. A. Selwyn ; C. …
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… in buildings which Bishop G. A. Selwyn had purchased from William Spain at Kohimarama (Mission Bay). They hoped to … a favourable first report from the government inspectors, William Martin , Andrew Sinclair and Charles Ligar, who … Jane Moxon, had married the widowed Anglican missionary Thomas Chapman , in Auckland. For some years from 1861 …
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… travelled to the Bay of Islands with CMS missionary Henry Williams to take part in the deliberations about the Treaty of Waitangi. Impressed by Williams's explanation of the treaty, he and Te Korohiko … of leadership, but they were reconciled by the missionary Thomas Grace . Iwikau had long requested a missionary and …
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… On 20 May 1872 at Porangahau Isabella Cruikshank married William Jacob Siteman, a bullock-team driver who owned 10 … They later built a new home for themselves and one for William's brother, Thomas, who arrived from Nova Scotia with his family around …
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… eight children of Anna Maria Griffin and her husband, Henry William Gurnsey, a tin plate worker. His childhood was … in the School under him'. These included the sculptors William Trethewey and Ronald Ranby. Another protégée was … art nouveau elegance of its counterpart at the Church of St Thomas, Woodbury (1938). His signature, the Tudor rose, …
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… Taratoa was taught and baptised by the CMS missionary Henry Williams , whose names he adopted at baptism, and later … in the Pacific with the bishop, and with the missionary William Nihill was left on Mare Island in the Loyalty … meeting at Ōtaki, he spoke against the actions of Governor Thomas Gore Browne in Taranaki, and, with others, demanded …
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… held more than 2,400 hectares. Farm-based industries Thomas Brydone and William Soltau Davidson started the meat-freezing industry. … industry in Otago. In Auckland, John Logan Campbell and William Brown were the founding fathers of the city’s …
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Part of story: Scots
… Pōtae (also known as Te Rangi-i-pāea) and her husband, Thomas William Porter . Herewaka, who had been prominent in the … and attended the annual New Zealand dinner hosted by William Pember Reeves , the agent-general for New Zealand. …
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… to desist. Taukē was baptised and named Te Hāpimana, after Thomas Chapman , the CMS missionary at Rotorua. Released in … large amounts of cocksfoot seed, some of which was sold to William Williams , a Hāwera merchant. On one occasion Williams …
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… block. On 1 March he arrived at New Plymouth with Governor Thomas Gore Browne and 200 troops. Gold was in command of … and he was blamed for failing to provide support to Major Thomas Nelson at Puketakauere. It is clear that Browne and … of Kīngite intervention. On 3 August 1860 Major General Thomas Pratt arrived from Melbourne to replace Gold in …
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… George Henry Moore, son of the landowner Thomas Moore and his wife, Catherine Currin, was born at … Moore worked as a cadet on Mona Vale, the sheep run of William Kermode, Robert's father. On 9 July 1839 Moore married William Kermode's daughter, Anne, at Avoca, Tasmania. They …
Type: Biography
… and mathematics. Some teachers, such as the mathematicians William Aldis of Auckland and Richard Maclaurin of Victoria, … in postgraduate work. Treacle-tin chemistry Professor Thomas Easterfield, who taught chemistry and physics, … after its rejection by the broader scientific community. Thomas Easterfield, foundation chemistry professor at …
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Part of story: Physics, chemistry and mathematics
… Bay, in the early 1840s. She was the daughter of the trader Thomas Halbert and his fifth wife, Keita Kaikiri (Kaikeri). … than 20 Māori) and taking many prisoners. However, her son William was killed at Manutūkē in a raid by Te Kooti in …
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… , and the great-grandson of the early Poverty Bay trader Thomas Halbert and his fourth wife, Riria Mauaranui. Halbert … revision committee that produced the sixth edition of H. W. Williams 's Māori dictionary. He was an adviser on Māori …
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… on 5 April 1809 at Hampstead, England, the second son of William Selwyn, a noted constitutional lawyer, and his wife, … race in 1829. At Eton began his lifelong friendship with William Ewart Gladstone and others who were later to be … his college, a distinction shared with William Martin and Thomas Whytehead, both of whom came to New Zealand through …
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… 1836, the daughter of Susan Barnes and her husband, John Thomas Barnes, a carpenter. She arrived in New Zealand in 1859. At Onehunga on 9 May 1861, aged 25, she married Thomas Caesar Colclough, a farmer of 54 or 55, first in St … was born at Papatoetoe on 1 November 1862, and a son, William Caesar Sarsfield, was born at Otahuhu on 26 January …
Type: Biography