Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Catherine Repper King was born in 1862 in Redruth, Cornwall, England – daughter of Charles Henry King, a contractor, and Sarah Hendy Perry. She came to New Zealand with her family in about 1867 and they settled in Dunedin.
In 1881 she married George David Gibbs, a carpenter. They had seven children together.
Elizabeth died on 11 September 1894, when her youngest child was only three years old. She is buried in the Northern Cemetery. George re-married and he died in 1943.
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