Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Christiana Hustler was born in 1838 in Rodley, Yorkshire, England – the daughter of Benjamin Ellis, a cloth weaver, and Elizabeth Lister.
She married Ephraim Ellis, the manager of a woollen mill, in 1862 and they had four children.
In 1874 the family emigrated to Otago on the Surat, they settled in Dunedin and had a further two children after their arrival.
When Christiana signed the suffrage petition the family were living in David St, Kirkland Hill.
Christiana died on 5 March 1905 and Ephraim died in 1912, they are buried in the family grave 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