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About Gilbert Mair
Gilbert Mair was a sailor and a merchant trader who visited New Zealand for the first time when he was twenty, and lived there from 1824 till his death. He married Elizabeth Gilbert Puckey – who had the first piano brought to New Zealand in 1827. They had twelve children. Among them were "famous New Zealanders" like Captain Gilbert Mair and Major William Gilbert Mair. Mair is a direct-line ancestor of Māori politician and activist Ken Mair.
Everything about Gilbert Mair →- Occupation
- merchant
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Born
- May 23, 1799
- Died
- July 16, 1857