Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Lucy Mary Shipley was born in 1845 in Barnstaple, Devonshire, England – the daughter of Hugh Shipley, a Master Mariner, and Mary Parcell.
Lucy married William Hooper Benoke on 26 January 1869 at Ilfracombe, Devon. William was apparently drowned in 1870.
Lucy re-married in 1878 to William Ackland, a cabman, in Reading Berkshire. Later that year they emigrated to Otago on the Fiji arriving in January 1879.
Lucy had no children, William worked as a pound keeper & they lived in St Kilda, Dunedin.
William died in the Seacliff Asylum in 1894. Lucy disappears from the records after this time & her date and place of death is unknown.
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.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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