Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Alice Hurrell was born in 1864 in Colchester, Essex – the daughter of James Hurrell, a platelayer, and Rhoda King.
Alice emigrated to Otago with her family in 1875 on the Waimea. Alice married Samuel Higginson, a butcher, in 1884. They had no children.
Samuel died in 1892 aged 36. Alice remarried in 1894, at the Dunedin Registry Office, to Harry Albert Robertson, a fruiterer. There were no children from this marriage either.
Alice and Harry lived in Cargill Rd, South Dunedin, for several years before moving to Temuka in South Canterbury.
Alice died on 2 August 1943 in Temuka and Harry died in 1945. They are buried together in the Temuka 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
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz