Surname originally mistranscribed as 'Gaskin'.
Biography submitted by Helen Edwards.
Ellen Mary Justice’s burial record says she was born in London around 1836. Her husband, William Justice, a farm labourer from Eastry, Kent, was born about 1839 to Maria Justice, who later married William Coombs. William Justice married his first wife, Sarah Ann Jefferys, in Canterbury in 1866. She died in Canterbury in 1874, possibly in childbirth.
In 1876 William married Ellen Margaret [sic] Biggs. William, Ellen, and children Ada (12), William (10) and Charles (7), emigrated on the Stad-Haarlem from Plymouth on 15 February 1879, arriving in Port Chalmers on 16 April. They lived in Broughton Street, Roslyn from the early 1880s. Charles spent some time at Middle District (Arthur Street) and Kaikorai Schools, leaving at the end of 1882. Selina Julia Hancock, who canvassed Ellen’s signature, lived near them in Broughton Street; both women gave Jervois Street as their address on the petition, in this formative period in the suburb’s development.
About 1899, the Justices moved to Anderston Road, close to Broughton Street, where William was a gardener. This was their address when Ellen (whose death was registered as Helen Mary Justice) died on 15 March 1902, aged 66. William died at Ross Home in 1924, aged 85. They are buried together in Dunedin’s Southern Cemetery. William’s sons, Charles and William Justice, are buried together in Andersons Bay Cemetery.
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Kaikorai School Dunedin New Zealand Admission, Progress, Withdrawal Registers, 1879-1920: an alphabetical transcript. Dunedin Branch, New Zealand Society of Genealogists, 1995.
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Stone’s Otago and Southland commercial, municipal and general directory … Dunedin: Stone & Co., 1884-