Born in Matatā, New Zealand.
Born Margaret Pattison Thom, she was known as Makereti, a transliteration of Margaret. Married in 1891, she became Margaret Dennan.
With her half-sister Bella, she formed a cultural group whose members sang and danced for visitors. The group toured, to Australia in 1909 and then, in 1911, to Britain. Here she met up with Richard Staples-Browne, whom she had previously guided in New Zealand, and she returned to the UK in 1912 to marry him, becoming Mrs Richard Staples-Browne and taking up residence in the Oxfordshire countryside, ultimately at Oddington Grange on the edge of Otmoor. Her son from a previous marriage, William (Te Aonui) Dennan, lived with them, and in 1921 he went to study anthropology at The Queen's College, Oxford.
Born Margaret Pattison Thom, she was known as Makereti, a transliteration of Margaret. Married in 1891, she became Margaret Dennan.
With her half-sister Bella, she formed a cultural group whose members sang and danced for visitors. The group toured, to Australia in 1909 and then, in 1911, to Britain. Here she met up with Richard Staples-Browne, whom she had previously guided in New Zealand, and she returned to the UK in 1912 to marry him, becoming Mrs Richard Staples-Browne and taking up residence in the Oxfordshire countryside, ultimately at Oddington Grange on the edge of Otmoor. Her son from a previous marriage, William (Te Aonui) Dennan, lived with them, and in 1921 he went to study anthropology at The Queen's College, Oxford.
Born in Matatā, New Zealand.
Born Margaret Pattison Thom, she was known as Makereti, a transliteration of Margaret. Married in 1891, she became Margaret Dennan.
With her half-sister Bella, she formed a cultural group whose members sang and danced for visitors. The group toured, to Australia in 1909 and then, in 1911, to Britain. Here she met up with Richard Staples-Browne, whom she had previously guided in New Zealand, and she returned to the UK in 1912 to marry him, becoming Mrs Richard Staples-Browne and taking up residence in the Oxfordshire countryside, ultimately at Oddington Grange on the edge of Otmoor. Her son from a previous marriage, William (Te Aonui) Dennan, lived with them, and in 1921 he went to study anthropology at The Queen's College, Oxford.
Born Margaret Pattison Thom, she was known as Makereti, a transliteration of Margaret. Married in 1891, she became Margaret Dennan.
With her half-sister Bella, she formed a cultural group whose members sang and danced for visitors. The group toured, to Australia in 1909 and then, in 1911, to Britain. Here she met up with Richard Staples-Browne, whom she had previously guided in New Zealand, and she returned to the UK in 1912 to marry him, becoming Mrs Richard Staples-Browne and taking up residence in the Oxfordshire countryside, ultimately at Oddington Grange on the edge of Otmoor. Her son from a previous marriage, William (Te Aonui) Dennan, lived with them, and in 1921 he went to study anthropology at The Queen's College, Oxford.
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