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?–1842Ngāpuhi youth, farmworker, murderer
Maketū, also known as Maketū Wharetōtara, the son of Ngāpuhi chief Ruhe, was born in the hinterland of the Bay of Islands. In 1841, when he was about 16 years of age, he was employed to do farm work on Motuarohia, in the Bay of Islands. His employer was Elizabeth Roberton, a widow. Her...
Story: Maketū, Wiremu Kīngi
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1870–1946Surgeon, pathologist, military leader, public health administrator
Robert Haldane Makgill was born on 24 May 1870 at Stirling, Scotland, the son of Margaret Isabella Haldane and her husband, Captain Sir John Makgill of the Royal Engineers. His mother came from a distinguished family: two of her brothers, a sister and a nephew achieved prominence in British...
Story: Makgill, Robert Haldane
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1874–1932Rangitāne and Ngāti Kuia; farmer, flaxcutter, land court negotiator, politician
Tuiti Makitānara (Sweet MacDonald) was born at Havelock, Marlborough, on 8 August 1874, of Rangitāne, Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Apa and Muaūpoko descent. He was the second child and eldest son of Rina Puhipuhi Meihana and Teoti (George) MacDonald, who represented Rangitāne in the 1892 Native Land Court...
Story: Makitānara, Tuiti
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1906–1967Dairy factory manager, ice-cream manufacturer, businessman, benefactor
Leonard Aloysius Patrick Malaghan was born in Queenstown on 18 February 1906, the son of Patrick Thomas Malaghan, a storeman, and his wife, Nellie Tucker. His father was a talented photographer – he later turned professional – but young Len developed interests of his own. At the age of nine he...
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1829/1830?–1905Homemaker, writer
Emilie Monson Wilton was born probably in 1829 or 1830, the daughter of Colonel Wilton, a retired British army officer. The place of her birth is unknown, as is her mother's name. In 1848 probably in London she married Neill Malcolm, barrister of the Inner Temple. The unexpected loss of...
Story: Malcolm, Emilie Monson
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1873–1954Physiologist, university professor
John Malcolm was born on 31 August 1873 at Halkirk, Caithness, Scotland, one of four children of John Malcolm, a contractor mason, and his wife, Ann Swanson. His was a well-informed Presbyterian family with plenty of books, and John became a relatively free-thinking Presbyterian. He earned his...
Story: Malcolm, John
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1839–1897Engineer, local politician
Jean Michel Camille Malfroy, usually known as Camille, was born at Macornay, Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France, on 23 March 1839. He was the son of Jean Baptiste Malfroy, a miller, and his wife, Josephine Vuidard.
With his father and Jules Cézar, the eldest of his three brothers, Camille...
Story: Malfroy, Jean Michel Camille
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1859–1915Farmer, lawyer, military leader
William George Malone was one of New Zealand's outstanding soldiers of the Gallipoli campaign. He was born in England at Rushey Green, Lewisham, Kent, on 24 January 1859, the third of five children of Louisa Childs and her husband, Thomas Augustine Malone, an Irish Catholic and a chemist by...
Story: Malone, William George
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1913–1986Te Arawa and Ngati Raukawa; labourer, soldier, carpenter, vehicle surveyor
Haane Te Rauawa Manahi was born in Ōhinemutu, Rotorua, on 28 September 1913, the youngest son of Neti Mariana Insley and her husband, Manahi Ngākahawai Te Rauawa. Haane’s father belonged to Te Arawa and Ngāti Raukawa and his mother was of Te Arawa and Scottish descent. Haane, better known to...
Story: Manahi, Haane Te Rauawa
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?–1892Ngāti Ruanui leader
Hukunui Manaia was a leader of Ngāti Tū hapū of Ngāti Ruanui, whose territory was the coastal section of the Waimate Plain, in South Taranaki, between the Īnaha and Ōtakeho streams. Neither the names of his parents nor his date of birth are known.
Manaia first came to prominence during...
