Signed family name
Shanks
Signed given name
Ellen W.
Given address
Mataura
Notes
Originally transcribed as Ellen N. Shanks
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ellen Workman Shanks was born about 1848 in Scotland.
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1849 on the Kelso and they settled in Halfway Bush, Dunedin.
In the 1860s they moved to the Mataura district where Ellen signed the suffrage petition and she worked as a seamstress.
Ellen died on 16 September 1912 in Dunedin – she is buried with her brother and sister in the Mataura Cemetery.
Sources
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/