 In 1903, he was killed along with several others by an eruption of the Waimangu Geyser.Joseph Warbrick was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, on 1 January 1862, the third of five children.His father, Abraham Warbrick, was originally from England, while his mother, Nga Karauna Paerau, was Māori and the daughter of a Ngāti Rangitihi chief.