Story: Manaia, Wiremu Hukunui
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1888–1973Electrical engineer, inventor, local politician
Lloyd Mandeno was born on 3 October 1888 at Rangiaowhia, near Te Awamutu, the son of farmer William Henry Mandeno and his wife, Mary Graham Snodgrass. After boarding at St John’s Collegiate School, Auckland, he enrolled at Auckland University College in 1905. The following year he transferred...
Story: Mandeno, Lloyd
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1877–1949Teacher, journalist, novelist
Jane Mander's first ambition was to write fiction, and it is as a novelist that she is best remembered today. Through circumstances, however, journalism was to be her main occupation. She was born Mary Jane Mander on 9 April 1877 at Ramarama, south of Auckland, the eldest of five children of...
Story: Mander, Mary Jane
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1928–1998Yachtsman, yachting administrator, businessman
Peter Garth Mander was born in Sumner, Christchurch, on 4 July 1928, the son of Nina Pretoria Hoglund and her husband, Stanley Augustus Mander, an accountant and New Zealand hockey representative. The eldest of three brothers, all of whom were to achieve national championship success in...
Story: Mander, Peter Garth
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1838–1918Ngāti Whanaunga leader, assessor, politician
Hāmiora Mangakāhia, also called Tana and later Piripi, is said to have been born in 1838 at Waikaurau, which was probably at Whangapoua Harbour on the eastern Coromandel Peninsula. His mother was Rīria Pōau (Pōnau) of Whangapoua. Because of wars between her people and Ngāpuhi, she had been born...
Story: Mangakāhia, Hāmiora
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1899–1940Ngāti Whanaunga and Te Rarawa; district nurse
Mabel (Mēpara) Te Aowhaitini Mangakāhia was born on 4 September 1899 at Whangapoua on the north-eastern coast of the Coromandel Peninsula. She was the youngest of four children of Hāmiora Mangakāhia and his third wife, Meri Te Tai. Through his mother, Hāmiora Mangakāhia was a high-ranking...
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1868–1920Te Rarawa woman of mana, suffragist
Meri Te Tai was of Ngāti Te Rēinga, Ngāti Manawa and Te Kaitūtae, three hapū of Te Rarawa. She is said to have been born on 22 May 1868, near Whakarapa (Panguru) on the Hokianga Harbour. She was the great-grandchild of the woman of mana, Ngākahuwhero. Her father, Rē Te Tai, was an influential...
Story: Mangakāhia, Meri Te Tai
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?–1894Ngāti Maniapoto leader, war leader
Manga, later called Rewi Maniapoto, was born in Waikato early in the nineteenth century. According to his memorial at Kihikihi, he was born in 1807, although at his death in 1894 he was said to be in his 70s. He was the direct descendant and namesake of his founding tribal ancestor, Maniapoto....
Story: Maniapoto, Rewi Manga
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1811/1812?–1883Trader, Pakeha-Maori, judge, writer
Frederick Edward Maning was born in Dublin, Ireland, probably on 5 July in 1811 or 1812, the eldest son of moderately wealthy, Protestant, Anglo-Irish parents. His father, Frederick, married his mother, Mary Barrett, in May 1811. In late 1823 the family emigrated to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania...
Story: Maning, Frederick Edward
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1856–1941Trade unionist, socialist
Thomas Mann was born in Foleshill, Warwickshire, England, on 15 April 1856, the son of Mary Ann Grant and her husband, Thomas Mann, a bookkeeper at the Victoria Colliery. His mother died when he was two. After a mere three years' schooling he worked underground in the colliery before serving...
Story: Mann, Thomas
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1862–1947Banker, mountaineer, writer
George Edward Mannering was born on 31 July 1862 at Birch Hill station in North Canterbury, New Zealand. He was the son of Theophilus Samuel Mannering, a sheep farmer, and his wife, Annie Buckham, who ran a girls' school from the family home. George, or Guy as he was often called, was educated...
Story: Mannering, George Edward