Originally transcribed as Ellen Gredgington
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.
Ellen Bartlett was born about 1834 in Birmingham, England.
She married painter Thomas Credgington in 1858 and they had eight children, two who died in infancy before the family emigrated to Otago in 1875 on the “Wild Deer”.
They settled in Dunedin and although Ellen signed the suffrage petition in Duncan Street they appear to have been living in Caversham at the time.
Thomas died in 1912 – he is buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Ellen then went to Invercargill where two of her children were living - she died there on 5 July 1917.
She is buried in the Invercargill Eastern 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
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/