Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ellen Alison Ross was born about 1858 in New Zealand – the daughter of Donald Munro Ross, a grocer, and Johan Souness.
She married Robert Denholm, a carpenter, on 24 March 1886 in Dunedin and their only child was born the following year.
When Ellen signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Grant St, Dunedin.
Robert died in 1904 and Ellen died on 17 October 1942, they are buried in the Ross 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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
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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