Signed family name
Norrie
Signed given name
Ellison McFarlane
Given address
The Manse Papakura
Notes
Biographical information provided by Stefanie Lash, Archives New Zealand, for the He Tohu exhibition:
Ellison was the eldest daughter and one of ten children of the Reverend Thomas Norrie and his wife Elizabeth. She was born in New Zealand in 1859. Her father was the Presbyterian minister in Papakura and its surrounds for fifty years from 1855 to 1905.
In about 1914 Ellison moved to the Bay of Plenty to live with her sister. She lived there until her death at the age of 68 in 1926.