Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Ann Robins was born in 1841 in Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England – the daughter of James Robins, a Greenwich pensioner, and Ann Weakley.
She married Robert Henry Warren Scadden, a hemp dresser, in Bridport in 1869 and they had a son in 1872 who died in infancy.
Elizabeth and Robert emigrated to Otago in 1873 on the Allahabad and they settled in the Catlins.
Robert worked as a sawyer and they had five children.
When Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition they were living near Owaka and they had a farm.
On 31 December 1897 the family left Owaka and travelled to settle in Pocatello, Idaho, USA where at least one of their sons was living.
They 'bought a small piece of land and a cow and expect to make a comfortable living'.
Elizabeth died on 15 April 1899, she is buried with their son Walter in the Mountain View Cemetery, Pocatello.
James re-married and he died in Pocatello in 1935.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
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
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/