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1832–1912Suffragist, temperance and welfare worker
Elizabeth Russell was born in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 26 April 1832, the eldest child of David Russell, a carpenter, and his wife, Elizabeth Adam. According to family information the Russell family lived in Perth, Perthshire. When Elizabeth was 10 years old the family emigrated to...
Story: Caradus, Elizabeth
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1873–1960Community and welfare worker
Effie Julia Margaret Cardale was well known as a welfare worker in Christchurch, New Zealand, between 1914 and 1955. She was born at Christchurch on 20 May 1873, the daughter of Alfred Cardale, a stock owner, and his wife, Flora Emily Coward. Effie grew up in a large family and was educated...
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1876–1916Waiter, trade unionist, soldier
Elijah Carey was born in the goldmining town of Gympie, Queensland, Australia, on 20 August 1876, a twin son of Catherine Newman and her husband, Elijah Carey, a miner. Elijah junior, who later added the name John and was usually known as Jack, was apprenticed to a local printer but left to...
Story: Carey, Elijah John
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1891–1982Artist, art teacher
Ida Harriet Carey was born at Taonui, near Feilding, on 3 October 1891, the daughter of Elizabeth Keeble and her husband, Richard Octavius Egerton Carey, a farmer. Although she painted from a young age, her first formal training was in music and she initially became a piano teacher. Around 1910...
Story: Carey, Ida Harriet
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1784–1860Soldier, merchant, coloniser, provincial superintendent
William Cargill was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 28 August 1784, the son of James Cargill and his wife, Marrion Jamieson. His father, who died of chronic alcoholism when William was 15, was a lawyer of some standing. His death reduced the family to straitened circumstances and ensured that...
Story: Cargill, William
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1810–1890Trader, newspaper editor, politician, educationalist, writer
Hugh Francis Carleton was the son of Francis Carleton and his wife, Charlotte Margaretta Montgomerie, of both Clare More, County Tipperary, and Greenfield, County Cork, Ireland. He is said to have been born on 3 July 1810, and was baptised on 20 September in London, England. He married Lydia...
Story: Carleton, Hugh Francis
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1902–1982Sports journalist and writer, bookseller, publisher, pacifist, local politician, historian
Arthur Herbert Carman was born in Pāpārangi, Johnsonville, Wellington, on 2 August 1902, the eldest of five sons of Gertrude Matilda Burd and her husband, Walter John Carman. His father, a former compositor with the New Zealand Times, managed a printing works with R. A. Wright in Featherston...
Story: Carman, Arthur Herbert
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1871–1954Teacher, educationalist, community worker
Blanche Eleanor Carnachan was born in Cambridge, Waikato, on 23 November 1871. Her parents, David Carnachan and his wife, Elizabeth Friars, had arrived in Auckland with their first five children on the Helenslee in December 1864. The Carnachans made their way to the military settlement of...
Story: Carnachan, Blanche Eleanor
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1848–1938Dentist, Seventh-day Adventist, social reformer
Margaret Malcolm was born at Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand, on 17 December 1848. She was the youngest of five children of Margaret Barrie and her husband, Andrew Malcolm, a wheelwright. Her parents were Presbyterians who had recently immigrated from Scotland. Margaret was educated in Nelson at...
Story: Caro, Margaret
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1917–1991University tutor in home science, adult educationalist, consumer advocate
Emily Elizabeth Carpenter was born at Scargill, North Canterbury, on 20 January 1917, the daughter of Margaret Elizabeth Fleming and her husband, John Frederick Hyam Carpenter, a farmer. She went to Wharenui School, Christchurch, and Christchurch Technical College, before beginning science...
Story: Carpenter, Emily Elizabeth
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1819/1820?–1891Bookbinder, local politician, bookseller, character
Robert Holt Carpenter was born in England probably in 1819 or 1820, the son of a cabinet-maker, Edward Carpenter, and his wife, Louisa A'Mutie. He trained as a bookbinder, probably in London, and by subsequent repute participated in the 1839 Chartist demonstrations. On 18 September 1841 at Bath...
Story: Carpenter, Robert Holt
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1886–1962Clerk, Methodist and Congregationalist minister, politician, editor, writer
Clyde Leonard Carr was born in Ponsonby, Auckland, on 14 January 1886, the son of Thomas Goodwill Carr, a Methodist minister, and his wife, Matilda Frame Thorne. He grew up to be a tall, lean, gangling fellow who, after early forays into commerce and the ministries of two Protestant churches,...
