Originally transcribed as Mrs McPersy
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ellen McCarthy was born about 1843 in Ireland.
She married Thomas McKersey, a labourer in an iron works, in London in 1862. They had four children before the family emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Allahabad – their last child was born in New Zealand.
They settled in Dunedin and when Ellen signed the suffrage petition they were living in No. 1 Road, Opoho.
Ellen died at her home on 1 December 1910 and Thomas died in 1933 – they are buried together 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
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
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/