Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ellen/Nellie Cubitt was born in 1870 in New Zealand – the daughter of Robert Cubitt, a hawker, and Mary Elizabeth Saul. (See 160 Mary Cubitt)
Nellie attended Kaikorai School, Dunedin and when she signed the suffrage petition the family were living in King St, Roslyn – now Erin St.
She married William Henry Haigh, a bootmaker, in 1899 and they had five children.
The family lived in Roslyn, Dunedin where Ellen died on 25 December 1932.
William died in 1955, they are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz