Elizabeth Doull

Signed family name

Doull

Signed given name

Elizabeth

Given address

Mandeville

Sheet number

123

Town/Suburb

Mandeville

City/Region

Southland

Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Elizabeth Bruce was born about 1838 in Scotland.

She emigrated to New Zealand where she married Robert Doull, a miller, on 22 January 1867 in Dunedin.

They had four children and lived, at first, at Kaihiku in South Otago where Robert built a flour mill. It is here that their second child Robert drowned in 1870 when he fell into the mill race and 'passed under the wheel'.

The family lived at Balclutha, Opotiti in the North Island and Wyndham before moving to Mandeville, near Gore, in the late 1880s where Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition.

In 1901 Robert died on board the Ortona while paying 'a visit to his native land', Scotland. He was buried at sea.

Elizabeth died at her home in Gore on 16 September 1921 – she is buried in the Gore Cemetery.