Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Ellen/Helen Fernie Melville Jenkins was born in 1866 in New Zealand – the daughter of John Perriam Jenkins, a mariner, and Elizabeth Melville Hay.
In 1896 Ellen married William Alexander Gould, a timber yard foreman, and they had two sons.
William died in Dunedin in 1941 and Ellen died on 17 November 1942. 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
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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