Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Jane Marten was born in Debden, Essex, England in 1841 – the daughter of Joseph Seaton Marten, a shopkeeper, and Margaret Lucy Macklear.
In 1892, in New Zealand, Elizabeth married Albert James Beck – a widower with six children, whose wife had died the previous year. They had no other children.
Albert died in 1916 and he is buried in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin, with his first wife Jane.
After Albert’s death Elizabeth moved to Napier where her brother’s family lived.
She died in Napier on 4 November 1922 and is buried in the Park Island Cemetery, Napier.
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
Napier City Council https://www.napier.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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