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Haurongo: Barker, Mary Anne

Mary Anne Barker and her husband, Frederick Napier Broome

Mary Anne Barker and her husband, Frederick Napier Broome

Lady Barker, pictured here with her husband, wrote vividly of their two years living on a Canterbury sheep run in Station life in New Zealand (1870).

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-043105; F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Cherry Hankin. 'Barker, Mary Anne', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990, whakahou January 2012. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/70/mary-anne-barker-and-her-husband-frederick-napier-broome (accessed 4 June 2026).