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Thomas Halbert (c.1808 – 12 April 1865) was a New Zealand whaler, trader and founding father. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, in c.1808. He was the father of Wi Pere and the ...
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William Darby Brind (1794–1850) was a master mariner and whaler who settled in New Zealand. He was baptised on 28 July 1794 at St Philip's parish, Birmingham. He died at the Bay of Islands in 1850 ...
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Phillip Tapsell, born Hans Homan Jensen Falk (1777/1791? – 6 or 7 August 1873) was a Danish mariner, whaler, and trader who settled in New Zealand.
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Acker's Cottage is one of the first stone houses on New Zealand's Stewart Island. The cottage was placed on the Heritage New Zealand list of historic places (category I) and has been restored by Heritage ...
New Zealand Māori leader, whaler, goldminer and storekeeper
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Topi Patuki (1810–1900) was a New Zealand Māori leader, whaler, goldminer and storekeeper. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngati Mamoe iwi. He was born in Waipahi, West Otago, New Zealand in about ...
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William Jenkins (13 September 1813–26 September 1902) was a New Zealand sailor, whaler, accommodation-house keeper, farmer, market gardener, horse-trainer and jockey. He was born in Isle of Sheppey ...
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Carl Axel Björk (5 August 1880–17 September 1952) was a New Zealand whaler, goldminer and character. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 5 August 1880.
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Hōne Paratene Tamanuiarangi (c.1821 – 30 April 1899), also known as John Patterson, was a Māori member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was one of four Māori elected in 1868 for the new Māori electorates ...
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John 'Jacky' Guard (ca. 1791/92 – 1857) was an English convict sent to Australia who was one of the first European settlers in the South Island of New Zealand, working as a whaler and trader.
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The Weller brothers, Englishmen of Sydney, Australia, and Otago, New Zealand, were the founders of a whaling station on Otago Harbour and New Zealand's most substantial merchant traders in the 1830s.
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Joseph August "Joe" Perano (10 October 1876 – 17 August 1951) was a New Zealand fisherman and whaler. He was born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand in 1876. He founded the last whaling station in New Zealand ...