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… daughter and third child of Hannah Morgan and her husband, Thomas Lewis. Hannah and Thomas, who owned a farm, both died before their children … brewery had been established in Hamilton East in 1873 by William Cumming. The Innes family acquired tenancy rights …
Type: Biography
… her into backing up a false confession in which he accused Thomas Duder and William Oliver, his former shipmates from the Buffalo , of … was pronounced guilty of wilful murder by Chief Justice William Martin and sentenced to hang. On 17 June 1848, …
Type: Biography
… also accomplished naturalists, in particular the botanist William Colenso. The settlers arriving from the 1840s … first director of Auckland Museum, from 1868 to 1874, was Thomas Kirk, a botanist. He had worked as chief conservator … defence of Darwinism. In newspaper columns theologian William Salmond argued Darwinian evolution was incompatible …
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Part of story: Life sciences
… procession with pick-handles, and in Timaru 150 men from Thomas O’Driscoll’s Hibernian Hotel surrounded Orangemen and … Irish politicians. One such event was the visit of John and William Redmond in 1883. This drew particular support from … Davitt in 1895, Joseph Dillon and John Donovan in 1906, and William Redmond again in 1911, when 1,700 attended his …
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Part of story: Irish
… Zealand's first and most eminent typographer. His father, Thomas Bennick Harding, was himself a printer and … also a printer. He was perhaps stimulated too by his uncle, William James Harding, who settled in Wanganui in 1855 and … same month, the young Coupland Harding met the missionary William Colenso, and the two became fast friends. It was a …
Type: Biography
… High School, where he stayed for 10 years. The headmaster, William Thomas , was delighted with his talented new teacher. On 22 … and the chairman of directors of the Tīmaru Herald. Thomas became the godfather of their first child. At the …
Type: Biography
… was born on Norfolk Island on 21 July 1844, the daughter of Thomas Taylor, a convict guard, and his wife, Margaret … the family returned to Parramatta, New South Wales, where Thomas Taylor's 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot was … After Taylor's death in 1852, Maria's mother married William Cherry later that year. Nothing is known of Maria's …
Type: Biography
… 11 April 1819, the son of Eleanor Bennet and her husband, William Wright, an engraver. On 9 March 1841, at … a new pottery at Hamilton West in partnership with Thomas Vincent: Wright and Vincent's Drain Tile and Pottery … Hamilton. In poor health, he severed his association with Thomas Vincent and in 1882 closed his business and retired …
Type: Biography
… or 1849, the daughter of Mary Griffith and her husband, Thomas Roberts, a clergyman. In 1852 her parents emigrated … On 14 July 1868 at Melbourne, Emma Roberts married William Henry Ostler, runholder at Benmore sheep station, … in 1874, and their son, Henry Hubert, in 1876. In 1874 William Ostler bought Ben Ohau station in South Canterbury. …
Type: Biography
… found a ‘new Edinburgh’ was modified after John McGlashan, Thomas Burns and William Cargill turned the venture into a Free Church … Invercargill (devised to honour one of Otago’s founders, William Cargill), includes the Gaelic word 'inver', meaning …
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Part of story: Scots
… Taurua was a teacher at Pātea under the Wesleyan catechist William Hough. His baptismal name, Rīhari Watoni (Richard … engage in religious debate, he observed to the missionary William Woon in 1846 that there would be no sectarian … to stay in Wellington or Pātea, but Lieutenant Colonel Thomas McDonnell told him he would be held responsible for …
Type: Biography
… Islands. He may have played some part in convincing Captain Thomas Downie of the Dromedary 's companion ship Coromandel … missionaries. In January 1834, in his speech of welcome to William Yate , Te Horetā asked his people the rhetorical … peace here'. In the late 1830s Te Horetā was patron to William Webster , an American who established himself as a …
Type: Biography
… reasons, at the turn of the century a few Pākehā such as Thomas Morland Hocken in Dunedin and Alexander Turnbull in … who published a doctorate on New Zealand’s first governor, William Hobson (1928) William Morrell , who wrote both a history of British …
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Part of story: History and historians
… New Zealand, on 13 September 1879, the daughter of Thomas William Brooke, a carpenter, and his wife, Kate … She resigned shortly before her marriage on 12 June 1925 to William John Brown, a veteran who had been one of her …
Type: Biography
… first met John Deans , her future husband, and his brother William . When John decided to take up farming as a career, … farming elsewhere. Early in 1842 he followed his brother William to New Zealand. Jane was not to see him for 10 … under the escort of the bishop designate, the Reverend Thomas Jackson. John, therefore, a few months after the loss …
Type: Biography
… least one occasion attended a dying sailor. He accompanied Thomas Chapman and Henry Williams to Tauranga and Rotorua when they took the … treaty negotiations in 1840 he spoke in favour of accepting William Hobson as governor. Subsequently he put his name, …
Type: Biography
… , a Dunedin newspaper, in 1876. It was written by Thomas Bracken, a young Irish poet and journalist who had … Three Melbourne musicians, Alberto Zelman, Julius Siede and Thomas Zeplin, were the judges. They unanimously chose the … save’ at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics in honour of Yvette Williams’ victory in the long jump. Popularity While it was …
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Part of story: National anthems
… caused tension in New Plymouth. Settlers urged Governor Thomas Gore Browne to open up access to Māori land. Māori … 10 quid and a VC The first European into Kaipopo was William Odgers, the coxswain to Captain Peter Cracroft of … attacks Following the defeat at Puketakauere, Major-General Thomas Pratt took command of the British troops in Taranaki. …
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Part of story: New Zealand Wars
… daughters and one son of Miriam Curtis and her husband, Thomas Coster, a farmer near Charfield in Gloucestershire, … arriving at Lyttelton on the Bangalore on 21 August 1851. Thomas Coster took up 100 acres at Harewood, near … 7 June 1854 at Christchurch, Esther Coster married Edward William Seager, sergeant of the Canterbury Province Armed …
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… Elizabeth Atkinson, married a London lawyer, Christopher William Richmond . In December of that year, the newlyweds, … and customs. Yet while in Auckland he advocated to Governor Thomas Gore Browne the formation of a mobile volunteer force … before beginning to write his Māori dictionary.' Unlike William Travers and Tregear, Atkinson published relatively …
Type: Biography