A Shellard

Signed family name

Shellard

Signed given name

Given address

Taylorville

Sheet number

246

Town/Suburb

Taylorville

City/Region

West Coast

Notes

Originally transcribed as A. Sheltard

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Ann Fulford was born about 1827 in Lammerton, Devon – the daughter of Jonas Fulford, an agricultural labourer, and Alice.

Ann apparently married Richard Masters, a miner, in the mid-1840s, no marriage record can be found.

They had 13 children, two who died in infancy. The family lived in Devon, Cornwall and Northumberland before they emigrated to New Zealand in 1876 on the Camperdown.

They settled at Taylorville beside the Grey River. Richard died the following year and Ann re-married in 1886 to William Shellard, also a miner.

Ann signed the suffrage petition at Taylorville.

On 26 March 1896 the Brunner coal mine exploded killing 65 men. Included in the deaths were Ann’s sons Mark and Josiah, her son-in-law Robert Pascoe, grandson Robert Pascoe jnr and her granddaughter’s husband William Kear.

William Shellard died in 1899 and Ann died at the Grey River hospital on 9 April 1916 – she is buried with Richard and William in the Karoro Cemetery.