Isabella Holloway

Biographical information provided by Stefanie Lash, Archives New Zealand, for the He Tohu exhibition:

Isabella Wallace was born in 1852 in Tayport, Fife, Scotland. She had her first son with Emanuel Holloway in 1872, at the age of 18, and she and Emanuel were married in 1873. The couple went on to have another nine children. The Holloway family lived in Takapuna and Devonport. Isabella died in 1920.