Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ellen Newcombe was born in 1851 in Manchester, Lancashire, England – the daughter of James Newcombe, a tallow chandler, and Mary Dowd.
Ellen emigrated to Otago in 1877 on the Canterbury and she married Samuel William Hall, a farmer at St Matthew’s Church on 27 February 1880.
They had eight children and when Ellen signed the suffrage petition they were living at Highcliff on the Otago Peninsula.
Ellen died on 2 April 1925, she is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Samuel died in 1932, he is buried in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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