Story: Carr, Clyde Leonard
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1880–1973Nō Ngāti Kahungunu; he kaiwhakawā, he kaiwhakahaere nō te Kōti Whenua Māori
I whānau a Harold (Hērora) Herbert Williams ki Te Wairoa, i te raki o Te Matau-a- Māui (Hawke’s Bay), i te 25 o Hānuere i te tau 1880. Ko ia tētahi o ngā tamariki a Herbert Joseph Williams i whānau ia i Wēra, ko ia he pirihimana nō ngā pirihimana mau pū i reira, ā, i muri iho he karaka nō tētahi...
Story: Carr, Harold Herbert
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1842–1935Nō Waikato, nō Ngāti Pukeko; he tipuna wahine, he wahine whakawhānau tamariki.
I whānau a Catherine McKay i Putataka pea, i te pūaha o Waikato, i te tau 1842. Ko te tamaiti tuatoru ia a John Horton McKay, he kaitiaki toa, rāua ko Irihāpeti. Ko Waikato, ko Ngāti Pūkeko ki Whakatāne ōna iwi. Nā Pīhopa Herewini (G. A. Selwyn) a ia rātou ko ōna tungāne, tuākana, tāina –...
Story: Carran, Catherine
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1898–1960Nō Te Ati Awa; he pirihimana, he kōmihana tuarua nō ngā pirihimana
I whānau a William Carran ki te papa tipu o te whānau i Mangatī (Bell Block), (ko Hua te īngoa o muri mai) i Taranaki, i te 3 o Ākuhata o te tau 1898. Ko ia tētahi o ngā tamariki tekau mā rua a Ngārongo Kāhau (Kāhou rānei), arā, ko Mary Bruce anō tōna īngoa, rāua ko tana tāne, ko Rāniera Kārena...
Story: Carran, William
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1808?–1901Surveyor, public administrator, politician, provincial superintendent
Frederic Alonzo Carrington was born in Chelmsford, Essex, England, and baptised there on 26 July 1808. He was the third son of Elizabeth Peters and her husband, William Henry Carrington, Royal Marine barrack master at Douglas on the Isle of Man. He married Margaret Gaine in London on 3 December...
Story: Carrington, Frederic Alonzo
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1895–1974Farmer, racehorse trainer, rugby union and league player
Alphonsus John Carroll was born in Mataura, Southland, on 20 April 1895, the youngest of 10 sons of Margaret Kearney, a tailoress, and her husband, Robert Carroll, a mill worker. Both of his parents were born in County Cork, Ireland. Known as Phonse, he was educated at the convent school in...
Story: Carroll, Alphonsus John
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1852/1856?–1930Nō Rongowhakaata, nō Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki; he kaiārahi
Ko Te Huinga tētahi o ngā īngoa karanga o Hēni Materoa. I whānau ia ki Makauri, e ruarua māero noa te tawhiti atu i te taha māuru o Tūranga (Gisborne). Kāore i te tino mārama me ko te 27 o Oketopa 1852, ko te 29 o Oketopa 1856 kē rānei tōna rā whānau. Ko Mīkaera Tūrangi tōnā pāpā, he uri nō Ngāi...
Story: Carroll, Hēni Materoa
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1857–1926Nō Ngāti Kahungunu; he kaimahi pāmu, he kaiwhakamāori, he kaitōrangapū
I whānau a James Carroll (ko te īngoa Māori ko Timi Kara) i Te Wairoa, i te taha raki o Te Matau-a-Māui (Hawke's Bay) i te tau 1857. Ko te 20 o Ākuhata pea tōna rā whānau, ā, ko ia tētahi o ngā tamariki tokowaru a Joseph Carroll rāua ko Tapuke, he wahine whai mana nō Ngāti Kahungunu. He Airihi...
Story: Carroll, James
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1890–1975Nō Ngāti Kahungunu; he kaiārahi, he tangata ahu whenua, he kaitōrangapū ā-rohe
Nō te 24 o Ākuhata o te tau 1890 i whānau ai a Alfred Thomas Carroll i Te Wairoa i te raki o Te Matau-a-Māui (Hawke's Bay). Ko ia te whakapākanga o ngā tamariki tokotoru a Thomas Carroll, he tangata ahu whenua, rāua ko tana wahine, ko Mako Kaimoana. E taitamariki tonu ana ka tapaina a Alfred ko...
Story: Carroll, Turi