People A - Z
A listing of all of the individuals that we have pages about.
It includes those in the Canterbury Heroes, Canterbury Writers, Unsung Heroines, Rich man, poor man, environmentalist, thief, Early Christchurch and local history fact files parts of our site.
A
- Robert Allan 1847 - 1927
- Oscar Alpers 1867 - 1927
- Courtney Archer 1918 - 2002
B
- Kate Baldwin 1865 - 1907
- Charles Barker 1819 - 1873
- Mary Anne Barker 1831 - 1911
- Frederick John Barlow 1868 - 1939
- Huia Wiremu Beaumont 1901 - 1997
- Ernest John Bell 1885? - 1971
- Ursula Bethell 1874 - 1945
- A. W. Bickerton 1842 - 1929
- Ray Blank 1887-1963
- Susannah Bligh 1842 - 1888 (Unsung heroines)
- George Thomas Booth 1858 - 1942
- William Ellison Messervy Burke 1830 - 1900
- Samuel Butler 1835 - 1902
- Bella Button 1863 - 1921 (Unsung heroines)
- Bella Button 1863 - 1921
C
- William Livingstone Chrystal 1846 - 1923
- Ethel Clark 1878 - 1950 (Unsung Heroines)
- Lizzie Coker 1826 - 1910 (Unsung Heroines)
- Mary Colborne-Veel 1861 - 1923
- Eveleyn Charlotte Couzins 1896 - 1945
- Alexander Cracroft Wilson 1840 - 1911
- Mrs C.H. (Emilie) Croxton 1854? - 1928
- (George) Lindsay Crozier 1914 - 1992
- Margaret Barnett Cruickshank 1873 - 1918, doctor
- William Cuddon 1835 - 1924
- Allen Curnow 1911 - 2001
D
- Deans Family
- Rod Donald 1957 - 2005
- Charles Dudley 1810 - 1881
E
- Thomas Edmonds 1858 - 1932
- Harry Ell 1862 - 1934
- Arthur William Emmett c1846 - 1948
F
- Walpole Cheshire Fendall 1830 - 1913
- Richard William Fereday 1820? - 1899
- James Edward Fitzgerald 1818 - 1896
- James Arthur Flesher 1865 - 1930
- Augustus Florance 1847 - 1897 (Rich man, poor man)
- Wilfred John Foote 1919 -
- Frederick Richardson Fuller 1830 - 1876 (Rich man, poor man)
- May Furey 1891 - 1962 (Unsung Heroines)
G
- Alice Gapes c. 1854 - 1902 (Unsung Heroines)
Mrs Elizabeth Gard’ner 1858 - 1926- Miss M. V. Gibson 1864 - 1929
- William Gimblett 1845 - 1913
- Denis Glover 1912 - 1980
- John Robert Godley 1814 - 1861
- George Gould 1823 - 1889
- Edith Grossmann 1863 - 1931
- John Grubb 1817 - 1898
- Albert Ronald Guthrey 1916 - 2008
H
- Julius Von Haast 1822 - 1887
- Thomas Albert Hamilton Vicar of Fendalton 1899 - 1919
- Hamish Hay 1927 - 2008
- Edmund Hillary 1919 - 2008
- Allan Hopkins 1857 - 1933 (Rich man, poor man)
- Isabella Hucks 1866 - 1936 (Unsung Heroines)
- Juliet Hulme (Parker - Hulme murder case)
- Keri Hulme 1947 -
J
- Harry Bell Johnstone ? - 1894
K
- George King 1850 - 1922
- Charlotte Knight 1842 - 1907 (Unsung Heroines)
L
- Charles Little 1866 - 1918, doctor
- Elsie Locke 1912 - 2001, Peace activist
- Logie Family
M
- Elizabeth McCombs 1873 - 1935
- Robert Ewing McDougall 1860 - 1942
- Daniel Cunningham Mcintyre 1866 - ?
- Sali Mahomet 1866 - 1943 (Rich man, poor man)
- Margaret Mahy 1936 -
- Ngaio Marsh 1895 - 1982
- Nurse Maude 1862 - 1935
- Thomas Merton 1915 - 1968
- William Sefton Moorhouse 1825 - 1881
- Benjamin Mountfort 1825 - 1898
- George Samuel Munro 1864 - 1915
- Colin Murdoch 1929 - 2008
N
- Edna Neville (Aunt Haysl) 1912 - 2008
- Henry James Nicholas VC MM 1891 - 1918
O
- Gordon Ogilvie 1934 -
- Richard Bedward Owen 1873 - 1948 (Rich man, poor man)
P
- Pauline Parker (Parker - Hulme murder case)
R
- Charles John Reader 1803 - 1885
- William Reece 1856 - 1930
- William Henry Robinson 1906 - 1999
- Robertson Huntly Stewart 1913 - 2007
- Amelia Frances Rogers 1849 - 1928 (Unsung Heroines)
- Amelia Frances Rogers 1849 - 1928 (Shirley Library Fact Files)
- Ettie Rout 1877 - 1936
- James Rowe 1845 - 1923
S
- Kate Sheppard 1847 - 1934
- Henry Bylove Sorensen 1845 - 1923
- James Speight 1837 - 1912 (Rich man, poor man)
- Francis Grollier Stedman 1839 - 1891
- James Nash Howard Strong 1840 - 1924
- Essie Summers 1912 - 1998
T
- David Mortimer Taylor 1910 - 1995
- Joseph Thomas 1803 - unknown
- Frederick Thompson 1805 - 1881
- Maria Thomson 1809 - 1875 (Rich man, poor man)
- Cecil Alexander Tobin 1856 - 1938
- Sarah Elizabeth Tobin 1867 - 1930
- Annie Quayle Townend c. 1845 - 1914 (Unsung Heroines)
- William Trethewey 1892 - 1956
- Hone Tuwhare 1922 - 2008
V
- George Vennell and other Avon personalities (Rich man, poor man)
W
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield 1796 - 1862
- Frederick Maurice Warren
- John Charles Watts-Russell 1826-75
- Steffano Webb 1880 - 1967
- Henry Francis Wigram 1857-1934
- Isabella Williams c.1806 - 1882 (Unsung Heroines)










