When Mary Anne Maltby was born on 21 May 1840, in Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka, her father, Edward Maltby, was 28 and her mother, Susannah White, was 26. She died on 19 November 1930, in Onerahi, Whangarei, New Zealand, at the age of 90, and was buried in Northland, New Zealand.
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When New Zealand became its own separate colony, the capital then moved further south and named the new city Auckland after the Viceroy of India, George Eden, Earl of Auckland. However, in 1865 the capital was moved again, this time to Wellington to better unify both the north and south islands to be one united colony.
Also known as the Wairau Affray, the Wairau massacre was the first serious clash of arms between the British settlers and the Maori people after Treaty of Waitangi. The fight broke out because of a fraudulent deed that a representative of the New Zealand Company was claiming to have so that settlers could clear the Maori off the land and arrest them if necessary. 22 settlers were killed, and four Maori were killed, including the wives of both the Ngati Toa chiefs.
The Invasion of the Waikato was the most important campaign during the 19th century Wars in New Zealand. It was fought in the North Island between the Kingitanga Movement, a group of Maori Tribes, and the colonial government. The hostility lasted for nine months, where 14,000 Imperial and colonial troops and 4,000 Māori warriors fought and was the costliest confrontation during the New Zealand Wars. In 1995, the government conceded that the 1863 invasion and confiscation was wrongful and apologized for its actions and later that year Queen Elizabeth II personally signed the Waikato Raupatu Claims Settlement Act.
English: habitational name from either of two places called Maltby (South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire) or Maltby le Marsh (Lincolnshire); possibly occasionally from Maltby (North Yorkshire) or Mautby (Norfolk). The placenames derive from the Old Norse personal name Malti + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
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