Signed family name
Blencowe
Signed given name
Emma
Given address
Te Aroha
Notes
Biographical information provided by Ken Miller for the He Tohu exhibition:
Emma was born in 1843, probably in West Bromwich, England. She married Richard Nathaniel Blencowe and they moved to Auckland in the 1860s. By 1880 they had moved to Te Aroha, Waikato where Richard worked as a gold miner. In 1891, Richard was thrown from his horse and tragically killed. Emma ran the Carlton Boarding House in Te Aroha for many years and died in 1923 aged 81. She was said to have been a keen member of the Methodist Church and supporter of the temperance movement and her obituary notes that Emma claimed to have been 'the second white woman to settle in Te Aroha'.