Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ellen O’Neill was born about 1862 in Summerhill, County Waterford, Ireland.
She arrived in New Zealand about 1870 and married Michael Keyes, a cab proprietor, in 1886.
They had eight children and, when Ellen signed the suffrage petition, they were living in Bay View Rd, Dunedin.
Michael died at their home in 1915 and Ellen died on 29 June 1943, they are buried with two of their sons in the Andersons Bay 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
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.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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