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1836–1914Engineer, economic theorist
John Carruthers was born at Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland, on 21 June 1836, the son of Janet Roberts and her husband, Robert Carruthers, editor and proprietor of the Inverness Courier and author of works on Alexander Pope. John was educated at Christ's Hospital, London, and at the...
Story: Carruthers, John
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1916–1944Warehouseman, rugby and cricket player, soldier
Bill Carson was honoured in sport as the fifth person to represent New Zealand in both cricket and rugby, and in war as a recipient of the Military Cross for bravery. The son of the Gisborne harbourmaster, Alexander Carson, and his wife, Mabel Alice Scoullar, William Nicol Carson was born in...
Story: Carson, William Nicol
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1822–1896Builder, businessman, politician, writer, philanthropist
Charles Rooking Carter was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, on 10 March 1822, the second son of John Carter, a builder, and his wife, Hannah. An older brother, John, died in 1832. Charles's early education was by tutor in his own home until 1835, when he began two years at Samuel Marshall'...
Story: Carter, Charles Rooking
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1869–1949Sawmiller
Francis John Carter was born at Moutoa, northern Manawatū, New Zealand, to Elizabeth Julian and her husband, John Carter, a farmer, on 13 December 1869. Nothing is known of his education and early life, but as a young man he worked on dairy farms, in flax mills, and as a contractor on the...
Story: Carter, Francis John
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1890–1954Cooking teacher, demonstrator and writer
Una Isabel Carter was born on 20 August 1890 at Upper Tutaenui, near Marton, New Zealand, the daughter of Selina Brown and her husband, William Alfred Carter, a farmer. Little is known of Una's early life but it is said she inherited an interest in cooking from her mother, who also taught her...
Story: Carter, Una Isabel
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1841–1922Storekeeper, businessman, local politician
In the small town of Gaorah, Poland, Laib ben Kasreal was born, in 1841. His parents were Kasreal ben Laib, a shopkeeper, and his wife, Leah Joseph. Because of anti-Semitic persecution the family moved to England, where his father changed the family name from Kasreal to Caselberg, although they...
Story: Caselberg, Myer
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1808?–1877Convict, policeman, brothel-keeper
Martin Cash, the son of Margaret and George Cash, was baptised on 10 October 1808 at Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland. He worked there as a farm labourer until March 1827, when he was convicted of housebreaking. Sentenced to seven years' transportation, he served his time as a farm worker...
Story: Cash, Martin
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1840–1922Storekeeper, hotel proprietor, coach company proprietor and driver
Hugh Cassidy was born probably on 8 April 1840 at Dunkineely, County Donegal, Ireland, the son of Andrew Cassidy, a contractor, and his wife, Margaret McGroarty. Around 1858 he emigrated to the goldfields in Victoria, and then to Otago, New Zealand, where he was a packer of supplies to...
Story: Cassidy, Hugh
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1887–1963Political activist, feminist
Alice Mary Peters was born in Dundee, Scotland, on 19 November 1887, the daughter of Mary Ann Reynolds and her husband, William Peters, a baker. Little is known of Alice's early life, but she trained as a tailoress in Dundee before emigrating to New Zealand around 1912. She was 27 when she...
Story: Cassie, Alice Mary
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1880–1971Museum worker, entomologist
Amy Castle was born on 9 May 1880 at Maori Gully, near Greymouth, the seventh of eleven children of Ellen Wilson and her husband, Henry Samuel Castle, a storekeeper and former gold prospector. Her mother died in 1894 and by 1896 her father had moved to Reefton, where he worked as an accountant...
Story: Castle, Amy
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1907–1984Pharmacist, musician, instrument collector
Ronald Brian Castle was born in Newtown, Wellington, on 23 December 1907; Zillah Vivien Castle was born there on 19 January 1911. They were the two youngest of seven children of Annie Ayres and her husband, John Castle, a pharmacist who had established John Castle Chemists in Newtown in 1888....
Story: Castle, Ronald Brian
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1927–1989Fisherman, search and rescue organiser
Universally known as Johnny or John, Giovanni Cataldo was born at Island Bay, Wellington, on 18 November 1927. He was the fifth child and second son of Francesco Cataldo and his wife, Gelsomina Gargiulo, immigrants from Resino, Italy. Francesco, a fisherman, had worked at Eastbourne from 1914...
Story: Cataldo, Giovanni
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1909–1980Sportsman, compositor, rugby coach and administrator, newspaper manager
Victor George Cavanagh was born at Caversham, Dunedin, on 19 June 1909, the only son in a family of four children of Alice Foster and her husband, Victor George Cavanagh, a cloth cutter who became manager of Ross and Glendining’s clothing factory. Victor senior was an established rugby...
Story: Cavanagh, Victor George
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1922–1989Cricket player, farmer
Henry Butler Cave was born in Wanganui on 10 October 1922, the son of Henry Bernard Cave and his wife, Gertrude Marion Allison. Bernard Cave farmed at Westmere, north of Wanganui. He was one of five brothers who played cricket for Wanganui; one brother became a test umpire.
Harry was...
Story: Cave, Henry Butler
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1834–1897Diarist, homemaker
Hannah Rebecca Frances King (known as Frances) was born on 22 November 1834, the daughter of John King, a farmer, and his wife, Martha Wykes. The place of her birth was either Harlestone, Northamptonshire, or Leamington, Warwickshire, England. On 27 December 1850 Martha King, her three...
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1833?–1915Businessman, philanthropist
Thomas Cawthron was born at Newington, London, England, and baptised on 7 August 1833. He was one of nine children of James Cawthron, an oil and paint dealer, and his first wife, Sarah Grummant. Sarah Cawthron died in 1845 and in 1847 James Cawthron married Mary Raymond.
Thomas is...
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1877–1953Homemaker, recluse
Annie and Henry Chaffey were voluntary exiles from ordinary New Zealand society. They became legendary figures to the trampers, geologists, packmen, hunters and miners who encountered them in the mountains of north-west Nelson.
Henry Fox Chaffey was born at Keinton Mandeville in...
Story: Chaffey, Annie Selina
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1830–1910Pastoralist, explorer, politician, planter, sugar miller, magistrate
Nathanael Chalmers was born at Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, on 22 August 1830. He was the youngest of 12 children and the seventh son of Elizabeth Margaret Pungel, daughter of the Dutch governor of Malacca, and her husband, William Chalmers, a surgeon in the East India Company's...
Story: Chalmers, Nathanael
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1906–1989Nurse, hospital matron, nursing tutor and administrator
Eileen Marjorie Fosbery Nancarrow, always called Marjorie, was born on 29 May 1906 in Sydney, Australia, the daughter of Fosbery Maunsell Nancarrow, a shipping clerk, and his wife, Violet Marjorie Campbell. Both parents were New Zealanders, and the family moved to Christchurch about 1910. There...
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1819–1893Pastoralist, community leader, businessman
According to family information John Chambers was born at Heanor, Derbyshire, England, on 20 January 1819, the son of John Chambers, framework knitter, and his wife, Hannah Borebank.
Raised in a Quaker household, John Chambers attended the Society of Friends' school at Ackworth,...
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